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slowfoxI've cut Dean and Seamus' riff on the Dead Parrot sketch from TTK:Reloaded. It didn't really advance the plot (the scene was only there to confirm that Hermione had indeed found a charm to restrain the Threshers), and I just couldn't find a way to elegantly inform the reader that yes, Dean and Seamus knew that they were quoting.
See, this is one of the differences between TTK and some of the other fics I've read. Instead of simply re-enacting scenes from films/shows whatever, using the HP characters as placeholders for Buffy or Blackadder or Bond (awesome artful alliteration, agreed?), the Muggleborns know, and recognise the quotes, whereas the Purebloods don't (always) get it.
And at this point, yes, I hold my own hand up and say that willingly did I rip off the economics teacher from Ferris Bueller for Binns ("...anyone? Anyone?"), and used a LotR Gandalf quote* for Dumbledore at one (1) point in the original version of the fic. This plagiarism was part of the discomfort I felt with the fic's continued presence online, and Reloaded has these scenes changed/modified.
It is, of course, a great pity that Dean, 1995/1996, wouldn't (and couldn't) have seen Buffy, or Angel, or Firefly, or The Matrix. Because he'd have loved them.
* "And that is an encouraging thought, is it not?" - it pained me to have to remove that line: it fitted Dumbledore, and the moment, perfectly, but I couldn't, in all conscience, keep it in. Gah.
See, this is one of the differences between TTK and some of the other fics I've read. Instead of simply re-enacting scenes from films/shows whatever, using the HP characters as placeholders for Buffy or Blackadder or Bond (awesome artful alliteration, agreed?), the Muggleborns know, and recognise the quotes, whereas the Purebloods don't (always) get it.
And at this point, yes, I hold my own hand up and say that willingly did I rip off the economics teacher from Ferris Bueller for Binns ("...anyone? Anyone?"), and used a LotR Gandalf quote* for Dumbledore at one (1) point in the original version of the fic. This plagiarism was part of the discomfort I felt with the fic's continued presence online, and Reloaded has these scenes changed/modified.
It is, of course, a great pity that Dean, 1995/1996, wouldn't (and couldn't) have seen Buffy, or Angel, or Firefly, or The Matrix. Because he'd have loved them.
* "And that is an encouraging thought, is it not?" - it pained me to have to remove that line: it fitted Dumbledore, and the moment, perfectly, but I couldn't, in all conscience, keep it in. Gah.
