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[rja.carnegie at excite.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 19069

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Claire Weale" <clairey at a...> wrote:
> rja.carnegie at e... wrote:
>  But we can't just call them Them, that's another one from
> > Terry Pratchett.  
> 
> Than we should think of a name for them!!! lol!!! i feel a contest 
> coming on....
> 
> Claire

Please put "The Mappers" and "The Map Chaps" on your list.
"The Apocryphal Animagi" won't do because Lupin isn't one.
You were arguing before, though, that they're not really a
"them", a group who are friends with each other and no one else -
a clique.

I've just remembered that both James and Sirius are friends with
Hagrid - you don't lend a motorbike to just anybody.  So, of course,
are Kirk, Spock and McCoy - excuse me, Harry, Hermione and Ron.
(I think that makes James and Lily Captain Pike and Number One,
if you ignore that Spock's in that one too - he's not _their_ friend.)  
James was a popular Quidditch player, like Harry.  So he's probably
got the whole team for friends.

I infer from the Hallowe'en troll incident in PS that one or both
of the girls discussing Hermione is her particular friend, pace Ron -
aren't boys horrid, and we smell too - although I also know from my
nieces that who's whose friend can change with adult-bewildering
speed.  (Particularly with text messaging phones.)

Robert Carnegie
Glasgow, Scotland

"I read them all when I was seven and I hated them" - unnamed American
office worker on the Harry Potter books (www.dilbert.com, List of
Stupid Things Overheard)