Music / Grammar / poor brave Dungrollin / leftover princess

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

Sarah wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/26619 :

<< Anyway I was thinking, what music would others listen to?
I'm listening to The Bends (Radiohead) at the moment, and I think it
sums up Sirius to a tee. Its melancholy and aggressive, and High and
Dry seems to be all about enigma and bravado and even mentions a
flying motorcycle ... >>

I am convinced that Sirius's favorite music was Led Zeppelin. I can
just *see* young Sirius bouncing around playing air guitar ... to
"Salty Dog", if you insist. I have no such certainty about the other
Marauders, altho' it would go with the popular sport of Peter-bashing
to suggest he like The Monkees. I've suggested that James shared my
taste for Jethro Tull and maybe Lupin liked Steeleye Span, Fairport
convention, or maybe Fleetwood Mac. 

<< I can see Arthur Weasley enjoying a bit of Deep Purple or Led
Zepplin! >>

I see Arthur as both too old and too passive for even early metal! My
best guess is that he, like my friend Lee, grew up when Frank Sinatra
was the most popular singer, and never stopped loving Sinatra. I've
always just assumed that Celestina Warbeck was that style of singing,
like maybe Rosemary Clooney or Barbra Streisand in the old days.

Btw I suppose that JKR intended 'Warbeck' to sound like 'warble' but
to me it always sounds like 'war beak' and makes me think of birds
fighting, not singing.

Carol wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/26672 :

<< Regarding "which," the usual practice is to use "which" and commas
for nonrestrictive clauses (the kind that can be removed from a
sentence without changing its meaning or making it ungrammatical and
"that" without commas for restrictive clauses (which can't be removed
without altering the meaning of the sentence).

For example: English literature, which I studied for too many years to
count, was my favorite subject.

But:

The English literature course that I took in my last year of college
was my favorite. >>

Does anyone have a mnemonic device for that? 

Seriously, I was told about that rule around 15 years ago and have
been trying to memorize it ever since ... not continuously trying, as
when I quickly forget it, I have to go around asking people to tell me
it again.

Dungrollin http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTC
hatter/message/26684 :

What an unpleasant adventure! I laughed and was glad it wasn't me. I
hope your boss paid you back the money you spent on phone calls -- and
why didn't you take a taxi from the tube station to his office?

Weeks and weeks ago, Storm mentioned that being a lesbian severely
reduced her chances of meeting a stranger & falling in love & getting
married as a love-match & getting the title Princess as a result of
the marriage. 

Not merely because the estimate that 10% (or 3% or whatever, the point
is it's a minority) of the general population is gay suggests that
only 10% (or 3% or whatever) of Princes and Princesses are gay.

But because the usual rules of etiquette and/or peerage usually make
the spouse of a male share his title and not the spouse of a female
share her title. So Prince Jack of Beanstalk's wife would be Princess
Jack of Beanstalk, but if his sister Princess Jill of Beanstalk
married Mr Joe Sixpack, instead of Joe becoming Prince Jill, Jill
would become Mrs Joe Sixpack. Actually I *think* they would be Mr Joe
and Princess Jill Sixpack. I think the only time a man is titled
"Prince" as result of marrying a Princess is when the Princess is the
heir to her country's throne; then the Parliament or something gives
him a title of Prince.

So Storm would have to make a love-marriage with not just any lesbian
princess, but with a lesbian princess who is the heir to her country's
throne.