textbooks - marooned Dursleys - TR - Cho - Snape - Colors - Weird Sisters

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 28529

Edis wrote:

>So there was in theory professional discretion for individual teachers to 
>chose books for a class each year. Now in the real world school budgets get 
>in the way of letting this freedom run wild.. and teachers would use what 
>was available... but for British readers having teachers select the years 
>books for a class will have a slightly familiar if now old-
>fashioned ring.

This is the way American private schools work also, and Hogwarts corresponds 
to these rather than to public schools, whose textbooks are frequently 
chosen by the school board.

>Dursleys getting back to the land

Welcome, Karen.  I just love the subject line--I pictured Vernon and Petunia 
in denim overalls, plowing up their little plot to grow their own produce.  
Petunia putting things by for the winter . . . Dudley keeping bees . . . 
Sorry, this isn't answering your question (which has come up here recently).

Tabouli wrote:

>What of Tom, anyway?  Didn't his witch mother
>have relatives to take care of him?  (*His* entire family obviously 
>couldn't have been wiped out
>by Voldemort!)

A lot of it was!  <bitter grin>

tillrules wrote:

>2)  Cho Chang:  I really like her a lot.  I think the backlash against her 
>is undeserved for the most part since she's never been anything but nice to 
>Harry.

She doesn't come close to making my faves list, but hear, hear!  Thanks too 
to Tabouli for defending Cho, who lets Harry down as nicely as anyone could 
do (what, would we like her better if she ditched her date?).

and:

>He seems too me to be a vindictive man who's still nursing his schoolboy 
>grudges (to the point of endangering the Trio's lives in the Shack) years 
>later.

This I don't see.  How does he endanger the Trio's lives?  Sirius's and 
Lupin's, yes.

Brave person for putting Lupin on your don't-like list.  Me, I love angst.

brian7b wrote:

>do the colors of the robes mean anythibng?

Green is often associated with evil, it seems to me, though maybe I'm just 
thinking of the Lady in the Green Kirtle (Jadis, too?) in C. S. Lewis.  
Red=royalty.  The color symbolism is pretty mixed just with these two, 
though.  Harry's eyes are Slytherin green while Voldemort's are Gryffindor 
red . . . Anyone want to comment on canary yellow, blue, and black?

I wrote:

>IIRC, theres a famous Quidditch player (female) whose son (male <g>) plays 
>in the Weird Sisters.  Am I hallucinating?

I checked, and I wasn't.  She plays for the Pride of Portree and her son is 
lead guitarist for the WS.  To me, the name Weird Sisters does suggest the 
core of the band is two or more sisters, but the rest could be anyone.

Amy Z

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Just then, Neville caused a slight diversion
by turning into a large canary.
                  -HP and the Goblet of Fire
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