tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550058566159443898.post7377359916096440614..comments2024-03-28T11:00:36.392-04:00Comments on Cyganeria: Harry Potter's Lenten Retreat Part TwoMashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06943998810222103926noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550058566159443898.post-52067453658462923912015-08-25T08:36:33.027-04:002015-08-25T08:36:33.027-04:00I actually think Ron is more in the wrong. He brou...I actually think Ron is more in the wrong. He brought a rat to school which should have been in a cage (rats can't be toilet trained so the thought is rather disgusting otherwise). Since rats aren't on the list of allowable pets at Hogwarts and he must know that cats and owls are (both of which might go after a rat) then the onus is on him to keep his rat in a safe enclosure. Also, it would be very difficult and cruel for Hermione to keep her cat confined to her dorm whereas it wouldn't be difficult or cruel to keep the rat in a cage.<br /><br />I do make allowances for his obvious upset but if he'd made an effort to save his pets life and his first reaction wasn't anger at someone who was essentially blameless I would have more sympathy. (Hermione wasn't terribly sympathetic but her reaction may have been different if Ron's first reaction wasn't anger and blame.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550058566159443898.post-38101608920086238832014-04-02T06:56:06.343-04:002014-04-02T06:56:06.343-04:00I wish there'd been more interaction between H...I wish there'd been more interaction between Hermione's parents and the W. world!!!!!<br /><br />Crashing at Hermione's would have balanced things out nicely..or Christmas holidays? They're so abandoned after this book..I miss them later on!Mashahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943998810222103926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550058566159443898.post-11411135184452148542014-04-02T06:53:46.478-04:002014-04-02T06:53:46.478-04:00Oooh..you brought that up!!! I wanted to compare t...Oooh..you brought that up!!! I wanted to compare the two...but [SPOILERS!]....mmmmmmmmm..I do a bit anyway:<br /><br />They're not. Mal and Inara are way harsher to each other than Ron and Hermione. That said..I can deal with them better because they're both so very broken. Ron and Hermione are nowhere near as broken - Hermione especially is supposed to be the least - 'issue filled' of the trio, where as Inara is one of the most damaged characters on Serenity. She's a whore, her job degrades her, but her only experience of romantic love is the role she plays for her customers. She's never NOT 'played' someone, and she can't really play Mal, because she doesn't quite get him. So she pushes him away because being with him would lose her everything in her life.<br /><br />And Mal is a killer. He's a 'bad man', we can see a lot of why he's pushing her away in 'Our Mrs. Reynolds'.."I'd be a terrible husband"...But there are a lot of similarities in the way they treat each other, right???!! Ugh. Book six, we are going to be all over this!<br /><br />Bang photos on the way!<br /><br /><i>I'm OK with my love for the Weasleys being a bit irrational, I think. Because it's true that the dynamic between Arthur and Molly is far from ideal, and is the sort of thing that's absolutely insufferable in real life. The dynamic between Molly and anyone is less than ideal, except for Harry perhaps--and it's her love for Harry, her mothering of the motherless, that redeems her so thoroughly to me. It might just be because I have so many sympathetic emotions. My heart and soul are entirely accessible through the feels...</i><br /><br />I totally get that!!!! :) Sympathetic emotions are all over me for some characters, and there's nothing you can do about them ;)<br /><br />Mashahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943998810222103926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550058566159443898.post-45069067716369937142014-04-02T06:40:17.819-04:002014-04-02T06:40:17.819-04:00I think they're both sort of in the wrong, but...I think they're both sort of in the wrong, but Ron is more understandably so..seeing as his pet got eaten! Hermione seems to have a real tendency to demean him and push down what he sees as important (like his rat's life). Hermione likes to shut him down and cut him down.. :( So, yeah, I know what you mean.Mashahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943998810222103926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550058566159443898.post-91175406804539346772014-04-01T11:20:12.398-04:002014-04-01T11:20:12.398-04:00whoops, happy anniversary!
bt, I totally agree a...whoops, happy anniversary! <br /><br />bt, I totally agree about Scabbers and Crookshanks. Poor Scabbers is a victim of anti-rat prejudice here, I think :( :( :(. . . and possibly some authorial [SPOILER]-informed apparent prejudice also. The "cats will be cats" attitude shouldn't be allowed to prevail in a school where large numbers of students keep pets. <br /><br />Actually, I find the dynamic between Arthur and Molly a little less sufferable in fiction than in RL. If Arthur and Molly were real people, I might have good reason to think, "Oh, The Weasleys, you're annoying, but if you're happy together, that's what matters," But in a fictional context it just feels lazy. (I'm not going to judge them based on one still, though; they don't look particularly bored to me).<br /><br />I like Ginny. I just don't like her as [SPOILER]. And I like what I know about Hermionie's parents, which is like 99% inference from Hermione's character; it would have been great to see more of their interactions with the W. World and what if Harry stayed with them one summer instead of crowding in with the Weasleys? SOMEONE WRITE ME SOME FIC ok?<br /><br />hahahaha, Mal and Inara, ugh. I like Mal and I like Inara. I do not like that Mal / Inara "I secretly wish you were my girlfriend but it's not really a secret, so I'm just going to insult you whenever I get the chance" thing. <br /><br />ZOE / WASH 4 LIFE, though. <3 <3 Lauranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550058566159443898.post-13470713929349859532014-03-31T01:12:21.897-04:002014-03-31T01:12:21.897-04:00Hahahaha! This is a great post! I LOVE the Neville...Hahahaha! This is a great post! I LOVE the Neville meme. :D And the flying teapot!<br /><br />And exactly how are Mal and Inara nicer to each other than Ron and Hermione??? :P<br /><br />I'm OK with my love for the Weasleys being a bit irrational, I think. Because it's true that the dynamic between Arthur and Molly is far from ideal, and is the sort of thing that's absolutely insufferable in real life. The dynamic between Molly and anyone is less than ideal, except for Harry perhaps--and it's her love for Harry, her mothering of the motherless, that redeems her so thoroughly to me. It might just be because I have so many sympathetic emotions. My heart and soul are entirely accessible through the feels...<br /><br />...and I am distracted by friendship, too, right now. :)<br /><br />I WANT PICTURES of the bangs!!!Jenna St. Hilairehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04474588706124865006noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550058566159443898.post-78611495622413802852014-03-30T10:14:47.117-04:002014-03-30T10:14:47.117-04:00Regarding the Scabbers fight, I really think Ron i...Regarding the Scabbers fight, I really think Ron is completely in the right for once: he had repeatedly asked and told Hermione to keep an eye on Crookshanks, who had made repeated efforts to eat Scabbers, yet Hermione *still* didn’t, with the (apparent) result that her pet killed his pet. To cap it all off, she doesn’t even apologize, but instead gets angry at him (Ron even tells Harry that he wouldn't be so mad at her if she'd so much as ACTED like she was sorry instead of getting all defensive). Who wouldn't get angry in a situation like that? Ron’s a little meaner about it than he needs to be, but I think the real onus is all on her side. BTanakahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03247800533467244131noreply@blogger.com