Fun - Evil - Dances - Houses Several Times

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No: HPFGUIDX 11919

Stephanie Malfoy wrote:
> Also, the game has become much less
> dangerous and it is so much fun.  Harry Potter at its best!

How did you make it less dangerous?

> But anyways, SEVERAL of the kids in my neighborhood heard
> of the game through a younger sister and they all started reading
> the books, and I have had a run on my house requesting to borrow
> my trivia game, books, cds/tapes, etc etc etc.  It is wonderful.
> On a touching note, a little boy(i think he is 9) came and
> took the first book from me, and his mother called me and thanked
> me so much for getting him interested in reading.

This is so wonderful that I quoted it back atcha.

Katarzyna  nykteris wrote:
> Surprisingly big Voldemort's sphere of influence?...
> Some servants of Voldemort damaged my post delivering server:-(((((.

I LOL when I read that.
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Michelle Apostolides wrote:
> The only times that there are discos arranged by a school
> in the UK are usually fundraisers. The concept of social
> activities for pupils arranged in out of school hours is a
> relatively new concept.

Should I understand that to mean that students at boarding school are
responsible for creating their own entertainments?

Becky  rlpenar wrote:
> Even more, other than Percy (Gryffindor) and Penelope
> (Ravenclaw), do we know of any (canon) pairings from
> mixed houses??

The description of the Yule Ball specifically states that people who had
dates from other Houses rendezvoused with their dates in a crowd just
outside the Great Hall.

> why Lucius wanted dear old Draco to go to Hogwarts, so that
> he could continue the Slytherin tradition in the Malfoy family

In GoF, Draco tells his friends that Lucius had wanted to send him to
Durmstrang but his mama didn't want to let her little boy go so far from
home. [If he was telling the truth, Lucius didn't particularly want
Draco to go to Hogwarts.] In Madam Malkin's robe shop in SS, Draco said
"Well, no one really knows until they get there, do they, but I know
I'll be in Slytherin, all our family have been -- imagine being in
Hufflepuff, I think I'd leave, wouldn't you?" [Which appears that DRACO
wanted to continue the family Slytherin tradition.]

Scott wrote:
> I am the only one bothered by the fact that Ravenclaw and
> Hufflepuff are almost completely in the background?

I refuse to think that misogyny is the reason for the Houses founded by
females to be in the background...  I am not exactly BOTHERED, as I
understand that JKR is only telling Harry's story, but I WOULD like to
know more about my Ravenclaw Housemates.

> You don't suppose Hermione read about Gryff., decided it was the
> best and ASKED to be put there do you?

I'm sure I recently quoted Hermione on the train from SS:
"Goodness, didn't you know, I'd have found out everything I could if it
was me," said Hermione. "Do either of you know what house you'll be in?
I've been asking around, and I hope I'm in Gryffindor, it sounds by far
the best; I hear Dumbledore himself was in it, but I suppose Ravenclaw
wouldn't be too bad.... Anyway, we'd better go and look for Neville's
toad. You two had better change, you know, I expect we'll be there
soon."

> Does anyone know how I can make my name, instead of my email
> address come up at the top of each message

By posting through the Web site instead of through your e-mail client.
There isn't anything wrong with being harry_potter00

Heather M. wrote:
> If Ravenclaw is so smart, why don't THEY win the house
> championship, seeing that they OUGHT to win lots of points
> in class? How on earth did Slytherin ever win the house
> championship? i've  never seen them win even a point...
> Nor have a seen anyone do anything that Slytherin ought to be
> able to win points for.

Since not all the smart people are in Ravenclaw, it cannot be that all
the people in Ravenclaw are smart. I suppose their (our) defining
characteristic is being *interested* in book-learning and
intellectualism, not necessarily being *good* at it. I tried to express
that in my fic Cho's Injury (in the files section of this egroup) by Cho
and Mary's passion for Quidditch leading them to read every book on the
subject and endlessly discuss the strategy of each game they watched.

You have seen Slytherin win points in Quidditch, and you've seen Malfoy
getting good marks in Potions, which might also be worth points. If a
Slytherin who wants to win points can't figure out a way to do so, then
Slytherin cunning can't be very useful.

Penny wrote:
> The Hufflepuff (or Slytherin) who took Fleur Delacour to the Yule
Ball.

Roger Davies, the Ravenclaw Quidditch captain.  Somehow I know that one
by heart....
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