No, no, more like this: Fred&George Sirius Lupinthe twins: "WE ARE NOT WORTHY!"
The juxtaposition of the heart-wrenchingness of the dream and Harry's (completely understandable) anger after he wakes up with the humour of the inner statement had me stifling laughter when I first read it at like two in the morning, having not been able to shut the computer down and go to sleep because I wanted to see what would happen next.They made it back to the castle without incident, for which Harry was grateful. He was still a bit unsettled from the journey, and he didn’t trust himself to hold back if provoked. Filch would be annoyed if there were bones imbedded in the walls.
Another favorite line is, "Deeds, not words, you uninspired bookends!"“What are you talking about? Harry would do no such thing! Would you, Harry?” Mrs. Weasley turned an outraged expression toward Harry, who felt a sudden urge to sink into the bed. Mrs. Weasley raised an eyebrow at Harry as the silence wore on. She didn’t even notice Ginny kicking Fred in the shin, making him hop about on one foot.
“Well, it’s a long story, Mrs. Weasley,” Harry said apologetically. “Hagrid had this dragon egg he won in a card game, and when it got too big for him we helped some friends of Charlie’s transport Norbert down to the preserve in Romania.”
Mrs. Weasley’s eyes had gone wide. “Harry, that’s illegal! Do you know how much trouble you could have got into?” She rounded on Ron. “I suppose you were helping him, weren’t you? Tell me the truth, Ronald Bilius Weasley, or so help me…” She didn’t notice Ginny get George, either.
“No, I didn’t,” Ron said disgustedly. “Stupid thing bit my hand so Neville had to help with the crate.” He paled as his mother looked even angrier. “Mum, we had to! Hagrid is Harry’s friend. Besides,” he added innocently, “didn’t Hagrid help when you and dad were almost caught at the Astronomy Tower?”
Molly Weasley stopped dead in her tracks, mouth open in mid-tirade. Her face went from pale with anger to red as a tomato in seconds. “Yes, I see. Well, don’t let it happen again. Alright Harry? Ron?” she said tonelessly.
Harry and Ron looked at each other and nodded vigorously.
“Good,” Mrs. Weasley said. “Now that’s settled, I’ll go see the healer about when you can come home, Harry.” She smiled faintly and left the room.
“Oi! Ginny—“George said the instant the door shut. He was still rubbing his shin.
“What the bloody hell—“Fred continued, tapping his leg with his fingertips and frowning.
You missed that line. :DMrs. Weasley’s eyes had gone wide. “Harry, that’s illegal! Do you know how much trouble you could have got into?” She rounded on Ron. “I suppose you were helping him, weren’t you? Tell me the truth, Ronald Bilius Weasley, or so help me…” She didn’t notice Ginny get George, either.
I guess I did. Thanks, Comosicus.You missed that line. :DMrs. Weasley’s eyes had gone wide. “Harry, that’s illegal! Do you know how much trouble you could have got into?” She rounded on Ron. “I suppose you were helping him, weren’t you? Tell me the truth, Ronald Bilius Weasley, or so help me…” She didn’t notice Ginny get George, either.
Of course, in this case it turned out to be especially true of Number Four, Privet Drive."Harry Potter is always in danger at Hogwarts. Harry Potter is in mortal danger everywhere he bloody goes.”
And let's not forget Harry's friends' reaction to the shade of Tom Riddle:“Your Mum’s right. I don’t want anyone getting revenge on my relatives… unless I’m personally involved in the planning and execution.”
Best of all, though, there's the twins' description of Lucius Malfoy:“This ponce is Voldemort?” Ron asked incredulously.
“This is a memory of him when he was Head Boy,” Harry corrected, watching the spectre’s edges become blurry as it struggled to control itself. He decided to twist the knife a bit further. “At least he’s somewhat presentable. Later, he looked like something that escaped from one of Snape’s preserving jars.”
“That’s pretty bad, Harry,” Neville said with a shudder.
“Don’t blame Harry,” Luna added, patting Neville’s shoulder comfortingly. “It’s not his fault this silly boy wanted his outsides to look like his insides.”
As I observed when I reviewed that chapter, I was reading it in a public library and I just about burst a blood vessel suppressing the guffaw so I wouldn't be thrown out on my ear.“The one dressed like a French pornographer?” Fred asked innocently. Harry was rather happy not to hear that word again, but several adults turned gimlet stares at the twins.
“Looks like Lee was right,” George observed. “He must, or they wouldn’t all be so mad at you for saying.”
I know this isn't likely to be funny to everyone but I found it supremely amusing...“I think everything is all right now, Professor,” Harry said, hoping to distract her before Neville said anything else.
“Is that so, Mr. Potter?” she asked, turning toward Harry.
Harry tried to give her his most innocent smile as he assured her that everything was under control… really, he did. His smile was absolutely nothing like the evil grin he’d given Neville earlier.
So why did Professor McGonagall suddenly go pale and step back like she’d seen a ghost?
I found this supremely funny as well.“I do not whine!” Sirius exclaimed in a wounded tone.
“If you were any more disappointed that Bill didn’t freak out, you’d be crying your eyes out,” Harry said, rolling his own eyes.
“I wasn’t that bad.”
Harry just looked at Sirius, slowly raising one eyebrow.
“Oh, damn!” Sirius spat. “You got Lily’s eyebrow!”
“What?” Harry snapped.
“That was damn scary,” Sirius said, clutching his chest. “Your mum had this way of looking at us when she was annoyed or thought we were being stupid. James tried to copy that when he became Head Boy, but he could never quite pull it off. She could shut us down faster than McGonagall.”
Harry burst out laughing.
I loled so hard on thisHarry was wondering how many ‘accidental deaths’ he could manage before Dumbledore caught on.
Priceless.Harry found himself grinding his teeth. If they give me to the Malfoys I'll just have to Avada Kedavra them on the spot and tell Madam Bones to pick again.
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