Owl Post - Canary Creams - Gold - Puppies - Harold Bloom - Eclectic*rity - Fanfic/Cho - Good Grades - Chatscript - Ships/Slash

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Mike  mschub at y... wrote:
> So how do the Dursleys' Christmas presents, meager though they
> may be, get to Harry on Christmas?

I feel certain that there is an accommodation address to which Muggle
mail may be sent for Owl Post forwarding.  I suspect the address is an
upper floor of the record shop next to the Leaky Cauldron and that one
job done by Tom at the Leaky Cauldron or his employees is to every day
check that mailbox and carry its contents to the Owl Post office on
Diagon Alley.  I suppose that the Muggle outer envelope must contain 1)
an Owl addressed inner envelope, and 2) some money to pay for the Owl
Post (it can be Muggle money, as Muggle money can be changed at
Gringotts).

Mike  mschub at y... wrote:
> something that Fred and George are able to do. Now, they're no
> dummies, but they're no Percy either. Just a thought.

I suspect that ALL those Weasley kids are academagical geniuses. Percy
used his abilities for getting good grades, lots of OWLs and NEWTS,
participating in student government and sucking up to faculty, while the
twins use theirs for practical jokes, rule-breaking, and inventing joke
magic. For all we know, Bill and Charlie got as many OWLs and NEWTs as
Percy -- Bill was Head Boy and maybe Charlie would have been chosen Head
Boy except that he was so busy being the Quidditch Captain and the
second choice boy was *almost* as good. Maybe Ron is a lot better of a
student than he thinks he is: SS says: "Harry had almost forgotten that
the exam results were still to come, but come they did. To their great
surprise, both he and Ron passed with good marks; Hermione, of course,
had the best grades of the first years."

A B <old_wych at y...> wrote:
> Isn't it interesting that wizards use actual gold, and
> not pieces of paper that used to represent gold,

I suspect that wizards use, not gold, but Galleons. I suspect that the
Galleon coins are magic, which would explain why they aren't bending and
warping all over the place, and how they can be light enough to carry,
and my original idea of the magic was simply that it made them
impossible to counterfeit. The other wizarding coins may be magic. I'm
in love with the notion that wizarding money *does* grow on trees, magic
trees, very heavily guarded trees administered by the MoM.

Maggie in Texas wrote:
> I confess to being bewildered by anyone saying
> they do NOT like Sirius! (snip)   Paws Forever

I see that your Paws Forever is a Pet Rescue group (for cocker spaniels.
I know someone who would want a spaniel/sheltie cross, but she's in Los
Angeles) but at first I thought it was a cheer for Padfoot.

Andrea H Bonfanti wrote:
> [Harold] Bloom [said]: Do you really believe children will read
> better books after reading Harry Potter? I don't think so.

Of course I don't agree with Bloom. I know that a number of people of
whom I think well think that he is a culturally important genius, but
every time I have heard him on the radio, he has said deeply stupid,
idiotic things. Once he said that the jazz solo was invented when Louis
Armstrong played his trumpet so well that all the other band members
just stopped playing in order to listen.  Recently, he was on a
discussion on KCRW about e-books, and he said that e-books are just no
good because they are going back to the scroll, which was used before
the invention of the codex [the codex is the type of book we are used
to, with pages that turn]. He didn't say WHY he thought the e-book is
like a scroll. He didn't say what's wrong with the scroll (all I know to
be wrong with scrolls is that you can't go straight to the page number
that you found in the index because you have to unroll all the way from
the beginning, which is not only inconvenient but wears the book out
faster). He DID say that the codex started with Gutenberg, which is
UTTER NONSENSE: the codex was already being used in Late Antiquity. By
the time that Christian monks were illuminating books, all those books
were codices.

"Jim Ferer" wrote:
> But doesn't that demonstrate how intensely narcissistic the literary
> process has become?  They are sure of their superiority and their
> elite status, based on their own insular standards.  Their writing is
>  impenetrable and completely tied up in process. None of  them
> believe in telling a story that reaches people or informs them.

I'm not sure this is fair. I listen to Michael Silverblatt's show
BOOKWORM on KCRW (which is available in Real Audio at www.kcrw.org) and
enjoy it BECAUSE it is so alien to me: Michael and his authors really
LOVE reading that stuff (stuff that I generally can't stand), and it
really means a lot to them (despite being meaningless to me).

 Star <star_ling at c...> wrote:
> I had a thought about the questions of if Muggle electricity  get's
> screwed up how come cameras and watches work.  I figure that small
> things running on BATTERY power such as watches and cameras are
> ok but not big things that connect to plug ins.

I have a different theory. I think that the Muggle cameras and watches
that work at Hogwarts are the old mechanical kind that don't use
electricity (thus showing JKR to be as old-fashioned in her thinking as
the wizarding folk are). When I was a kid (back in the 1960s), Timex
cheap watches were entirely mechanical. They worked by clockwork gears
and got their power from springs which got their power from being wound
up daily with a winding stem on the side of the watch. And Kodak was
still making an entirely mechanical Brownie camera.

 "Jim Ferer" wrote:
> The problem with posting fic here is this: there's no stats and no
> way to know if anybody's read our stuff, and no reviews either.

All too true. I post my fics in this egroup, and I have no sense that
ANYONE has read them. I was expecting to get e-mail (perhaps off-list)
telling me, NO!, I'm wrong about e.g. how the werewolf reacts to
scenting a human... The fics carry my opinions about a lot of subjects
discussed on list. For example, my theory that Cho and Cedric have been
going together since half-way through PoA, so that Cho not wearing a
POTTER STINKS button or taunting Harry is a sign of her general
niceness.

Kimberly Moon wrote:
> Plus Remus missed a couple of days of classes every month
> due to err.... non-feminine pms :), which was bound to affect his
grades.

But I feel sure that Sirius (like the twins, above) didn't get anything
like the grades he was capable of, due to not working at it: he seems
like the type who would do all homework at (or after) the last possible
minute, and maybe even put gag answers on exams.

 keith.fraser at s... wrote:
> In future we will have to put them [chat transcripts] in the Files
section.

Yucky-poo. I can't read the transcripts that have been put in the Files
sections because my browser shows me all the html -- 40 characters per
each character of text, especially in people like me who do color fades.

Pippin wrote:
> > Well, it's been mentioned that one of the few things the H/H and the

> > R/H camps have in common is that both would rather see Ron and Harry

> > get together than see the boy they don't endorse wind up with
> > Hermione. I know I would.
> Poor Hermione! condemned to a life alone, all in the name of peace
> and originality...oh well, I guess Batman's available <g>
Hermione wouldn't have to be alone. She could date Viktor.... or
Sirius... or Remus... or even Severus.... or all those f/f relationships
that have been suggested.
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