[HPforGrownups] Re: TBAY: Superfluous Canon Reprise (Plot Synopsis)

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No: HPFGUIDX 41192

Debbie:
> "It's me, Debbie.  You know, the *pirate* who' was *stealing* can(n)on from 
> the GARBAGE SCOW awhile back. I have a new can(n)on to offer up to the 
> GARBAGE SCOW.  "The Portkey" is *not* the worst chapter in HP.  I found 
> another entire chapter so utterly superfluous that it cannot entertain an 
> 8-year-old child.  It makes the walk to Stoatshead Hill look like intense, 
> gripping drama by comparison."
> 
> Whereupon Debbie marshals all her strength and heaves "The Scar" onto the 
> GARBAGE SCOW.  Then she calls out to Erasmas, "I've got three votes here 
> for 
> eliminating all asides in text in future books.  Can you get a petition 
> going?"  
> 

Debbie's magically enhanced voice reached even the castle on the cliffs 
overlooking Theory Bay. Eloise heard Debbie's cry and immediately apparated 
to her side.

'Yes, yes!' she cried, 'I thought I was the only one who got so intensely 
irritated by the little (and not so little) resumes that we get at the start 
of each book. You know those bits that tell us the really obscure things that 
no-one picking them up for the first time could possibly be expected to 
remember. Like Harry Potter isn't like other
boys, because he's a wizard. In fact, my immediate reaction to  Chapter 1 of 
GoF was, "thank goodness she's gone straight into it without tedious 
explanations."
In fact I had been going to offer them to Dicey myself, but I thought that 
perhaps they were deemed necessary, on the basis that someone *might* not 
start with the first book.
But *surely*, *everyone* knows this is a series, don't they? Surely there is 
no need to make the books that stand-alone, is there?
Oh, I do so hope she gives up this habit. I can't bear the thought of getting 
to Book 7 and still having tedious facts about Harry's early history 
explained to us.'

Debbie called out, 'Erasmus! make that four votes!'

Eloise
Who is somewhat taken aback to find out that her tongue has gone blue from 
sucking sherbet lemons whilst going round Bluewater shopping mall.

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