commercialization of HP; Giants; B&N, Myers-Briggs;Snape&anonymous DE's;

[Brooks A. Rowlett]

No: HPFGUIDX 3218

> And on the wbstore.com website, there are now holiday ornaments (they're
> Christmas ornaments, durnit - no other holiday *has* ornaments!),
(says Heidi)

Actually, i was rather shocked when I moved to Indiana and found some
people decorated trees outdoors with egg-shaped ornaments for Easter....
and truly Halloween has lots of ornaments, not just decorations too,
these days, just not normally ones that go on trees - although i have
seen trees decorated with plastic jack-o-lanterns here too.

Does anybody have a horrible feeling about the giants - not that Hagrid
will be too late, but that he will be in time.... and when Voldemort
discovers it..... well, does anybody remember the Saltmarsh Giants from
the first Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeleiver?

I checked out the posters at Barnes & Noble tonight; there were none I
actually felt like buying - I liked the Erised scene on the poster box,
which was NOT there as a poster, better than any of the posters, but I
*did* think the potions class poster gave a pretty good impression of
Snape.   I also noted that the teacher's guide for GoF is now out too.

Somebody mentioned starting a thread about Myers-Briggs types vs. House
- that was actually one of the techniques mentioned back on Yahoo days,
and MBTI-based questions are used at Ravenclawlady's site.

Back to Snape and who knew what really about Wormtail and Sirius,
remember that when Voldy goes around the circle at the end of GoF, there
are some standing DE's he does NOT name?
Anybody want to put guesses in on whether any of the unrevealed will
turn out to be someone we know?  And remember that when we meet new
people in the remaining books - I personally think the candy-cart witch
on the Express will turn out to be a Death-Eater..... (yes, I am joking here).

> Plus wasn't Fudge in on the conversation in the 3 
> broomsticks where its related that Sirius was thought to be the 
> secret-keeper...Fudge never does anything but agree with that whole 
> line of conversation.

Fudge in fact is the instigator, telling Rosmerta that "the worst he did
isn't widely known".

By the way, if I can ever get back to my Dumbledore vs Grindelwald
story, i hope to explain what happened to Tom R after he graduated and
how Dumbledore knows Tom is Voldy.....

I haven't yet got around to doing the astronomy program results for the
full moon dates for PoA.

-Brooks