[HPFGU-Movie] UK Schooling/Comic Relief/Ron flying

[artsylynda at aol.com]

Me:  Aw, rats, I
>just read your subsequent post saying you won't be putting it up.  Ah well. 
.

Richard: But have you read my post subsequent to *that* with the list of 
MP3s? :-)

Here it is again: http://plum.cream.org/HP/misc/comicrelief.htm

BTW My Flobberworms are all dead anyway from a surfeit of Honeyduke's Best 
Chocolate (I bought a whole box of the stuff last weekend).


Me again:  My deepest sympathies about your Flobberworms!  And THANKS for 
putting up the MP3's!  Great fun!  Maybe someday they'll run it on cable here 
so we can see it.  And thanks, too, for the explanation of grammar school 
versus secondary school.  Here what you called a 'secondary" school (where 
you learned a trade -- kept kids off the street) is called a "vocational" 
school and is for kids in grades 10-12.  That's where they learn to be auto 
mechanics, veterinary technicians, florists, window dressers, etc.

I'm not on the OT-Chatter list (I'm on too many lists already!) so I'm glad 
the answers were posted here!  HOwever, where can I find the list of all the 
various message boards so I can see if there are others with which I want to 
stuff my email box?

As for the movie -- I was watching the "Sorcerer's Stone" video clips online 
that someone sent the list recently and laughed again (as always!) at the 
scene where they're learning to fly.  They all say "UP!" and Harry's broom 
ZOOMS into his hand, which makes Hermione give him *quite* a look.  But what 
makes me laugh every time is Ron's broom hitting him in the nose, and Harry's 
truly genuine sounding laughter (if Dan wasn't really tickled, he is 
certainly an Oscar-quality actor -- that truly sounded like a real kid who 
was startled into laughter).  Canon says that Ron and his family all play 
Quidditch at home.  So if Ron already flies, why does his broom not recognize 
the fact he knows how?  Why does it pop him in the face instead of leaping 
into his hand (other than for comic effect)?  My theory is that it's those 
cheap school brooms and Ron got a faulty one.  Harry's responded the way it 
did, IMHO, because Harry is probably going to be the most powerful wizard of 
the age and even as a kid, brooms and other things leap to obey as soon as he 
figures out how to ask them correctly.  Thoughts?  (see how neatly I pulled 
this back on topic?  heehee)

Lynda 
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"Don't let  the Muggles get you down." Ron Weasley PoA


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