Thoughts on Sentinels Perceptions of the brain and senses.Or… I Constantly See Naked People – Superman I take various lecture courses during the week, and one class in a course was on perceptions and the brain/senses. How the senses pick up a whole lot of things, and from what I understood, the differences between us […]
Harry PotterFirst YearMirror of ErisedDark Reflection Mirror Image Harry already sensed the old man hidden in the room. Waiting. Watching him. Seeing for himself if he passed his test. Afterall, wasn’t that why he allowed him to have his legacy back? Given as a “gift” to earn his trust and friendship? As though returning a […]
HP, Filch, Consequences, Fifth Year Filch prowled the corridors with a horsewhip ready in his hands, desperate to catch miscreants, but the problem was that there were now so many of them that he did not know which way to turn. Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (p. 318). Pottermore Publishing. […]
HP, Harry Potter, Slughorn, Fifth Year “Professor Slughorn has meddled with his own recollections.”“But why would he do that?”“Because, I think, he is ashamed of what he remembers,” said Dumbledore. “He has tried to rework the memory to show himself in a better light, obliterating those parts which he does not wish me to see. […]
HP, Fifth Year, Snape, Harry Potter, Consequences of threats Snape looked around at him, his face framed between curtains of greasy black hair. “Sit down, Potter.”“You know,” said Sirius loudly, leaning back on his rear chair legs and speaking to the ceiling, “I think I’d prefer it if you didn’t give orders here, Snape. It’s […]
HP, Fifth Year, Rita, Harry, Consequences “Trying to ruin someone else’s life?” said Harry loudly. A few people looked around. Rita Skeeter’s eyes widened behind her jeweled spectacles as she saw who had spoken.“Harry!” she said, beaming. “How lovely! Why don’t you come and join — ?”“I wouldn’t come near you with a ten-foot broomstick,” […]
HP, Fifth Year, Right after the Courtroom, Harry Potter, Lucius Malfoy, Minister Fudge “What are you doing here anyway?” Harry asked Lucius Malfoy.“I don’t think private matters between myself and the Minister are any concern of yours, Potter,” said Malfoy, smoothing the front of his robes; Harry distinctly heard the gentle clinking of what sounded […]
Harry PotterNarnia: Magicians Nephew Cedric Diggory Replacing someone elseAlternate UniverseDouble Drabble Summary: What happens when a Diggory replaces a Digory in time.It takes place at the beginning of the first book of the Narnia series. A/N: This is what I get for rereading the first book. I mean Digory, what else could I do when […]
HP, Harry Potter, Fourth Year, Third Task, Graveyard, Duel, Mass Death “You have been taught how to duel, Harry Potter?” said Voldemort softly, his red eyes glinting through the darkness. At these words Harry remembered, as though from a former life, the dueling club at Hogwarts he had attended briefly two years ago. . . […]
HP, Harry Potter, Debts Owed, Fourth Year For a second that contained an eternity, Harry stared into Cedric’s face, at his open gray eyes, blank and expressionless as the windows of a deserted house, at his half-open mouth, which looked slightly surprised. And then, before Harry’s mind had accepted what he was seeing, before he […]
