Link to short story that JKR wrote for charity is now on Leaky

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> 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?

Alla:

Well, yes there is a golden bird on them and sure, I think us readers 
are supposed to infer that, but how anybody else is supposed to infer 
that golden bird on T-shirt means that those two guys are members of 
secret terrorism fighting organization, I do not get.




> 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.

Alla:

Thanks. Myself I would probably not call any person whose age I am 
not sure of teenager just because person can be offended, but if I 
know the age, I think I would.


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

CJ: 
> 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.


Alla:

I meant what is wrong with arrogance in this particular episode from 
their lives, sorry. I know what can be wrong with arrogance in 
general. And, I will not surprised at all if at seventeen or eighteen 
James and Sirius indeed already had quite a lot of that experience 
that caused them to be arrogant or confident, depending how one looks 
at it.

And actually the words that she used to me implies that she portrayed 
them as rather confident as well.