This week’s contest was to identify who spoke the various Famous Last Lines submitted by our resident genius, CMC. (How about that Superbureaucraticmagicaladministration filk!!!!) No one identified all 42 lines correctly, however Susan Hall and Dianne Singson each got 41 right. [You will all be glad to hear that I have checked with the staff at the Flying Ford Clinic for Severe Harry Potter Obsession, and the doctors say both Susan and Dianne are doing “as well as can be expected.”] Several other people got 37 or more lines correct. They are Devika, Elena, wren and Amy Z, all of whom might want to consider checking into the Flying Ford Clinic as well. Thanks to all the participants, and stay tuned for the next contest! Here are the answers, along with some comments from the participants: "Just you and me, Harry Potter ... you and me..." – Tom Riddle, CoS, Chapter 17 "Take my body back to my parents…" – Cedric Diggory, GoF, Chapter 34 "He'll lend you one." – Gilderoy Lockhart, CoS, Chapter 18 "See you, Harry" – Ron Weasley, GoF, Chapter 37 "He is mine!" – Voldemort, GoF, Chapter 34 [Susan Hall noted that: "he" is Harry, again. Note Voldemort's typical evil overlord rashness when confronted with arch rival. "First one to kill him gets 200 bonus points and a free excuse voucher for the next 20 applications of the Cruciatus curse" would have been more prudent. As he doubtless reflected a few minutes later.] "Thanks for the socks, Harry Potter!" – Dobby, GoF, Chapter 28 "…tell him what Peeves was up to." – Filch, GoF, Chapter 25 "You're going to have to fight the Cruciatus Curse!" – Neville Longbottom, GoF, Chapter 21 "We will return, if you please, to history, to solid, believable, verifiable fact!" – Prof. Binns, CoS, Chapter 9 "They're supposed to be really hard to catch!" – Lavender Brown, GoF, Chapter 24 "There should have been a presentation ceremony, but under the circumstances…." – Cornelius Fudge, GoF, Chapter 36 [Susan Hall noted that: For once one has to agree; a presentation ceremony would have been tacky. And pretty difficult to arrange given that, in addition to the murder of the joint winner, one of the judges has also been murdered and another two have fled the country.] "I am." – Snape, GoF, Chapter 36 "Severus Snape is a Death Eater!" – Karkaroff, GoF, Chapter 30 "Keep in touch, Harry" – Molly Weasley, GoF, Chapter 37 "Harry," – Fred Weasley, GoF, Chapter 37 "Well, second – Diggory was the f-" - Draco Malfoy, GoF, Chapter 37 [Susan Hall noted that: given that he is about to confront a Triwizard Champion who has come off best in direct confrontation with Voldemort on four previous occasions one has to wonder whether Lucius Malfoy had just sent his son a Misplaced Optimism in the Invincibility of Our Dark Master Charm by express owl.] "Remember Cedric Diggory" – Dumbledore, GoF, Chapter 37 "Cedric Diggory" – Cho Chang, GoF, Chapter 22 [Note from Joywitch: This one was VERY hard; only Dianne and Susan managed to find it. Many people noticed that these are the last words of the entire school, at the end of the year dinner, but we were looking for the last words of *individual* characters.] "Bye, Harry" – Hermione, GoF, Chapter 37 "Very – very well," – Madam Pomfrey, GoF, Chapter 36 "He can still be gamekeeper, can't he?" – Parvati Patil, GoF, Chapter 24 "But I must do what I can, you do understand, don't you?" – Sirius Black, GoF, Chapter 36 "Goodbye, then." Vernon Dudley, GoF, Chapter 4 "Leave it to me," Bill Weasley, GoF, Chapter 36 [Susan Hall noted that: "it" being breaking the news to his father that the Minister of Magic is a spineless appeaser with the ability to face facts of an ostrich in denial. Somehow one suspects Arthur Weasley will not find this news surprising.] "No," – Dudley Dursley, PoA, Chapter 2 [Note from Joywitch: This one was also very hard, and I can’t imagine how Dianne actually found it. No one else did.] "….not that it needs it….." – Rita Skeeter, GoF, Chapter 24 "Headmaster, there is no need to see me to the gate, I can manage…." – Remus Lupin, PoA, Chapter 22 "You fight him, boy…" – Frank Bryce, GoF, Chapter 34 No my Lord….never, my Lord" – Wormtail, GoF, Chapter 33 "Buy Ron some different robes and say they're from you." – Harry Potter, GoF, Chapter 37 "...I don't like them much, they always chase me when I get too close." – Myrtle, GoF, Chapter 26 "AARGH!" – Quirrell, SS, Chapter 17 "These deaths were not the random work of a lunatic!" – Minerva McGonagall, GoF Chapter 36 "I was jokin' – jokin'!" – Rubeus Hagrid, GoF, Chapter 37 "I'd better hurry – you have a good term, boys!" – Arthur Weasley, GoF, Chapter 11 [Elena noted that this is actually Arthur Weasley’s SECOND to last line. He subsequently says, “Molly, are you going to be all right taking the kids to King’s Cross?”] "Take them away, and may they rot there!" – Barty Crouch, Sr., GoF, Chapter 30 "Three – two – one" – Ludo Bagman, GoF, Chapter 31 "If you leave now, you may lose the opportunity to see further than you have ever-" – Professor Trelawney, GoF, Chapter 29 "I still can't work out how you two got the best-looking girls this year." Dean Thomas, GoF, Chapter 23 "He is returned to power and I will be honored by him beyond the dreams of wizards." – Barty Crouch, Jr., GoF, Chapter 35 "I'm about to become the youngest ever Minister of Magic, I am." – Stan Shunpike, GoF, Chapter 9 "...how you managed to return to us...." – Lucius Malfoy, GoF, Chapter 33