Reading SS (American version)

[Steve Vander Ark]

No: HPFGUIDX 3381

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>   pg. 121==Moon, Nott, Parkinson (Assume this one is Pansy!), 
Perks, Sally Anne...  Where are these "unsorted" students?  Do we 
learn of their houses later?

Nott is a name for a Death Eater as well, so we might guess that IF 
this Nott is related that he/she MIGHT be likely to go to Slytherin. 
We have quite a few whose houses we don't know. You can find a 
complete list in the Lexicon.


> 
>   pg. 122--...Looking very peculiar in a large purple turban... He 
wasn't wearing the turban the first time in Diagon that Harry met him.

It was after Quirrell failed to steal the stone from Gringotts, which 
was after he met Harry in the Leaky Cauldron, that Voldemort decided 
to stick a little closer to him to direct his actions.


> 
>   pg. 126--Why did Harry's scar hurt when Snape looked at him in 
the hall the first time?

Because it says he's looking right past Quirrell, therefore Voldemort 
is facing Harry.


> 
>   pg. 136--Snape had the gift of keeping a class silent without 
effort.  It sounds like he did have the knack of teaching, just not 
the attitude!

Just being able to keep a class quiet is not the same thing as being 
a good teacher. In this case, he does it with fear, which hardly 
counts as good teaching.

> 
>   pg. 140--What is a boar hound?  (Fangs)

A large black dog. Someone (Amanda, that was you, right?) send me a 
nice description of the boarhound that I put on the creatures page of 
the Lexicon. Search for Fang, you'll find it.


> 
>   Chapter Nine
>   pg. 151--threw the chalk into a bin...  Do you use something 
different for chalk in the UK?  Or are they talking about a chalktray 
(eraser-tray?)

I interpreted that as throwing it hard into a metal wastebasket so it 
made a lot of noise.


> 
>   Chapter Twelve
>   pg. 200=-What a weird shape...What shape is a 50p?  Isn't it 
round and uniform like US funds?  Does that mean that wizard-money is 
not round and disklike?

Exactly right. Wizard money is undoubtedly flat, but it's shape must 
NOT be round. Remember too that some wizards tried to pay with money 
like hubcaps for their camping at the World Cup. I'm guessing that 
they were foreign, since in Britain, the coins seem similar in 
general size, even if not in shape.


Steve Vander Ark
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