Apparation question and Acronyms

[Melody]

> Alora asked about apparating noise.

Gail suggested:
>I looked it up before I left for work but forgotten to jot down the
>page numbers, but in the chapter where Dumbledore and Voldemort are
>fighting, neither D'dore nor Voldy make any sound at all when they
>apparate on the scene.  Interesting.  Then again, they might have
>made a sound and Harry just didn't hear...Harry's scar was in a lot
>of pain when Voldy arrived and Harry was quite distracted as he was
>being attacked when D'dore apparated.

Um...this may be too on topic but....

Remember in PS/SS when Dumbledore "appeared" on Privet Drive.  Also
McGonagall was staring straight at the spot down the street.  If she
knew that he would make a  loud noise, she could have napped until he
showed up.  She was keenly aware that day, I think, because his
apparating makes no noise.  Neither did it when he left.  

And since we know him to be incredibly powerful and magnanimous and
all that (I so wanted to use magnanimous in a sentence just once. 
::big grin:: ), I say that the more powerful the wizard the less sound
he makes when apparating.  


Cindy asked:
>Here's a question for some of you folks (Darrin, Tabouli, Grey Wolf
>and a few others) who regularly come up with these great acronyms:
>How do you do it? Does it just pop into your head? Do you start
>with the goal (SYCOPHANTS), or do you start with the point you want
>to make?

Can I second this request?  I have always been terrible at acronyms. 
How do y'all pop them out of nowhere?  I remember in second grade
(around when I was seven for those not American) we had an art/poetry
project to acronym "Valentines".  Valentines!!  That was a *long* word.  

I remember sitting there looking at the first letter 'v' and wondering
if I could use "valentines" as one of the words.  And there was not a
'h' in the word that I could use for "heart" or a 'p' for "pink".  I
mean at least we had a 'l' for "love" or "like".  The boys used "like"
to keep away from the sappy eyed girls of course...  *And* if you were
creative enough to think up a 'l' word that was not "love" or "like",
well you got a gold star.  Grrrr.  

Hmmm...I should not remember this stupid project *this* well.  Oh the
tragedies of elementary school.  :P

But I have never been good at acronyms, so I applaud those that can. 
For me I will always defer to them for something that someone else
will not snicker at.  :)


Melody
who thinks this fulfills her quota for pointless,
wonder-why-she-posted-that posts of the month.  Unfortunately, there
is a new month tomorrow.  Sigh.