This one is my personal favorite, but I'll toss out there when Harry sends the stinging hex to wake Fluffy up and thereby take out Quirelmort. Priceless.Harry showing the boggart in Lupin's office precisely why it's a bad idea to freak him out. :D
*Ahem* Apologies, but NoFP is recc'ed over on TV Tropes, on their Fan Fic Recommendations page (about a third of a way from the top; Team 8 is further down). The comment down by the T8 rec that "Seriously, the guy only turns out winners" makes me smile. :)I don't know if I should make a rule not to post links to TVTropes... I just lost several hours again.
Amen on that. Hell, finding out what effectively is the theme music for the final battle between Harry and Voldemort was awesome enough...But I do like the concept of a CMOA - in fact, I think Joe can confirm that I tend (consciously or not) wrap my stories around them. (Even in the stuff only he has seen so far...)
Here you go.And bibliophile20, thank you! That song is awesome. Now to find where I can get a (legal) copy... and more of their stuff.
Trying to see if I'd heard that particular song on a Matrix soundtrack, I looked on Youtube. This was the first entry by Audio-Visual Foundry: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HB2miRgPpYHere you go.And bibliophile20, thank you! That song is awesome. Now to find where I can get a (legal) copy... and more of their stuff.
(And as for more of their stuff, my personal favorite piece of theirs is Song For Ancestors.)
I agree. That scene had an amazing amount of win in it.Gotta agree with the first respondent: "Accio dementors!" Quite possibly the first time in the history of the Potterverse someone's ever cast a summoning charm on a dementor.
It already has, in terms of their offer to give the anti-dementor ward to Hogwarts. Which is also made of win.It's a quieter kind of awesome, but I really liked Harry plotting the socioeconomic destruction of the Dursleys with Goldfarb, and the goblin's aesthetic appreciation of such an elegant example of the art of revenge. I have a feeling Harry's cultivation of the goblins is going to pay dividends down the road.
Khan Singh attributed it to the Klingons -- which made very little sense, as given his history as established in "The Space Seed," it doesn't seem possible he'd ever met a Klingon.Nooo, "Revenge is a dish best served cold" comes from Pashtuns and was brought out to the world by the British.
It was popularized by The Godfather (the book).
I guess that could explain it. Anyway, Klingons are sort of based on Pashtuns, or at least on the kind of violent, clannish, honor-obsessed, misogynistic culture of which the Pashtuns are one of the best examples. Such cultures are usually defined by dependence on domesticated herd animals as a primary resource, which leads to a nomadic lifestyle (the herds have to move seasonally to find good pasturage). It's speculated that their tendency to violence is a reaction to the portability of their primary form of wealth -- cattle or sheep are a lot easier to steal than arable land, and a reputation for brutally avenging even the slightest insult may help protect a man from potential thieves.He did memorize large chunks of the Enterprise's library database during 'Space Seed', and had a lot of offstage time in 'Wrath of Khan' to do the same with the captured Reliant.
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