So, yeah, I got the book the day after it came out, because I happened to be in a target. They cut the prices by nearly 2/3s of that crazy 30+ or whatever it was. I finished the book about 2 hours after our flight landed in the Philippines, on the way to our grandmother's house/aunt's house/family headquarters. And this scene always bothered the hell out of me.

You don't hug someone with poisonous spikes in their arms, ESPECIALLY after you JUST SAID that there is NO ANTIDOTE except for something that will never come back to the area you're at EVER AGAIN. And Hermione's supposed to be the smart one.

So yeah, whenever I come across something silly like this, I'll make a little 4 panel comic for it, under this new title: "How It Should Have Been".

Sketches done as margin doodles in my Calculus notes (bad Francis!). Lineart, colouring, text, text bubbles, and everything, really, was done in Inkscape.

As for what I thought of the book in general... I didn't really like the inclusion of a heretofore unknown set of magical plot devices at the last minute. It was a bit of a stretch as far as retconning goes. The only thing that had to do with death in that trio was the stone. And I was looking forward to seeing how the veil that killed Sirius was going to play out. But it didn't.

Latin and Love solve all problems, apparently.