A meme I got (I believe that the technical LJ term is "gacked") from 
minisinoo.
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Ten Ways to Tell You're Reading a Story by Rhetoretician:
minisinoo. ***
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Ten Ways to Tell You're Reading a Story by Rhetoretician:
- It's probably short, less than 12,000 words altogether.
- Despite being short, there's a fair chance it's divided into three parts.
- There are lots of concrete descriptions of sights, sounds, smells, textures.
- If it's an HP story, Hermione is probably in it somewhere.
- Even if it's an HP story, it's devoid of teenage stupidity.
- One part of the story takes place decades, if not centuries, if not millenia, after another part of the story.
- Somebody dies.
- Somebody else is heartbroken.
- You're reaching for a tissue by the last page.
- You feel really good about the fact that you're crying.
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sick
(I think this latest LOLCAT thing is a hoot, and the best solid example I can think of an whole (miniaturised) 'sub-culture' sort of thing that I've witnessed from its birth)
#4 - yay! :-)
#5 - I don't want to rehash old territory, but I thought you *liked* HBP? What is your opinion of HBP in conjunction with your definition of 'teenage stupidity'? I thought there was a lot of the latter in the former.
I spent half an hour ploughing through the lolcats site - or one of them, the cheezburger site, here - and couldn't stop giggling sporadically. Only got part-way through, too ... I never realised there were so *many*!
Still, I suppose there are worse ways for people to waste their time on the net...
There's a lot of teenage stupidity throughout the latter half of the series, starting with GoF and right through DH. The worst, IMO, is Harry's behavior in OotP -- I found myself cheering Phineas Nigellus when he chewed Harry out!