Memorable lines from Alternity

[elisem]

NEW, DAY, INTEGRITY, ALLEGIANCE, FUTURE, PROSPERITY, FIDELITY and TITS.

BEACON!

And, of course, always and forever:

My name is Harry Potter, and I am a member of the Order of the Phoenix. And my magic and my life will be spent in service to freedom and equality.
(And the original.)

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[synecdochic]

"Naturally. It is May."

[gwendolyngrace]

All is dungbombs and ashes, Linus.

Dungbombs and ashes.

[elisem]

It is. It really, really is.

[ursamajor]

When I first saw that line, I was promptly earwormed with The Mr. T Experience's Sackcloth and Ashes. (YouTube, punky pop, volume warning.) Ever since, I've sung it as Dungbombs and Ashes. ;)

[kiya]

The one that keeps popping into my head is "It's not really a party until someone explodes the cake." (I may not have the wording precisely correct, but it's Barty.)

[elisem]

That would be Joseph Scroop, according to what Narcissa said about the Scroops-Marks wedding.

[atheilen.livejournal.com]

May she rest in peace.

May she

[ursamajor]

God, that was heartbreaking.

[pegkerr]

BY GOD, I AM A PREFECT!!!!.

[ursamajor]

The nitpicker in me loooooved this line, a little further down that chain:

"You know, Perce, when Professor McGonagall told you not to capitalise, she probably mean not using italicisation either."

[atheilen.livejournal.com]

"Hypatia's thrice-cursed sextant and all the lines of latitude!" wins for favourite Alternity curse, I think. Oh, Siz.

[jenett]

D made me up my swearing bar quite a lot. (I'm also rather proud of "Urania's mercy on the seven unsatisfactory suitors of the Pleiades and their worst excuses and excesses", which I think D helped me come up with.)

My favourite swear is Tosha's "Mordred's Mercy" because oh, the layers of implication there.

[synecdochic]

ALBUS DUMBLEDORE, WHAT THE BLOODY HELL.

And in fact, all of Remus and Sally-Anne's minutes for their delightful sly commentary.

[elisem]

Yup, Remus. Gotta love his commentary.

[atheilen.livejournal.com]

I don't remember the exact line, or where it was, but there was a thread between Hermione and Hydra wherein they discuss Draco's being in love with her, and Hermione can't believe it's really true. Hydra says something like, "If his mind were a house, your picture would be in almost every room." I just loved that because it says so much about all three characters. And the nature of love itself, for that matter.

[reenie]

Oh yes, I think that's the quote almost exactly.

I'm sure it was totally OMG WHAT overwhelming and foreign sounding to someone in Hermione's position, though.

[gwendolyngrace]

"Oh, for the thousandth time, Draco, YOU did not FLY A DRAGON!"

I now have headcanon that on that first visit to Lucius and Narcissa, on the Riviera, Draco tried telling the story of How he Flew a Dragon, Hermione was half-engaged in a side conversation, heard just enough to realize Draco was telling That Story and reflexively shut him down. Conversation stopped while everyone waited for Lucius to get shirty...and he just looked at Draco and said, 'Well, she's right. Dragons do rather go where they want to go.'

And everyone relaxed considerably thereafter.

[reenie]

Haha that would be perfect.

[synecdochic]

While I was looking for something else just now, I found the conversation Sally-Anne and Snape had about Snape's modified post-Cruciation potion, and this line cracked me up:

"I was a bookish, and fairly morbid, child." (Immediately after rattling off half a dozen curses, hexes, and jinxes he'd invented.)

(And Snape's memorial to Flitwick, further down the thread!)

[pegkerr]

Oh, that tribute to Flitwick was great, and I don't remember reading it.

[longstrider]

I loved working flying and quidditch into everything that Cedric wrote as his go to metaphor.

This post was a blast to write as well: http://alt-cedric.dreamwidth.org/2013/01/27/

[annia]

"Sirius, vous chien!"

That whole thread had me howling.

http://alt-bill.dreamwidth.org/4781.html

[elisem]

"Was there a sense of being a dodecahedron at all?"

[synecdochic]

Also in the "was rereading while looking for something else", Hydra's "Everyone on the Lord Protector's Council can do this." (Especially contrasted with her public comment.)

It was right at the tail end of the demonstration duel between Tosha and Raz in Y5, and I thought it was just this beautiful stark reminder of what they'd be up against.

[elisem]

Symbolic knickers.

[kiya]

Someone went and made them all symbolic and I am VERY CROSS NOW.

[elisem]

Megan speculates on something that sounds a bit like canon....

[synecdochic]

"I have documented magical reasons for losing my mind during the Full Moon, so I'm not sure what everyone else's excuse is."

[(Anonymous)]

"I mean what a nice day it is. In the hospital.
I've been here the whole time."

[elisem]

Where's that one from again? So many good lines!