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tj_rowe Okay, to start with the things I loved:
Bellatrix. She was mad and she was lovely, though she did not fight Tonks at all. And Lucius was... well, you can see why he has so many fangirls. ^_^
Umbridge telling Harry that he wants to be punished, or words to that effect. Me and my sister and cousin were goggling at each other all the way through the detention scene, being WTF she's creepycreepycreepy!
Sirius calling Harry 'James' the last time he speaks to him. Is that canon?
But I didn't like the battle at the Department of Mysteries. Yes, it was flash, and yes, it was shiny, but... the colour-coding. Why, even if they could turn into smoke and fly at each other, would the Aurors be white smoke and the deez black/grey? There's no magical reason for it - part of the allure of 'the war' as a concept to meta and fic on is that you can't tell friend from foe.
And I didn't like Harry stealing Dumbledore's lines. He shouldn't even understand the concept until the end of Deathly Hallows!
Anyway.
A-Level results day was yesterday, and I got three Bs in Maths, Physics and Chem. I also had a C in AS Further Maths and an A in AS Biology (last year). So I didn't get in for my first choice, St. Andrews, but I did get in for Physics at York, so that's all right!
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Completely unrelated, but I have a fic recc: Switch by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
corvidae9. Fred and George Confound the Sorting Hat, resulting in just about everyone going somewhere else. Harry and Draco are Hufflepuffs, Hermione and Neville Longbottom are in Slytherin, Ron and Pansy become Ravenclaws... and Gryffindor!Crabbe and Goyle attach themselves to Hannah Abbot.
It's a full AU that's about half-way through PoA at the moment. The author has a good style - we're familiar with the general storyline, of course, and we can follow the action without getting bogged down with re-reading what we already know.
I like, with this fic, how the characters grow into the traits of their new Houses, Ron being the best example. He begins to 'own' the cleverness he does have, realising that he must have some if the hat put him in Ravenclaw, and the others follow the same sort of pattern.
So, yeah. If you like Sorting-AUs, read it.
Bellatrix. She was mad and she was lovely, though she did not fight Tonks at all. And Lucius was... well, you can see why he has so many fangirls. ^_^
Umbridge telling Harry that he wants to be punished, or words to that effect. Me and my sister and cousin were goggling at each other all the way through the detention scene, being WTF she's creepycreepycreepy!
Sirius calling Harry 'James' the last time he speaks to him. Is that canon?
But I didn't like the battle at the Department of Mysteries. Yes, it was flash, and yes, it was shiny, but... the colour-coding. Why, even if they could turn into smoke and fly at each other, would the Aurors be white smoke and the deez black/grey? There's no magical reason for it - part of the allure of 'the war' as a concept to meta and fic on is that you can't tell friend from foe.
And I didn't like Harry stealing Dumbledore's lines. He shouldn't even understand the concept until the end of Deathly Hallows!
Anyway.
A-Level results day was yesterday, and I got three Bs in Maths, Physics and Chem. I also had a C in AS Further Maths and an A in AS Biology (last year). So I didn't get in for my first choice, St. Andrews, but I did get in for Physics at York, so that's all right!
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Completely unrelated, but I have a fic recc: Switch by
corvidae9. Fred and George Confound the Sorting Hat, resulting in just about everyone going somewhere else. Harry and Draco are Hufflepuffs, Hermione and Neville Longbottom are in Slytherin, Ron and Pansy become Ravenclaws... and Gryffindor!Crabbe and Goyle attach themselves to Hannah Abbot. It's a full AU that's about half-way through PoA at the moment. The author has a good style - we're familiar with the general storyline, of course, and we can follow the action without getting bogged down with re-reading what we already know.
I like, with this fic, how the characters grow into the traits of their new Houses, Ron being the best example. He begins to 'own' the cleverness he does have, realising that he must have some if the hat put him in Ravenclaw, and the others follow the same sort of pattern.
So, yeah. If you like Sorting-AUs, read it.
