[HPFGU-OTChatter] Ultimate Unofficial Guide

[Beth]

At 01:06 PM 2/24/03 +0000, you wrote:
>Bullfinch's Guide of sorts for
>the literary allusions, all of which are pretty easy to discover, if
>not patently obvious from the start (again, does she really think we
>need to be *told* that Sirius is the dogstar, and also that "Sirius
>Black" means Black Dog? Maybe the twelve-year-olds, but... Yeesh).

(This isn't a comment on the book -- I don't think I've seen this one.)

Well <ahem>, actually <blush>, I didn't get the references about Sirius 
until I started reading HPfGU. One of my roommates in college (many, many 
years ago) used to get VERY frustrated with me. She was a teaching 
assistant for astronomy, and she'd walk out at night and say things like, 
"Oooo, look! Cassiopeia, Orion, the Seven Sisters...." and I'd look up and 
say, "Stars! Pretty!" <grin> So Sirius being the dogstar was something that 
I had heard somewhere along the way, but I just didn't think of it 
regarding HP until someone pointed it out.

bel