Eat Slugs - Newbies - Schnoogles - Chapter Summary - Dursleys

[Catlady]

No: HPFGUIDX 19729

Amy Z[achariasdottir] wrote:

> But you do have me wondering how else "eat slugs" might work.

I propose that the Eat Slugs Curse gives the recipient an intense desire
to eat slugs, so that only by the strongest will-power can they prevent
themselves from searching for slugs and eating any that they find.

empressmercury - Gwendalin - Cheyenne wrote:
> I've read many fiction pieces (DD & DS, TiP, PoU, STNE
> and the list goes on . . .) and I'm quite eager for conversations
> about  them.  (snip)

Hi, Gwen, one place which is always yearning to discuss fanfic is
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HP_FanFiction/messages

>Oh yeah.  I almost forgot.  I'm friends with Samantha.

Samantha wrote:
> Hi all it's Samantha, thought it would be time to post on
> this thing. first off, schnoogles to Carole (snip)
> ...  Al: ... Cass:  ...  Suzie ... Gwen *coughRebeccacough*  ...

Hi, Samantha. Please be a love and 1) if you use the egroup to share
with us, how ever many thousand members we are now, your personal
replies to things said in chat or private e-mail, please give them
enough context so that the rest of us can gossip about it, 2) I bet I
can guess who Carole, Al, and Cass are, but there are quite a few
Suzies, quite a few Gwens,  and quite a few Rebeccas. Please warn us if
one of them is hunebabe.

Robert Carnegie wrote:
> Well, I'm baffled; I looked up _Fantastic Beasts and
> Where to Find Them_ and I don't see _anything_ about
> Schnoogles, but are they perhaps the same as Puffskeins?

The one thing I can definitively say about Schnoogles is they aren't
Beasts. The root form of the word is a verb, and signing off a letter
with Schnoogles is a bit like signing it off with Hugs and Kisses. I
believe it was Cassie who introduced the word to our on-line chat (IIRC
she said she got it from Rave), and it appears to mean any physical
expression of affection, from the most innocent, suitable for using on
other people's children and dogs in their owners' presence, to rather
more erotic. You know how Yahoo!Chat gives one a list of Actions, so I
click on one and the chat text says:
Catlady smashes her head into a brick wall
or
Catlady comforts poor_little_me
?
Well, the most used Action in HP4GU chats is Schnoogle:
Catlady schnoogles rja_carnegie
Catlady schnoogles crazy_ivan   (John, where have you been all these
Sundays?)
Catlady schnoogles flying_ford_anglia
Catlady is a promiscuous cyberschnoogler

Amy Z[ookeeper] wrote:
> 8. Lupin says that a boy named Davey Gudgeon nearly
> lost an eye to the Whomping Willow; Lockhart had a fan
> named Gladys Gudgeon (CoS 7); any relation?

JKR being JKR, I am SURE the answer is Yes. Btw, I absolutely believe
the rumor that Book 4 was going to be HP and the Doomspell Tournament
containing Davey Gudgeon and his magic eye as the new DADA teacher, but
she changed the names because she resented the information having been
leaked. "Almost lost an eye" would then have been a precursor to That
Eye.

> 11. Why does Lupin flee when Trelawney offers to crystal gaze for him?

I'm convinced that Remus fled from Sybil because he recognized that she
was coming on to him real hard. A red herring, nothing to do with
divination or lycanthropy.

Rick wrote:
> Why DO the Dursleys keep letting Harry live there?
> Is it something that Dumbledore told the Dursleys
> about Harry that has not come out in the books, or
> are the Dursleys better people then we are all lead to
> believe?

As far as I know, no one but JKR knows the answer to that question. Some
people have speculated that Dumbledore is paying the Dursleys to keep
Harry, and keeping up appearances does require income. Some people
believe that it is because Dumbledore has convincingly threatened them
of what will happen if they don't keep Harry -- some people think the
threat is "merely" that it will be published in the local paper and
whispered to the local gossips how that Petunia Dursley abandoned her
own sister's orphan child.
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