Mostly magical me ;-)

[rja.carnegie at excite.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 19124

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:
> Lupin doesn't think too clearly in the middle of a transformation.  

"It's unpleasantly like being drunk"? ;-)

Or being chewed.  Lupin says "It is very painful to turn into a
werewolf" - bones being bent and rearranged and so forth, perhaps -
maybe that's why they wake up mean.

Amy:
> Robert wrote:
> 
> >The electric broomstick, even the innovative design by that clever 
> > Mr. Dyson, seems to have missed the point...
> 
> Eh?  Explain?

http://www.dyson.com/ ;-)  A better joke than I thought, the latest
model looks like a Saturn 5 rocket, and it _still_ doesn't fly.
It probably needs to blow and not suck.  That's the DC07, apparently;
maybe they'll get off the ground with the DC10.

Let's see what they're selling when The Movie comes out.
Mom - get your kids to do the housework!

James Dyson's story is quite interesting, but trying to read that page
from his company's Web site gave my Opera web browser fits; YMMV.

Amy:
> Robert wrote:
> 
> >"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)
> 
> >- on reflection, one also wonders why she read them _all_, in that 
> >case
> 
> Not to mention that she must be about 11 years old.

'Zactly.  Perhaps she was thinking of Harry Palmer (the one in films). 
Odd reading for a seven year old...  All I "know" is what you see
here, and it may be an urban myth - if it's been told before about
other books (Wizard of Oz?), or an actress or politician (as I say,
the Dilbert version is supposed to be in an office), then I suppose
it is a myth.  Still, it's cute, isn't it?

Amy:
> Marianne wrote:
> 
> >And IIRC, there's never any mention of vegetables, other than 
> potatos.
> 
> Sprouts (bleah).  Somewhere in GF, when Hermione's stuffing herself 
> before running off to the library.

Comical Answer #1: Blimey, you're supposed to be quiet in there :-)

Comical Answer #2: _Professor_ Sprout to you and me :-)

Comical Answer #2a - Mandrakes?  Okay, perhaps not.

Robert Carnegie
Glasgow, Scotland

"I read them all when I was seven" - oh, we already did that.