[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Link to short story that JKR wrote for charity is now on Leaky

[Lee Kaiwen]

CJ (Earlier):
But I was struck by the t-shirts.

Alla:
Unless T-shirts were saying  there is an Order of Phoenix
organization and we are members of it, I do not see how they were
advertising anything.

CJ (Now):
Admittedly, the story doesn't *say* they're OA t-shirts, but I think 
that's what we're supposed to infer. And, come to think of it -- wizards 
wearing t-shirts?

CJ (Earlier):
Though the story says "late teens", James must be at least eighteen at
this point

 > Alla:
 >
 > Question, I always thought that you can say that person is in his
 > late teens until person is twenty, is it not correct?

CJ (Now):
Technically, yes. But (and I can only speak to American English here), 
we generally call anyone 18 or older young adults, not teens. So in my 
dialect at least "late teen" would imply 16 or 17.

Anyone

Alla:
I am also not sure what is wrong with arrogance if one fighting enemy
with it.

Arrogance disregards safety, causes foolish mistakes and -- as James, 
Lily (and nearly Harry) learn the hard way -- gets you killed.

Confidence in one's abilities would be a good quality, though I'm not 
sure how a couple of teenagers could have anywhere near the sort of 
crime-fighting experience necessary to have learned it. But confidence 
and arrogance are completely different animals.

CJ