'Yeah, and he really respects you. I know because he's often talked about it. How you've got guts and how you always do what you say you're going to do. He told me once if he was in a corner, he'd rather have you backing him than any of the boys.' She did a quick laugh. 'Now you've got to admit, that's a real compliment. So you see, it's got to be you to our rescue. Tommy and I were made for each other and he'll listen to you. You'll do it for us, won't you, Kathy?'" (Never Let Me Go, 104).
GAHH.
People are actually this stupid, aren't they?
Anyway, I have more important things to discuss in this post. Chapters eight and nine were full of mysterious teachers, dramatic relationships, and sex stories. Naturally, I'm going to talk about Harry Potter.
That's the third floor corridor of Hogwarts. The first picture is from the sixth computer game, which really wasn't particularly fun -- Hogwarts was well designed, though. But that's not the important picture; the second picture is from the first movie when the third floor corridor was actually dangerous:
"'And finally, I must tell you that this year, the third-floor corridor on the right hand side is out of bounds to anyone who does not wish to die a very painful death'" (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone [paperback], 127).
And now, Never Let Me Go:
"Anyway, that was what I was doing that morning after I'd fetched whatever it was I'd left in the classroom and come back out onto the third-floor landing" (90).
And then a creepy thing happened with Miss Lucy! I'm telling you, the third floor is the scariest one. If you numbered the floors at Roncalli one-two-three, it'd be the one with all (but one) of the scary English classrooms.
That's all I really wanted to do for this post: do a headdesk in response to Ruth and Tommy's relationship and then make a loose comparison to Harry Potter.
Thus ends Part One.
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