[HPforGrownups] Re: Filch - AD and GtheG - Dragon lingo - Fudge

[Herald Talia]

No: HPFGUIDX 24395


It was me (Robyn) who wrote that. Umm, hence the term birdbrain? So is
there consensus here- the HH just isn't too bright?
Robyn, who goes OT to find more intellectual dragons.
> > 
> > > In which case, I will borrow a concept from another series - 
> David
> > > Eddings Belgariad, where the sorceress Polgara speaks the 
> language 
> > of the
> > > birds but realizes they really don't have much to say.
> > 
> > Arthur discovers the same in Hitchhiker's Guide.
> > 
> > As does the protogonist Malcolm Fisher in Tom Holt's Expecting 
> Someone Taller (which brings Wagner's Ring of the Niebelung 
> tetraloguy up-to-date). Uninteresting bird talk seems to be a 
> consensus of fantasy & sci-fi writers!
> 
>    - CMC (veering dangerously OT)
> 
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