Mono - Courtney Love; first book, chapters twelve and thirteen

[lavivi]

I swear "Mono" by Courtney Love is one of the most perfect embodiments of everything a rock song should be.  I have had it for years, and whenever I come back to it I am always like oh man, play that again. 

Hey, yeah we had everything
Vinyl and mono
And we looked the other way
Man, we were so dumb
Is this the part in the book that you wrote
Where I've gotta come and save the day?
Did you miss me?
Did you miss me?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Well, they say that rock is dead
And they're probably right.
Ninety-nine girls in the pit
Did it have to come to this?

Oh God, you owe me one more song
So I can prove to you that I'm so much better than him
Oh God, please listen fast
Here comes the crash
We're gonna rise above
We've gotta smash it up
You won't abandon us again

Hey

Give us brilliant boys that we wanna fuck, woman
Full of ecstasy, hard drugs and bad luck
Yeah, yeah ,yeah
Turn the lights...back on....
You burn so hard
But you won't burn long

Three chords in your pocket tonight
Are you, you the one
With the spark to bring my punk rock back?
I don’t think so.

Oh God, I wanna hear you say
I wanna hear you say that you're sorry again
Oh God, you owe me one more song
So I could prove to you that I'm so much better than him
Oh God, I'd give you anything
To hear you say that I was right and you were wrong
Oh God, before I leave this life
Now an eightball isn’t love
A hooker’s never gonna come
Just give it back to me
Blow out all of the lights tonight..

Two million miles down the PCH
And now he's gone
I slashed his tires, I bled his brakes
It had to be done
Their hand-job lies were just too cruel
Yeah mercy was done
We drowned them all in their swimming pools
Run away, run away, run away, yeah

Now God, I wanna hear you say
I wanna hear you say that you were wrong again
Now God, I wanna hear you say
I wanna hear you say that I am so much better than him
Now God, you owe us one more song
Get out of my life, see this world as it really is
Is it just a sad slide-show
Can't make a hooker come
And an eightball isn’t love
I need one thing that’s divine
Let me hear it tonight
Let me hear it tonight
I've gotta hear it tonight
You're gonna let me hear the last chords tonight, yeah

...On a totally different note, the twelfth chapter (The Mirror of Erised).

This has always been one of my most favorite chapters, because omg Lily.

Christmas was coming.

Indeed.

Harry watched Hagrid getting redder and redder in the face as he called for more wine, finally kissing Professor McGonagall on the cheek, who, to Harry's amazement, giggled and blushed, her top hat lopsided.

...WTF.

A piercing, bloodcurdling shriek split the silence -- the book was screaming!

See note further down.

She was a very pretty woman. She had dark red hair and her eyes – her eyes are just like mine, Harry thought, edging a little closer to the glass. Bright green -- exactly the same shape, but then he noticed that she was crying; smiling, but crying at the same time.

a;lsdkfjasdlfka;sdkjf  ...Wah.

Harry felt as though his insides had turned to ice. He looked behind him. Sitting on one of the desks by the wall was none other than Albus Dumbledore. Harry must have walked straight past him, so desperate to get to the mirror he hadn't noticed him.

This is also related to my quote above with the screaming book: ...Mm, Ms. Rowling has improved a lot in describing unexpected turns of events. 

Chapter thirteen (Nicholas Flamel):

"I'm going to play," he told Ron and Hermione. "If I don't, all the Slytherins will think I'm just too scared to face Snape. I'll show them... it'll really wipe the smiles off their faces if we win."

"Just as long as we're not wiping you off the field," said

Aha, wow - that was cheerful, Hermione.

Little did Harry know that Ron and Hermione had been secretly practicing the Leg-Locker Curse. They'd gotten the idea from Malfoy using it on Neville, and were ready to use it on Snape if he showed any sign of wanting to hurt Harry.

Ahahaha, SO HARDCORE of them.

"You know how I think they choose people for the Gryffindor team?" said Malfoy loudly a few minutes later, as Snape awarded Hufflepuff another penalty for no reason at all. "It's people they feel sorry for. See, there's Potter, who's got no parents, then there's the Weasleys, who've got no money -- you should be on the team, Longbottom, you've got no brains."

There's that quote, and a couple ones before, and three more after it, and the conclusion is: God, but Malfoy does have a mouth.  He also must really be feeling suicidal to have come into the Gryffindor section just to mouth off.

Harry had reached the shed. He leaned against the wooden door and looked up at Hogwarts, with its windows glowing red in the setting sun. Gryffindor in the lead.

Oh, that's nicely symbolic.