TBAY: OOP: Too much butterbeer--Terry gets the D!Ts (long)

[lucianam73]

No: HPFGUIDX 141955

terryljames wrote:
> Oh!" she said excitedly, remembering. "Isn't it convenient that 
> the only classmate who sees Sirius fall is Neville?"
>
> D!T frowned. "Why is that convenient? For whom?"
>
> "For JKR, of course," Terry said. "Neville is the only one--besides
> Luna--who could already see the thestrals. So Harry can't ask him 
> if he can suddenly see them after he saw Sirius 'die'. Considering 
> the way JKR's mind works, don't you find that a bit suspicious?"


Indeed! It's a clue, it's a clue! 

Let's toast to thestrals. Where's the rum? Lucianam73 looks around 
the deck and hopes it is empty only because it's 4 in the morning... 
or it that the stench of desertion?

Oh no, thank God, it's only Winky and her booze. She was presumably 
on watch tonight, but no way she'll be watching any enemy vessels 
aproach stuck upside-down in a barrel. She's snoring ever so loud.

Lucianam73 carefully removes the bottle of rum from Winky's limp 
hand and proceeds to toast. She toasts several times, being 
completely soaked; the result of swimming across the seas to reach 
S.S. SAD DENIAL. That was one hard ship to find she tells ya!

But no matter. Two years and one half-blood Prince after 
the "Drapery Incident", Lucianam73 finally has stepped on deck! 
After fighting off sharks, killer whales and petrol leaks. Bah, it 
was either that or staying in shore, and who wants that??? 

Lucianam73 says hi to her fellow shipmates and flashes her t-shirt:

"Padfoot gone == no more fun"

Well, to be honest HBP was a fun read. It deserves to be kept in the 
ship's library, right? But snogging and horcruxes and pensieve 
plunges are all very interesting and distracting, but not enough to 
look like a consistent storyline. At least not as consistent a 
storyline as Sirius's was. See what I mean...:

(Lucianam73 turns around so crew members can shake their heads in 
horror at the back of ther tee:)

"Absence makes the plot grow softer (in a bad sense)."

She sits atop Winky's barrel, surveilling the horizon as she drains 
the last drops of rum in the bottle. She hopes for a emotionally 
consistent and (this is the catch) happy ending.

There must be a catch in that interview, you see (the "definitely 
dead one). There must.

Lucianam73