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syncope at 07:41am on 30/12/2008
syncope at 07:41am on 30/12/2008I have a bunch of things to do today so this morning I kept having dreams where I was really awake. Like six or seven in a row. Something would happen and in my dream I'd wake up from my dream and brush my teeth--boom, I'd realize I was still asleep again and try to really wake myself up. Over and over.
Now I'm groggy as hell. I'm usually awake as soon as I'm awake, today I feel like I'm in a fugue state, so bring on all the things I have to do!
Somehow I fell into being enthusiastic about a Draco/Hermione story I agreed to help flesh out (like by talking about it) and now I'm half writing it. That's good news for the three H/D enthusiasts on my fl I suppose. The premise is something that came about due to a general antipathy towards what happened in the books: the HP books themselves were a piece of propaganda written by the secret branch of the Ministry responsible for such things (which, you notice, never appears in the books) and they are mostly totally inaccurate. The point of the books is to tell muggles the story of one side of a long-going civil/cultural war within the UK magical community. As you can see, unlike most Ministry endeavors, this was wildly successful.
HOWEVER, the story itself has nothing to do with all that! hahaha Why use an whole plausible plot when you can handwave that and move on to the part only you care about? You can puzzle that out later.
I've been finding myself, in light of the above musings, actually liking Harry much more. What if everything in the books was a lie in someone's interest and Harry comes off the way he does not because he was a ragaholic, deranged teen, but because some bureaucratic cogs took a vote and no one could agree on his temperament from chapter to chapter? That would explain the sleeping under the stairs thing (which would have attracted the attention of social services):
Cog One: Now, Pearl, that's a tad bit ridiculous.
Cog Two: He needs to be pitiable.
Cog One: His name's Harry Potter, what more do you need?
Cog Three: Make the cousin fat, that's always good for a laugh.
Cog Two: Oh, yes, and they must be extra muggly, how do we make them extra muggly? Muggles are obsessed with their lawns, right?
Cog One: I wonder when my transfer's coming through...
Cog Three: Oh, don't be like that Harriet, you can make up the bit about Malfoy, you've had a grudge against him since year two, haven't you?
Cog One: Who I really hate is Lucius because he owled my parents about the incident with the gum drops in the common room! Oh, what a horrible snoop!
Oh god, I'm still in my pajamas (actual pink flannel pajamas with sheep all over them...not purchased by me, clearly) and need to get to the store and all I want to do is write witty barbs. Oh well.
Go see Doubt, btw. The fact that PSH married someone not me is a miscarriage of justice. I could make him so much fatter!
Now I'm groggy as hell. I'm usually awake as soon as I'm awake, today I feel like I'm in a fugue state, so bring on all the things I have to do!
Somehow I fell into being enthusiastic about a Draco/Hermione story I agreed to help flesh out (like by talking about it) and now I'm half writing it. That's good news for the three H/D enthusiasts on my fl I suppose. The premise is something that came about due to a general antipathy towards what happened in the books: the HP books themselves were a piece of propaganda written by the secret branch of the Ministry responsible for such things (which, you notice, never appears in the books) and they are mostly totally inaccurate. The point of the books is to tell muggles the story of one side of a long-going civil/cultural war within the UK magical community. As you can see, unlike most Ministry endeavors, this was wildly successful.
HOWEVER, the story itself has nothing to do with all that! hahaha Why use an whole plausible plot when you can handwave that and move on to the part only you care about? You can puzzle that out later.
I've been finding myself, in light of the above musings, actually liking Harry much more. What if everything in the books was a lie in someone's interest and Harry comes off the way he does not because he was a ragaholic, deranged teen, but because some bureaucratic cogs took a vote and no one could agree on his temperament from chapter to chapter? That would explain the sleeping under the stairs thing (which would have attracted the attention of social services):
Cog One: Now, Pearl, that's a tad bit ridiculous.
Cog Two: He needs to be pitiable.
Cog One: His name's Harry Potter, what more do you need?
Cog Three: Make the cousin fat, that's always good for a laugh.
Cog Two: Oh, yes, and they must be extra muggly, how do we make them extra muggly? Muggles are obsessed with their lawns, right?
Cog One: I wonder when my transfer's coming through...
Cog Three: Oh, don't be like that Harriet, you can make up the bit about Malfoy, you've had a grudge against him since year two, haven't you?
Cog One: Who I really hate is Lucius because he owled my parents about the incident with the gum drops in the common room! Oh, what a horrible snoop!
Oh god, I'm still in my pajamas (actual pink flannel pajamas with sheep all over them...not purchased by me, clearly) and need to get to the store and all I want to do is write witty barbs. Oh well.
Go see Doubt, btw. The fact that PSH married someone not me is a miscarriage of justice. I could make him so much fatter!