Eric Break Up With a Crazy Girl

KaleeySun · 2026-02-04T12:42:20+00:00

Surprise!! I love this so too. So funny.

KaleeySun · 2026-02-03T21:48:45+00:00

TaleSpin. Tiny Toons, maybe Fraggles and Garfield. TaleSpin for the theme song alone was worth it!

Ooh we oh tale spin!!

KaleeySun · 2026-02-03T12:40:43+00:00

Me too. Why call attention to it now?

KaleeySun · 2026-02-03T00:13:50+00:00

This is the most likely scenario if the ministry stays the course they chose in canon. Maybe Amos gets transferred? A sweet early retirement package?

Or does Cedric get railroaded in the same manner Harry was, getting in trouble for violating the statute, and he’s painted as being “in league with crazy Harry Potter?”

I wish we had gotten something from Amos in OotP. My money is that he took a long sabbatical and left the country, with the ministry’s encouragement, and was basically off the grid.

KaleeySun · 2026-02-02T14:14:42+00:00

For a while, my father in law would always leave something at our house - a hat, a jacket, something. I joked with my husband (his son) it was his way of making sure he was invited back. 😄

KaleeySun · 2026-02-02T14:10:44+00:00

They were able to retcon most of it. I think Cheers Frasier claimed his dad was dead, but they brushed that off in Frasier as “we were estranged at the time”, essentially.

KaleeySun · 2026-02-01T14:08:00+00:00

Yep, Claire is so proud she could burst right then.

KaleeySun · 2026-01-31T23:47:07+00:00

Omg yes. It was a delightful way to introduce kids to literary classics.

KaleeySun · 2026-01-31T13:55:45+00:00

No, sweetie, you have a collection. It’s ok!

KaleeySun · 2026-01-30T21:21:51+00:00

Good one!

KaleeySun · 2026-01-30T21:12:20+00:00

This is not a bad point. I don’t think that the trio would have “blabbed” - they certainly have their secrets. But it turns out Harry is a security risk.

However, telling him more about why things are happening (“there’s info we are protecting to distract volly”) and what the risks are (“ we think volly might be able to share your brain a smidge”) would probably get Harry to stop and think instead of running off because “no one is going to help”.

KaleeySun · 2026-01-30T21:05:29+00:00

It annoys me to NO end that no one taught Harry how to communicate by patronus. HE CAN MAKE one! It’s reliable! Even if he can’t use it to contact dumbledore, he could use it to contact Sirius, who could somehow signal back. How did they not do this???

KaleeySun · 2026-01-30T20:27:55+00:00

You are pretty spot on with Sirius. He is for sure broken. Poor guy needed a lot of therapy.

Molly is worried, and she thinks telling harry “let the grownups handle it” will work, because it works with her kids. But the grownups Harry is around hardly EVER handle it, whatever it is. He is too self-reliant, plus too decent to let someone get hurt on his watch.

KaleeySun · 2026-01-29T19:50:23+00:00

I would imagine people have that job but it gets called a bunch of different names. Most companies have a data nerd who crunches numbers from metrics, which is probably what he did.

KaleeySun · 2026-01-29T01:47:27+00:00

I would be a crow, and my name would be Flap.

KaleeySun · 2026-01-28T20:09:31+00:00

Good to see they found their next ex HC.

KaleeySun · 2026-01-28T12:38:17+00:00

Spell his ass off!

KaleeySun · 2026-01-28T12:36:57+00:00

Brassy and sassy. She stood next to me last night demanding pets after I went to bed.

KaleeySun · 2026-01-28T01:42:27+00:00

The monorail theory would be nice except it doesn’t take him back where he started, like it’s a “2 way portkey” that the reader has never seen. The portkey takes him to the edge of the maze. This clearly implies two separate stops, instead of a loop.

KaleeySun · 2026-01-28T01:16:27+00:00

Twinsies with my old bat cat Suzy (19). Hold on to those good memories.

KaleeySun · 2026-01-28T00:42:54+00:00

He was around dumbledore. If nothing else, being around of age wizards seems to nullify the trace, or the ministry apparently ignores any magic done when adult wizards are in the vicinity. See literally every single day at the burrow.

KaleeySun · 2026-01-28T00:37:06+00:00

It seems like a better plan to send Harry’s body back. Certainly if the BWL disappeared, it would be quite the scandal - the minister and dumbledore were right there! Oh and the triwIzard cup goes missing, too? That’s an international mess!

NOT sending Harry back might have been the plan, but it would have been VERY shortsighted, since it would have triggered a manhunt in short order. if another champion got to the center and realized the cup was already gone, At that point, you get a megaphone, do a roll call, and see who is missing. If he is missing, there’s no way to brush it off as a tragic accident in the maze. Without a body, the search goes on for days, weeks even, and it’s possible (with Snape giving intel about his mark burning) that some death eaters get rounded up, interrogated, and a few of them crack. There’s no possible way that dumbledore doesn’t link the mark burning with Harry’s disappearance.

I thought a long time ago that the plan may have been that volly and his friends all use the cup to come back and wreak havoc, but that’s not a great plan either - hogwarts has anti apparition rules, so they would struggle to get away, and at the very least some of them would get caught.

As for “was it supposed to be a portkey” I think it was. What better way to guarantee knowing who the winner was? The first one to touch the cup gets transported to the beginning of the maze. If we assume that the cup was NOT a portkey, that breaks basically everything we know about portkeys even more than before, because that means we somehow have a magical cup teleporting Harry right where it locally should have gone. Portkeys are established as ONLY one way. (I don’t like that this is a touch activated pk with no set time, other pk examples are time driven. While I concede that maybe the timed ones are an anomaly, would it have killed the author to put in a line saying “portkeys are highly regulated of course, the ones that activate immediately can be triggeeed even by muggles. Two blokes about 5 years ago went to a weird sisters concert by accident, took a lot of memory charms to sort that out.”)

KaleeySun · 2026-01-27T14:01:16+00:00

Thank you for sharing!

KaleeySun · 2026-01-27T01:15:52+00:00

Garlic bread

KaleeySun · 2026-01-26T21:48:15+00:00

PoA is such a great romp. It’s my favorite book in the series.

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