Jumping SHIP - SHIP: M/A - To t or not to t - Funny Harry etc.

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 31614

Okay (dons goggles and steps into inflatable life-ring with the head of a 
duck), you all have finally convinced me to get off my ship.  It's about 
time that I owned up to the fact that simply thinking R/H is going to happen 
does not make me an R/H shipper.  I don't give a Flooper's feather who ends 
up with whom, if anyone, as long as the Trio doesn't break up.  Look out 
below!--(holds nose, balances on the railing)--I'm about to hit the water.  
Hope Amber paddles over on her raft to pick me up before I sink.

Dave queried:

>Is there anyone besides me who thinks that midnight stroll of Arthur
>and Molly's was more than just a "walk"?  ;)

Yep, and I can't believe Bill let her off so easy.  "We were out on a 
midnight stroll" indeed.  Maybe he restrained himself from laughing in her 
face because Harry was there.

Phil wrote:

>Of course, Rowling herself was a French teacher; one imagines that she does
>not pronounce the "t."

She doesn't.  However, the answer to the pronunciation is definitely a 
definitive "no definitive pronunciation."  Both Jim Dale and Stephen Fry 
could check pronunciations with JKR as they worked, and they came up with 
different pronunciations of this and many other words.  The polite thing 
would be to ask V himself how he pronounces it.  I'll remember to do that 
the next time we get together.

Penny promised:

 > Penny
 > (who really is going to someday catalogue all the interactions of
the
 > Trio with each other so that it can be proven that Harry is funny
 > sometimes, Ron & Hermione really aren't exchanging witty repartee
 > constantly & Hermione is not a bossy wet blanket when she's not with Ron)

Ooh, please do!  I predict that #1 will be easy (Cassandra Claire already 
did it, and I'll add his imitation of Snape in GF.  It made Ron and Hermione 
laugh, anyway, and I thought it was pretty funny too).  So will #2, because 
it's easy to disprove a "constantly."  #3 looks like the real challenge.  I 
can think of examples of Hermione being her typical self when alone with 
Harry (nothing will induce me to call her a bossy wet blanket), but there 
are relatively few passages to go by and, IIRC, relatively few examples of 
bossiness or wetblanketism within them.  Go for it!

Amy Z
boycotting webview until those Mall-Wart ads are removed

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Ern jerked the wheel so hard that a whole
farmhouse had to jump aside to avoid the bus.
              -HP and the Prisoner of Azkaban
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