Harry has had an awful experience with portkeys because of the Triwizard. It has caused a mild pathological fear of portkeys, which causes Harry to involuntarily seize up when they arrive making him incapable of catching himself from falling on his butt. Apparation causes no problems because nothing serious has happened to him with it and even if he horribly splinched it is not very differant from his normal school year. His trouble with the floo causes him to compulsively clean the fireplace before using the floo powder and makes him very asine when pronouncing his destination. I don't know which question this answers, but I think it answers one of them.

 

*clap*clap*clap*

Reasonable portkey explanation

 

Ooh, me next.

Cliche times ten: glowing eyes and wandless magic.

The latter I can see happening, with a little bit of fudging and perhaps some decent explanation, but glowing eyes has been overdone forever (quite possibly before Nedved chose to rewrite Solidus Charm). Everyone makes wandless magic seem like it's amazing and Harry can do it just because he can do accidental magic - I don't buy that shit for a moment.

I guess it's not really cliche, but a major pet peeve - the misspelling of 'canon'. If something is not to canon, it does not follow the pre-existing pattern set down. If something is not cannon, then it does not posess cannonballs. *strangles whomever does that*

On a semi-related topic, I am looking for a way that Harry can pick up occlumency within the span of a month and a half. He doesn't have to be a master, but he needs it now, that much is obvious - it's my personal theory, and canon supports it, that the reason Harry gets his ass beat down by Snape and Voldie is that they use legilimency on him when he duels and can thereby anticipate his moves. So, when Harry fakes his own death (in a way that is not actually too cliche, believe it or not), he needs to posess some decent shields to keep Lord Voldiething out of his brain.

The best thing about HBP is that I have the chance to call it crap, insult the Herons and generally make them feel like they've been ass-raped by a troll.

BTW, how does it work that Harry gets bitchslapped by the ministry because Dobby uses magic, yet when Tonks packs the trunk in OOTP he's all fine and dandy?

 

... it doesnt work...and regading your post in the introduction thread... its reason like these that some of us are canon haters and cannon haters... plot holes... unfleshed out characters... idiotic books like half baked plot... and ginny...


there is anoher cliche i dun like... ginny... letting her survive is just so overdone...

 

Ginny must die! Along with an assortment of any other characters you wish. Like hermione, ron, and most of the weasley family. You have to leave the twins alive or else there would be no comic relief.

Cliche: Percy is a DE or works for some super secret agency place.

This is actually a cliche i like. As long as Percy is a DE.

 

a good way to use that cliche would be to have the DE Percy kill Ginny to reveal his allegances. WOOHOO DEAD GINNY! (and there was much rejopicing)

 

I agree, I like Percy the spy, but not with the DE's since you never see him show racism in the books, but rather for the Unspeakables. The guy just all of a sudden leaves his family first year out of school, distances himself from everyone just as Voldemort rises...?

And yeah, our collective problem with canon, is once we all started writing, and looking into the book, you see the world itself is less then half done. So many angles she started on, then abandoned, characters introduced for no reason, the whole thing is predictable as hell.

 

What really bugs me is when, for example, in 4, they use Lumos to look for Harry's wand at the World Cup while they're in the woods. No magic outside of school. I could probably find a few other examples in the book, but I don't feel like going throught them all right now. I say we storm JK's house and demand that she answer these questions. She'd probably end up spending a while trying to figure out how to not contradict herself when she explains.

 

Good summary. I'm a big plot hole whore, and even if HBP was good, all the build up over the years of abandonded plot lines and massive holes just ruined canon for me

 

Obliviators, the ministry knows where he lives.

-I think he is the only wizard in Surrey, if there were more Mrs. Figg would have been obsolete, because a wizard would be much more useful than some squib.
-Harry meeting wizards (Diggle etc.) is inevitably, he is the boy-who-lived, people worship the ground he walks on (if they feel like it).
-I don't believe Dumbledore would have a problem jamming the "magic detectors" for a short period of time.

He tortured the muggle orphans outside the orphanage, therefore the ministry thought it was some random wizard doing some random magic.

House elves are supposed to go unnoticed, hence their magic shouldn't be noticed, Dobby made his magic noticeable to keep Harry away from school.

Well in the third book Harry still walked on water, so the ministry just ignored the magic(he never got a letter for blowing up Marge) and because it was repeatedly done they suspected that he was just doing some random magic for fun(that's why no Obliviators came) and in the fifth book it was unacceptable because everyone thought he was an evil lunatic.

 

Ah, I suppose that makes some sense. But I still don't think that covers everything. But this is just way too cofusing for my tiny brain to handle. What topic am I on anyways? Fanfiction Cliches? Let's see, Mr. Harry Potter disappears for a while and comes back powerful a few months or years later. Whether its by being a Founder's Heir and going back in time to train or being an Unspeakable or something to that nature.

 

*raises his eyebrows* you've been peeking at my prewriting!

I don't have my fanfiction posted anywhere, unfortunately, as I feel that getting reviews and trying to please people makes me want to write less. I'll do half the book first and then put it up.

 

Like, for instance, their amazing ability to impersonate other people's magical signatures.

Quite. But you know what Stan Shunpike said, "The muggles don't see nothin." Muggles don't WANT magic to exist, so they rationalize it. "Did that kid just disappear into that platform barrier?" "Don't be stupid. He's just behind that pillar or something."

 

Muggles have discovered parts of the magical world(Unicorns etc.) already(they just think it's fiction) and like Burt already said they don't really want to know anything about magic, in the second book Arthur even mentions that muggles do anything to ignore magic.

Obliviators probably only use memory charms when it's inevitably, e.g. if muggles tell other muggles.

 

Of course, Riddle could have used the same type of magic Harry used before Harry even knew there was a Hogwarts (ex. Glass vanishing for the snake at the zoo, his hair growing longer, etc.) all based on high emotions and a type of wandless magic.

I suppose all wizards and witches go through this, and in most instances aren't in trouble for it. For example, Harry probably wouldn't have gotten in trouble anyway for blowing up his aunt because he didn't cast a spell, it only happened because of his high emotions. (But of course, Fudge being scared of Black was the main reason.)

So, this type of emotionally charged wandless magic must not show up on the Ministry's tracking charm and probably the Ministry was already watching Harry at the point where his Aunt blew up.

Ah, I'm sure there's something about the Dementors and Harry casting the "Lumos" without his wand I wanted to bring up, but I don't remember what.

Sorry for the rambling!