Favourite details?

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., pigwidgeon37 at y... wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> 1) to everybody who didn't like my matutine comment about the 
recent 
> discussion: Sorry, I didn't mean to cut it off, I just thought it 
was 
> an interesting phenomenon how we all were starting to get our 
> favourite eye-rolling scenes out of the closet.
> 2) I think we all love JKR's detailed description and sometimes 
those 
> details are really hilarious (Like Lockhart on his photos with his 
> hair on rollers, the referee at the QWC flexing his muscles for the 
> Veela etc.)
> I really would like to hear if anybody else has such a favourite 
> detail. My own is Snape, blasting apart the rose bushes at the Yule 
> ball.
> 
> Susanna/pigwidgeon37

Oh, there are tons of details...A couple of my favorites are:
Harry buys Dobby a pair of socks that scream loudly when they get too 
smelly.

In Transfiguration the students have to turn a mouse into a snuff 
box.  They get extra points if the snuff box is pretty, but get 
points taken off if it still has whiskers.

And I love all the great names JKR has come up with - wonderfully 
rhythmic and/or alliterative names:  Severus Snape, Sirius Black, 
Minerva McGonagall, Dumbledore.

Marianne