24 May 2013

Harry Potter HFriday - Post the And We're Walking



I know we've been going back and forth and back again about JK's terrible math skills, but I think we can take a moment to note that THIS is the section where all the backwards math goes to hell. If JK hadn't put James and Lily's DOB in the book, or STRONGLY IMPLIED that Hogwarts is the only wizarding school in England (p.210), everything would have been

Hello, sweetie...
And we'd have all been able to discuss without throwing up our hands and calling JK a maths idiot. BUT NO, she had to be clever. At least we can all bask in the knowledge that there are Potternerds out there who put us all to shame - or rather, did the math so we don't have to. Bless them for allowing us to maintain our polite fiction of normalcy.

SO in this section Ron gets pissed (that's angry, not drunk, British and Australian friends - although that might have helped?) and leaves


And then... follows them? With the magic of the deus ex machina Deluminator? REASONS! And then Harry and Hermione camp for an INTERMINABLE length of time, which is like my own personal hell and 100% of the reason I never finished the LOTR books. Well, that and the really poor editing.



Bullet points! Or rather, quotes and discussion because I took too. many. lit. classes.

"He did it instinctively, without any sort of plan, because he hated the sight of her walking alone into the dungeon: As the door began to swing closed, he slipped into the courtroom behind her." 

This is who Harry is on the inside, why he's a Gryffindor, and why he's The Boy Who Lived. Of course, that all happens when he's not being THIS DOUCHEBAG:

"But it seemed that to Dumbledore, the fact that their families lay side by side in the same graveyard had been an unimportant coincidence, irrelevant, perhaps, to the job he wanted Harry to do." 
UGH HARRY. Why do you have to be so seventeen? (p.s. - props to my Mac for recognizing Dumbledore as a real word. Life imitating art, etc. etc.)

"The most recent of these, shining brightly over sixteen years' worth of magical graffitti, all said similar things."

And that, friends, is when Tika broke down and ugly-cried so hard she scared her cat out of the bedroom.


"He shared a damn sight more of what he was really thinking with Gellert Gridelwald than he ever shared with me."

This ship is in the bag.
I'M NOT SORRY.

Ron is back! Saving Harry from his own stupidity, which was a nice touch.
"She stopped right in front of him, her lips slightly parted, her eyes wide. Ron gave a weak, hopeful smile and half raised his arms." 
AGGGH JUST KIIIISSSSSSSS! But no. JK has learned restraint, to everyone's RAGING DISMAY.

*grumble*

Also, you guys? The HP 7+8 gifs? THE SADDEST. Do not want.

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Harry really swings from noble to ridiculously teenager-y doesn't he! Although I love both sides of it, because it's nice to be reminded that he's only a kid and amongst all the things he's accomplished he's still at the point in his life where he's unable to step back and rationally look at an issue. Man I remember those feels, being a teenager is HARD - why do they make us do it?

Oh my god that cat gif!
My ipod autocorrects Dumbledore to DUMBLEDORE. It feels right. And, but, I mean, COULDN'T Dumbles have taken Harry to Godric's Hollow? I can kind of see why Harry is getting all pissed (!!) about this because it does sooort of feel like he was used that whole time..?

"Ron is back! Saving Harry from his own stupidity, which was a nice touch." Yeah, it really was! It's nice when Ron gets to be smart and heroic. For once.
I was ALL prepared for the camping to last until maybe the last quarter of the book because of how you guys go ON about it. It doesn't last that long. It's...is it even three chapters? You crazy.

WHY DIDN'T THEY KISS I WANTED THEM TO KISS SO BAD. (Ron and Hermione, that is.) (Also Dumbledore and Grindelwald.)
I hate that the Deluminator is also a "locate Harry and Hermione because I miss them" on top of being a magical light switch. Was Rowling under deadline and just gave up trying to thing of something better? But yeah, then she includes the crap like the magical graffiti and I'm sorry for being angry (even though that scene happened first. It worked retroactively.)
very interesting, although it makes me laugh a little

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