Coming out of Lurkdom

[Adan]

--- In HPFGU-Texas at yahoogroups.com, Marvin Crabtree <crabtree at k...> 
wrote:

Professor Phlash <--- love it!

I have been delighted that
> it has become a little more active.  It is a small enough group to
> manage without committing hours to keeping up with every topic.

Agree and Welcome!


Professor Phlash: I teach 5th grade and am known all over town as 
the "Harry Potter teacher."  I even have a sign outside my classroom 
door that says "5th grade Muggle Studies."  This reputation has at 
times been both a blessing and a curse for me.  While most people 
think it is clever that I am "something of an expert" on the subject, 
there is the occasional critic who thinks I am corrupting the youth 
of the community.

I think everyone understands that!  I know I get it from certain, 
shall we say, more devout members of my (ex)inlaws.  (They already 
think I'm going to hell because of my love of the movie "Dogma" and 
Christopher Moore's book "Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Jesus' 
Childhood Friend".  They don't seem to understand my firm belief that 
the being upstairs also has a sense of humor OR that you can be 
irreverent without being blaspemous. But that's getting into sticky 
territory and way OT, so I'll stop! Sorry!)

> Now, about Ginny and Harry, and for that matter Ron and Hermione, I
> believe they are made for each other. I have always thought that the
> singing Valentine was from Ginny even though it doesn't say so.  Now
> that you mention Fred and George, I think that could be a real
> possibility.  It is one of the funniest spots in the book. I will
> probably go around singing it for the rest of the day now.

Gah!  In my last post, I meant to say that I agree that it could have 
been F/G!  It does seem like something they would do.  However, 
aren't they pretty protective about Ginny?  I'm not sure that they 
would have done something to cause her such public distress.  
Private, no problem!  I'm not discounting the idea, anyway.

And I don't get where the group of people that insist that Ron and 
Hermione don't "like" each other.  That's the way I've read it from 
the beginning.  But, then, I am wrong.  Often. 

 
Prof. Phlash: Although I have resisted reading fan fiction except for 
an excerpt or chapter now and then, this summer I have become 
engrossed in it.  Some of it is really bad and some is intriguing.  I 
am thinking it is time to get away from that and reread the books to 
help me get it all out of my mind.  Have any of you read any fan fic?

It's been a relatively new thing for me, too.  I was making up my own 
before I started reading anyone else's.  Oooh, and if anyone wants a 
link to some very nice Ginny stories (that are OBHWF now that I think 
about it), let me know!

Adan, who is very talkative today