consonanats / MacArthur Park / The Trial of Snape

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

Dave Frankis wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/27034 :

<< Something we would not even bother to spend time discussing if our
schools took a couple of hours of English lessons to teach it at age
12. >>

I already didn't understand it at that age.

<< It's so easy that by the time you were 3 you didn't even know you
were doing it. >>

Like all the grammatical things, declensions and subjunctive and so
on. Like digestion, for that matter.

<< David, who thinks another few hours on the phonetic alphabet would
transform the performance of anglo-saxons at foreign languages >>

I thought the problem with learning foreign languages was grammar? 

Joe Bento wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/27062 :

<< Suddenly, the bearded old wizard bursts
into song:

Spring was never waiting for us, girl
It ran one step ahead
As we followed in the dance
Between the parted pages and were pressed
In love's hot, fevered iron
Like a striped pair of pants

MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no! >>

I think DD might sing it better (i.e. less pompously) than Harris did.
While not as weird as "Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!", the number
of people who claim that not understand it indicates that it might
well be weird enough for DD. Anyway, my real point is to nitpick:
"MacArthur Park", not 'MacArthur's Partk". It's a public park (with a
formerly real 'lake' with paddle-boats) just west of Downtown LA,
named after General MacArthur of World War II.

Ali (for Accio UK) wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/27063 :

> ************************************************
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> Accio is also delighted to invite all its delegates to participate
> in its show trial of Severus Snape. The trial will take place with
> the Potions Master in absentia. He will be tried on the following 4
> counts (a Ron style explanation is provided on our website)
>
> 3. That the accused, feloniously, treasonously and with malice
> aforethought, continues as a member in said illegal organisation

It's a lovely writ of indictment, but isn't there a great risk that it
will be rendered moot by HBP, especially the accusation that he is
still a Death Eater?