"Jack stood in the kitchen, looking a bit too thoughtful for someone holding a spatula."
Snape's reaction when Jack's name comes out of the Goblet.
A loud noise from the staff table drew Ianto's attention. While he himself had refrained from violently introducing his head to the table, it seemed that Professor Snape lacked that particular willpower.
Jack using a stinging hex...on Bellatrix...on her arse. This is after he notes that at the Time Agency she would have been just his type. Coupled with this line:
Jack messing with Bellatrix further: "Aww, calm down, crazy kitty. Maybe you and I should go somewhere quiet and work out a few of your anger issues."
Ianto constantly snarking, and when he finally learns the Silencio spell, much to Owen's discomfort.
Jack complaining to Draco and Harry that they're acting like a pair of jealous girlfriends about him. Also his various insinuations of UST between the two.
Jack and Gwen manipulating Skeeter into being fired by talking about a lot of false gossip such as Harry and Snape getting together and other hilarious things.
Ianto snarking (interaction paraphrased):
Hufflepuff Firstie: *about two slytherins acting strangely about her* Dunno. Two big tough kids. All muscle and no brains.
Ianto: You just described their entire Quidditch team.
In chapter 56, Jack and Ianto are playing around with the Room of Requirement and Jack wishes for Umbridge's clothes, letting her keep her underwear. Cut to:
Dinner in the Great Hall had suddenly become a great deal more interesting.
Owen and Ianto's Quidditch Commentary. All of it.
Owen: And on the Slytherin side, we've got Ogden, Stroulger, Urquhart, Travers, Crabbe, Goyle and Harper. So... that's five and a half mountain trolls, and a name-thief.
The Weasleys stage a full scale intervention with Ron regarding dating Lavender, even involving Percy, who at this point is still not really getting on with the rest of the family. Ron doesn't see the problem until Ginny puts it to him.
Ginny: Ron. Percy will tell she's affecting your grades, which is true. Bill already warned you about the clinginess, because we all know how his sixth-year girlfriend went. But far more important than all of that. She's making you skip meals.
Ron blanched, absolutely horrified that he hadn't realised this was a problem until now.
Of course they were right. Lavender had to go.
Harry goes to ask Jack for help getting a date that isn't psycho. Cue offers of poisoning, Nott having an "understanding" with Luna that would allow her to date Nott and go out as friends with Harry, and a discussion of Owen poisoning Wizarding minds by teaching them dirty Muggle words and everyone blaming Owen for everything.
Zabini: That understanding being that she's crazy and in three months' time you'll technically be a paedophile?
When Snape uses the word 'master':
Draco: We don't use that word in the dungeons anymore, Professor. Jack maims people for it.
This exchange in Chapter 80 is pure gold:
Draco: So put me in detention! Report me to Dumbledore!
Snape: You know perfectly well that I do not wish to do either of those things.
Draco: You'd better stop telling me to come to your office then. People might get the wrong idea.
Snape: You've been spending far too much time with that Harkness boy.
This exchange in chapter 80 :
Jack: Yes, but they're my muggles. They're not allowed to die for another four years.
Draco:...you have a timetable ?
Torchwood logic VS everybody.
Ron: why does Owen call you "Tea-Boy" anyway ?
Ianto: Because I make coffee.
Owen's methods of psychological torture.
The first half of Chapter 94. Particularly the Polyjuice section and Jack's smirking.
The Will scene has a couple of gems.
First, Dumbledore trolling Jack from beyond the grave in his bequest - Jack doesn't have a middle name, so Dumbledore invents one: "To Jack Dorian Harkness..." As in, The Picture of Dorian Gray. Jack is not amused.
And later...
Scrimgeour: But a Snitch would be a very good hiding place for a small object. You know why, I'm sure?
Hermione: Can't imagine why. They're not hollow, are they? How would you even open one?
Jack: *brightly* I can think of better places to hide small objects.
Ron: No. No no no no no!
Jack (on seeing Ron play with the deluminator).
I want a lightsaber.
Most of chapter 99.
Jack casually walking into the safehouse with cinnamon buns.
Then Lucius makes the mistake of mentioning that Bellatrix was given something that she referred to as 'precious'. Jack promptly goes to town with the references.
Jack: Right... we need to find out where Bella's hiding her precious.
His resultant suggestion to train a house elf to talk like Sméagol.
Harry and Draco's deadpan commentary on trying to shut Jack up.
Draco: We could muzzle him.
Harry: He'd enjoy it too much.
This line:
Harry's POV: He only noticed Tosh turn and whisper something to Owen, because Owen was a dangerous creature that you don't take your eyes off if you know what's good for you.
Harry as a woman, trying not to stare at his own breasts.
In chapter 117, a moment when Ianto starts giving orders and Gwen questions them. The way it's put makes it.
Gwen: Since when do you give the orders, then?
Ianto: Since I inherited the Slytherin Mafia from Draco and Jack.
John Hart using his extensive magical abilities to cause varying degrees of mayhem around Death Eater controlled Hogwarts - among other things, setting Snape on fire (Snape isn't actually harmed... it just looks spectacular), magically cloning Mrs Norris several dozen times over and convincing all of them that every statue is a student that needs to be territorially marked, stealing all the underwear from the 6th and 7th year dorms, stringing the Carrows up from in the Great Hall after turning them bright pink, and perhaps best of all, making multiple pureblood prefects singing perfectly in harmonised 18th century French 'about how their underwear was missing and their parents were siblings.' It then shifts to Latin, and the subject matter continues to describe incest and 'something about House Elves that made Salazar eternally grateful that Latin was a dead language' - Word of God also later reveals that it includedThe Hedgehog Song. It's less malevolent than Salazar expected, and is mostly the product of pure boredom on Hart's part.
John Hart and a long-suffering Salazar Slytherin wind up as a Straight Man and Wise Guy combo, to the horror of more or less everyone who realises it.
