Harry Potter News (Cut and pasted)

[Brooks R]

No: HPFGUIDX 1779

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Joywitch " <joym999 at a...> wrote:

>  and Quirrell seems like a gay stereotype.

I thought he was a COWARD stereotype.  He isn't mincing, he is 
tremulous!

 
> > Schafer said she apparently is the first to notice that Harry's 
> tenure at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry begins in
1991, 
> which makes him an adult in present time. 
> > 
> 
> The first to notice? Hardly.  IMHO, people with PhDs need to be 
> slapped upside the head every now and then to remind them to be 
> humble.  

Good  observation. :-)

> > Seen through the prism of modern history, the Chamber of Secrets 
> resembles the underground caverns where prisoners were forced to 
> labor on German munitions during World War II. Salazar Slytherin's 
> initials, S.S., suggest Nazi storm troopers, and the name Ravenclaw 
> is similar to the name of the Ravensbrueck concentration camp. 
> > 
> 
> Am I the only one who thinks that this is really pushing it?

Nope.  The Chamber of Secrets sounds more like the classical dragon's 
lair.  And all the Hogwarts founders have alliterative names.


Apropos of banning efforts, in today's _Fax Daily_ (a free newsletter 
sent to local business fax machines, with jokes and polls)

"Expelliarmus!.... A Florida library has stopped a Harry Potter 
promotion becuase parents and churches complained the book exposes 
children to witchcraft.   Uhmmm, _I Dream of Jeannie_, _Bewitched_, 
_Mary Poppins_, _Sleeping Beauty_, _Macbeth_, _Jack and the 
Beanstalk_, _Cinderella_, _The Hobbit_, _Rumplestiltskin_, _Casper
the 
Friendly Ghost_, _Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs_, _Scooby Doo_, 
_Fantasia_.  Have I made my point yet?"

-Brooks