I like your Dumbledore/Percy comparison. It had not occurred to me, but it makes sense.




I don't know. It almost seems like too much of a change off-screen? I know he's shown us glimpses of what he's capable of, especially in recent books, but I'm not sure of this whole completely different character thing. I dunno. I suppose he is a Gryffindor, after all.




Hehe, I liked that too. And it would undoubtedly be much harder for her to be away from the showdown, waiting for news.



I love Luna. She cracks me up.



Hm. You are right that in her case it doesn't seem totally to break with integrity... but still. We've been told that the use of just one of these curses is enough to land you in prison for life. I understand that circumstances have changed, but as Legolas pointed out, it just seems so easy for them now. I don't like it.




As above. I appreciate him wanting to defend his teacher, and that he was royally pissed off and full of seventeen-year-old angst and world-ending, but we move from disarming Stan Shunpike to using the Cruciatus? Stunning and a good whack on the head seem like kind of a nice option.



I don't know if they always go together, but I think it's pretty clear that for Snape they do. There was that whole shouting at Harry about learning to close your mind business, and I got the same impression with McGonagall.



Kinda feel the same way as I do about Neville on this. Too much change off-screen, didn't feel natural enough. He's been such a bastard, and now we come and get all huggy?