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jlhBuddy Hackett died today. I'm showing my age here (once again, as I had a very annoying experience last night in chat) by even knowing who he is, and his heyday was well before even MY time. I remember him as a not-very-funny comedian who was on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson all the time, because he seemed to make Johnny laugh, and if you saw that he was going to be a guest you would never watch. It was like watching your grandad with some pal of his making WWII jokes.
Once again, Dumbledore, what the hell? Swoop in, don't talk to Harry at all, swoop back out? What was that? He nearly got kicked out of school and you don't talk to him? He may be a powerful wizard, but he is still an unsure parentless 15-year-old boy! Gah!
Figg was completely great. Even though she can't see the Dementors she clearly knows what they are, how they work, and could pull everything out of context clues: I have this feeling, that means Dementors; Harry's Patronus chased them, so that must be where they were. Interesting that even though she was lying about seeing them, Bones said that her description of how they felt was the convincing bit. I just bet it was.
Also, this is the start of so many things. We meet Umbridge (hissssss!), and knowing what we know now her reactions are really very interesting indeed. One also wonders, now that Dumbledore isn't on the Wizengamot, if they would go down the lane of the show trial. And poor Harry can only vaguely appreciate what is going on around him.
Ugh, I feel the bureaucracy pressing down upon me . . .
Once again, Dumbledore, what the hell? Swoop in, don't talk to Harry at all, swoop back out? What was that? He nearly got kicked out of school and you don't talk to him? He may be a powerful wizard, but he is still an unsure parentless 15-year-old boy! Gah!
Figg was completely great. Even though she can't see the Dementors she clearly knows what they are, how they work, and could pull everything out of context clues: I have this feeling, that means Dementors; Harry's Patronus chased them, so that must be where they were. Interesting that even though she was lying about seeing them, Bones said that her description of how they felt was the convincing bit. I just bet it was.
Also, this is the start of so many things. We meet Umbridge (hissssss!), and knowing what we know now her reactions are really very interesting indeed. One also wonders, now that Dumbledore isn't on the Wizengamot, if they would go down the lane of the show trial. And poor Harry can only vaguely appreciate what is going on around him.
Ugh, I feel the bureaucracy pressing down upon me . . .
