New words - When Dementors Journey

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 12103

CM wrote:

> Writers create new words all the time, and I'm tempted to say that 
> the better the writer, the more such coinages you will find, since 
> good writers have greater creativity.  Just think of Shakespeare and 
> Joyce.  And until Rowling came along, Dementor, Quidditch, time-
> turners, floo powder, pensieve, etc. were not "real" words, either.
> 
> But they are now.

And "owl" wasn't a verb, nor did "send me an owl" make any sense.  I'm 
hoping that one makes it into the general vocabulary.

Great job on the Dementor filk!  Oddly, I loved the line "Harry passes 
out"--must be your comic timing.  Also the time-turning Dickens 
ghost.  Wow--a filk dedication and a filk of one of my favorite scenes 
on the same day.  Can life get any better than this?

>Here's a lesson that we ought to learn, we
>Should only let them ride at the back of the bus.

Will Hermione now lead the way in forming CORE (Creatures who Osculate 
Rate Equality)?  Will the NAACP (Nihilistic, Azkaban-Algidifying 
Creatures' Party) lend a hand?

Amy Z

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  "Do you mean to tell me," he growled at the Dursleys, "that
this boy--this boy!--knows nothin' abou'--about ANYTHING?" 
  Harry thought this was going a bit far. 
                               -HP and the Philosopher's Stone 
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