SnapeFAQ, Jargon, Welcomes, and ORANGE?

[bluesqueak]

--- In HP4GU-FAQ at y..., "ssk7882" <skelkins at a...> wrote:
> AAARRGH!
> 
> Cindy, you do realize that orange and blue -- and in fact 
precisely 
> these same *shades* of orange and blue -- were my high school's 
> ::violent shudder:: school colors?

School colours??? I thought most North American schools didn't have 
uniforms unless they're those strange military schools. Or are they 
flags, or something?
> 
> You and the autumnal weather have now conspired to trigger in me 
> intense and most unpleasant flashbacks of homecoming weeks past: 
> pep rallies, cheerleaders.  ::even more violent shudder:: *Pom-
poms.*

Pep rallies, cheerleaders, pom-poms I get, having done some Buffy-
watching in my time - but what is homecoming week please? The phrase 
brings to mind some giant re-union of all who formerly attended the 
school...
> 
> Not to mention of myself, stalking the corridors dressed all in 
white 
> and red -- our rival school's colors -- and smirking unpleasantly 
at 
> anyone who dared point this out to me.  Oh, yes.  I was quite the 
> pretentious little toad in high school.
> 
> On the lighter side, however, my school's football team was, due 
to a 
> sense of regional pride divorced from any conception of either 
real 
> history or plain old *propriety,* actually named "the Quakers."  
This 
> meant that every year, we were treated to the spectacle of people 
> chanting "Go, Quakers, go!  Fight, Quakers, fight!"  This pleased 
me 
> no end, as it gave me nearly unlimited scope for pointed 
> commentary.  ;-)

[Vague visions of Elkins also throwing breakfast cereal onto the 
pitch spring to Pip's mind]
> 
> 
> Welcome to Marina and Kimberly, and welcome back to Barb!  As you 
can 
> see, the cataloguing process has rendered us all a bit slap-happy 
> here.  Don't let it scare you too much.
> 
> The SnapeFAQ looks *great!*  I'm really psyched about it.  When I 
> first joined this list, I actually went looking for the SnapeFAQ.  
> What you guys have put together here is *precisely* the sort of 
thing 
> that I had been hoping to find.

Yes! Yes! Sorry, I hadn't mentioned that I think the Snape FAQ is 
great, have I. It is. It would have answered all my questions as a 
newbie. Of course, that was back when I thought Dumbledore never 
lied...

<Snip>
> 
> 
> My, that Finwitch classic was quite the doozy, wasn't it?  It sent 
me 
> scurrying back to the text, trying to find *anything* in there 
which 
> so much as hinted at Hermione's state of, er, development.  Even 
> pretending that I was reading the books in translation, I still 
> couldn't seem to find anything.  Maybe the translator was feeling 
> bored and a mite bit impish that day?

Perhaps that particular book cover had an, err, *interesting* 
interpretation of the Trio by the artist? I mean, an illustration of 
the scene where Harry rescues Ron and Hermione from the lake could 
be good. Wet, clingy shirts...

[Well, it worked for Colin Firth in the BBC Adaptation of Pride and 
Prejudice :-) ]
> 
> 
> Elkins
> 
> (who thinks that CARPing oneself as Voldemort and threatening a 
> fellow listmember with Cruciatus might indeed qualify as "both  
>twee and disturbing," but who can't honestly see how Radio TBAY 
>managed to  be so perceived.  Then, she also noticed that Richard  
> somehow managed to misread half of the canon analysis as 
*sarcasm,* thus missing  
>the point of the entire argument.  So.  There you go.)

Oh, he did better than that tonight. Tonight he pointed out that I 
make great play of the avoidance of the word 'rat' by Snape and 
Dumbledore in The Kitchen Appliance That Should Not Be Mentioned, 
and how did I explain that Snape actually uses the word 'rat' in the 
Infirmary, huh, get out of that one, willya...

I haven't bothered replying to him yet. In fact, I may start 
ignoring him completely. I just can't be arsed to point out that I 
deal with that point about two lines further down the same post 
where I make great play of the avoidance of the word 'rat'...


Anyway, I have loaded some more categories into the database, 
including sexuality [Characters, gay, straight or just into 
snakes?]. Don't ask. Surprisingly, it was quite a boring thread :-(

Pip