#feelsandotps

@brain-and-nerve​

I know that they had to make cuts for time but I’m sad that we lost this particular chapter.

Ginny Weasley, who had been looking pale, was bullied into taking some [Pepperup Potion] by Percy. The steam pouring from under her vivid hair gave the impression that her whole head was on fire. - Percy has noticed that Ginny isn’t her usual self and is trying to fix it. It’s NOT Percy’s fault that he doesn’t realise what’s really wrong with Ginny. NOBODY worked that out propery. *side-eyes fandom*

Oliver Wood’s enthusiasm for regular training sessions, however, was not dampened, which was why Harry was to be found, lat one stormy Saturday afternoon a few days before Halloween, returning to Gryffindor Tower, drenched to the skin and splattered with mud. - Are there no showers in the changing rooms?! That’s an essential feature for any sport taking place in the winter, especially in Scotland! 

‘You look troubled, young Potter,’ said Nick, folding a transparent letter as he spoke and tucking it inside his doublet. - How does ghost post work??

‘Half an inch of skin and sinew holding my neck on, Harry!’ - TMI, Nick!

I wonder if there is some kind of bond between Mrs Norris and Filch. Maybe Mrs Norris is a Maledictus like Nagini?!

Fred and George Weasley had an entire drawer to themselves. - I wonder if James and Sirius did, too.

Peeves breaks the vanishing cabinet, which means Montague can see into Borgin and Burkes when Fred and George shove him inside it in OotP, which means that Draco finds out about it from Montague, which means he works out that it’s linked to the one in Borgin and Burkes and takes it to the Room of Hidden Things to sneak Death Eaters into Hogwarts...

It was really smart of Nick to involve Peeves and get Harry out of detention. I think it’s only fair that Harry goes to his shindig in return.

‘Why would anyone want to celebrate the day they died?’ said Ron, who was halfway through his Potions homework and grumpy. ‘Sounds dead depressing to me….’ - *rimshot*

The sight of Percy bellowing himself hoarse at Fred and George, the spectacular display of tangerine stars showering from the salamander’s mouth, and its escape into the fire, with accompanying explosions, drove both Filch and the Kwikspell envelope from Harry’s mind. - We were robbed, I tell you.

Hermione bossing Harry to go because SHE really wants to go to the Deathday Party.

It was an incredible sight. The dungeon was full of hundreds of pearly-white, translucent people, mostly drifting around a crowded dance floor, waltzing to the dreadful, quavering sound of thirty musical saws, played by an orchestra on a raised, black-draped platform. A chandelier overhead blazed midnight-blue with a thousand more black candles. Their breath rose in a mist before them; it was like stepping into a freezer. - ROBBED!

I’d forgotten that Myrtle first appears at the party.

... there was a great maggoty haggis... - *gag*

The squat ghost of a girl had glided over. She had the glummest face Harry had ever seen, half-hidden behind lank hair and thick pearly spectacles. - Shirley Henderson was too old to play Myrtle, anyway, but they could have done more to dress her down.

Peeves is such a dick.

I feel for Nick, getting upstaged at his own Deathday Party.

Can’t imagine how scary it was for Ron and Hermione to see Harry suddenly charge upstairs, talking about a voice killing someone.

Then Ron said, 'Let’s get out of here.’ ‘Shouldn’t we try and help –’ Harry began awkwardly. ‘Trust me,’ said Ron. ‘We don’t want to be found here.’ - Ron had the right idea!

why do you call moderna 'bourgeoisie' ?

I would tell them to fuck off. They have no business projecting their daddy and boyfriend issues on the world. Therapy exists for a reason.

I know, he’s giving us the performance of his life right now. He’s so modest and self-deprecating about himself and his Doctor that I wouldn’t be surprised if he thinks that we’re happy to see him leave. I’m sure that when SDCC comes around, us fans will make him think otherwise (the same goes for the award we’re giving him for when he gets it.) 

Honestly, I don’t know how any of us will ever be able to accept him leaving us. However, he really won’t leave us. Not really. The mark he left on us, the one that no one else can see, is so evidently strong, even permanent, that him no longer being on the show can take it away. Remember when Peter said that he thinks that the Doctor’s name is:

 “a vibration in space you can feel in your heart”

That you can’t hear his name because it can’t be spoken but you can feel it? I like to think that about his Doctor and the impact he’s had on us. And this isn’t limited to just his Doctor, but Peter himself. Maybe its just me, but when I think about Peter and his Doctor, I cannot even begin to describe what he makes me feel and how much he means to me, and how much he’s impacted my life. There are no human words, no English words, not enough words to possibly describe the that feeling I get in my heart because of him. Yes, him leaving will be devastating for so many of us on here and we may never feel the same about another Doctor, but the key is to never let go of that feeling. That indescribable joy, of your heart soaring, of not being alone. Remember that it will always be there, that the memories will always be there, and that no one can take it away from you. Having a Thirteenth Doctor won’t take that away from you. 

That’s amazing! She’s fun to meet and chat with. I’m glad you had such a wonderful experience meeting her.

And it’s true; photos don’t do her beauty justice.

Thanks for sharing!

Oh, I think it says so, so much about him.

The Tenth Doctor’s arc is a fascinating but complicated one, in that the biggest issues he faces are largely unspoken but always present. Because Ten has a tendency toward, dare I say, hubris? Egocentrism, perhaps. He talks himself up and walks about like he owns the place, regardless of the impact.

That’s skewered him before. Midnight is all about how easily he can turn people against him because of how he is, for one thing. He’s the one thing scared people don’t need to hear, in that situation, and they all turn on him. And, in the end, he’s meaningless to the resolution. He tries to make himself the center of that story and makes things worse until someone whose name we never even learn proves to be the real hero. Similarly, series 2 is all about those kinds of consequences for Ten and Rose. They create Torchwood, through their actions and through this kind of attitude. Indeed, earlier drafts had Torchwood created not just because they horrified Queen Victoria, but because they got her killed and accidentally created an alternate history (god, I’d have loved to see that version). Their separation and heartbreak at the end isn’t just an arbitrary thing, but an inevitable ending to their glory days, as their adventures came at the expense of people around them. A sort of privilege, if you will.

And so that’s what The Waters of Mars hinges on. Saving the people regardless of arbitrary history, is, of course, the moral thing, no matter how much you talk up the arc of history being pushed by it. Hell, the Doctor even spells that out, Adelaide could easily inspire her descendants just the same by living. I think, personally, the mistake Ten really makes that Adelaide takes upon herself to rectify is one of presumption. The way he presumes to have the right to tell them to die, then to live, the whole Time Lord Victorious attitude, that’s wrong. Him treating other people as lesser players in his great story is wrong, and him treating himself as a sort of “lonely god” is wrong. He wants to save people, of course he does, but he lets himself become too important to himself and see himself as the center of the story. I seem to recall Davies saying once that he didn’t see the Doctor as a god despite criticism, but wanted to show the damage of him being seen that way. I think this is the furthest that ever goes, with it going to his head and making him assume control of people’s lives.