IDK. :P I forgot Vernon was the director of Grunnings drilling factory. But wait, wouldn’t he be about 23-25 years old? That’s awfully young.
JKR may not have worked out the timeline yet, but I also always got the impression Petunia married someone older with a bit of money.. not that Vernon's, you know, fifty, but he could be in his early thirties, and also (or alternatively) might have gotten his job from his family. But he does act closer to middle aged here, so maybe JKR just didn't have the ages straight yet.
How did Sirius? How quickly did Sirius go after Peter? Who gave Dumbledore the authority to have Harry taken away (wait I know the answer to that – Dumbledore gave Dumbledore the authority).
I think that's one of her "oh dear, maths" moments. :P
As for who gave the authority, I headcanon (and wrote a fic, naturally) that Order members in the Ministry had a bit of an orphan system set up, so when Dumbledore said "I want Harry", he got Harry. I also kind of always got the sense that if Dumbledore wanted something, he tended to get it. (Unless it was something really important, like Sirius not being guilty after all in PoA and werewolves deserving equal treatment and Voldemort being back. The wizarding world was something out of a teen dystopia in some ways.)
My mental images right now are 50/50 movie images and my own imagination. But I don’t see Daniel Radcliffe jumping up and down on a table, thank God.
I totally forgot about that. OMG. Or the scene where he goes downstairs and Vernon is burning the letters in the fireplace and Dan!Harry is all sadface.
“How could a car crash kill James and Lily?” Well um I reckon wizards aren’t entirely made of rubber.
In fairness, I always took that as more general disbelief. Hagrid was close with them, he knew they'd fought Voldielocks three times, and here were their last of kin claiming they'd driven through a red light at the wrong time.
If you re-watch the first Buffy episode, there's an odd parallel between Buffy meeting Cordelia and Draco's first two meetings with Harry. Although Buffy's way more swayed by Cordelia initially (since they were birds of a father, pretty much), whereas Harry sees a lot of Dudley in Draco.
I love the stalagmite bit, that’s cute.
Isn't it? That's the great thing with the books, the characters are always kids, obviously, but moments like that make you go "wow, they really are just kids."
Ugh, stupid trolley witch, ruined by The Cursed Child.
I don't care what JKR has said, I don't consider TCC remotely canon anyway. But yeah... I still have no idea WTF that was about in the play. Big Lipped Alligator Moment?
“Why aren’t you ALLLLLL copying this DOOOWWWWWNNN???”
Hagrid knoooooooooooooooooows about Snilly. (Wait. Is that the ship name?)
Wait, really? How did you figure? *Wants to re-read this chapter now*
“Now, IF you don’t mind” I’M going to bed before you find another change to get us KILLED, or WORSE: EXPELLED.
And I heard that in Emma Watson's voice.
Yech playing outside in November in SCOTLAND. Poor kids. (Can you tell I don’t much like sports or the cold?)
I honestly wonder with these things if JKR even remembered they're supposed to be in Scotland...
“In years to come Harry didn’t quite remember how he got through exams.” I’d be like ‘ahh, simpler times’, honestly.
Yeah, really. Then again, by third year exams he was probably used to such disruptions. :P "Right, exams, then fight off this year's Big Bad."
17. The Man with Two Faces. Interestingly, that could also apply to Snape.
Huh, you're absolutely right about that.
“Your mother needn’t have died.” Thanks to Snape.
I wonder if JKR knew back then. Or, rather, had it all planned back then. I bet she did. Otherwise, that line doesn't even make a lot of sense.
TELL HIM, YOU ARSE. “HEY HARRY I’M GROOMING YOU TO SACRIFICE YOURSELF FOR THE GREATER GOOD, HOPE YOU DON’T MIND.”
I do love that Snape calls him out for exactly this in a flashback in the last book.
The photo album! I bet Snape didn’t send any pictures. (But Remus did.) Although I guess Hagrid would know better than to ask him, haha.”No Hagrid, those are for my private shrine – uh I mean go away.”
This cracked me up.
Oh, one last thing: I love how kickass Ron is. It's sad because I really do feel like he got a little Klove'd in the last few books, like JKR started writing movie!Ron. Although I believe he was actually pretty close to book Ron in the first movie, too.
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Date: 2017-04-15 06:13 pm (UTC)I forgot Vernon was the director of Grunnings drilling factory. But wait, wouldn’t he be about 23-25 years old? That’s awfully young.
JKR may not have worked out the timeline yet, but I also always got the impression Petunia married someone older with a bit of money.. not that Vernon's, you know, fifty, but he could be in his early thirties, and also (or alternatively) might have gotten his job from his family. But he does act closer to middle aged here, so maybe JKR just didn't have the ages straight yet.
How did Sirius? How quickly did Sirius go after Peter? Who gave Dumbledore the authority to have Harry taken away (wait I know the answer to that – Dumbledore gave Dumbledore the authority).
I think that's one of her "oh dear, maths" moments. :P
As for who gave the authority, I headcanon (and wrote a fic, naturally) that Order members in the Ministry had a bit of an orphan system set up, so when Dumbledore said "I want Harry", he got Harry. I also kind of always got the sense that if Dumbledore wanted something, he tended to get it. (Unless it was something really important, like Sirius not being guilty after all in PoA and werewolves deserving equal treatment and Voldemort being back. The wizarding world was something out of a teen dystopia in some ways.)
My mental images right now are 50/50 movie images and my own imagination. But I don’t see Daniel Radcliffe jumping up and down on a table, thank God.
I totally forgot about that. OMG. Or the scene where he goes downstairs and Vernon is burning the letters in the fireplace and Dan!Harry is all sadface.
“How could a car crash kill James and Lily?” Well um I reckon wizards aren’t entirely made of rubber.
In fairness, I always took that as more general disbelief. Hagrid was close with them, he knew they'd fought Voldielocks three times, and here were their last of kin claiming they'd driven through a red light at the wrong time.
If you re-watch the first Buffy episode, there's an odd parallel between Buffy meeting Cordelia and Draco's first two meetings with Harry. Although Buffy's way more swayed by Cordelia initially (since they were birds of a father, pretty much), whereas Harry sees a lot of Dudley in Draco.
I love the stalagmite bit, that’s cute.
Isn't it? That's the great thing with the books, the characters are always kids, obviously, but moments like that make you go "wow, they really are just kids."
Ugh, stupid trolley witch, ruined by The Cursed Child.
I don't care what JKR has said, I don't consider TCC remotely canon anyway. But yeah... I still have no idea WTF that was about in the play. Big Lipped Alligator Moment?
“Why aren’t you ALLLLLL copying this DOOOWWWWWNNN???”
Hagrid knoooooooooooooooooows about Snilly. (Wait. Is that the ship name?)
Wait, really? How did you figure? *Wants to re-read this chapter now*
“Now, IF you don’t mind” I’M going to bed before you find another change to get us KILLED, or WORSE: EXPELLED.
And I heard that in Emma Watson's voice.
Yech playing outside in November in SCOTLAND. Poor kids. (Can you tell I don’t much like sports or the cold?)
I honestly wonder with these things if JKR even remembered they're supposed to be in Scotland...
“In years to come Harry didn’t quite remember how he got through exams.” I’d be like ‘ahh, simpler times’, honestly.
Yeah, really. Then again, by third year exams he was probably used to such disruptions. :P "Right, exams, then fight off this year's Big Bad."
17. The Man with Two Faces. Interestingly, that could also apply to Snape.
Huh, you're absolutely right about that.
“Your mother needn’t have died.” Thanks to Snape.
I wonder if JKR knew back then. Or, rather, had it all planned back then. I bet she did. Otherwise, that line doesn't even make a lot of sense.
TELL HIM, YOU ARSE. “HEY HARRY I’M GROOMING YOU TO SACRIFICE YOURSELF FOR THE GREATER GOOD, HOPE YOU DON’T MIND.”
I do love that Snape calls him out for exactly this in a flashback in the last book.
The photo album! I bet Snape didn’t send any pictures. (But Remus did.) Although I guess Hagrid would know better than to ask him, haha.”No Hagrid, those are for my private shrine – uh I mean go away.”
This cracked me up.
Oh, one last thing: I love how kickass Ron is. It's sad because I really do feel like he got a little Klove'd in the last few books, like JKR started writing movie!Ron. Although I believe he was actually pretty close to book Ron in the first movie, too.