[ SECRET POST #2732 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2732 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

11. http://i.imgur.com/NMOMazD.png

[morieris]

Oblig. Not the Bees!

ARRrrrggGH! Ahhhhgh! They're in my eyes!

[(Anonymous)]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1GadTfGFvU

[(Anonymous)]

I like my heroes like I like my coffee - covered in bees!

[(Anonymous)]

+15

Bonus points for the Eddie Izzard. :)

[(Anonymous)]

with a spoon...

[(Anonymous)]

Hot and strong and in a plastic cup?

[morieris]

BUT ANYWAY I much prefer Harry's teenaged stumbling in this book as opposed to Half Blood Prince.

[(Anonymous)]

I did not like Harry at all in HBP. HBP was just weird in general. It was like the fourth or sixth season of Buffy - everyone was off, and while to an extent I understood why and what they were getting at, it doesn't mean I have to like it. I finished HBP and was pretty much "ah. Okay then."

[(Anonymous)]

I think she was trying to write Harry as if he was being plagued with testosterone. Having never been a teenage boy, I wasn't sure how close she got it.

[(Anonymous)]

Testosterone, bees, same difference apparently!

[(Anonymous)]

It really wasn't a testosterone thing, or even purely a teenage thing. He was a kid who'd been through a lot of shit and who was at his breaking point. It's a wonder he didn't go completely off the deep-end.

[quantumreality]

On reflection, it's like Harry got banged up one side and down the other with the Stupid Stick. There are just so many things he's either completely clueless about or making such elementary mistakes doing that it bothers me.

I mean, to name off a few things -

1. Not pushing harder to get someone to find out about his "I must not tell lies" blood quill writing. Dumbledore would have laid the smack down on Umbridge in like 0.00001 seconds if he ever found that out.
2. Hermione talks about Occlumency like she's researched it. Why doesn't Harry pull that thread and get the books she's read instead of making it an endurance contest with Snape? If one way doesn't work (Snape bashing his mind repeatedly), find another, don't just keep repeating it.
3. Being so stupid as to not open Sirius's present. Harry's curiosity in canon is sometimes absolutely insatiable, and yet the one thing he might just want to take a peek at, he doesn't. Even if he didn't want Sirius to risk himself, opening the present up in and of itself can hardly hurt.

And that ties into....

4. Everybody's told him Voldemort can send him visions. I get that he's a teenager under incredible stress, but I can think of a dozen ways the Dept of Mysteries chapters could have gone down differently if he'd stopped and kicked his brain into gear for longer than just pro forma acknowledging Hermione's concerns and haring off the instant Kreacher claims Sirius isn't present at 12 G.P.?

*sigh*

It's a pivotal book in a lot of ways, but it's blatantly obvious how much of it has contrived plotting for the sake of JK Rowling setting up for Sirius's death, as well as for the prophecy involving him and Voldemort.

[(Anonymous)]

What the actual fuck?

Read the end of GoF again.

[(Anonymous)]

Brain full of bees, PTSD, same thing really.

[(Anonymous)]

Its unnerving how obviously PTSD he was, reading it as an adult - there's a scene in the first chapter where Harry flips out over a car backfiring or something, and that's... classic PTSD. :/

[(Anonymous)]

I think less bees and more ptsd. Oh, and semi-possession by an evil being.

(I actually really like Harry throughout the series but especially in OotP, but then I had a super angry stage too.)

[(Anonymous)]

Wait, you like that he acts that way? That's why the book's your favorite?

[(Anonymous)]

Not OP, but that book came out when I was entering college and I remember thinking, "Man, Harry turned into a moody dick," and then realizing, "Oh wait, that's exactly what being 15 was like." I appreciate that she managed to capture that general phase in life.

Kind of OT (but on the subject of OoTP at least)

[(Anonymous)]

Is it weird that I initially hated the book for all the reasons it became my favorite in the whole series? Next to PoA, anyway, which I still maintain was pretty damn good.

[fingalsanteater]

OOTP is my favorite book too, and I'll never understand people's criticism of Harry's personality during it. He was a kid going through a very dark time. He saw a dude get murdered, fought a death duel, was almost killed, was tortured, saw his dead parents spirits, had to go home to an abusive family, had no contact with his friends, had no emotional support for all that he'd suffered, etc, etc. Damn, cut the kid some fucking slack.

[(Anonymous)]

Bees for a brain and a weird lione beast thing in his chest - poor Harry really should get some of these ailments checked out.

[(Anonymous)]

Puberty and PTSD will do that to a brain.

[(Anonymous)]

It's called puberty.

[(Anonymous)]

I think it might have been Voldemort, when he had him tied to a gravestone cut for his blood, and then thrown on the ground to be totured. All while a circle grown men laughed and mocked him. Watched a friend be murdered. Went on with the knowledge that a psychopath who was obsessed with trying to kill him was back in the world.

But you're right, he should have just laughed it off and remained cheerful all the time.

Jezus.