Happy New Year! Have a rec or two!

[ciroccoj]

So, the vidrecs I mentioned yesterday:

• Sneaky Slytherins. ::snicker:: Snape bursting through the door is my favourite moment in this one.
  
  
• I found this one lovely. Probably because it combines angst, Harry Potter, and one of my most guilty loves in all of popular music, Ordinary World, by Duran Duran. Shut up.
  
  
• And the best for last, here's Right Said Fred's I'm Too Sexy, as an ode to Gandalf.

The vid with True Love is Blind... I went to look at it again and it's still funny - the vid, like the song, is about how teenage boys will basically go slack-jawed silly over just about anything female, and features hilarious stupid-look expressions on Ron and Harry as they discover this disturbing fact with respect to Cho, Hermione, Ginny, Fleur Delacour, the Beauxbatons girls, and... well, half of Hogwarts, but the second time I viewed it some of the lyrics kinda eeped me. I know it wasn't meant to be offensive, but yeah, eep.

Edit: Banned X-Box Commercial, a subtle indictment of our North American obsession with violence, and the disturbing societal blurring of fantasy and reality, and the pervasive breakdown of adult responsibility and... ::snicker:: just take a look :D :D :D

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And the ficrec, with more quotage:

• "Stuff it. I don't think you're drunk in the least," I accused. "You're putting it on. You aren't even slurring."
  
  "Anti-slurring charm," he confessed. "Spent Christmas of my fifth year devising that invaluable little gem. See, we Slytherins didn't waste time on worthless charms like transfiguring teacups into moles. We devised useful spells, like being able to get through Binn's lectures with half a bottle of vodka under our belts, no one the wiser. You wouldn't believe the number of tedious Ministry functions I attend completely shit-faced drunk."
  
  
• "Stop acting like a virginal nun who's just been propositioned by a randy bishop. I'm not making a pass at you. I told you. Those parts haven't a hope in hell of working. All my extremities are numb. Was just wondering."
  
  
• "Not a question of being feudal. Why not show off your wife? Weasley should do something. Granted, he's swimming up stream. Only you would sprint with alacrity to be first in line for the Ministry's Employee of the Month's Hideous and Atrocious Robe Award."
  
  
• He was like a wind-up toy gone berserk, with no way to stop it short of whacking it repeatedly with a ball-peen hammer. You just hoped the batteries wore down or it self-destructed. I looked at my quill and wondered if I could transfigure it into something resembling a club and then beat him into silence.
  
  
• "I've been successfully ignoring the noises your stomach has been broadcasting for the last ten minutes, but this is getting ridiculous. If they get any louder, we will need to start insulting each other in sign language."
  
  
• "Together, the three of you were much stronger than any of you alone. Potter's reckless streak, your brains, Weasley's... to this day, I don't know what Weasley provided in terms of the dynamics."
  
  
• Clearly, the sins of Granger family, the most egregious being the time Aunt Valerie stole the famous shrimp dip recipe from Aunt Claire and tried to pass it off as her own at the church fete, paled in comparison to Borgias poisoning their rivals and grandsons Portkeying their rich grandmothers to Russia to die of exposure.

The Politician's Wife.

Comments

[jessebee.livejournal.com]

Oh, great. Just great. Now I've got to bookmark this fic and pray the author finishes, because this thing is GOOD. And I don't even LIKE DM/HG. ::shambles away, muttering to self::

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

And I don't even LIKE DM/HG.
Oh, I know! I find the idea baffling and the first few pieces I read didn't do anything to make it plausible, so I just avoid them. This one got in under my guard ;)

[shiningmoon.livejournal.com]

*makes bookmark to read the story later*

Thanks!!