many many replies (was Neville, gen parallels, trivia, canary creams, fanfic)

[heidi tandy]

No: HPFGUIDX 5238


A few things about the Neville's Story thread:
1. We don't know that Ron, et al, knew anything about Sirius being 
accused of killing Peter before Sirius escaped - therefore, they 
could've learned about it from a combination of the Daily Prophet and 
their parents when the news was *necessary* for them to know (so they 
could stay away from that evil, scary murderer, sirius black 
2. Do we know that Ron & Hermione *don't* know about Neville's 
parents? I don't have my book here at work, but I think all we know 
is that Harry didn't know about Neville's parents, and as we know 
that for some reason Harry avoids recent history books (even though 
Hermione's read a bunch of them) his ignorance is possibly more 
excusable than Ron's or Hermione's. 


A comment on the generation parallels:
I've always thought of Sirius & James as the type of student who is 
just so bright that they don't have to study intensely (like Hermione 
chooses to do)  - that they do well enough by writing the required 
essays, paying vague attention in class, and reading the required 
chapters once. McGonnegal says they were the cleverest students (I 
think that's her wording) which doesn't mean they were #s 1 and 2 in 
the class - Snape could've been #1 in potions,  Lily in Charms and 
Remus in DaDA - but I think they had to've been up there. 

A comment on that trivia game:
I'm glad that people are enjoying it - we'd probably like it more if 
we had other people to play it with too (and will likely LOVE it when 
Our Harry is old enough to play (ok, that's at least 3 years away, 
but still). 
I still wish that the "counters" to move around the gameboard were 
the characters, not just different colored wizarding hats. Maybe the 
next iteration of the game will let you be Hedwig, Fawkes, a Flying 
Ford Anglia, Agragog, Fluffy or a Basilisk. Well, maybe not the last 
one...

A comment on fanfics
I LOVED Moon's Mary Sue - I had to close my door so people didn't 
hear me being hysterical. Another short one which was pretty funny 
was The Slytherin Kama Sutra from Angie Astravic - not at *all* what 
you'd expect from the title, but it does, um, involve basilisks. Sort 
of. 

A comment on Canary Creams - there's 2 options which come to mind - 
those little Peeps that they sell around easter are terrific, and 
look like nice, yellow canaries (see 
http://www.marshmallowpeeps.com/) and I also seem to remember friends 
enjoying (again, around easter) these sugar candies which look like 
Fabrege eggs -they're made of solid sugar, with a hole in the front 
and a "diorama" type thingy inside - could be a canary inside (or 
even a tolled up mask, depending on how big the egg was). And you 
know those dinosaur egg candies, which you suck until you get to the 
middle, where there's a little sugar dino?