Fun with Franchises: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007), Part III — “What the Fuck Is Limbo Mist?”

We continue with another entry in our Fun with Franchises series, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

In case you don’t know how this works — after doing a couple of trial runs without realizing it (Disney movies, Bond movies), I realized that I really enjoyed going through movies frame by frame, commenting on them and cracking jokes like I would if I was sitting around watching them with friends. So I decided to make it a feature on the site and enlisted my friend Colin to help (since it’s better when you have another person to play off). None of this is meant to be any real in-depth analysis. We’re just doing it for comedy and parody purposes. We’re basically just doing what we would normally when talking about this stuff, which I’m sure are versions of the same conversations most people have.

And of course, if you’re gonna do something called Fun with Franchises… you kinda have to franchise it. So we scribbled down a handful of franchises we knew we’d have the most fun going over, and that’s what you’re about to see. This is all done out of love and purely for the benefit of entertainment.

And that’s Fun with Franchises. Right now, we’re doing the Harry Potter franchise, and today is the third part of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

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We begin today walking through the castle…

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They should have had him dance across the door frame like Hugh Grant in Love Actually.

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Neville’s found the Room of Requirement.

Which absolutely no one’s found this before in the franchise. Found the hidden chamber not even the teachers managed to find for 60 years, but this — somehow slipped through the cracks.

No one’s ever really needed a place to fuck before? I feel like everything in this franchise has “of Requirement” at the end of it.

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Also, very strangely, over this shot, we hear Hermione’s voiceover say, “You’ve done it, Neville. You’ve found the Room of Requirement,” as if he unlocked some sort of hidden bonus or something.

I know they cut to all of them in the room, but the opening part of the line clearly sounds like ADR. I’m very good at spotting ADR in movies, and this line was HORRENDOUSLY ADR’d.

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Also, if you didn’t think this room was really the sex room, Hermione says it’s also known as the “Come and Go Room.”

Colin:

The funny part is that we say “come” and the Japanese slang term is “to go”…so when you sleep with a Japanese girl, you’re coming and she’s going. But Cho’s Chinese-Scottish. What were we talking about?

Foreign exchange rates.

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Colin:

Does it change once you’re in there? Could it turn into a shag pad all of a sudden if Harry and Cho got all hot and bothered in the middle of a lesson?

But also, what if you required a month’s worth of food and video games? Could they just stay in here and have no one find them?

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“It only appears when a person has real need of it.”

It’s the word ‘real’ that makes it annoyingly convenient. It’s also always equipped for the seeker’s needs.

I love that Ron is then like, “So say you really need to shit…” Because that’s where most of us would go with it.

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Lesson time.

Colin:

Look at this thing. It’s like a creepy wooden sex doll. Why is the target painted on poorly? They didn’t make it, I assume it’s just in the room. I guess someone ‘required’ a mannequin to practice spells on — they just didn’t ‘require’ one that didn’t reek of shoddy craftsmanship and slapdash painting.

What if someone required a bigger dick?

I just want to know the rules.

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“Look at me. I am the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher now.”

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“Expelliarmus!”

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Part of me wishes he got DiCaprio’d by that wand.

Another part of me is wondering how Neville managed to make it to his fifth year unable to do an Expelliarmus spell. Umbridge probably didn’t even need to change the curriculum if that’s how it is for most of them.

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“You’re just flourishing your wand too much.”

Really? That’s a thing? They’ve abandoned the wand movement thing since movie one. You’re gonna bring it up now? No. He’s a fuck up, and leave it at that.

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Also, given what we know, what a Sliding Doors moment this is, huh?

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So apparently that’s what it is? Expelliarmus is all over the place because sometimes they don’t do it correctly? It’s like the punting of magic? Sometimes you shank one, sometimes you don’t.

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Speaking of shanking…

“Copy this shit down. There’s no need to talk.”

Colin:

What in the fuck is ‘LIMBO MIST?’?

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“No need to think is more like it, you dumb cunt.”

“What was that?”

“I said you didn’t have to be so blunt.”

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Colin:

Filch! He’s a ghost ghost ghost ghost ghost….

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You’d think he’d know about the room by now.

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Harry’s gonna teach him the stunning spell.

“It’s sort of a wizard’s bread and butter, really.”

I was gonna argue with that, but it’s actually a fair point. Though if it is a wizard’s bread and butter, how come we’ve never seen you use it or even learn it before?

Colin:

He should really qualify the ‘wizard’ part. It’s HIS bread and butter. Everyone else seems to be content murdering and cursing.

But also — bread and butter. Sure, it’s a meal. But like, we live in a world with steak.

The fact that you’re teaching them such a barebones spell really speaks to how unnecessary this entire education system is. This whole school only exists for networking and saying you went there, whether you’re a good student or not. It’s basically Harvard.

Colin:

I’ll say it again — Harry Potter never directly kills someone with a spell. Other people certainly do, even good guys. So you choose the spell that has no real use other than to immobilize your opponent — the Roofie of the wizarding world — to describe as a wizard’s bread and butter? Nice. Real nice. 

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Yup.

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For a second I thought he was gonna do it to Nigel. How funny would it be if they just stunned the shit out of a second year for kicks?

Colin:

Let’s practice a spell that launches us into the air backwards. I’ll stand in front of the fire so you can see me clearly!

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BREAK YO SELF, FOOL!

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I feel like this spell could be used for fun in the right circumstances*.

(* Drunk.)

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Colin:

Noticed an error here. See the twins? They’re both wearing Gryffindor ties, but Padma’s a Ravenclaw. Padma (on the right) should have a tie like Cho’s. This is a consistent error in the films. They clearly didn’t think about it during filming, even though Padma has a Ravenclaw tie on for the promo photos. Oops.

You think they switch houses occasionally just to fuck with people?

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I guess they didn’t require clean mirrors in this room?

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He just hit puberty.

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Ha ha ha. He had to make that himself.

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Oh my god, you’re right. This IS the movie that Harry fucks up his chances to get with Hermione.

Colin:

Guys, I was right about something! It doesn’t happen often, I just talk a lot.

I feel like that line should have been attributed to Ron.

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Ron says he’ll go easy on her.

“Thanks, Ronald.”

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I love how she shakes her head as he walks away. Like, “This motherfucker don’t know what he’s in for.”

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I love how she’s just aloof to everything.

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What the fuck was that about?

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Is that racist? I want to feel like that’s racist.

Colin:

Grove Street for life! 

Nice little Black Power moment from Neville. Cause if any two guys here fit the “Black Power” image, it’s Ron and Neville.

Neville is the Ringo of this house.

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What actually makes you think you can outduel her?

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God damn, man. Look at her face. You have NO shot at this.

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Man, don’t you remember when she quick-draw’ed a bunch of Cornish pixies? What the fuck did you think was gonna happen?

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Look at his stupid face.

*record scratch* “This is me. You’re probably wondering how I ended up like this…”

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THIS REACTION IS PRICELESS.

I REALLY want to make a Harry Potter western. Oh my GOD would that be the greatest thing ever.

Colin:

The Man Who Shot Liberty Voldemort?

The Godric’s-Hollow Incident.

Unforgivable.

My Darling Hermione.

Dobby Unchained. As we’ve established.

Okay, one more…

The Assassination of Albus Dumbledore by the Coward Severus Snape.

Colin:

Ronny Guitar

Two Thestrals for Sister Luna

The Left Handed Wand

For a Few Knuts More

Duel in the Sun

Support Your Local Auror

The Weasley Bunch

There Was a Crooked Wand

3:10 to Hogwarts

McGonagall and Mrs. Miller

Buckbeak and the Preacher

The Ballad of Little Jo Rowling

The sad part is we literally could do this all day.

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Yeah, that’s about the proper reaction. Though I can’t tell if that’s him going “oooh” in embarrassment for Ron or him noticing Hermione for the first time.

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And his brothers bet on him. The joke being that one said he’d last a second and the other said, “You’re on,” and he’s the one that got paid, since the assumption was that he’d last longer than a second, meanwhile he was actually betting that he wouldn’t even get to a second. And this was all understood between them. That’s awesome.

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Colin:

Let’s just note how Hermione is now the darling of every non-Slytherin girl in the school. Everyone used to hate her. Go ahead and gloat, but none of this would be happening if Harry and Ron hadn’t saved you from that troll and become your friends. Seriously, if that hadn’t happened…remember the scenario from It’s A Wonderful Life with Jimmy Stewart’s wife if he’d never have been born? Yeah, that’s you without these two, Hermione. But still, you’re my favorite of the three, so we’ll let it pass.

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“I let her do that.”

Dean has the perfect “come on, buddy” look.

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I’m glad Filch has a moment to shine for once.

Colin:

He shines a lot. I seen him shining trophies and plaques and all kinds of shit. Yeah, you heard me.

Filch:

Motherfu….!!!!

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How bad do you think the House Elves have it under Umbridge? They completely cut SPEW out of the movies, so we’ll never know.

Mostly I’m asking because I thought to ask what the fuck he’s supposed to be doing now. But honestly, it’s Filch. He can do whatever he wants.

I’d love if it at some point they were like, “Yeah, the castle cleans itself. There’s literally no reason for him to be here. But he likes doing it, so we just let him.”

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Just sitting in the middle of the hallway like a jackass.

I’d love if some kid walked by and he just started shouting at them. “What the fuck are you looking at? Go to bed!”

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I guess the room knew that they required another exit where Filch couldn’t see them?

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I like how it’s both a proclamation and a decree.

Colin:

10-82?

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Oh, what a lovely Tea Party. (See that? Layers.)

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Levicorpus, motherfucker.

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Looks.

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Colin:

“A little higher. There you go. Daddy’s gonna help you wit dat grip.”

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“Harry, is that your wand poking me?”

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Colin:

Seriously, Harry, Cho looks good to go. Like for real, man — ask Neville if he has any gillyweed cause you’re gonna need some gills where you’re going. 

Pussytown?

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Didn’t require a soft place to land, huh?

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I appreciate Ron surveying the damage while they do goo-goo eyes at one another.

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Colin:

Chocolates? For me? Waiting for me where I keep guard for suspicious activity? DON’T MIND IF I DO!

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Colin:

Isn’t it great how he holds the little chocolate up like Gollum holding the ring?

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Why would you go to her and not Madame Pomfrey?

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This is why they invented 3D.

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I hope she didn’t break one of her torture quills.

Wait… what did she break? Wizards don’t have pencils.

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So many things I could say about this shot. So many.

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How can anyone even read those?

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Is this like a Hitler Youth?

Colin:

Yes.

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Didn’t Mrs. Norris have red eyes in an earlier movie?

Colin:

Yes.

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What spell is that? Why are we even seeing this?

Also, where the fuck did Harry learn any of these spells? He only uses like three, ever.

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Colin:

Note that this new Inquisitorial Squad is all Slytherins. I’m pretty sure it should be decided that Slytherins never get to hold any authority position and that if they do, it’s a guarantee that the authority is illegitimate and/or evil.

They’re so blatantly Republicans it’s not even funny.

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I like how they’re just Stupefying each other left and right.

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THWAP.

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Quite the subtext there, huh?

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Harry says every great wizard started out as a student, like them. “If they can do it, why not us?”

That works both ways, motherfucker.

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I support skipping.

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Have you guys ever heard of a flank?

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“Ducks fly together!”

Oh wait, wrong franchise.

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“Stupefy!”

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“Expelliarmus!”

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Why does Crabbe look like he’s trying to hold in massive diarrhea right now?

Someone’s got a leaky cauldron.

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Right?

Or maybe we want to throw a beat on it.

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“Expelliarmus!” (It doesn’t have a wand anymore!)

Colin:

As I pointed out some time earlier, Harry has no business knowing that many more spells than anyone else. And if you notice, 99% of this montage is Expelliarmus, Stupefy and Levicorpus. That constitutes how many lessons?

Standard Book of Spells, Chapter Two.

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I mean, yeah, sure. But don’t they also have need of the Room of Requirement? It’s evil, their need, and we don’t want them to get in, sure. But how does the room mediate whose need is greater?

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Aww, too bad.

Also, isn’t that the mouse that fixed Tom Hanks’ bladder or whatever?

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“Reducto!”

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I feel like you’re just showing off.

But also, if you want the guy whose got the hots for the other girl to notice you, this is the type of thing you’d be doing.

Though, a spell like that — how does one practice it outside of this room?

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Well goddamn, Ginny.

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That face.

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They’re all kinda turned on right now.

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“Yeah, I know.”

Look at Ron. Upstaged by yet another sibling.

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“It was nothing.”

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And the fates are sealed.

Colin:

NOOOOOOOO!!!

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He doesn’t sound like he’s been teaching her well. She’s pretty timid on that Expelliarmus.

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This is one of those, “No, you’re doing great,” moments to the hot girl, even though she has no idea what the hell she’s doing.

Colin:

If only hot people — and it’s mostly hot girls — knew how many passes they got for being mediocre. If you’re hot, trust me, you’re terrible at more things than you think. We just don’t care.

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Oh, the things he’s gonna do to her later…

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Neville seems like the kind of kid that got super jacked in his 20s and then shows up at the reunion and all the women are like, “Wait, he got hot?”

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I love that this is the sign that they’re all ready. That Neville can do something. Motherfucker, we just SAW him do an Expelliarmus IN the montage!

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That’s the last lesson before the holidays.

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“Aww…”

Do… do you not all want to go home and see your families?

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Really?

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“Keep practicing on your own as best you can.”

Won’t they get expelled if they do that?

Or do you just mean flick their wands and think of the spell?

Though, in Catholicism, that’s basically the equivalent of just using the spell. And given that the people in charge are ostensibly fascist Republicans (redundancy), I’m pretty sure that gives them an avenue to prosecute all of these kids.

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Are you fucking kidding me?

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Who are half of these fucking people? Is the idea that the group has grown since it started?

A lot of people are breaking the first rule of Fight Club.

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Soak it up, kid. This is literally the only time you’ll ever be popular.

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That guy is giving him the eye too.

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They’re already making plans to go fuck. YOU’RE LOSING YOUR CHANCE, HARRY!

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Oh, they’re totally gonna go fuck.

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Now’s your chance to use her dead boyfriend to get into her pants.

Also, remember when the last movie didn’t tell you that they were dating at all? They just showed them at the ball together. The ball where nobody really took anyone they were dating. They just took the people they asked.

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“See you in the common room, Harry.”

“That all depends on how much Vitamin E I can get my hands on.”

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Wow, they’re TOTALLY going to fuck. Oh my god. She’s openly telling him this, and he’s too preoccupied to notice.

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AND LOOK AT THAT GLANCE!

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Oh, yeah, and that one too.

Colin:

Of course we’d notice Ginny making that face NOW. I checked the book, and there’s NO mention of this whatsoever. Rowling doesn’t even mention Ginny’s name, let alone say that she’s looking aloof as Harry goes over to hang out with Cho. You can’t just start making stuff up, especially when it runs counter to the fact that Ginny Weasley is a ho.

I think she was looking aloof because she was paying attention and didn’t want him to see just how she felt about it.

But, you know, this is me, the writer, reading into it, since I am the person that expects people to fill in the gaps in their heads. So I support Rowling on this one. (JK.)

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Colin:

“Hey, baby. I saw you over here bein’ Asian. Thought I’d say hello.”

I’m pretty sure they require a different type of room setup right now.

Also, you could totally get cockblocked by this room.

“Wait, why did a waterbed and handcuffs just appear? I thought we were just gonna talk?”

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I guess they didn’t require a clean mirror they could see into.

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“So, uh… I wasn’t murdered in a graveyard last year. Just sayin’.”

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“Damn, baby, I’m gonna need a Marauders Map to find my way around some of those curves.”

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Getting cockblocked by a dead guy. Typical.

Colin:

I never really got the picture thing. Do they all see what’s going on or are they caught in the moment the photo was taken? Sometimes they seem to leave the picture frame and go off to do other stuff — I’ve mentioned this before, but what do they do? Do they have lives? Is it like their day job to just be in the frame so real people can enjoy the picture? How sentient or lucid are the people in the pictures?

It seemed like when Cho and Harry looked at Cedric’s picture, he made a cool kid face. So is he aware of what’s going on? If so, is the Cedric in the picture going to flip the fuck out in about five seconds when he witnesses what happens? How about Sirius Black’s picture in the paper? He’s yelling and screaming at everyone, including Harry, so it doesn’t look like the picture knows who it’s looking at.

Didn’t we have this discussion already? I forget. I’ll just reiterate my feelings on the matter, which are — pictures are taken in the moment and reflect that moment, and portraits are more of a living thing, where they do retain a sort of personality and can do what they want.

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She wonders if Cedric knew all this stuff.

You dated a guy for several months and don’t know if he knew how to use his wand?

Also, he was a Hufflepuff. Clearly no.

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“Well, did he know his way around your clitoris? Because I’m the best seeker on campus.”

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“Oh, he TOTALLY did.”

Of course that’s what you’d say.

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“He was really good. It’s just – Voldemort was better.”

Maybe not the right thing to say. Unless it’s “Voldemort was better than Cedric, and I fought Voldemort, and I’m still here so, *zip*!”

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“I think someone just cast Aguamenti in my knickers.”

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“You’re a really good teacher, Harry.”

Colin?

Colin:

As someone who’s had considerable experience with Asian ladies…I have to say pretty much the same thing that Ferris Bueller says about the 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California: They’re so choice. If you have the means, I highly recommend picking one up.

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“I’ve never been able to stun anything before.”

No comment.

Harry:

You could’ve fooled me. It’s Petrificus Totalus down here, baby.

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This is also the look you have when a xenomorph is descending from the ceiling.

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Okay. I feel like this also requires some Barry White.

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“Mistletoe.”

Well it’s sure as shit not poison sumac.

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Which one of them required that first?

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“Probably full of Nargles, though.”

I feel like this is an insult you direct at someone. Like, “Her snatch is probably full of Nargles.”

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“What are Nargles?”

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“Oh, you’ll be finding out soon, baby. You’ll be finding out soon.”

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RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE DEAD GUY!

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Colin:

Ooooooooooooh baby, I like yo jawline! Seriously, I like her more than I should. Mostly cause this franchise is a bunch of weird looking white people in robes. She’s worth looking at. She make this look good. Mm. God damn. I don’t have anything specific left to say, but this is pretty much my high point for the franchise, so I want to savor it.

For Colin, this is where the franchise fades out and everyone lives happily ever after.

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How many takes you think they did of this?

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Is the implication that they fucked, or…?

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“Well, how was it?”

Shouldn’t he be asking you two that?

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“Wet. I mean, she was sort of crying…”

He’s just described every sexual experience I’ve ever had :(

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“That bad at it, are you?”

:(

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Reactions.

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“I’m sure Harry’s kissing was more than satisfactory.”

There’s still a chance!

Also, what a friend.

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I love the nod. “Yes. It was satisfactory. There.”

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“Cho spends half her time crying these days.”

Really? Because we’ve never seen it. And I’m not sure how Hermione would have.

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“You’d think a bit of snogging’d cheer her up.”

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“Yeah… you would…”

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“Don’t you understand how she must be feeling?”

No. She initiated the mistletoe.

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None of them know.

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“Well, obviously she’s feeling sad about Cedric, and therefore confused about liking Harry, and guilty about kissing him, conflicted because Umbridge is threatening to sack her mom from her job at the Ministry (Note: They do all work there, don’t they? Also, would be nice if maybe that was remotely discussed to add any sort of stakes to the plot), and frightened of failing her OWLs because she’s so busy worrying about everything else.”

Or maybe she’s just dealing with trauma and the rest is projection.

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“One person couldn’t feel all that. They’d explode.”

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“Just because you’ve got the emotional range of a teaspoon…”

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It’s funny because it’s true.

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Colin:

Yes, Hermione, your explanation of female emotions was ridiculous. Let us all laugh. Oh. She actually looks kinda evil here.

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Not gonna lie, this was actually one of my favorite moments in the entire franchise. I’ve already said how I like it when they work in these shots, but here they make it a big deal later on at the end of the film. It just feels like a really nice moment that happened to be captured on film (even though I know it was completely scripted).

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Jerking off again.

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Still love those wand lights.

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SNAKE ATTACK!

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Has anyone pointed out how fucked up it is that you made him do guard duty to then have to turn around and stay at work? No one else in the Order has a job. Why is he the one doing it?

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Well damn. That’s dark.

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Colin:

How hilarious would it be if he woke up from this dream covered in jizz?

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YEAH! MAGGIE’S GOT HER HAIR DOWN!

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What’s great about this moment is that they had to go get Maggie because Dumbs has been avoiding Harry all year. And then she had to get word to him.

Also — where do the teachers sleep? Where’s Maggie’s room? Is it near the common room in case shit goes down? Also, what ever happened to the prefects? Dead?

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“In the dream, were you standing next to the victim, or looking down at the scene?”

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“Neither. It was like I was – Professor, will you just tell me what’s happened?”

What do you mean ‘what’s happened’? You saw what’s happened. I don’t think you’d wake up from a dream and go tell everyone if you didn’t think something’s happened.

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“Everard, Arthur’s on guard duty tonight. Make sure he’s found by the right people.”

The Teamsters?

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Colin:

Do paintings follow different rules than photos? The Fat Lady has a full-on personality and everything, and these paintings can talk and run errands. PLEASE EXPLAIN, JK LOL

This also effectively makes them spies. Which… TV series idea, but also some potentially weird Big Brother shit.

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There’s only one part of this shot that caught my attention.

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“Tell them that Arthur Weasley is gravely injured.”

Could I get one of the paintings to bring me Domino’s?

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We find out Arthur’s okay and will make it. And “the Dark Lord failed to acquire it.”

I know it’ll be explained, so I’m not that mad at how this is being handled.

Though — how fucking quickly did that all happen? I guess someone apparated to the scene and got him?

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“Look at me!”

(His liver is FUCKED!)

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Was that supposed to be the Voldemort bleeding effect or is that just his inner feelings taking over aggressively?

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“What’s happening to me?”

Wow, this moment is better than I remembered. I was gonna make a puberty joke, but this is actually legit.

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“You rang?”

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“It can’t wait. Even til the morning. Otherwise, we’ll all be vulnerable.”

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He’s gonna have to take him out behind the shed and shoot him.

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This is how it looked when you were six and made a scene at the supermarket.

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What kind of fucked up shit is gonna go on in THAT dungeon?

Colin:

These stairs look like an Omastar.

For some reason that just made me think of an Omastairmaster.

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“It appears there is a connection between the Dark Lord’s mind and your own.”

Look at that wine. ’53?

Oh, sorry, important stuff happening.

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“Whether or not he is aware of this connection is, at the moment, unclear.”

Maybe just ask him.

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Holy shit. He’s like the Winston Wolf of Hogwarts.

Harry Potter TV series idea: The Winston Wolf of Hogwarts.

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“Pray he remains ignorant.”

So, just to talk through this out loud — Voldemort has the connection to Harry’s mind because Harry’s a horcrux. It’s debatable as to whether or not he’s aware of it as of yet. We know he’s aware of it later on, because he’s gonna send the false vision of Sirius to set up the end of the movie. Is it ever made clear just when he figures it out? We know he clearly does, because Harry uses it against him at one point and there’s a passing mention in the next book about how his scar stopped hurting because Voldemort started protecting against the two way street there. I feel like there’s an interesting subplot here that’s just completely ignored. Just imagine this whole situation from Voldemort’s perspective.

Honestly, just imagine any of it from Voldemort’s perspective. Because at this point we don’t actually know what the hell his plans are or what he’s doing. And it’s interesting to think about what his plans actually were, since clearly laying low was part of it, and Fudge seeing him later on is gonna fuck things up for him and escalate what he’d planned on doing. There’s a lot here that absolutely no one ever talks about.

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“You mean, if he knows about it, he’ll be able to read my mind?”

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“Read it, control it, unhinge it.”

Symmetry in the back.

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“In the past, it was often the Dark Lord’s pleasure to invade the minds of his victims, creating visions designed to torture them into madness.”

Was it just Battlefield Earth played over and over?

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He’s always sweaty around the collar and nowhere else.

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“Only after extracting the last exquisite ounce of agony, when he had them literally begging for death, would he finally kill them.”

He sounds fun.

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Snape is gonna teach him Occlumency, which can shield his mind from this.

So Snape actually is the most qualified Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher they have.

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“I will attempt to penetrate your mind. You will attempt to resist.”

That’s one way to teach Defense Against the Dark Arts. “I’m gonna use this against you like someone would in real life. Defend against it.” I mean, sure, you should probably give him the basics of how to do that, but otherwise, this seems legit. On the job training.

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Colin:

Brain Rape Lessons with Professor Snape!

Does he say “Legitimate” here? Is that what the spell is?

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Right, though?

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Well there’s a freeze frame.

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Look at Macaulay Culkin.

And Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie, 30 years later.

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Is it only weird to me that he has a conehead?

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“Concentrate, Potter.”

On the one hand, he didn’t really tell him how to defend himself, but on the other, that is technically what the exercise is all about. But on the other, how is he supposed to learn what to do and do it if he’s not even given a heads up first? Or is the power of occlumency just concentration? Like, “No, this is definitely not okay,” and then it’s okay again. Is the removal of consent the way to overcome this?

Maybe some rules, is all I’m asking for.

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I feel like if this room caught fire it would not end well.

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So that must’ve been a long night.

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I got visited by three spirits last night, trying to find logic in that last scene. Jim Beam, Jonny Walker and Jack Daniels.

Colin:

I love that. Also, I’m drinking Suntory Whiskey at the moment. Relaxing times, and such.

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How come they’re not at the Burrow for this movie, yet go back when things get even more dangerous next year?

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What kind of weird dead baby tree topper is that?

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Arthur’s back. And he looks thrilled to be here and not in a hospital.

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Colin:

“And a nice big box on Ginn– a nice big box for Ron!”

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Colin:

It’s cool how you see the twins swap their presents.

Just like their women.

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Accurate.

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So Hermione’s just not gonna see her parents this year?

Maybe just invite them here too.

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He doesn’t have any parents.

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Oldman!

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What’s that giant purple sex rope on the table there?

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Nice threads.

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A toast to Harry.

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Na Zdorovie!

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Where’s the rest of the Order? You mean to tell me Mad Eye’s got a family to go home to?

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Colin:

I didn’t cover part of the scene because I have a glass of wine right now and I just raised it and drank without even thinking. Gotta watch out for people proposing toasts in movies, cause if I’m drinking at the time, I ALWAYS do it with them. This is why I try to not drink while watching The Thin Man.

I just create my own toasts. I toast my next sip a lot.

Colin:

Hey, this is fun. The first time through, I was drinking wine. This time doing editing, I’m having Suntory Whiskey. Readers should know that these two instances were about two weeks apart, but who gives a shit? Booze.

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I like this shot.

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Colin:

WINK! Booze.

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Yeah, we all know that one. Sneaking off during family gatherings for 26-33 minutes.

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“What’s in this room?” he said, despite having spent days here already in this not-very-big house and this being a very prominent room in said house.

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Kreacher feature.

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“Kreacher, shut the fuck up! I know it was you, I ain’t even gotta look!”

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“Sorry about that.”

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This was his parent’s house. He gave it to Dumbledore to use for the Order. “About the only useful thing I’ve been able to do.”

I mean, escaping Azkaban was pretty gnarly.

Which… have we ever talked about just how he escaped Azkaban?

Remember that random Egypt picture of the Weasleys from the third movie? Turns out, that’s actually a super important photograph, because Sirius saw that in the paper and recognized Pettigrew pretending to be Scabbers. So then he turned into his dog form and, since Dementors can’t notice animals and because he was so malnourished (and unregistered, I’ll add), he slipped through the bars and right out the front door.

Weirdly I somehow always thought he got out in a Cont of Monte Cristo kinda way, swapping places with a body, but somehow this version is more fun (even though it does bring up the question of ‘why wouldn’t you do this eleven years earlier’, which the book tries to explain by saying the desire for revenge/to protect Harry gave him the strength he needed to do it, but that’s horse shit. The answer is ‘because that’s what the plot required’).

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The Black family tree.

Aren’t they theoretically eventually gonna run out of wall space?

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The burned out faces I assume means disowned and not dead.

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His mother did that when he ran away.

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“Charming woman.”

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“I was sixteen.”

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Harry asks where he went. He says, “To your dad’s.” He was always welcome at the Potters’.

Do we ever find out what happened to Harry’s grandparents?

“I see him so much in you, Harry. You are so very much alike.”

But he has his mother’s eyes, though, right?

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Harry’s not so sure.

“When I saw Mr. Weasley attacked, I wasn’t just watching.”

He was masturbating.

“I was the snake.”

What did I say?

“And afterwards, in Dumbledore’s office, there was a moment when I wanted to–”

Too easy.

“This connection between me and Voldemort. What if the reason for it is that I am becoming more like him? I just feel so angry all the time. And what if, after everything that I’ve been through, something’s gone wrong inside me? What if I’m becoming bad?”

This could all be made so much easier if Dumbledore just, you know, said what he thought was happening.

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“I want you to listen to me very carefully, Harry. You’re not a bad person. You’re a very good person that bad things have happened to.”

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“Besides, the world isn’t split into good people and Death Eaters. We’ve all got both light and dark inside of us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.”

Colin:

We both have both light and dark in us? Like…a turkey? Or a jedi?

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Time to go. (Go where?)

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He was just walking the parapet.

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“When all this is over, we’ll be a proper family.”

Guess it depends on your definition of ‘proper’.

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Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban.

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It’s fucked up because you know he’s dead right there.

Any time anyone starts talking about life after the ‘event’, it’s over.

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And this is where we’ll END PART III.

– – – – – – – – – –

Tomorrow is Part IV, and more of Dumbledore’s Army. Which is a shame for all the Dumbledore’s Navy and Dumbledore’s Air Force people out there.

DUMBLEDORE’S MARINE CORPS.

(See the rest of the Fun with Franchises articles here.)

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