misc. thoughts on OOP

[Kimberly Dawkins]

No: HPFGUIDX 64279

This is impossible to keep up with the avalanche of posts.  I really 
wanted to read them all before sending off these thoughts, but I'm just 
a squib!  Boo hoo!  And I really want to put in my 2 knuts : )
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Neville:  Had his dad's old wand?  What a handicap!  Can't wait to see 
how his magical ability will improve when he gets a wand of his own.

House elves:  Doesn't the master/mistress have to present the clothes 
so the elf can be free of his/her servitude?  Wouldn't that be 
Dumbledore not Hermione?

Harry's hair:  Wasn't it funny that James always ruffed his hair to 
make it look like he was flying on his broom?  Maybe now that Harry has 
seen this in Snape's pensieve memory, his own hair will calm down 
because it doesn't seem that it was a genetic inheritance but more of a 
magical one.

Hermione:  How funny was Hermione's line:  "How can you say that? After 
we've just found out that there are real prophecies?"  After her total 
rejection of Divination, I just got a giggle out of this line.

American edition:  It seemed as if the American edition tried to be 
more true to the British this time with use of words:  wotcher, mate 
(used by Ron alot in this book, but I never noticed him use it before), 
and even one reference to a jumper.  Thank you Scholastic for not 
interpreting for us Americans.  Are there any words/phrases that were 
altered in the American edition of OOP, I wonder?

Room of Time:  In the Dept. of Mysteries, the room Harry and the others 
go through to get to the prophecy room was filled with timepieces, 
including a case of time turners.  Was anyone else surprised that Harry 
did not try to get and use one of the time turners to change events of 
that night?  He was aware of their uses from PoA.

More later,

Kim