English language - Lockhart - Giant Babies - Multiple Curse - Me

[Catlady]

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"taivimbra"  wrote:
> This is my first post and I'm Spanish, so I hope you'll be able to
> understand  it - though I read the English version of GoF, I haven't
> written anything in English for a long time... Excuse my faults...

I'm proud to be the first to reply that the English in your post is
PERFECT, altho' not very colloquial. Many of us whose only language is
English don't write it as well as you did. Btw, one person on this list
from Argentina said her mother is from Galicia in Spain; it would be
quite a co-incidence if you were from there too.

Indigo wrote:
> And yes, I dislike him too because he assumed Harry wanted
> to cash in on his fame because he, Gilderoy, had conjured fame
> out of dishonesty so he could cash in.

I kind of think maybe that Lockhart realized that Potter didn't want to
cash in on Potter's fame, but pretended to think so as a device for
*Lockhart* to cash in on Potter's fame ...  Just one example: Lockhart
insisting that Colin photo him and Harry together, when Harry would have
preferred not to be photographed at all: that way Lockhart was
photographed by Colin and otherwise he would not have been.

Doreen wrote:
> gild a roy (wonder if roy has any secret meanings such as lily?
Someone posted last year that Gilderoy was the name of a Scots
highwayman who was famous for being vain of his good looks. Btw, if his
name meant 'gild the lily', that would imply that there WAS a lily to
gild -- and I think we only know of one Lily....

Barbara Purdom wrote:
> Speaking of the logistics of human/giant reproduction,
> giant/male human, in order to avoid a human woman
>  having to give birth to a half-giant baby (which would
> probably kill her, even with a C-section)?

Maybe wizarding folk cope with oversize babies by casting a Shrinking
Spell on them. Maybe the Shrinking Spell makes C-sections unnecessary.
Or maybe a magical C-section causes a neat, tidy zipper to appear on the
belly, someone unzips to remove the baby (who has had its umbilicus
magically cut?), zips it up again, and it vanishes without a scar.
Witches like Narcissa would insist on delivering their babies that way
regardless whether there was medical necessity.

Steve Vander Ark wrote:
> EVERYBODY curses Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle at the
> end of the book. What will Lucius do about that, I wonder?

Tell Draco he deserved it for speaking openly in praise of the Dark
Lord, and curse his tongue into a perpetually burning coal in his mouth
for a while, to remind him to learn to hold his tongue until The Day
comes.

Amy Z wrote:
> Why wait for JKR?  Write the thing yourself and post it to ff pronto!

I might find a way to squeeze it into my snape/draco in progress,
perhaps by moving the setting to Hogwarts...
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