Hermitage Ghost - John/Draco - Nitpicking

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My before-nap post somehow left out:
Milz wrote:
> http://www.fife.50megs.com/haunted_buckholm_tower.html
> Scroll down a bit to Hermitage Castle. It tells of William de Soulis,
> a Scottish baron. He was killed in a a big pot of molten lead. I
> remember the Bloody Baron's description that he had splotches of
> silvery blood stains. What if the stains aren't blood and really
>  molten lead?

I ventured over to that website and found that the first ghost was "a
former laird of Buckholm, a man called Pringle".

Pringle! Like Appollyon Pringle, who was Filch's predecessor in Molly's
schooldays... "His favorite past-time was tracking down  covenanters
with his two ferocious hounds...   shrewdly guessing the exact location
where the religious dissenters were most likely  to be, [he]  led the
Dragoons to the exact spot ... A loud scream came from the woman as she
saw, hanging from hooks  attached to the old oak beam," Sounds like
someone with a personality just like Filch! This story COULD be where
JKR got that name.

"the bodies of her two menfolk ...  The wicked laird looked down upon
her, calling her an old witch. The old woman slowly dragged herself to
her feet, her eyes burning with hatred. She faced the drunken laird and
cursed him for what he had done."  Sounds like he was right that she was
a witch.

Jennifer K asked:
> Storm wrote:
> > (still not forgiven that sneaky John, I know, it's not his computer
> > that is Draco but him and its CANNON Draco!)
>  Eh? Such an inside comment. Id like to have it explained..if possible
:)

John very recently announced that he has got a new computer and he named
it Draco. Thus "not his computer that is Draco, but him"

There is constant discussion about fanon Draco being different than
canon Draco. Canon Draco ('canon' is what JKR herself wrote or said) is
a nasty little Nazi, possibly not too intelligent. Fanon Draco ('fanon'
appears to be a made-up altho' frequently used word meaning 'what fanfic
writers tend to agree about') is handsome and sexy and intelligent and
very wittily sarcastic.  Thus, "it is CANNON Draco".

Chained by Freedom wrote:
> First off, I meant to say therefore. I've known people that grew up
with very
> little in regards to materialistic, and they learn to do without those
things,
> and not to place value on them

I've known people who grew up in materially deprived circumstances, but
hungering after the material things they saw other people have, and as
grown-ups in more prosperous circumstances, they went kind of crazy on
the expensive toys -- big TV, big stereo, Ford Excursion, lots of
clothes -- the one among them to whom I am closest got way overextended
on credit cards and other things and declared bankruptcy and got way
overextended again, but bankruptcy is only allowed once per seven years,
so she attempted suicide.... I stand by NONETHELESS.

> Just curious, why are you nitpicking every single word I say?

Stick around for a while. You'll eventually see me nitpick EVERYONE.

Btw, nitpicking is named after a disgusting medieval custom: when people
liked each other, they would take turns picking lice out of each other's
hair and searching for lice eggs (called nits) to remove. We do this
nowdays to our cats and dogs with Flea Combs (very fine-toothed combs).
As a digression from a digression, the reason that lap dogs were
invented is so fleas would prefer to be on dogs & therefore jump OFF the
humans and onto the dog on the human's lap. Returning from
sub-digression, altho' the people the most intimately affectionate to
each other can have one lie down with head in the other's lap to be
nitpicked, the usual method of sitting side by side or front to back is
still affectionate and our ancestors did it back to our common ancestor
with monkey (more distant than our common ancestor with apes), because
hominids, monkeys, and apes ALL show friendship by nitpicking each other
(called 'grooming behavior').
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