[HPforGrownups] FAQ's, harry's family, food

[Peg Kerr]

No: HPFGUIDX 4638

"Simon J. Branford" wrote:

> 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.

And if anyone hasn't said it lately, I, for one, am looking forward to reading
the FAQs eagerly.  People have taken such thoughtful care in analyzing all
manner of things about these books, and I know that many of the most interesting
posters are the FAQ writers.  I am sure that the FAQs will be absorbing
reading.  While you're slaving away at composing them, be assured that your work
will certainly be appreciated.

> Penny wrote: "Well, first off Amanda's right -- the Dursleys are Harry's
> only living relatives."
>
> <snip>
>
> 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'm sure that Vernon and Petunia would be certain to alienate any of James'
relatives that they knew about . . . but I, too, think Dumbledore would know if
any of James' relatives were still living.

> Penny wrote: "BRITISH FOOD -- I'm with Simon -- British food should not be
> maligned so much! <snip>
>
> 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.  :--)"
>

I dimly remember the food at St. Catherine's College at Cambridge as being
pretty good--I studied there for about six weeks in 1982 (heaves a nostalgic
sigh).

Peg, who really, really wants to go back to England someday.  Better yet, via
brookstick (um . . . upon thinking it over . . . over the ocean . . . maybe
not.  Better via airplane, thanks).

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