Numbers, Newbie, Snape cooking, & Ford Anglia

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 8025


>"My backup plan is to just figure as JKR has managed to tell a
>fabulous story with great style and emotion, I'll cut her some slack
>on the details."
>
>I agree completely. Her characters are outstanding and her themes are
>wonderfully sophisticated and subtle. We fans only split hairs like
>this about stuff we *like*.  These stories are good enough that we
>seek every possible morsel and then work it to death.

I brought up the student numbers problem and I do agree--I don't really care 
if it doesn't work out logically, I just like to spend yet more mental time 
in Hogwarts sorting it out!

Kazz, beware:  there are spoilers galore and we don't warn about them.  Read 
GoF fast!  (I'm sure you don't need urging.)

Dave wrote: >This makes sense to me (especially as Snape reminds me of
>my college chemistry teacher).

Oh, you poor man!  I assume you decided against majoring in chemistry!

He also wrote:  >A quick OT question: What is Sex Ed. like in the UK?  Over 
here
>in the States you need a note from your parents to take it, and at that
>they only discuss STD.

Not where I went to high school (public school, e.g. free provided by the 
town, in Connecticut).  It was part of "health" and we learned all sorts of 
stuff, even hiding under our desks in embarrassment.  You probably could get 
*out* of it with a note from the parents if they were opposed.

I'm curious, does anyone know the U.S. equivalent of a Ford Anglia?  I like 
to picture these things.  I hope it's an Escort (that's a tiny 2-door or, in 
4-door, a small wagon, non-Yanks)--I love the thought of the 9 Weasleys 
piling into that little thing--illegally expanded on the inside, of course.  
Shades of clown cars.

Amy
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