Sorting ceremony and uniforms.

Sat Aug 16 00:54:12 UTC 2003

Rebecca:
> --- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com,
> Petra Pan <ms_petra_pan at y...> wrote:
> > We got to the sorting ceremony and
> > she asks- "Their ties, robe bagdes
> > and scarves are the colour of their
> > houses, as they have not yet been
> > sorted how do they know what colour
> > tie to buy and wear?"  If you look
> > at the students waiting to be sorted
> > they are indeed already wearing
> > there house colours. I was stumped.
> > Explained it away as artistic
> > licence. Any thoughts?

<sigh>

Actually, I did not write the above - 
Angela did.

Alright yall, Im just another listee 
but Id like to note that Rebecca is 
not the *first* or the *only* person 
on this or any other HPfGU lists to 
misattribute.

Yahoo's quoting style is indeed confusing.
Nevertheless...I really would like to 
strongly remind one and all when 
proofreading a post and before hitting 
that "send" button, that we check to 
make sure the quoted words are 
accurately attributed to the poster as 
identified by their signature.  Hmm, 
this is probably as good a time as any 
to remind everyone to sign their posts.

For those of us who receive and reply 
from our email accounts, let's not rely 
solely on the auto-attribution that most 
emailing programs add to the beginning 
of a reply: such attribution does not 
take into consideration the previously 
quoted materials *and* I've noticed at 
least one poster whose emailing program 
keeps attributing everything to 
"HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com" instead of 
a listee.  I know this process is a bit 
of a pain and as mere mortals, we are 
prone to err...but constant and 
continued efforts in this would be MUCH 
appreciated!  :)

Okay, back to the subject at hand -

Rebecca:
> During that scene they're just wearing
> black ties and cloaks with no badges 
> on them. (just went and checked because
> I wasn't sure). They wear the house 
> specific clothes later.

Just got my hand on a copy of HPSS to 
find that Rebecca is correct...so I'm 
rather confounded.  Um, Angela?  You 
seem to be seeing something we don't.

<head a-scratching>

Could this be a difference between the 
US's HPSS and the UK's HPPS?  I was under 
the impression that any and all differences 
involve onscreen references to sorcerers 
vs. philosophers stone - am I mistaken?

Petra
a
n  :)

__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software
http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com