so in horror movies where flat tires stop people from running away…you can still drive with flat tires. it damages the tires and the wheels, and it’s not safe at high speeds, but you can still drive away from a raving serial killer. pro tip next time a knife wielding lunatic comes at you get in the car, you’ll be fine
well this would have been useful last night
See this is where people make the mistake. If the knife maniac is running straight at your car, SLAM it into reverse. You probably won’t kill them but you might cause some damage. Then drive. They’ll be stopped and you can get away, and maybe they’ll even be at the same spot to call the cops (and maybe the ambulance) on
what a top notch addition to an already excellent post
are we going to ignore the guy who apparently had an encounter with a serial killer last night
Have you ever imagined how and when the members of the Trio were going to die ?
Don’t read if you don’t want to think about it.
This is my headcanon :
I always imagined that Ron would be the first to die. In fact, I already believed that he wouldn’t make through the seventh book when I read it for the first time (you know, his self-sacrificing tendencies…) and prayed every two pages that he would survive. I discovered then that it could have happened.
Why would Ron be the first to die ?
Because he is the light. It is only when he is not there anymore that the night falls and despair crawls in the darkness. This is why Rowling tried to make him disappear when Dementors were closer to reality than she would have wanted.
Ron is the light and the Keeper of the team, and this is why he has to leave first for the world to begin to crumble into pieces.
Hermione would be desperate (Harry and his family too, of course, but I believe it would have a stronger effect on her). And begin to slip away, to fade, to withdraw from the world. She would begin to speak nonsense, to have nightmares that she had not have for a long time, to not realize that other people are talking to her.
She would begin to talk to herself as if Ron were there.
And she would die, shortly after Ron.
Harry would remain, as the Survivor. Harry will always be the survivor. Everyone will die before he does. I think he will remain the only one who lived the war itself.
After Hermione’s death, Harry will withdraw himself from the world with Ginny. And some years will pass, in an atmosphere full of melancholy but love anyway.
And Ginny will die too.
Harry will be alone in the end.
And some years after, Harry will feel ready to go, and meet Death as an old friend. One night he will fall asleep, and a bright light will wake him up. He will see his beautiful Ginny, and Ron and Hermione all young, all smiling and waving at him.
Harry will smile too, and walk towards them.
And at this moment he will stop breathing.
I did NOT deserve this beautiful sadness today. But thanks 😭😭😭😭
I HATE how mean the twins are about Ron being a prefect I HATE IT
I get that Mrs. Weasley can be super weird about it and they get made to feel like they aren’t good enough so they’re compensating…
but it’s not Ron’s fault. And he didn’t deserve to be treated like that by his older brothers.
Agreed. I like Fred and George but they are not the amazing gods the fandom makes them out to be.
Let’s not forget Harry and Hermione were… I don’t wanna say assholes, but assholes about it too. Even at his congratulation dinner/party thingy, the adults were being assholes. Rather than being happy for Ron they just stood around talking about how they weren’t prefects to make Harry feel better.
It’s Ron’s moment and it’s all about Harrry.
Assholes, the whole lot of them.
(I’m looking at you too Molly Weasley, with your inital doubt that it was Ron who made prefect)
I feel like the twins’ reaction stems directly from the way Molly plays favorites.
So Percy and Ginny (and Harry) are pretty clearly Molly’s favorites among the Weasley kids we see a lot. Ron and the twins have always been out, and they’ve had that in common. They made fun of Percy together when he was Prefect and then Head Boy.
But now Ron is in! In fact, he’s being pulled into Percy’s newly-emptied shoes. The twins feel deserted.
And yeah, it’s absolutely a d**k move from the twins. But they aren’t that much older than he is, and they are *definitely* established to be mean when the mood strikes them. They’re putting Ron into Percy’s shoes exactly the same way Molly is.
I don’t think the discussion of who wasn’t a prefect was necessarily directed at making Harry feel better, though it had that effect. It started with Tonks, who you’ll recall is four years out of Hogwarts at this point; it’s natural for a young adult to reminisce about their own school days with the teenagers. Heck, Sirius is four years plus 12 in Azkaban out of Hogwarts; it’s natural for him to reminisce about school, too. Nobody at dinner was particularly congratulatory to Hermione, either.
No excuse for Harry, except that OotP is Harry’s book to multiclass to b**** for a few levels. We forgive Harry for being an a**hole in OotP because he’s having a rough year. He gets half points for stopping his general b****iness for a moment and being appropriately congratulatory earlier.
Oh it’s absolutely a defense mechanism and stems entirely from Molly’s favoritism. Bill is the typical Ideal Oldest child and Percy is Molly’s Boy through and through…I tend to think that the twins even feel a bit overshadowed by Ron, who is still the baby boy (their taunts of Ickle Ronniekins speaks to the fact that—in their eyes—he’s gotten a certain amount of attention they haven’t. I’m sure Ron doesn’t quite see it that way, but he’s closer to a younger child than a middle one, so they have different struggles).
I understand it and I empathize…but it’s really sad because the most immediate reaction from someone Ron might conceivably want to impress is disgust, and Ron feels like he has to apologize for his own success.
Oh, definitely – and you see the effects of that later on, when he doesn’t want to tell them off for experimenting on first-years; Ron doesn’t want to alienate himself from the twins any further.
I don’t want to minimize the extent to which Ron gets s*** on over the whole prefect situation. But it would have been out of character for the twins not to be a**holes about it.
There’s something else that’s even more concerning, frankly…
After
his appointment, Ron says twice a very interesting sentence: “I’m not
Percy”. He says it twice, as if to convince himself and to convince
people around him.
Look when he’s appointed
prefect, how the twins immediately react in a hostile fashion. How
anytime Ron comes near them he suddenly doesn’t speak up. He’s not
afraid to fight Hermione back, he’s not afraid to approach Harry after
the latter has blown up at his friends; but the twins? He acts very
subdued, he pretends he doesn’t see anything, he’s acting like Neville.
Ron is
scared of the twins. And why wouldn’t he? They’re the ones who made him
a lifelong arachnophobe, they’ve beaten his childhood pet to death,
they almost killed him when he was five and finally they’ve given him a
sweet that melted a hole through his tongue. Not being scared of the
twins after all this would be suicidal. And now that he’s “neo-Percy”,
he’s gotten a big fat target on his back and he’s terrified of what they
might try to do to “teach him humility”.
Ron’s main failing as a prefect comes from the fact that he’s too intimidated by his twin brothers – and that’s really, really messed up, honestly, that Ron is so afraid of Fred and George that he doesn’t dare standing up to them.
The
problem here isn’t Ron’s lack of authority or whatever: it’s the fact
that the twins hated Percy, and Percy was a prefect, so in the twins’
minds, Ron has now turned into another Percy; and Ron was already a
favourite victim of the twins. So what’s he to do? He doesn’t fight
against Fred and George, he acts meekly, he doesn’t try to impose
himself on them.
Of course he should punish them, because he’s a prefect. But he also knows that if he does
attempt to hold his authority over them, the twins will turn his life
into a living hell. And considering how badly the Slytherins are getting
to him over Quidditch, Ron really doesn’t need another blow to his self-esteem, doesn’t he?
The messed-up thing? It’s not healthy. It’s dreadfully not healthy. Treading around Fred and George, for Ron, is more of a survival thing than an actual brotherly relationship.
Also, if Hermione is to be made prefect, it must
be Ron who’s the other prefect. Ron is the only person who speaks up
against Hermione, the only one who’s not afraid to fight her back, and
the only one who can counteract any too-strict decision she might take.
And you bet that Hermione is going to be strict and uptight as all heck. Making Harry a prefect was never an option if the other prefect was going to be Hermione.
Good analysis here. Love this thread.
Although @vivithefolle, I confused; when did Fred and George beat his childhood pet to death?
– indian pureblood witch from an old snake charming family in karnataka
– so powerful that she became an animagus (of a king cobra) at 13
– after she completed her education, she discovered the circus arcanus troupe as they were travelling through india and they offered to take her on
– she joined the circus but was unhappy and she met credence there and they left the circus together
– they spent six months travelling europe until she figured out a way to extract his obscurus, leaving him alive but with no magical powers left
– they went back to india together and lived a long and happy life until credence died peacefully at the age of 74
– nagini decided to travel back to europe after she had mourned him, to infiltrate the death eater movement
– she created a living viper (using a similar spell to the one malfoy used in his second year) and controlled it using the snake charming magic she’d learnt growing up
– she was a valuable spy to the order of the phoenix over the years, until eventually neville killed the viper at the battle of hogwarts and voldemort was defeated
– she returned to india one last time to die of old age in the comfort of the home she’d shared with credence years ago
This makes infinitely more sense that JK Rowling’s explanation: ‘hey remember that time Neville killed Voldemort’s pet snake and final horcrux? Well, turns out he was actually beheading a woman who had been cursed into a snake’s form for half a century! How great is that?’
You want to know why it takes rape victims years to open up and dont come forward sooner?:
1. They’re afraid you’re going to not believe them, look at them differently, make fun of them, or call them a liar which yall do because of who it is
2. It was a traumatic, scary experience for them that a lot of victims just don’t want to talk about that most are trying to recover from. They are too depressed to even talk about it.
3. You call men gay when they open up about it and say shit like “How did you get raped by a woman/man?“
acting like women are the only gender who gets raped and how it makes men feminine for being raped.
4. Everytime they do try to open up about it like in churches for example yall silence them
5. You think they want money when they just want the person in prison
6. THEY ARE SIMPLY FUCKING AFRAID!!! The rapist will come after them for exposing the truth and kill them. Which some have happened especially to black teenage girls.
7. Rape has become a mockery and joke these days. Look at Donald Trump for example. “Just Grab them by the pussy”
8. Because they have feelings of hopelessness and helplessness. They get no help or support these days. We have black women even opening up to police about being abused but police don’t do anything. They are also paying very close attention to what a lot of you rape apologists say especially on social media. Brock Turner is also an example in this scenario on how these women don’t get justice and feel helpless.
9. Because yall think victims has to be a certain skin tone color for yall to believe them.
10. Because when they are ready, then they are ready.
please help openly gay soccer player Patrick Mulyanti (whose life is in danger because Sweden might send him back to Uganda where he will be murdered like his ex was because homosexuality is a crime there) by signing this petition and then checking your email and confirming your signature by clicking on the first link
he’s seeking asylum due to violent discrimination, there is a price on his head, his current boyfriend literally goes to his every game and some politicians in Sweden are claiming his story about being gay is not believable enough and would let him get killed just like that
Patrick has become suicidal and people around worry about his mental state
the petition is in Swedish and only has 4600 signatures at this point
tbh the only evidence i need that harry’s a gryffindor is the fact that he kept going back to the forbidden forest after voldemort tried to kill him, aragog tried to eat him, lupin turned into a wolf and attacked him, the dementors tried to kiss him, barty crouch was murdered and turned into a bone, umbridge was kidnapped by centaurs,, boy had to die in that forest before he stopped going back
we have no evidence he stopped
Harry James Potter, deep in the forbidden forrest, fully aware of the centaur archers watch on him, followed by a string of spiders, the ghosts of death eaters killed in the battle of hogwarts circling his head as they wail for his blood: lovely day for a picnic
Lavender’s death is the one that upset me the most.
I always thought she survived the Werewolf attack the same way Bill did; not being a full werewolf, but having lasting scars. I don’t think it was ever officially confirmed that she died, although the films killed her off.
It honestly boils down to whether you take Pottermore as Canon. It doesn’t mention her death there so thus if it’s not mentioned, then she is presumed to live. (If they mention Colin Creevy being dead, they’d certainly mention her too, especially since she was Ron’s former girlfriend.)
When I wrote about her, I took some serious liberties and wrote her as being werewolf contaminated, but also threw in some of the Underworld*** movie idea that being a Werewolf has some additional healing capabilities, such as surviving injuries that would kill mere mortals.
But when I do write her, she’s got a very, very long road ahead of her on the path back to healing – as in months to years to recover, as much as she does. And even then, it’s not a complete recovery.
I originally thought she did perish because being a first responder, I know unfortunately those kinds of trauma – second-hand, but still. I still think that but write the opposite since her arc post-BoH would be something practical and useful – on how to cope and heal from such.
(And the BoH wasn’t a Full Moon night so unless Fenrir was able to turn people when not a full moon, she’d be contaminated but not fully turned, like Remus.)
Good points, @diva-gonzo. Thanks for your input. 🙂 The premise sounds like a great basis for exploring lots of different themes.
It’s about more than just the mystery. You still have characters that need attention and room for some fun. Comedy is always a nice touch, typically dark comedy, but that isn’t your only option for some “fun”. You have to show the lighter moments or the dark ones won’t look as shadowed. The protagonist (often the detective) still needs to be well rounded and have a life of their own, but it’s true that mysteries have a tendency to be a little more plot-oriented than character oriented. The problem with anything too plot-oriented, is that a reader who guesses all the twists is no longer having fun because the story itself isn’t what’s good.
Setting is not just a background. Location and surroundings can be a big thing for any sort of mystery, so learn to exploit it beyond just a place for things to happen. Interact with the setting, let the setting influence the mystery by providing context and detail.
Cliches are not always cliches– if explored properly. This point is specifically about how some cliches actually do overlap with reality, just not in the way media can portray them. A murderer dumping a body in a dark alley is rather cliche, but what if that specific dump site actually means something beyond the “dark alley”? Were they specially placed there for easy finding in the morning or so someone could watch from a window? If the body is in a trash can, does that mean something about how the murder view the victim?
It’s not about never putting suspicion on a character, it’s about putting just enough suspicion on multiple characters to keep a reader guessing. Avoiding suspicion on a certain character is a quick way to make any reader who takes some time to think about it realize the culprit. that said, its often better to focus suspension well on fewer characters than to spread it out and dilute the suspense because there can’t be as much depth of character learning.
Don’t cheat readers of information. The reader needs to be able to trace the story back and recognize the logic that shaped the murder and how it was solved. How the detective manages to put the clues together is what makes them a good detective and lets them gain reader respect. If a detective has access to information that the reader never finds out until the crucial moment of reveal, then readers will feel cheated (or at the very least that the writer wasn’t creative enough to make the story work without withholding information).
Make readers care. About the detective, the suspects, the victim, the case. Make the killer’s motives believable and realistic. Make sure your story events have cause and effect and consequences. Even if the reader manages to guess the murderer, if they care about everything else then it’s still a good story to them.
Know you literary devices and how to use them. Foreshadowing, red herrings, symbolism etc. Each of them (and many more) have a very good place in a murder mystery, but you want to be careful not to go too far with any specific one or you’ll end up shooting the story into a dead end.
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