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Ron didn't speak Parselmouth, he imitated it. Quite confusing.
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And the basilisk tooth was quite handy for mangling the cup from the vault...


I got... uh... emailed... the book, read it in one sitting (when I read, I read)

She's getting been getting more and more arrogant as a writer, you can tell - the books keep getting thicker and, though the plots are undeniably good, the quality of writing is actually pretty poor. Editors generally prune quite a lot of the manuscripts authors churn out - author's are generally too self-invloved to be able to filter out the good from the bad. The cheesiness is, of course, expected in a book aimed at a young audience.

I have a feeling that there were a few plot holes, and/or unsubstantiated leaps of logic, or I may have blanked out every now and then whilst reading - 6.30am is not a time to be finishing a book.