Hooch - British holidays - Neo!Harry - Ancestor/Descendant - Idishe Mame

[rosie]

No: HPFGUIDX 40542

Belinda wrote:
"Hooch becomes Bibine, which is intersting because
Bibine in French is a bad quality alcoholic drink! (Unless of course
Hooch means the same in English and, being Australian, I don't know
the slang, forgive me if this is well-known as I haven't researched
it)."

Yep, hooch is alcohol, and yeh, it isn't exactly champagne :). It was also the brand name of an alcopop (I dont know if this is a British word? like soda with alcohol in it) that was controversial because many people claimed it used cartoons to get kids to buy it.  

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Jenny wrote:

"I don't think JKR sat down and thought "Okay, my Wizarding World is 
all Christian", but I'm willing to bet that she is, and most of the 
people she knows are, too.  If JKR was Jewish, she would have most 
likely changed the wording of these holidays to something more 
generic, like Winter Holidays or Spring Break.  I just don't think she 
thought about it one way or the other."

Um.. to me living in the UK it is no sign of religion at all - I think this one's a cultural thing. The winter holidays in Britain *are* the Christmas holidays. Even if you don't celebrate Christmas, they are still the Christmas holidays. The spring ones *are* the Easter holidays... Winter and Spring break sounds really really weird in a British context. Nearly as weird as "math".

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Richelle wrote:
"When Neo goes to the the Oracle, she tells him he's not The
One.  Well he is, but she told him what he needed to hear.  She made him
think he wasn't really anything special, yet that is how he became so
powerful.  Perhaps Harry is like this.  He needs to think he's just an
average wizard so that he won't get full of himself, and eventually may
become the greatest wizard of all time (or however you want to think about
it)."

Ah... echoes of Dumbledore in PS/SS, saying that Harry is better kept from fame, not growing up knowing he is special.. hmmm!

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Wendy said:
"If I'm not mistaken on my definitions here,
if James Potter were actually Voldemort's nephew, then
Harry *would* be an *ancestor* of Slytherin, but not a
descendant."

An ancestor is someone higher up the family tree (mother, grandfather), a descendant is someone further down (son, grand-daughter). Unless there is time travel, Harry would have to be pretty old to be higher up the Slytherin family tree than Salazar himself - he'd have to be over a thousand years old. Interesting comments though - have I misinterpreted you? (Sorry)

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Nuri said:
"I love each and every inspired Molly Weasley moments. Adding to the 
religion-in-HP debate, she looks a total "idishe mame" to me."

I feel bad for asking, but hey. Idishe mame? 

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Rosie

 

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