Same happens a lot with Stupefy, Imperio and Crucio. Annoys the fuck out of me.

 

The only curse that is semi-acceptable to do it for is Avada Kedavra. Only because it is such an infamous curse, referring to it as the Avada Kedavra rather than the Killing Curse isn't unbelievable. So when they would say someone cast an Avada Kedavra or the Avada Kedavra it doesn't bother me. But only for that one spell.

 

Actually I think thats just as bad. People would avoid saying the curse incantation to avoid seeming overly familiar with it...

 

Sadly, this is canon. Along with all the other ones. JKR was good about it up until the later books. DH broke all the rules and they say stupid shit like this all over the place. It's retarded sounding and and it makes the writer and the characters look equally retarded. There are proper names for all the spells; use them.

My peeve would be mislabeling the names. "He used the Shield Curse!" or "He used the Shield Hex!" are completely annoying.

 

Or the Blasting Charm or Disarming Curse. The list goes on and on and on.

 

When I'm unsure the type of spell, I find ambiguous "spell" works just fine, "Blasting Spell", "Disarming Spell", of course those could be vague, but there can also be more than one blasting spell so obscurity is fine some times.

 

Bollocks/Bullocks.

Is "bollocks" so profane, so profoundly blasphemous and filthliciously sweartastic that these people are making a conscious choice to substitute another word, or are they just that ignorant?

And is it solely non-Brits doing this? I wish I had started a running tally the first time I saw this going on, just so I had my hands on some statistics.

 

Sherbet Lemon/Lemon Drop and Philosopher's Stone/Sorcerer's Stone.

I know Lemon Drop and Sorcerer's Stone are both 'American canon', but with all the efforts to remove obvious Americanisms, why are they left unchanged? Surely the British edition (published earlier) is 'more canon'?

Every time I see Dumbledore offering somebody a Lemon Drop, I cringe.

Also, this:

 

Get my name right, assholes.

 

Hehe. That character was an asshole, but BTAS was awesome.

Usually? Something involving rage/grief fueled time travel.

It's like some kind of Superman/Shinji Ikari version of "No, fuck you, it didn't happen! I'm taking my ball, and my timeline, and I'm going home! My team? They're going home too. Screw you guys, we aren't playing with you anymore!"

 

Never mind the bollocks...

 

Somehow, I knew this would happen.

Still not sure how I should feel about it, though.

Would it be odd if I said vicious?

 

Everyone forgiving Snape for everything, including telling Voldemort the prophecy, as soon as he says something along the lines of "But I spied for you, stop being so meeeeeeean".

Example: Just reading 'The Fourth Champion', by MunkeyManiac. Snape confesses to telling the prophecy to Voldemort, and then running to Dumbledore when he finds out that Lily might be in danger. Sirius initially surges up, and then is all calm and whatever.

BALLS TO THAT!

Snape is directly responsible for the death of Lily and James (and thus Voldemort, but that's an accident). He only ever started spying or doing anything for Dumbledore and the Light because he was scared his childhood crush would get killed. I have yet to see any argument people have been able to make so that canon!Snape isn't a weird, kinda obsessed turncoat. And most AUs fail at making him likable too.

He may not have had friends on the light side to begin with, but if he had truly felt pureblood supremacy was wrong, he would;ve either spied from the start, or never joined the DEs.

 

Ok, so I'm sure someone must have brought it up at some point, but one of my pet peeves is when Harry meets someone new and has this need/urge/compulsion to tell said stranger that "his parents were murdered trying to protect him."

For God's sake, that's orphan-speak for "I have a crappy life, be sympathetic to me." I mean, seriously, who the fuck goes off telling people their parents were murderded after five minutes of meeting strangers?!

If, by some chance, the topic does come up, the most well-adjusted of us would say something like, "My parents passed away when I was young," and leave it at that. No need to go into details about how an "evil," and "bad" man was still trying to kill him after a failed assassination on a baby, and how Harry wants to avenge his tragically deseased parents.

Talk about conversation killers.

 

This. I hate reading stories like that. Hell, I wouldn't talk about it if I was an orphan, seems like in the stories they use it as a pity card to get everyone on Harry's side.

 

Atleast it would have been better if it's used on hot chicks.

 

True, many stories just have Harry talking about his murdered parents right out of the blue, like it's the BWL equivalent of "Hello, I'm Harry."

If his parents were killed by some maniac with a tire iron, the guy who did it went to jail, then died in prison, that would be one thing. On the other hand, sometimes it's relevant to bring it up... since, you know, the murderer is still on the loose and trying to kill him, and doesn't mind using people close to Harry to try and further his own plans.

Kind of makes it relevant.

Fans and characters like to make light of Harry's insistence that people near him are in danger. Okay, yeah, people like Hermione and Ron might as well stick with him, since they long since made the target list for being his friends, on top of being mudbloods and blood traitors.

Of course, for people who don't know the whole story or, like muggles and transplants from a crossover universe, haven't got clue one about Harry and the Wizarding World, "I have a madman trying to kill me, 24/7; welcome to the most dangerous game." should be the first page of the "So You Want to Be Friends with The Boy Who Lived" primer.

If I had just made friends with someone who, as it turns out, is wanted very dead by the local mob boss, and he neglected to tell me that just being around him could end up with me bleeding all over my new concrete shoes...

Let us simply say that I would be a trifle miffed that the subject was never broached during the introductions. It's sort of a deal-breaker.

 

Of course, the sensible person who has a mass murderer after them doesn't go out and make friends

 

Sensible people do not believe in magic or prophecies, either.

But seriously. Are you suggesting that an eleven- to sixteen-year-old sequester himself or become a hermit while Voldemort is alive? After all, the only reason Harry won (and the entire point of the series, btw) was the wide circle of people who not only believed in doing the right thing, but also loved and believed in Harry himself.

Somehow, I doubt that a more introverted and socially awkward Harry would have had better odds.

 

I see and accept your point.