Hermione is never called out for disfiguring Marietta. In fact, she's lauded for it and the narrator emphasizes in Books 5 & 6 that Marietta's disfigurement is well-deserved and that Cho was a bad girlfriend for siding with Marietta against Harry.

Also, thanks for the comment about love potions: another aspect of the Harry Potter mythology that bothered me. It pandered too much to the 'Rape is OK when it's Woman on Man' trope.

I think that despite the running theme of the Harry Potter books being the evils of blood purity, the 'Good' Wizards don't really live up to their own principles: Muggles are really treated as sub-human in many ways. Hermione's treatment of her parents is a Watsonian example. But you also have the Doylian issue that…

Love for the Golden Child! I love that movie!

I've listened to two colicky children scream for hours on end for weeks on end and I didn't deliriously imagine their sudden silence or death. I had twins, my husband was off-shore and my Mom had to take off for a month when my babies were a few weeks old. I was a first-time mom and I had to cope somehow. I was too…

I guess it happens when one of the sexual partners is completely and utterly unwilling from the very initial moment.

@BbqFume: Thank God for the rest of us.

Let's not forget the role the US Government played in the assassination of Patrice Lumumba and establishing Mobutu as dictator, either.

Colour me shocked that Congo is not topping the list. That country - arguably the richest country in the world in terms of natural resources - is the definition of Crapsack World.

@dukes_up: Hell, if I acted on all of my feelings half of my coworkers would be dead.

@Rare Affinity: *applause*

@Bryner Menchavez: Ova are actually created far earlier than that. By the time a female foetus is 8 weeks old, she already has all the eggs she'll ever have in her lifetime.

@PhillyLass: A 1-mo old female foetus in her mother's womb already has all the eggs she'll ever have inside of her.

Oops.

@Meredith Woerner: Wow. Is that, like, a new rule now? Always break up the last book into two? LOL. So I guess we'll be having 4 Mortal Instruments films. Or will it be 7 Mortal Instruments films since the series has now been expanded into 6 books?

@Lamar: I just hearted you.

I sometimes fear that because I barely wear makeup, my daughter will go to the extreme and wear a lot, all the time - the same way I did with my mom. I remember as a child, playing with my mother's make-up, buying Foundation before I was out of high-school and using it liberally. But by the time I was half-way through…

Am I the only one who finds the image for this article HIGH OCTANE NIGHTMARE FUEL?!

@ThoughtExperimenter: The Incredibles does. Helen and her daughter, Vi have a great "You will rise to the occasion" speech that really moved me. Also, Helen and Edna had a lot of non-male centric conversations until the topic shifted back to Bob.

LOL! He hasn't aged well, has he? Well at least he knows she doesn't love him for his looks or his fame.