[HPforGrownups] Re: Slambooks at Hogwarts

[Melanie Moore]

No: HPFGUIDX 809


--- Rita Winston <catlady at wicca.net> wrote:
> A Truth Quill might well *ruin* such a project! For example,
> the 
> boy (an alleged friend of mine!) who learned the word
> 'epitome' in 
> English class and promptly invented the sentence 'Rita Winston
> is the 
> epitome of unfemininity' -- while I have the messy hair, loud
> voice, 
> and extreme lack of interest in fashion that once led a
> certain 
> transvestite to tell me that I, unlike him, was not a real
> girl, I 
> lack *some* of the features of unfemininity, such as football.
> So the 
> Truth Quill would not have allowed him to put that sentence in
> the 
> book.   
> 


For someone like that, you have a point.  I was thinking more
along the lines of someone like me writing in it.  I'd try to be
as tactful as I could, in case my subject later came along and
read what I'd written.

But that Truth Quill would force the writing into my *real*
thoughts ("C'mon! Give us the dirt. I know you think so-and-so's
a b----!").  It would then twist my writing into just that, like
Riddle's diary made Harry's writing disappear, and used the ink
to form Tom's writing.

Maybe a Mind Reading Quill would be more accurate.

Melanie

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