Comic passages in OotP (was:Theoretical boundaries / Durs...

[hickengruendler]

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, yellows at a... wrote:
> In a message dated 12/24/2004 6:15:25 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
> susiequsie23 at s... writes:
> 
> > You're right, of course, that they were fewer and farther 
between, 
> > as befit the more serious matters at hand &Harry's angrier tone 
in 
> > OotP.  But I, for one, was very grateful for those brief humorous 
> > moments we received.  
> 
> <snip>
> 
> How about the very funny scene in which Harry explains that he 
kissed Cho? 
> Ron asked him how it felt, and Harry answered, "Wet." Then he 
realized how 
> strange that sounded and told Ron that Cho had been crying. So Ron 
asked if Harry 
> is that bad a kisser.  :)  
> 
> I found plenty of humor in OoP. It was just told in ways that fit 
the darker 
> situations and older characters.
> 
> Brief Chronicles
> 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Hickengruendler:

I thought OotP was the funniest of all books. At least it was the one 
where I laughed the most.

Here a few examples:
- Harry exchanges with the Dursleys (especially Uncle Vernon) in the 
first two chapters. "Ministry of Magic? People like you in the 
government? No wonder the country is going to the dogs".
- The twins pranks. And I'm normally not that much a fan of them, but 
I found them really delightful in OotP and against Umbridge. Same 
goes for Peeves.
- And, related to this, of course the twins great escape.
- Lockhart's appereance
- It may be just me, but I found Kreacher also, very funny and 
entertaining.
- Trelawney predicting Umbridge's doom.
- Trelawney's behaviour when she learned that she was on probation. 
("You know what to do. Or am I such a substandard teacher that you 
never learnt how to open a book?")
- Trelawney's prediction after the QUibbler interview. 
- All the teachers reaction towards Umbridge and especially
- McGonagall. Awesome. She rocked. "I should have made my meaning 
plainer. He has gotten high marks in all his DADA-tests set by a 
competent teacher". "Cough drop, Dolores?" Ha.
- The Dursleys and the Order (especially Vernon and Moody) at the end 
of OotP.
- Luna Lovegood's comments.
- Moody's and Tonks' interaction in the cahpter "The Advance Guard".

I found all of this, and much more, very funny.

Hickengruendler