Happy Birthday! - Party Supplies - Good at Math(s) - HP Tarot - Horoscope

[Rita Winston]

Happy Birthday to Elvenwren!

Dave Hardenbrook wrote:

> Can anyone tell me if they are Harry-themed 
> party supplies available anywhere? 

I checked Yahoo Shopping for you and found these places: 
http://shop.store.yahoo.com/birthdaysuperstore/harry-potter.html
http://shop.store.yahoo.com/ampartyoutlet/ind.html
http://r3.us.rmi.yahoo.com/rmi/http://amos.catalogcity.com/cc.class/cc/rmivars%3ftarget=_top?main=catalog&act=d%2C25086&pcd=1014531&ccsyn=15

Joywitch wrote:
> I think it is a genetic thing, though.  I didnt do 
> anything to deserve my ability to easily understand
> mathematical concepts,

So why didn't I inherit my father's ability to do calculus in his head
instead of my mother's inability to add two two-digit numbers? Actually,
it's not the CONCEPTS that are the problem, it's working the evil
problems. 

Barb wrote:

> wasn't Lewis Carroll some kind of mathematics teacher? 

Yesterday some of the roommates came up with the idea that Lewis Carroll
was a wizard, with Lewis Carroll as his real name, who pretended to be a
Muggle named Charles Dodgson. Perhaps Alice Through the Looking Glass
was literally true.

Carole wrote:

> It may not be you.  My brother in law told me 
> about a show he saw recently that showed research
> that indicated the portion of the brain that is used
> to do complex maths is not fully developed until the
> early 20's. 

That sounds like it's the same part of the brain that goes wrong to
cause schizophrenia. 

Tabouli wrote:

> each house representing one of the suits, with
> the Hufflepuffs as Pentacles, Gryffindors as Wands,
> Ravenclaws as Swords and Slytherins as Cups (?).  

I used to hang out with collectors of Tarot decks. Tarot artists give
themselves total freedom in assigning suits to Elements, such as one
that had Pentacles for Air (well, they're stars, and stars are in the
sky) and Cups for Fire (every cup in the deck was full of flames). So I
think the assignment of suits to Houses should largely ignore the
traditional assignments of Elements to suits.

Swords must be Gryffindor. Gryffindors are the fighters, and the Ace of
Swords could be Godric's sword that came out of the Sorting Hat in the
Chamber of Secrets. Cups, so many of which are lovey-dovey, should not
be Slytherin -- maybe Hufflepuff.

Glenda wrote:
> Wands - wit  and learning- Ravenclaw
> Pentacles - work and the physical world - Hufflepuff
> Cups - emotions - Gryffindor
> Swords - power of the mind, light and dark - Slytherin

Well, that works, altho' it seems odd for Gryff to be Cups. Surely all
the people shown on the court cards of a suit should be from the House
of that suit? Hufflepuff's King is Cedric, Knight could be Justin
Finch-Fletchly, Page could be Ernie Macmillan... Professor Sprout for
Queen?

Ravenclaw: Cho for Queen. Flitwick for King. Roger Davies for Knight. 

> The High Priestess - Professor Trelawney
> The Empress - Mrs Weasley,
> The Emperor - Dumbledore
> The Hierophant - Professor Lupin

Much as I love Remus, Dumbledore MUST be the Hierophant. I always have a
bad feeling about The Emperor, so making him Cornelius Fudge or even
Lucius Malfoy would work for me. If the artist likes The Emperor more
than I do, how about Arthur Weasley?

Trelawney CANNOT be the High Priestess! To me, McGonagall deserves that
role. She knows, and teaches, secrets, like how to turn into a Cat. If
McGonagall has to stay on Justice, how about Mrs. Weasley as the High
Priestess (she DID tell Harry how to get to Platform 9 3/4) and Madame
Rosmerta as Empress?

How about Ollivander's wand shop for Justice?

Milz wrote:

> However, I think the Minor arcana suits would be
> more Harry-ish as Wands, Sickles (wizard money not 
> the Grim Reaper tool), Cauldrons and Broomsticks.

Why didn't I think of that!
How to match them to Houses?  Broomsticks for Gryffindor, Wands for
Ravenclaw...

Nethelia wrote:

> Harry has a birth chart???

Long ago on the main list, someone ran long, long posts of relationship
horoscopes for Harry and Ron, Harry and Hermione, Ron and Hermione...
which mostly proved that JKR is wrong about Ron's birthday...

Simon's sig said:
>  "... smoking causes early morality..." - BBC news 
> coverage of a recent report into the effects of smoking.

Is that a new way of publicizing that smoking causes impotence?

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