Which is odd, because somehow, when Unforgivable curses were first demonstrated to us in book 4, I really didn't get the impression that they were *easy*. But then, that was before Harry showed that he could do complex Imperius curses with no practice, or that the true hatred and rage to sustain a Cruciatus curse, which couldn't quite be found for the woman who murdered his friend and father figure, was easy to bring up for someone who was, you know, kind of nasty and rude to a teacher he'd liked but never particularly cared about.
I know a lot of people have a problem w/McGonagall's "gallant" response. I had assumed she was being slightly sarcastic -- like she wasn't going to really object or deal with it due to the impending battle, but she was going to subtly let him know that she *didn't* approve, or she thought it an overreaction. For one thing, the slight sarcasm seems more in line with her character than calling a student "gallant", no matter *what* action she was talking about. The other possibility is that I totally projected that response because she's one of the few characters I still really liked at that point of the series. Did anyone else see it the way I did?
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Date: 2008-03-12 05:56 am (UTC)I know a lot of people have a problem w/McGonagall's "gallant" response. I had assumed she was being slightly sarcastic -- like she wasn't going to really object or deal with it due to the impending battle, but she was going to subtly let him know that she *didn't* approve, or she thought it an overreaction. For one thing, the slight sarcasm seems more in line with her character than calling a student "gallant", no matter *what* action she was talking about. The other possibility is that I totally projected that response because she's one of the few characters I still really liked at that point of the series. Did anyone else see it the way I did?