Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince: Original Harmony version, Chapter 8.

Galfridus: Well, here we are again! But first, how about some of one of "Pumpkinhead"'s rants, eh?
Arac: ...Should I be afraid?
Galfridus: Only of her. The rant's hilarious.

This is one of the travesties of all time. One of the most unstoppable love stories ever put into print has now been put into the trash compactor and squished,

Arac: Not very unstoppable, then, was it?

and all the True Fans will not stand for this desecration of author/reader trusting.

Arac: ...What's author/reader trusting, then?
Galfridus: It's when he author trusts the reader to have a sense of perspective. She's talking about how the Harmonians are violating that trust.

How could someone set up this kind of ageless, timely love epic and then within a few pages tear it up so fully?

Arac: What's so ageless about Harry and Hermione, anyway? Cute children, aye, but hardly an epic love story for the generations, particularly given they don't have an epic love story and never did.
Galfridus: Mind you, Ron was rather cute, with his "I'm tall" and all.
Arac: So, Hermione and Ron are an ageless, timely love epic in the Beatrice and Benedict mode?
Galfridus: Who?
Arac: ...Never mind. Anyway, I doubt they'd like Shakespeare. Doesn't live up to their romantic ideals.

If you are a True Fan of Harry Potter and what the series stands for - ie a community of fans living and breathing and enjoying the story that has been developing all along - then you will sign this petition and have things fixed again for all to notice. A narrow grouping of insideous R/H shippers has taken over the online society of fans and now we need to take it back, it is the ONLY way to save this stoy from the hurricane of tradgedy that has overtaken it and taken it to a place where proper story arcs are disregarded in favorite of rediculous love twists and fancible flights of fiction.

Galfridus: You know, that's kind of cute, in a terribly scary sort of way.

JKR's new name for all to know is now JRK because that is more in tune with her cavalry disregard for her fans - add an 'E' into those initials and you will understand what points I am communicating for all.

Galfridus: Well, most cavalry I know of were officers, and had little respect for the foot-soldier peasant militia attached to their company...
Arac: Ought to be cavalier, though.
Galfridus: Should we comment on the JRK thing?
Arac: Let's not. Don't want to think about it too much in case the stupidity's infectious.

Just because some R/H shippers were able to hijack an interview with JRK does not mean their point of views are truth, and just because they have been able to hand it up with the author does not make their believes correct. The mannors displayed in this interview are truly disgusting and all True Fans deserve an apology from these ideologically obsessed and elitist web site owners. Visit my website for a site for True Fans. Long live this and all H/H petitions.

Arac: You know, she kind of reminds me of my father. He hated anyone who disagreed with him in the slightest as well.

Chapter 8 -- Snape Victorious



No changes occur in the first seven pages from how it is in canon.
Arac: This is getting to be a habit with her.
Galfridus: Could be worse. She could be rewriting it completely.
Arac: ...Wait, but...
Galfridus: I know. Have you seen it? We got off lightly.

Harry turned on the spot and marched straight through the open doors: anything to get away from Snape. The Great Hall with its four long House tables and its staff table set at the top of the room was decorated as usual with floating candles that made the plates below glitter and glow. It was all a shimmering blur to Harry, however, who walked so fast that he was passing the Hufflepuff table before people really started to stare, and by the time they were standing up to get a good look at him, he had spotted Ron and Hermione, sped along the benches toward them, where Hermione moved over to make room for him.

Arac: ...Of course, the grammatical error makes the change rather obvious. It needs to read something like "and sped along the benches towards them. Hermione moved to make room for him and he slipped in between her and Ron."
Galfridus: Prat.
Arac: ...Me or her?
Galfridus: ...I'll be generous to you and say her. *grins*

"Where've you — blimey, what've you done to your face?" said Ron, goggling at him along with everyone else in the vicinity.

"Why, what's wrong with it?" said Harry, grabbing a spoon and squinting at his distorted reflection.

"You're covered in blood!" said Hermione, looking worried. "Come here —"

Arac: I rather thought that her being a bit worried was rather clear from the context.
Galfridus: Eh, they're using descriptive phrases like medals pinned to Hermione's chest. They're not important in themselves, but they show she is. Mind, this rather boring doppelgänger probably got a blacksmith to make 'em for her.

She raised her wand, said "Tergeo!" and siphoned off the dried blood.

"Thanks," said Harry, feeling his now clean face. "How's my nose looking?

“Normal," said Hermoine anxiously. "Why shouldn't it? Harry, what happened? We've been terrified!"

Galfridus: See, now that's canon Hermione, bringing in Ron with that "we've". They should've changed it to "I've" to diminish Ron further.
Arac: *panicking* For god's sake, don't give them ideas!

“I'll tell you later," said Harry, feeling unusually warm at Hermione’s concern. He was very conscious that his dorm mates, Neville, Dean, and Seamus were listening in; even Nearly Headless Nick, the Gryffindor ghost, had come floating along the bench to eavesdrop.

Galfridus: And we get yet another little pseudoromantic phrase shoved in with a ramrod where it don't fit.
Arac: Poor little canon. Being loaded up with junk phrases. It'll grow fat and inept, unable to roam freely, and then will be slaughtered by Suethors when it can't escape.
Galfridus: Good thing it has us to protect 'im, eh? *grins at Arac*

“But —" said Hermione.

“Not now, Hermione," said Harry, in a darkly significant voice. He hoped very much that she would assume he had been involved in something heroic, preferably involving a couple of Death Eaters and a dementor. Of course, Malfoy would spread the story as wide as he could, but there was always a chance it wouldn't reach too many Gryffindor ears.

Arac: ...Well, that's one of the more efficient bits of canon rape so far. Only needed one word changed.
Galfridus: Better get the chaplain on call. This is goin' to be awfully traumatic for the poor little canon.

Three more pages of delightful, original JKR follow
Arac: Before the "author" defiled it once more.

“But Harry, you said that Slughorn was going to be teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts!" said Hermione.

"I thought he was!" said Harry, racking his brains to remember when Dumbledore had told him this, but now that he came to think of it, he was unable to recall Dumbledore ever telling him what Slughorn would be teaching. He suddenly felt as if Dumbledore had used him and it made him angry.

Galfridus: *sputters*
Arac: What?!
Galfridus: But Harry is...
Arac: He's Dumbledore's...
Both: *draw weapons and hack that sentence to pieces*

Four pages of unaltered canon follow, ending the chapter.

Galfridus: Well, off to the pub?
Arac: Just one little bit more. It's unaltered, but it's a sign of canon's strength against the ravages of Caina. *grins*

With the usual deafening scraping noise, the benches moved back and the hundreds of students began to file out of the Great Hall toward their dormitories. Harry, who was in no hurry at all to leave with the gawping crowd, nor to get near enough to Malfoy to allow him to retell the story of the nose-stamping, lagged behind, pretending to retie the lace on his trainer, allowing most of Gryffindors to draw ahead of him. Hermione had darted ahead to fulfill her prefect's duty of shepherding the first years, but Ron remained with Harry.

“What really happened to your nose?" he asked, once they were at the very back of the throng pressing out of the Hall, and out of earshot of anyone else.

Harry told him. It was a mark of the strength of their friendship that Ron did not laugh.

Galfridus: Ha! Diminish Ron all you will, but he's the fellow Harry told about the incident on the train first, he's Harry's best friend, and he's Hermione's true love.
Arac: *waves Chudley Canon pennant* And now, I think, time for us to have that drink.