HBP Ranty rant

[Sean Dwyer]

The inevitable Spoiler Money FILK:

SPOILERS - get away
Get a HBP at low cost and you're okay
SPOILERS - they're a gas
Grab that clue with both hands and make a dash
New star, Sluggy's bar, Luna daydream think i'll buy me a Quidditch team

SPOILERS - I'm hooked
Get your own tome, keep your mitts offa my book.
SPOILERS - they're a hit
Don't give me that "tell them everything" Horksit
I'm in the high-risk category owl-class Apparating set and I think I
need a werewolf

SPOILERS - make you sigh
Hoard them meanly and don't let a new one pass you by
SPOILERS - so they say
Are the source of Old Crowd FILK'ing today
But if you ask for a clue it's no surprise
that we're giving none away
away
awaaay
away
awayyyy
awayyyy

THIS SPOILER SPACE FOR RENT

I laughed so hard at the Doctor Who theme my dog got upset.

> Pip:
> Snape didn't like Tonk's patronus - which we now know is a werewolf.
> He says it 'looks weak'. Now this could refer to how ill Lupin is -
> but it could also signal an ESE Lupin who turns to the DE's out of
> weakness - despair at the corruption of the WW, despair at the way
> werewolves are treated.

Ewe2:
Having had my suspicions of Tonk's Patronus somewhat hijacked in the
discussion, I'll make my point more firmly. I think that "Tonks" was
Polyjuiced!Lupin; it's horribly Flinty of JKR to post an FAQ answer
that direct and clear otherwise.

<rant>

And while we're on the subject of rants; apologies to some who were
horrified at the general Shippiness of HBP, but Hermione is giving me
real grief second read through. Yes Ron is backward in many ways, and
like most boys is unaware of the _ever so important_ emotional issues;
but he's just discovered kissing and the person he'd most like to kiss
is NOT GIVING HIM A CHANCE. I've spent a fair time defending Hermione
in some quarters and dissing her, but she is one whacked-out girl if
she can't express her feelings better than physical assault by canary,
and I'm not too happy how that appears to happen in a vaccum. No
queries by other students and teachers as to why Ron is covered in
scratches? No apparent resolution of that particular spat e.g. "Ron,
I'm sorry I had small birds gouge your flesh"? Yes, they are a petty
pair, but Hermione's emotional control-freak attitude to romance
disturbs me more than Ron's more run-of-the-mill possessiveness, which
he at least expresses openly compared to Madam Whiplash. Like many
relationships over the series, they haven't improved. JKR seems rather
obsessed with romantic stubbornness.

Of course it's more than just the R/H tussle; with breathtaking
hypocrisy, Hermione attempt to blame Harry for her own assumptions
about his use of the Felix Felicis, quite apart from her own
manipuation of Ron's Quidditch tryout. Easy and wrong. Like her
certainties about HBP and Draco. And no, H/H shippers, I wouldn't get
hopeful about hints of jealousy towards Ginny. I think _that_ myth is
busted.

</rant>

> "Where do you think I would have been all these years, if I had not
> known how to act?" - Severus Snape

Hollywood? <quack!>

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