Happy Birthday! / Cameras / Spelling / Sirius

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston) <catlady@wicca.net>]

Mary Ann wrote:

<< Ah, another birthday. I love this job! Today's birthday greetings 
go to Finwitch. >>

Hey! Happy Birthday, Finwitch! Tell your mother us Harry Potter 
weirdos thank her for bringing you into the world, so we can read 
your posts.

Torsten wrote:

<< To teach how it's like I installed some cameras in your house, and 
no, they're not behind the sprinklers. >>

:-) I hope you fancy extremely fat women with cats (-:

Ethanol wrote:

<< Is it possible that some of the spelling and grammatical sins are 
due to the poster being a non-native speaker (or writer, to be more 
exact)? >>

Most of the non-native English speakers write better spelling, 
grammer, and style than most of the native speakers ... I had no idea 
that you weren't a native speaker until you said so just now, but I 
would have counted you as one of the native speakers who do write 
well.

GulPlum wrote:

<< How is it possible to have read the books and not know that 
Harry's mum's name is Lily, or how to spell McGonagall? >>

Some people's minds just don't remember spelling (which I guess is 
kind of visual); they only remember the sounds and then try to 
recreate the spelling. And then they don't have the right/wrong 
feeling at the midline that I mentioned yesterday. And I do, but I 
don't have faith in my ability to spell McGonagall, and I have a 
profound inability to remember whether Evan Rosier is spelled with an 
S or a Z.

Beth belleps wrote:

<< 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. >>

The very first time I read the very first Harry Potter book, I saw 
the name 'young Sirius Black' (from whom Hagrid had borrowed the 
motorcycle) and immediately noticed that this Sirius guy is named 
after the brightest star. I wondered whether he was going to glow in 
the dark ... but I never, not after reading PoA twice and knowing 
very well that sexy Siri is Padfoot, thought that 'Sirius Black' is 
code for Black Dog until I read it in HPfGU.