Sirius Depression - Teenagers - House patches - Pictures of Characters - Beefeater

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No: HPFGUIDX 13552

LOL at Randy's fan-fanfic.

Monika Huebner wrote:
>  I think that it was his depression  that saved him from the
> Dementors. There wasn't anything they could feed on, so
> his brain wasn't affected like that of other prisoners who might
> still have had happy thoughts.

I don't understand why Death Eaters whose Lord was destroyed would have
happier thoughts than Sirius.

Doreen wrote:
> whose fifteen year old is presently acting like a Dementor.

I seriously suggest that you arrange to swap teenagers with another
parent who has the same problem. There is some inborn instinct for teens
and their parents to irritate each other, which is why parents
despairingly wonder how their kid is able to behave so decently to other
adults while being such a monster to them, and kids wonder despairingly
"How come all my friends think my parents are nice people?"

Christian Stubo wrote:
> the house-badges/devices designed for the school-uniforms
> in the movie.  Now, if some-one can lend me a large sail-ship and some

> cable-lengths of rope, so I can properly keelhaul the artist(s) who
> was (were) responsible for this mess (after frocefeeding him/her
> lutefisk, smalahove and codfish-tongue), I would feel much better.

I followed the link and looked at the embroideries and they are every
bit as bad as you said. I can't even SEE that there is a crest on G and
R, and the crests on H and S look like tiny blobs. Slytherin is the only
one with ANY color contrast. This is a strong argument for Hogwarts
being the only school, so there is no see to see the symbols, just to
get a general sense of the color: white for S, yellow for H, blue/dark
for R, and bronze for G. Even for that, they should have made G redder,
to avoid confusion with H.

Yuck, now it is this garbage that will appear on merchandise rather than
the very good symbols from the Hogwarts shield in the books.

I loved the suggested use of lutefisk, smalahove, and cod-fish tongue,
but I thought your previous sig said you were a Naval Architect, so
can't you build your own ship for the keel-hauling?

Je wrote:
> Am I a big dork, then for loving the cover of GoF?  I think HP
> looks like such a cutie there!

I like the American cover of GoF because of all the images mixed into it
(like Padfoot looking out from the horizon), but I DO NOT LIKE the
central faces. To me, they ALL look like female faces -- Krum is the
only one I can believe was intended to be a male.

Christian Stubo wrote:
> Last time I checked, said Draco should be silver-blond and
> not ravenhaired, but evidently not all creators of sites about
> Harry Potter bother to read the books

IIRC last time I checked, JKR hadn't called Draco's hair silver-blond
until PoA. Before that, she only described him as 'pale'. I had imagined
the pale boy as light blond and was surprised that she hadn't SAID SO
earlier. However, I don't know that we can fault people for thinking
pale skin contrasting with 'hair as dark as his heart' until they read
PoA.

Erich wrote:
> I was wondering if J.K. Rowlings borrowed death eaters
> from Beef eaters? Beef eater guard the Tower of london and
> I believe the crown jewels. I don't know why they're are called
> beef eaters.

Beefeater is what English speakers made of the French word 'buffetier',
which means a waiter at the buffet. According to the annotated Yeoman of
the Guard (the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta), there are two
organizations with similar looking uniforms, and the name Beefeaters
really belongs only to those who are royal household attendants, not to
the ones who guard the Tower of London, who are named Yeomen Warders.
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