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white_hart ([personal profile] white_hart) wrote2007-10-25 07:56 pm

Archers crackfic

Arrant nonsense from start to finish. The Archers is a fly-on-the-wall documentary about country folk owned by the BBC; the Potterverse belongs to J K Rowling.


Albus Dumbledore had always been a patient man, but that patience was being sorely tried by his week's holiday at Ambridge Hall. Get away from it all, that was what he'd thought; stay among Muggles, where no-one knew who he was and that awful Skeeter woman wouldn't think to look. Enjoy the peace and quiet of the country.

But if it wasn't that awful Snell woman insisting that the bed had to be just there, even though it was in the most awful draught, it was the landlord of the Bull glowering at him over the bar, or the landlady thrusting her insufficiently-covered chest towards him despite his fairly obvious lack of interest. And then there was the awful woman who he never saw without a drink in one hand and a cigarette in the other, who seemed to want to talk to him about interior decoration for some unfathomable reason.

The final straw came when he was trying to take a quiet walk on Lakey Hill, and was unfortunate enough to slip on a cowpat. He was sure the woman with the small children coming in the opposite direction was sincerely sympathetic, but for some reason her loud exclamation of dismay set his nerves jangling.

Reaching for his wand, he muttered an incantation and then Disapparated back to Hogwarts, leaving Ruth Archer staring open-mouthed as the first of what proved to be a substantial rain of codfish fell on to the village.

[identity profile] inamac.livejournal.com 2007-10-25 08:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm surprised Sid let him in The Bull, what with him playing Quidditch for Durmstrang and all...

But I love the rain of cod (which passeth all understanding). *Happy Grin*

[identity profile] sbisson.livejournal.com 2007-10-25 08:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh nooo!

(Oh dear. I now have the image of a LOLRuth, withj a string of O Noes)
tree_and_leaf: Spock looking horrifed; caption "Illogical!" (illogical)

[personal profile] tree_and_leaf 2007-10-25 09:03 pm (UTC)(link)
*giggles helplessly*

[identity profile] widgetfox.livejournal.com 2007-10-25 10:32 pm (UTC)(link)
This is eating my brain, you lunatic.
coughingbear: im in ur shipz debauchin ur slothz (aurora)

[personal profile] coughingbear 2007-10-25 10:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I laughed so much reading this I had to read it aloud to [livejournal.com profile] pashazade and [livejournal.com profile] frankie_ecap.

[identity profile] f4f3.livejournal.com 2007-10-26 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
"However", he thought, "That Scouse chef bears watching..."

[identity profile] f4f3.livejournal.com 2007-10-26 07:42 am (UTC)(link)
So THAT'S what his accent is? I honestly thought he was the token Liverpudlian!

[identity profile] f4f3.livejournal.com 2007-10-26 10:08 am (UTC)(link)
Of course, given the recently reported English failure to identify the North, maybe Northern Irish counts as another Northener (and don't get me started on the token Scot...)

[identity profile] barkingfish.livejournal.com 2007-11-01 03:24 pm (UTC)(link)
It's like nails down a blackboard! Scots would never use much of his dialect:

a) at all
b) unless they were talking to other Scots, probably in Scotland
c) probably only b) if they either
i) knew them well
ii) had a few drinks first

And as for the over-enunciation...

[identity profile] f4f3.livejournal.com 2007-11-01 03:38 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm just glad that it's radio, and we can't see his "see-you-Jimmy" wig...

[identity profile] predictivememo.livejournal.com 2007-10-26 08:27 am (UTC)(link)
Dear BBC, I pay my license fee and DEMAND this be extended into a 22 part live action Drama series on BBC Three. Yours Anticipatorily, Repressed of Essex...

[identity profile] f4f3.livejournal.com 2007-10-26 10:20 am (UTC)(link)
I forgot to say that I'm dreadfully upset to find out that the BBC owns country folk. Does this mean that my licence fee is funding slavery?

[identity profile] f4f3.livejournal.com 2007-10-26 10:36 am (UTC)(link)
An honest cod is the finest work of man.

[identity profile] nineveh-uk.livejournal.com 2007-10-26 11:12 am (UTC)(link)
Not the place to get away from it all, Ambridge.

Any chance that Elizabeth could accidentally stumble on a Death Eater secret meeting, with predictable results?

[identity profile] alitheapipkin.livejournal.com 2007-10-29 01:39 pm (UTC)(link)
*snort*

Very funny!