Did you ever feel stupid?

[Haggridd]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., blpurdom at y... wrote:
> --- 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

I made the same "Enemies of the Air" mistake after listening to the 
Dale CD recording of CoS, so it is due to Dale's lack of vocal 
precision rather than to Amy's or-- heaven forfend-- to my lack of 
understanding. *cough-rubbish!-cough*

I think that one would find "the air of Slytherin" to be grossly 
polluted! *grin*

Haggridd