Hufflepuff - Extraneous snake - Sherbet - Fridays - Pain in scar

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 12953

Whew!  Trying to consolidate replies, like a good girl.

Hufflepuff in broom still:  I wouldn't be surprised if the filmmakers 
put all 4 houses in Flying together.  It's not canon, but it isn't 
necessary to the plot to have ONLY Gr. and Sl. there.  I do think it 
looks like the flying lesson scene.

Speaking of things not necessary to the plot, I had an awful thought 
today:  if I were a screenwriter and had to cut a scene from the book 
(which they always do--filming a whole novel is seldom possible within 
the usual film length), I would excise the zoo scene.  It isn't 
necessary to PS/SS, and although it comes up in CoS, it isn't 
strictly necessary there either; I read CoS before PS/SS and I 
understood the Parselmouth scene perfectly well, including Harry's 
sketchy retelling of the boa story to Ron and Hermione.  But I'd hate 
to lose that scene 'cause I really dig that snake!  "Thankssss, 
amigo!"  I was psyched, when I read PS, to learn that the scene 
described by Harry in CS was actually fleshed out there.

Neil wrote:

>...lemon drops and sherbet lemons are not the same thing.  A lemon 
>drop is a solid boiled sweet (US: hard candy?) and a sherbet lemon 
>(or lemon sherbet) is similar but with a centre full of effervescent 
>sherbet  powder; often called just a 'sherbet'.
>I guess the US translators got a bit confused somewhere along the 
>way...

Yes, I think what we mean by "hard candy" is what you mean by "boiled 
sweet"--very hard, solid candies *usually* the same all the way 
through that are meant to be sucked (but I can never resist biting 
them--and yes, I still have all my teeth too!).  So is a pear drop a 
pear-flavored (sorry, flavoured <g>) boiled sweet?

And in the UK editions, what is Dumbledore eating on Privet Drive?  In 
the US ed. it's lemon drops, i.e. hard candy (though possibly 
Lemonheads, as vividly described by Amanda).

Steve wrote:

>I don't think anyone has Friday afternoon classes, although maybe 
>this is just one of my Unwarranted Assumptions.

Far be it from me to suggest that the Creator of the Lexicon ever 
makes Unwarranted Assumptions.  A small fact has simply slipped past 
him--our God is a fallible God.  Harry & Co. have Potions Friday 
afternoons in GoF.  Can't give you the citations, but there are a 
couple.

More on teachers' schedules:  very true, the classes could be (and 
seem to be) on a college-type schedule rather than a 
US-high-school-type schedule, i.e. they meet a couple times a week at 
most.  But as a former teacher, I'm thinking of number of preps here. 
 That, as much as total number of students, is one of the big measures 
of how much work a teacher has.  Even supposedly identical courses 
(e.g. 4th-year Potions, supposedly the same for each house) are never 
identical & end up being separate preps.  I've taught in a situation 
where I had 7 preps and I think it was close to the limit of 
possibility for a Muggle like myself.  Maybe wizards could handle 
more, but 20? 

Allyse wrote:

>she explained that 
>Quirrel had, at that moment, looked away - which meant that 
>Voldemort, in the back of Quirrel's head, was looking directly at 
>Harry. 

Oh yeah!  Wow, Jo, you're outdoing yourself.  That's really subtle.  
Cool!

Amy Z
who thinks sherbet lemons sound yummy!

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