OOP: Jumbled musings on various brilliant bits

[Joshua Dyal]

No: HPFGUIDX 63678

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Anne" <anneu53714 at y...> wrote:
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> * Hermione the rule breaker (!!) - her loyalty to Harry and her 
sense 
> of justice made her incapable of accepting Umbridge's tyrannical 
coup 
> d'etat

Hermione's shown the capability to break rules in the past -- at one 
point in CoS if you recall, Ron is amazed by the rules she's 
breaking.  That didn't surprise me much at all.


> * KickAss!McGonagall -God how I adore that woman!

Exactly who's ass did she kick?  I liked her stand-up to Dolores 
during Harry's career choice meeting, but other than that, she got 
blasted nearly to death by her Aurors.

> * the D.A. (which seriously Rockkkkkked! and which showed Leader!
> Harry very nicely)

I had this strange flash of Harry subbing in DADA next year...  then 
I quickly poo-pooed it.  Still, I liked his show of leadership across 
houses here too.

> * KickAss!Neville (finally, Neville shows why he's in Gryffindor) --

KikAss!Neville seems a bit of an overstatement.  He did well in 
Harry's class, but I was hoping to see him accomplish more than get 
beat up rather badly in the MoM.  I wouldn't have minded seeing him 
have a go at Crabbe and Goyle again (he's already showed why he's in 
Gryffindor, IMO, many times.)
 
> * Luna Lovegood and her so-obvious-crush on Ron - she seemed a tad 
> too goofy at first but she grew on me. I think she could be shipped 
> with several of the male characters (including Ron :) (ditto above)

I didn't think it was always that obvious.  It seemed to be up front, 
but later, I wondered if it wasn't Harry instead.  Or maybe none of 
them.

> * the return of Lupin -- MOONY!! MOONY!! MOONY!! -- but he didn't 
get 
> nearly enough page time ... but I can wait till Book 6 I guess.

It'd be neat to see Lupin kinda fall into the "father figure" role 
for Harry just a bit.  In many ways, he's been the best candidate all 
along.

> * Tonks and Kingsley; -- Kingsley seems like Mr. Clean (but black, 
> possibly Jamaican); Tonks is just totally rad. Yes, there will be 
> about 500 Metamorphmagus fan fics on ff.net by the end of the year 

Why Jamaican?  Loads of black people from all kinds of places in the 
UK.

> * the death (*still sobbing*) - As with many fans, the death of 
> Sirius hit me hard. Harry will feel guilty about this the rest of 
his 
> life... 

Curiously, I was much more moved by Harry's reaction to the death 
than the death itself.  Sirius was certainly likable for the most 
part, but never developed enough as a character for me to truly miss 
him.