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

[Lee Kaiwen]

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.

"Super-secret" not meant to imply the DEs don't know about it. In VWII 
Voldemort not only knows about the OP, he's pretty muched managed to 
piece together entire membership list. Course, everyone -- including DD 
-- showing up en masse at the MoM sort of gave it away anyway.

CJ
CJ:
Arrogance disregards safety, causes foolish mistakes ...

Alla:
I meant what is wrong with arrogance in this particular episode ...

CJ:
I'd say the same thing that's wrong with arrogance in general. It leads 
to sloppiness and an overestimation of one's own abilities.

In all this discussion, I keep trying to imagine Moody charging into 
battle with anything like James's cockiness, and I just can't. Alertness 
and confidence, yes, but also acutely aware that in war *anything* can 
happen, and even the lowliest DE might get off a lucky shot that not all 
the experience or superior skill in the world could stop.

Alla:
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 ...

CJ:
Except that we know that James had been arrogant since long before he 
had any cause to be -- since his early days at Hogwarts at least.

And yes, I agree that James and Sirius also displayed confidence, but 
where that confidence *came from* is the question.

CJ