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Funny Excerpts
Book 5 exceprts at the bottom (beware of spoilers
"He sounds exactly like Moody," said Harry quietly, tucking the letter away again inside his robes. "'Constant vigilance!' You'd think I walk around with my eyes shut, banging off the walls...."
"I told you!" Ron hissed at Hermione as she stared down the article. "I told you not to annoy Rita Skeeter! She's made you out to be some sort of-scarlet woman!"
"Oh, are you a prefect Percy? You should have said something we had no idea."
"We tried to shut him in a pyramid, but Mum spotted us."
(Harry is reading Ron's letter) ...Thought I'd send this with Pig anyway.
"Lockhart'll sign anything if it stands still long enough."
"Yeah, I've seen those things they think are gnomes," said Ron, bent double with his head in a peony bush, "like fat little Santa Clauses with fishing rods."
"What would we want to be prefects for?" Said George looking revolted at the very idea. "It'd take all the fun out of life."
"It's lucky it's dark...I haven't blushed so much since Madame Pomfrey told me she liked my new earmuffs."
Dudley looked alot like Uncle Vernon. He had a large pink face, not much neck, small watery blue eyes, and thick blonde hair that lay smoothly on his thick, fat head.
"Yer' great puddin' of a son don' need fattenin' anymore, Dursley don' worry."
"I tell you, that dragon is the most horrible creature I've ever met, but the way Hagrid goes about it you'd think it was a fluffy little bunny rabbit. When it bit me, he told me off for frightening it. And when I left he was singing it a lullaby."
"So light a fire!" Harry choked.
"I believe misters Fred and George Weasley were responsible for trying to send you a toilet seat."
"We had to write about our hero at school Mr. Mason; I wrote about you." Fred and George, however, found all this very funny. They went out of their way to march ahead of Harry down the corridors, shouting, "Make way for the Heir of Slytherin, seriously evil wizard coming through. . ."
Harry learned quickly not to feel to sorry for the gnomes. He decided to just drop the first one just over the hedge, but the gnome, sensing weakness, sank his razor sharp teeth into Harry's finger and he had a hard job shaking it off until -
George looked up in time to see Malfoy pretending to faint with terror again.
Percy had what were possibly the least helpful words of comfort.
"Where is Wood?" said Harry, suddenly realizing he wasn't there.
"Mr. Moony presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people's business." "That'll change the world, that report will," said Ron. "Front page of the Daily Prophet, I expect, cauldron leaks."
"Yeah, someone might slip dragon dung in it again, eh, Perce?" said Fred.
"That was a sample of fertilizer from Norway!" said Percy, going very red in the face. "It was nothing personal!"
One of them was a very old wizard who was wearing a long flowery nightgown. The other was clearly a Ministry wizard; he was holding out a pair of pinstriped trousers and almost crying with exasperation.
"Mad-Eye Moody?" said George thoughtfully, spreading marmalade on his toast. "Isn't he that nutter--"
"I was saying that Saturn was surely in a position of power in the heavens at the moment of your birth...your dark hair...your mean stature...tragic losses so young in life...I think I am right in saying, my dear, that you were born in midwinter?"
"OH NO YOU DON'T, LADDIE!" "I want to fix that in my memory forever," said Ron, his closed and an uplifted expression on his face. "Draco Malfoy, the amazing bouncing ferret..."
"Excuse me, I don't like people just because they're handsome!" said Hermione indignantly. "Don't be prat, Neville, that's illegal," said George. "They wouldn't use the Cruciatus Curse on the champions. I thought it sounded a bit like Percy singing... maybe you've got to attack him while he's in the shower, Harry."
"You're alive," she said blankly to Harry.
"You seem to be drowning twice," said Hermione. "Aaaah," said Ron, imitating Professor Trelawney's mystical whisper, "when two Neptunes appear in the sky, it is a sure sign that a midget in glasses is being born."
"Oh Professor look! I think I found an unaspected planet! Oooh, which one's that, Professor?" "Well, I can certainly see why were trying to keep them alive." said Malfoy sarcastically. "Who wouldn't want pets that can burn, sting, and suck blood all at once?" "Poor old Snuffles," said Ron, breathing deeply. "He must really like you, Harry... imagine having to live off rats." "Don't tell your mother you've been gambling," Mr. Weasley implored Fred and George as they all made their way slowly down the purple-carpeted stairs. "Don't worry, Dad," said Fred gleefully, "we've got big plans for this money. We don't want it confiscated." Mr. Weasley looked for a moment as though he was going to ask what these big plans were, but seemed to decide, upon reflection, that he didn't want to know. "Enjoying it?" said Ron darkly. "I don't reckon he'd come home if Dad didn't make him. He's obsessed. Just don't get him onto the subject of his boss. According to Mr. Crouch...as I was saying to Mr Crouch...Mr. Crouch is of the opinion...Mr. Crouch was telling me... They'll be announcing their engagement any day now." Dudley had done the thing he was threatening to to do since age three: He had become wider than he was tall.
Ron was staring at Pettigrew with the utmost revulsion.
"Sure you can manage that broom, Potter?" said a cold, drawling voice.
"Well...when we were in our first year, Harry--young, carefree, and innocent--" "You don't know how bizarre it is to see Goyle thinking." - Ron Why," demanded Ron, seizing her schedule, "have you outlined all Lockhart's lessons in little hearts?" "A study of Hogwarts prefects and their later careers," Ron read aloud off the back cover. "That sounds fascinating." "Bad news, Harry. I've just been to see Professor McGonagall about the Firebolt. She - er got a bit shirty with me. Told me I'd got my priorities wrong. Seemed to think I cared more about winning the Cup than I do about staying alive. Just because I told her I didn't care if it threw you off, as long as you caught the Snitch first." - Oliver Wood "How're we getting to King's Cross tomorrow, Dad?" asked Fred as they dug into a sumptuous pudding. "The Ministry's providing a couple of cars," said Mr. Weasley. Everyone looked up at him. "Why?" said Percy curiously. "It's because of you, Perce," said George seriously. "And there'll be little flags on the hoods, with HB on them-" "-for Humongous Bighead," said Fred. (Harry just been greeted by Percy...) "Harry!" said Fred, elbowing Percy out of the way and bowing deeply. "Simply splendid to see you, old boy-" "Marvelous," said George, pushing Fred aside and seizing Harry's hand in turn. "Absolutely spiffing." Percy scowled. "That's enough, now," said Mrs. Weasley. "Mum!" said Fred as though he'd only just spotted her and seized her hand too. "How really corking to see you-" Everybody finished the song at different times. At last, only the Weasley twins were left singing along to a very slow funeral march. "Welcome!" he said. "Welcome to a new year at Hogwarts! Before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few words, and here they are: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!" "Thank you!" "Wild! I can make that old bloke down there pick his nose again...and again...and again..." -Ron "Ah, of course! There is no need to tell me any more, Ms. Granger. Which one of you will be dying this year?" -Prof. McGonagall "Harry, this is no time to be a gentleman! Knock her off her broom if you have to!" -Oliver Wood
"Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs," sighed George, patting the heading
of the map. "We owe them so much." "Longbottom, if brains were gold then you'd be poorer than Weasley, and that's saying something." -Draco "Ah, well, people can be stupid abou' their pets." -Hagrid "But we're not stupid -- we know we're called Gred and Forge." -George Weasley
Trelawny: "Would anyone like me to help interpet the shadowy realms within their orb?"
Trelawney: "The fates have informed me that your examination in June will concern the orb, and I am anxious to give you sufficient practice." "Percy wouldn't recognize a joke if it danced naked in front of him wearing Dobby's tea cozy." -Ron "Viktor? Hasn't he asked you to call him Vicky yet?" -A very jealous Ron "I don't know who Maxime thinks she's kidding. If Hagrid's a half-giant, she definitely is. Big bones...the only thing that's got bigger bones than her is a dinosaur." -Harry "Half an inch of skin and sinew holding my neck on, Harry! Most people would think that's good as beheaded, but oh, no, it's not enough for Sir Properly Decapitated-Podmore." -Nearly Headless Nick "Azkaban -- the wizard prison, Goyle," said Malfoy, looking at him in disbelief. "Honestly, if you were any slower, you'd be going backward." -Draco
Moaning Myrtle: "Peeves upset me so much that I came in here and tried to kill myself. Then, of course, I remembered that I'm -- that I'm--" "Shouldn'ta lost me temper, but it didn't work anyway. Meant ter turn him into a pig, but I s'pose he was so much like a pig anyway that there wasn't much left ter do." -Hagrid "I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could have been killed -- or worse, expelled!" -Hermione He therefore had to endure over an hour of Professor Trelawny, who spent half the lesson telling everyone that the position of Mars with relation to Saturn at that moment meant that people born in July were in great danger of sudden, violent deaths. "Well, that's good," said Harry loudly, his temper getting the better of him, "just as long as it's not drawn out. I don't want to suffer."
Lee Jordan was finding it difficult not to take sides. "Professor Kettleburn, our Care of Magical Creatures teacher, retired at the end of last year in order to enjoy more time with his remaining limbs." -Dumbledore
Ron: "Who're you going with then?" "Twitchy little ferret, aren't you Malfoy?" -Hermione
Ron: "I could've taken those mer-idiots any time I wanted."
Hermione: "Harry, I've been thinking -- you know what we've got to do, don't you? Straight away, the moment we get back to the castle?"
Exceprts from Book 5"How long have you been 'Big D' then?" said Harry. "Shut it," snarled Dudley, turning away again. "Cool name," said Harry, grinning, "But you'll always be Ickle Diddykins to me." "Shut your face." "You don't tell her to shut her face. What about 'popkin' and 'Dinky Diddydums,' can I use them then?" "You don't want to bottle your anger up like that, Harry, let it all out," said Fred, beaming. "There might be a couple people 50 miles away who didn't hear you."
"Who's Kreacher?" (After Lupin goes through a list of all the things they've done to discredit Dumbledore) "But Dumbledore says he doesn't care what they do as long as they don't take him off the Chocolate Frog Cards," said Bill, grinning.
"Ah," said Fudge, who looked thoroughly disconcerted. "Dumbledore. Yes. You -- er -- got our -- er -- message that the time and -- er -- place of the hearing had been changed then?" "To our newcomers," said Dumbledore in a ringing voice, stretching his hands wide and a beaming smile on his lips, "welcome! To our old hands -- welcome back! There is a time for speech making, and this is not it. Tuck in!"
"Well, I had one that I was playing Quidditch the other night," said Ron, screwing up his face in an effort to remember. "What do you think that means?" "Er -- thanks very much, Ernie," said Harry, taken aback. Ernie might be pompous on occaisons like these, but Harry was in a mood to deeply appreciate a vote of confidence from somebody who was not wearing radishes in their ears.
"The hats have gone," Hermione said happily. "Seems the house-elves do want freedom after all."
"Harry, don't go picking a row with Malfoy, don't forget, he's a prefect now, he could make life difficult for you..."
"Are you trying to weasel out of showing us any of this stuff?" said Zacharias Smith.
"What's up with you, Hermione?"
"--but you get these massive pus-filled boils too," said George, "and we haven't worked out how to get rid of them yet."
Fred and George were looking particularly annoyed; both were bandy-legged and winced with every movement.
They were so busy that Hermione had stopped knitting elf hats and was fretting that she was down to her last three.
"We're not doing anything new?" said Zacharias Smith, in a disgruntled whisper loud enough to carry through the room. "If I'd known that, I wouldn't have come..." "Mistletoe," said Luna dreamily, pointing at a large clumb of white berries placed over Harry's head. He jumped out from under it. "Good thinking," said Luna seriously. "It's often infested with nargles."
"Well?" said Ron finally, looking up at Harry. "How was it?"
A slightly stunned silence greeted the end of this speech, then Ron said, "One person can't feel all that at once, they'd explode." "I'll look for him later, I expect I'll find him upstairs crying his eyes out over my mother's old bloomers or something...Of course, he might have crawled up into the airing cupboard and died...But I mustn't get my hopes up..." -Sirius
As they climed the staircase, the photos of various Healers called out to them, diagnosing odd complaints and suggesting horrible remedies. Ron was seriously affronted when a medieval wizard called out that he clearly had a bad case of spattergroit.
"Yeah, Montague tried to do us during break," said George.
"Cheers," whispered George, wiping tears of laughter from his face. "Oh, I hope she tries Vanishing them next...they multiply by ten every time you try..."
"How'd the exam go, Snivelly?" said James.
"You two," she waent on, gazing down at Fred and George, "are about to learn what happens to wrongdoers in my school."
By the time Ernie MacMillan, Hannah Abbott, Susan Bones, Justin Finch-Fletchley, Anthony Goldstein, and Terry Boot had finished using a wide variety of the hexes and jinxes Harry had taught them, Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle resembled nothing so much as three gigantic slugs squeezed into Hogwarts uniforms as Harry, Ernie and Justin hoisted them into the luggage rack and left them there to ooze.
"And do I look like the kind of man that can be intimidated?" barked Uncle Vernon.
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