FAQ's, harry's family, food

[Simon J. Branford]

No: HPFGUIDX 4601

Suzanne wrote: "Penny, you mentioned that Heidi was doing an FAQ about the
lawsuit--where is it?
Sorry for sucha dumb question. Now that I am wandering back, I am delving
into the mysteries of Egroups, and I don't know where everything is. i have
looked in what seemed to be the obvious places..."

The FAQ's at the moment are spread across the computers of several people
and also in the land of existence is possible eventually. Basically by this
I mean that a group of us are in the process of writing them. I am unsure
about when we hope to have them completed by, and I guess we will tell the
group (quite loudly) when they start going online. Bear in mind that we are
writing the FAQ's in our spare time - something which I seem to have very
little of at the moment.


Penny wrote: "Well, first off Amanda's right -- the Dursleys are Harry's
only living relatives."

Well that is not quite what is said - the exact quote is: "I've come to
bring Harry to his aunt and uncle. They're the only family he has left now."

Which does leave the possibility of other relatives if we take it to mean
that the Dursleys' are the only family left out of Harry's relatives. I do,
however, believe the Dursleys' to be Harry's only remaining relatives. I
guess he will have to go out and create a few more himself!


Penny wrote: "BRITISH FOOD -- I'm with Simon -- British food should not be
maligned so much! <snip> On the other hand, I think it's quite likely that
all 3 of them (H, H & R) have all been exposed to Indian food (which is very
prevalent in Great Britain) and probably Asian foods of various varieties.
Well, Harry will have been exposed only if the Dursleys ever took him &
Dudders out to dinner now & again. If they only relied on Petunia's cooking,
they might not have ever heard of such things."

I can see Petunia and Vernon being the type of people who would only eat
'proper British food' - whatever that might be.
Chicken curry sandwiches for lunch today and spaghetti bolognaise (well more
correctly pasta bolognaise) for dinner. Nice and varied meals are cool. Also
I got through all this without having to resort to the potato (comment
inserted for the benefit of Penny - who has suggested in the past that the
British have to have potatoes with every meal!)!


I wrote: "My college dinning hall food can be terrible (this is why I am
living in one of the other blocks - the chef down here can cook
brilliantly). Just because you can recognize what is in it does not mean
that it is edible."
Penny replied: "Having lived for 6 weeks at Emmanuel College in Cambridge, I
can vouch for this generality.  We poured mounds of the ubiquitous British
"brown sauce" over virtually everything served in the dining hall.  :--)"

This left me laughing for a few minutes. The easy solution for making the
food taste better!


Simon