QHPRA - The Deathday Party
@brain-and-nerve
I know that they had to make cuts for time but I’m sad that we lost this particular chapter.
Ginny Weasley, who had been looking pale, was bullied into taking some [Pepperup Potion] by Percy. The steam pouring from under her vivid hair gave the impression that her whole head was on fire. - Percy has noticed that Ginny isn’t her usual self and is trying to fix it. It’s NOT Percy’s fault that he doesn’t realise what’s really wrong with Ginny. NOBODY worked that out propery. *side-eyes fandom*
Oliver Wood’s enthusiasm for regular training sessions, however, was not dampened, which was why Harry was to be found, lat one stormy Saturday afternoon a few days before Halloween, returning to Gryffindor Tower, drenched to the skin and splattered with mud. - Are there no showers in the changing rooms?! That’s an essential feature for any sport taking place in the winter, especially in Scotland!
‘You look troubled, young Potter,’ said Nick, folding a transparent letter as he spoke and tucking it inside his doublet. - How does ghost post work??
‘Half an inch of skin and sinew holding my neck on, Harry!’ - TMI, Nick!
I wonder if there is some kind of bond between Mrs Norris and Filch. Maybe Mrs Norris is a Maledictus like Nagini?!
Fred and George Weasley had an entire drawer to themselves. - I wonder if James and Sirius did, too.
Peeves breaks the vanishing cabinet, which means Montague can see into Borgin and Burkes when Fred and George shove him inside it in OotP, which means that Draco finds out about it from Montague, which means he works out that it’s linked to the one in Borgin and Burkes and takes it to the Room of Hidden Things to sneak Death Eaters into Hogwarts...
It was really smart of Nick to involve Peeves and get Harry out of detention. I think it’s only fair that Harry goes to his shindig in return.
‘Why would anyone want to celebrate the day they died?’ said Ron, who was halfway through his Potions homework and grumpy. ‘Sounds dead depressing to me….’ - *rimshot*
The sight of Percy bellowing himself hoarse at Fred and George, the spectacular display of tangerine stars showering from the salamander’s mouth, and its escape into the fire, with accompanying explosions, drove both Filch and the Kwikspell envelope from Harry’s mind. - We were robbed, I tell you.
Hermione bossing Harry to go because SHE really wants to go to the Deathday Party.
It was an incredible sight. The dungeon was full of hundreds of pearly-white, translucent people, mostly drifting around a crowded dance floor, waltzing to the dreadful, quavering sound of thirty musical saws, played by an orchestra on a raised, black-draped platform. A chandelier overhead blazed midnight-blue with a thousand more black candles. Their breath rose in a mist before them; it was like stepping into a freezer. - ROBBED!
I’d forgotten that Myrtle first appears at the party.
... there was a great maggoty haggis... - *gag*
The squat ghost of a girl had glided over. She had the glummest face Harry had ever seen, half-hidden behind lank hair and thick pearly spectacles. - Shirley Henderson was too old to play Myrtle, anyway, but they could have done more to dress her down.
Peeves is such a dick.
I feel for Nick, getting upstaged at his own Deathday Party.
Can’t imagine how scary it was for Ron and Hermione to see Harry suddenly charge upstairs, talking about a voice killing someone.
Then Ron said, 'Let’s get out of here.’ ‘Shouldn’t we try and help –’ Harry began awkwardly. ‘Trust me,’ said Ron. ‘We don’t want to be found here.’ - Ron had the right idea!
Look at how gleeful and excited Draco is over this horrible incident, what a charming child. /sarcasm
