The Crest (was re: Another strike against the artists)

[Ginny Love]

No: HPFGUIDX 11418

>> Anyone else seen today's page on the daily HP
>calendar? It shows
>> the "Official Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and
>Wizardry" shield,
>> consisting of a gold shield with a large black H in

>the center. No
>> crests from all the houses, just the big H. What
the >heck??

>The shield, if my understanding of heraldry is
correct >(and it may not 
>be) is the MIDDLE portion of the crest - the crest
has >the different 
>house animal symbols - if that's the
>case, the shield termonology is correct.

<blinks> my, aren't we nit-picky? Well, in heraldry
you have your device and your crest. The device would
be the big "H", and the crest would be the house
animals. A device is a picture in the middle, and a
crest surrounds it. <steps off soapbox> Oh, look. It's
the Saint Mungo's doctors coming to take me away.
<rocks back and forth>
 So, Cassie, there's a Draco egroup? I, heh, don't
suppose you could point me in the direction of that?
<slinks under table> heh, heh. I'm getting slightly
neurotic.
  Long live the good ship R/H!

Ginny "Come Up And See Me Some Time" Love, who is
contemplating going by something else.
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R/H: It Just Makes Sense
H/G: Er-Have You Got A Better Idea?
H/H: Without Dreamers, It Would Be A Dull World.
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