Did you ever feel stupid?

[blpurdom at yahoo.com]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:
> (Listening to CoS, it took me several chapters beyond the one 
> where the writing appears to get that it was "Enemies of the 
> HEIR."  I was thinking, "Enemies of the Air?  That's intriguing.")
> 
 
There's a reader on my fic discussion list who has extremely impaired 
vision, so he reads all of his email and online fanfics using a 
device that electronically reads to him.  Evidently, it can do 100 
words a minute (faster than most humans) but he says it still took 
him hours and hours to go through my fic!  (I'm not surprised.)  
Oddly enough, if there's a typo, he's more likely to pick up on it 
than someone reading with their eyes (because the voice synthesizer 
pronounces everything quite precisely).  

But something troubles me...Didn't you wonder what the Air of 
Slytherin was?  (If you thought the reader was saying, "Enemies of 
the Air, beware?")  "Enemies of the Air" can sound ambiguous, but 
IMHO, the "Air of Slytherin" cannot.

--Barb