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I have not read Harry Potter fanfic for years and years. Any recommendations?
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Jul 1, 2022 04:45
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i think if you read one fic you should read "Loose Cannon", which is a romance/slice-of-life fic about harry deciding that being a cop actually sucks rear end and going to play for the chudley cannons
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Jul 1, 2022 04:52
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HIJK posted:I have not read Harry Potter fanfic for years and years. https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8096183/1/Harry-Potter-and-the-Natural-20 Silly, eventually grows past its premise, in a good way. Has a badass muggle cop cotton onto the magical world. And also some fun DnD rules lawyering shenanigans. But is abandoned. https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6919395/1/The-Changeling Ginny gets sorted into Slytherin and becomes an actual character. Don't read the sequels, they don't add anything. although one thing about the sequel is pro-trans rights, in that there's an amab character who gets access to the 'all-female magic club' because she identifies as female so that's nice https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12713828/1/Victoria-Potter Gender swap, but the character is her own person and not 'girl Harry'. Also has some world and plot building changes and stuff to be more consistent and I like the author's vision of the mechanics of magic. Is supposed to start updating soonish and had some rewrites to several of the previous chapters. https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6331126/1/Strangers-at-Drakeshaugh Set in the future where Harry and Ginny have their kids, but before Cursed Child I guess. They meet and befriend a muggle family, whose perspective the story is usually from. Mostly just pure feel good fluff? But also it's yeah the cannon family situation- Albus Severus Potter, Ginny's a housewife, Harry's a cop, etc so depends how you feel about that. Also the author's other stories state the muggle family all get mindwiped and don't learn about magic or anything, so
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Jul 1, 2022 07:01
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Jazerus posted:blaise is a really interesting case because they were portrayed 50/50 on gender until book 6 established him as a dude. dude blaise was always basically the same guy he is in today's fanon - vaguely european (usually italian), handsome, cunning and selfish but not a dirtbag like draco, evil or not depending on the needs of the story. lady blaise has totally disappeared tho and never really had a stable characterization, very much a different OC every time. i think maybe you'd still see some girl blaise fics if anybody had ever decided what girl blaise was actually like as a character Blaise's defining characteristic is that he doesn't talk to non-purebloods And that his mom is probably really hot and probably killed seven husbands. You'd think after husband 3 or 4, people would stop marrying her
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Jul 1, 2022 07:13
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Thank you both for the recs! I will check them out, the pro-trans one sounds 
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Jul 1, 2022 07:14
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Jazerus posted:blaise is a really interesting case because they were portrayed 50/50 on gender until book 6 established him as a dude. dude blaise was always basically the same guy he is in today's fanon - vaguely european (usually italian), handsome, cunning and selfish but not a dirtbag like draco, evil or not depending on the needs of the story. lady blaise has totally disappeared tho and never really had a stable characterization, very much a different OC every time. i think maybe you'd still see some girl blaise fics if anybody had ever decided what girl blaise was actually like as a character That does remind me that the only concrete thing we know about Blaise is that his mom is a Bad Woman because she's someone who preys on rich men and they all "accidentally" die and leave her all their fortune. 
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Jul 1, 2022 07:25
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:Blaise's defining characteristic is that he doesn't talk to non-purebloods she's really hot and wizards are really, really stupid
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Jul 1, 2022 07:27
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Considering the entire Wizarding population is roughly equivalent to a medium-sized high school the gently caress is she finding enough unattached rich dudes to marry multiple of?
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Jul 1, 2022 07:30
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HIJK posted:Thank you both for the recs! I will check them out, the pro-trans one sounds the character's pretty minor and only shows up in the sequel, and the sequel's not great. I mean not bad if you're up to it, just, you know. I just felt like pointing em out cause uh, you know, JKR. Don't expect a big deal is all.
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Jul 1, 2022 08:10
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Given there's a canon list of official pureblood families numbered at 28, several of whom are extinct or unpersoned for being insufficiently nazi, sounds like mother Zabini is trying for a world tour. Abbott Avery Black Bulstrode Burke Carrow Crouch Fawley Flint Gaunt Greengrass Lestrange Longbottom Macmillan Malfoy Nott Ollivander Parkinson Prewett Rosier Rowle Selwyn Shacklebolt Shafiq Slughorn Travers Weasley Yaxley e: I hate to hand it to JK but this is a really fun list of names to say Edgar Allen Ho fucked around with this message at 08:25 on Jul 1, 2022 |
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Jul 1, 2022 08:20
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“Dumbledore” doesn’t appear on the list of pureblood families?
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Jul 1, 2022 08:40
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HIJK posted:I have not read Harry Potter fanfic for years and years. Some of these are one-shots, while others are a full series: Whispers in Corners: Crossover in which an adult Harry stumbles into the BBC Sherlock universe, with no friends or support with him other than the Deathly Hallows, and somehow finds himself becoming a spirit medium. Harry manages to fit seamlessly into the new dimension and his interactions with Mycroft and the rest of the cast are fun to read. Disillusion, by Hermione Granger: In which Hermione Granger writes a historical essay about how Harry was taken in by the Ministry as a baby and turned into their super-soldier, and the fallout once the war was over.Harry gets his revenge by destroying the magical world, but not in the Dark Lord-ish way. The Stinging Habits of the Western Honey Bee: Wherein Snape is the one sent to give Harry his letter, and is written as he should've been: A sarcastic adult who isn't a simp for a dead woman, and actually sees Harry as his own person. The whole series goes into saving Harry's childhood and fixing the damage done to him by the Dursleys, as well as teaching Harry that it's okay to rely on the adults who care for him. insurgere: In which Tom Riddle evaluated his choices and picked to go to Hufflepuff. The fic gets massive points for pointing out that A] Dumbledore's lesson to Tom wasn't do the right thing, but rather do as I say because I have the power here, as well as B] The sheer danger of sending a child to go live in an orphanage every summer during loving WW2 Doubting Thomas: AU in which the world goes to hell and a dying Luna suddenly finds herself back in the past. And then proceeds to take baby Tom and raise him as hers and Harry's child. Unsealed: After fifty years, the trial records of a special prisoner are unsealed and the details and motives of the most well known magical murder are revealed. In which Harry spares everyone a ton of pain by traveling back in time and poisoning both Dumbledore and Grindelwald Just Another Nancy Boy?: In which Dudley comes out as gay to his parents, gets kicked out, picks up the pieces of his life and reconnects with Harry. Oh, and everyone makes assumptions about the type of guy he likes and keeps trying to set him up with someone. Harry and Hermione ending up as the ones who are all 'let's pair up all our friends so they'd be happy' explains so much about the epilogue in canon.
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Jul 1, 2022 08:43
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Given there's a canon list of official pureblood families numbered at 28, several of whom are extinct or unpersoned for being insufficiently nazi, sounds like mother Zabini is trying for a world tour.
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Jul 1, 2022 09:28
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Rowling was good with made up funny names. Victor Krum, Cornelius Fudge, Fleur Delacour….there’s a fun silliness to them all.
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Jul 1, 2022 09:32
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Alhazred posted:L'Estrange is actually a real name. There's a Norwegian politician who has that as her surname. It's not unheard of in France (or presumably Britain), it's just a slightly archaic way of calling someone "John Foreigner." It is fun to say in an anglo accent though.
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Jul 1, 2022 09:50
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If you like long-reads, here's a few completed fics: The Arithmancer by White Squirrel: Hermione is a maths prodigy. Turns out, that's a good thing to be if you want to bend the rules of magic. Ghost of Privet Drive by AndrewWolfe: grumpy middle-aged lawyer from OTL Northern England gets transplanted into the Harry Potter canon, circa 1985, with a mission from the Fates to make Harry's childhood a little less poo poo. (You'll need an AO3 account for this; the author yanked it from general view because JKR is a raging TERF) Harry Potter and the Lack of Lamb Sauce by imagitory: Gordon Ramsay gets the Potions professorship in Harry's sixth year instead of Slughorn. Yes, that one. It's a lot better than it sounds. And for currently and actively updated fics: Dodging Prison and Stealing Witches by LeadVonE: "Harry Potter has been banged up for ten years in the hellhole brig of Azkaban for a crime he didn't commit, and his traitorous brother, the not-really-boy-who-lived, has royally messed things up. After meeting Fate and Death, Harry is given a second chance to squash Voldemort, dodge a thousand years in prison, and snatch everything his hated brother holds dear." Harry Potter and the Prince of Slytherin by TheSinisterMan: Another "wrong boy-who-lived"/"Harry gets sorted into Slytherin" story, but without the time travel element of DPASW. New Blood by artemisgirl: Hermione, with a prophecy behind her, gets sorted into Slytherin. Purebloods are stupid and a little gullible, and Hermione makes it her mission to pull the wool over their eyes. And, last but certainly not least: Harry Potter Becomes a Communist by HardcoreCommie: Harry discovers the immortal science of Marxism-Leninism. His new enemy? The liberal Professor McGonagall, the capitalist Professor Pepsi, and most importantly, that loving Trotskyist Romilda Vane.
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Jul 1, 2022 10:05
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alright i guess i'll throw more in than just loose cannon. it is the best one but if you're looking for more traditionally potterish fare try these out. they're all long because the stories above 100k words have a better good:dreck ratio and i really can't be bothered with trying to sort through the undifferentiated mass of short stories just to find something good that's over after 10 minutes. Made of Common Clay - at age 30, harry is invited based on his ancestry into a secret society of the poshest and stupidest wizards around, who control the government and have completely prevented his generation from changing anything at all. he decides to gently caress em up from the inside Benefits of Old Laws - voldemort comes back from the dead after the triwizard tournament as tom riddle, not cartoon snake villain man, and decides to get himself declared legally not voldemort and go respectable. secretly taking over the government is respectable, right? quite poorly written at first but it gets better. The Imposter Complex - sort of similar to the last one but also totally different. while kind of a bad person, tom riddle was never the total and complete psychopath dumbledore believed him to be from age 11 - until he turned himself into exactly that. after surviving the destruction of the diary in the chamber of secrets, sixteen year old tom riddle decides this "voldemort" guy just has to go. Seasons of Change - harry is a good kid instead of the kinda self-absorbed future cop of canon and for fun, an animorphs fic, Elfangor's Folly - elfangor survives the first 10 pages of book 1 i can't fully endorse every word of these as entirely not-stupid as it's been a while since i read them, but they're definitely a cut above average at the least. made of common clay is 100% fire tho i've read most of tintower's recommendations and agree that they're generally very good, especially new blood. Jazerus fucked around with this message at 23:24 on Jul 11, 2022 |
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Jul 1, 2022 10:07
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Zore posted:Considering the entire Wizarding population is roughly equivalent to a medium-sized high school the gently caress is she finding enough unattached rich dudes to marry multiple of? Shes conjuring them up
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Jul 1, 2022 10:31
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I’m a simple man, if a fanfic doesn’t include the words “And Dobby was watching!” it’s not for me.
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Jul 1, 2022 10:37
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https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6466185/1/Harry-the-Hufflepuff Harry's the kind of guy who will spend a week building an elaborate Rube Goldberg machine to save 5 seconds buttering his toast every morning. https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10847788/1/Goldstein Makes Hogwart's only jewish person into an actual character. I do not know anything about jewish customs so I can't comment on accuracy but it does seem to be so. and oh https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3964606/1/Alexandra_Quick_and_the_Thorn_Circle Follows an entirely new set of characters a decade later, in America. Notable for some great worldbuilding, with magical America being uhhhh a thousand times better thought out and fleshed out than Rowling's version. And also for the main character being a complete lovely brat, but the author knows she's a lovely brat, unlike a certain other fic *cough* HPMoR *cough* and of course the greatest fanfic of them all Harry Potter and the Portrait of What Looked Like a Large Pile of Ash https://botnik.org/content/harry-potter.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvpPxjCKTqc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-uDnlGJRdk
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Jul 1, 2022 10:40
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BigglesSWE posted:I’m a simple man, if a fanfic doesn’t include the words “And Dobby was watching!” it’s not for me. Dobby's ghost saw time-traveling Voldemort have incredible gently caress sesh with Draco Malfoy's wife, part 7/69
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Jul 1, 2022 12:18
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“Volsemort and da Deathdealers” is still the funniest thing I’ve ever heard relating to Harry Potter.
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Jul 1, 2022 12:58
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To me it’s the Quidditch match in Dear Wizard Reader People
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Jul 1, 2022 13:02
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No mention of My Immortal? smdh, if you want to read the best of the best you should also go read the worst of the worst
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Jul 1, 2022 13:09
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There are at least two fantastic dramatic reads of it on YouTube, I’d recommend those. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdv6Q68EutU This one has fantastic work put in it with photoshop and the soundtrack.
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Jul 1, 2022 13:33
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bobjr posted:To me it’s the Quidditch match in Dear Wizard Reader People I always loved the parts where he would just go off on a tangent unrelated to anything actually happening. Like Harry imagining Dumbledore as a giant rotting cake or his fantasy about a giant Native American woman.
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Jul 1, 2022 13:40
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Jazerus posted:Benefits of Old Laws - voldemort comes back from the dead after the triwizard tournament as tom riddle, not cartoon snake villain man, and decides to get himself declared legally not voldemort and go respectable 
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Jul 1, 2022 16:00
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Harry Potter sucks
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Jul 1, 2022 16:39
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I'm glad other people have acknowledged that it always felt weird when Harry interacted with any kid outside his immediate friend + enemy circle (Ron, Hermione, Neville, Luna, and Draco). Like, I was surprised that he actually knows and interacts with anyone else and I had no impression of what anyone's personality even is. And I include Ginny in that.
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Jul 1, 2022 17:02
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In the movies they gave Seamus a personality trait of "accidentally sets stuff on fire" because he didn't have any. Lavender Brown and Parvati Patil are Other Girls (Like Whom Hermione'sn't) and that's their whole personality. Nobody else has any character traits. Anthony Goldstein is jewish.
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Jul 1, 2022 17:10
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Harry Potter sucks Excuse you, all my richest and most british friends have assured me it's the most genius series of novels ever put to page
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Jul 1, 2022 17:45
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There’s that pompous Hufflepuff kid, Ernie? He pulls a “j’accuse!” on Harry as one student is found petrified.
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Jul 1, 2022 18:01
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BigglesSWE posted:There’s that pompous Hufflepuff kid, Ernie? He pulls a “j’accuse!” on Harry as one student is found petrified. and justin finch-fletchley, whose only personality trait is that he was going to go to eton before he found out he was a wizard yes, yes, but you see, under the wudgkins-yaxley act of 1767, he's a whole new man Jazerus fucked around with this message at 22:12 on Jul 1, 2022 |
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Jul 1, 2022 18:09
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Lottery of Babylon posted:In the movies they gave Seamus a personality trait of "accidentally sets stuff on fire" because he didn't have any. Gotta love how the Irish guy is the one who keeps blowing things up.
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Jul 1, 2022 18:19
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Seated at a crappy folding table in a university public area with a sign that says "I have never read fan fiction. Change my mind."
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Jul 1, 2022 19:39
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Cranappleberry posted:Seated at a crappy folding table in a university public area with a sign that says "I have never read fan fiction. Change my mind." sometimes hobbyist authors are quite good; fanfiction is no more or less valid as a vehicle for a compelling story than an original work. and you can tell stories that intertwine with the original work in ways that are simply not possible if you, yourself, created the world you are writing in; meta-stories, might be the term. a lot of what has been recommended takes the good parts of JKR's worldbuilding and executes on it in a way that her rich white lady terf mind is incapable of. as a fanfiction author, part of the game is taking the world and creating a story within its bounds, even if you change some things. you're operating on a shared understanding with readers that doesn't exist if they are reading a story where you made up every detail, kind of like alternate history. gonna go back to "Made of Common Clay" here - it's probably the best entry point for someone who likes this thread because it is a comprehensive critique of canon harry just sitting back and basking in the status quo, instead featuring a harry that actually believes in the cause he was supposedly fighting for and who is willing to completely upturn the magical world of morons. it's very satisfying because it takes all of the things that you would leave the original works dissatisfied about and makes Our Boy Wizard actually give a poo poo about them, it's the logical next step for the character that early-series harry seemed to be before he acquired terminal cop brain. Jazerus fucked around with this message at 20:06 on Jul 1, 2022 |
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Jul 1, 2022 19:59
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BigglesSWE posted:Rowling was good with made up funny names. Victor Krum, Cornelius Fudge, Fleur Delacour….there’s a fun silliness to them all. I'll spring the trap. Shacklebolt.
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Jul 1, 2022 20:13
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Zesty posted:I'll spring the trap. Was he black in the books, or did that come about from the movie casting? Harder to argue is Cho Chang
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Jul 1, 2022 20:27
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There's a single Jewish wizard in all of Hogwarts and his name is Anthony Goldstein.
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Jul 1, 2022 21:03
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The only fanfiction I've ever written was a Harry Potter crossover with Star Trek TNG, despite the fact I've never watched a full episode of Star Trek TNG. And I only wrote like a page of it but I really wish I still had it. It's long gone, I wrote it like more than half my life ago I think. It included such lines as (as I recall) quote:"Harry?" said Hermione. "Did you notice [Snape] had an enormous tangled mass of wiring coming out of the back of his head?" quote:"I've had enough of this poo poo," declared Harry, absent-mindedly slamming the bald man's head in the door. Picard only spoke in lines from the Picard Song. Basically it was one of those things where the person who made it finds it hilarious, and nobody else does.
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