A few words...

[triner2001]

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No: HPFGUIDX C3432
From: triner2001
Subject: A few words...
Date: 7/6/00 10:20 am  (ET)

Nitwit, blubber, oddment, tweak!

Sorry, the wait for #4 has made me a bit giddy!

A few thoughts on a few of the last postings.

Penny, Professor MN irked me too! Formulaic, indeed! All children's
literature is formulaic. It's the ideas inside the story and how the
formula is presented that makes it imaginative and wonder-filled. And
as for it not being a classic, well, let's just wait a few years and
see how it holds up. My guess is that children (and adults) will still
be reading it after all the hoopla is long gone. And just who determines
what a children's classic is? Dried-up old gits like him? Or the children
who keep returning to the books time and again?

Crookshanks an animagus? I don't think so. Who named him? Well, he does
appear to be a Jellical cat, just an extremely perceptive and independent
cat. (But if he ever breaks out into "Memory" I will start to worry.)

I think the sorting hat is an extremely old being, perhaps the somehow
encapsulating the characteristics of Godric Gryffindor, Salazar Slytherin,
Helga Hufflepuff, and Rowena Ravenclaw, so that it is capable of
recognizing them in the students in order to sort them properly.

Just my opinions.

Trina