the lake, PoA, Texas

[Simon]

No: HPFGUIDX 9731

Julia wrote: "Somone mentioned that lake extended to Hogsmeade.. well,
another thing to think about.. Harry travels to Hogsmeades through the
secret passageway.. so it really can't be too far.  Maybe it's a mile.. but
that would still make the lake too large to walk around.  I tend to suscribe
to the idea that they walked along the lake near the castle."

I think that everyone is missing the point. The lake is magic. The perimeter
is much shorter, so it is possible to walk fairly quickly around the whole
of the lake (say 20 minutes). While this is the case the lake itself is
massive and holds a much larger volume of water than this small perimeter
would allow in a Muggle world. Thus Harry and Hermione walked around the
lake three times in GoF fairly quickly say about 1/2 hour, but the lake is
absolutely massive for its residents and so is plenty big enough for the
second task.


Amy Z (have we been on a membership drive aimed solely at people named Amy?
We seem to have lots of people around with that name know - causing me total
confusion (this is not a problem - it has just amused me how some names seem
a lot more represented around here than others)) wrote: "Gosh, imagine
reading GoF before PoA--PoA would be ruined by the time you'd gotten to
chapter 2."

It depends on what you mean by spoiling, I read the books in order. On
reading the blurb for PoA I instantly decided that Sirius was innocent - I
was glad to be proved right over that! I suppose it would have spoilt the
Scabbers = Peter = bad thing, but I am not sure that would have been a
problem.


Penny wrote: "I decided we needed a location poll for Texans for purposes of
regional get-togethers.  People in El Paso aren't exactly a hop, skip & a
jump away from those of us in Houston after all."

All these minor problems caused by such a small state! Texas covers a tiny
amount in the map book I got out earlier and the UK takes up pages. I do not
see what the problem is! <VBG> - from the person who has just ignored the
whole idea of scale to make what can only be called a poor joke (if people
are being generous).


Simon