The Return of Tom Swift

[junediamanti]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "davewitley" 
<dfrankiswork at n...> wrote:
> Caius Marcius wrote:
> > Now that Book Five is out, the time has come for more Tom 
Swifties.
> > 
> > The previous Tom's can be found in the Files section, 
under "Club 
> > Humor"
> 
> I have been prodded offlist, wolfishly, to contribute more to this 
> thread:
> 
> "You can hear them whispering," said Luna, breezily.
> 
> "Buttocks still intact, Harry?" asked Nymphadora, moodily.
> "I heard that!" said Mad-Eye, stonking off.
> 
> "Come away from here," said Hermione, flapping.
> 
> "Your link to Voldemort is dangerous, Harry," explained 
Dumbledore, 
> scarily.
> 
> "These prophecies are balls," said Bode, roundly.
> 
> "I'm going out with Dean now, Ron," said Ginny, crushingly.
> 
> David

Can't resist this bait, or is it deliberate provocation?  There are 
a number of people who know my opinions about adverb use in dialogue 
attribution only too well...(did they put you up to this, she asked 
suspiciously)

Are you all yawning comfortably?

THE ONLY WORDS YOU NEED FOR SPEECH ATTRIBUTION ARE:

He/she said

he/she asked

No adverbs and no steroids to boost the words:  ie he said, she 
said, they did not jerk out, ejaculate (except in an entirely 
different genre...), he didn't yell, scream or hiss either.  People 
say, they don't smirk, giggle or chuckle.  

Sorry JKR - I hate it.  I only forgive it because it's you and I 
will tolerate it so I can hang with the likes of Snape, Lupin and 
the rest of them.  

So said June, acerbically, and maybe arrogantly.