[HPforGrownups] Re: The Death Chamber, and others

[Iggy McSnurd]

No: HPFGUIDX 81728


>
> Kneasy
>
> Me again! This is getting to be a habit.

*grin* I think I have found my adversary on this list.  (Everyone needs a
person to debate point and counterpoint with to have a truly good time on a
list, IMHO.)

>
> I think you're making the mistake of confusing Astronomy (Sinistra) with
> Astrology (all the other frauds)..

Nope... *grin*  I'm fully aware of this fact.  No confusion here

> Throughout  the series there has been
> a repeated rubbishing and mistrust of divination in all it's forms, especially
> Astrology. Time  and again we are told not to trust it, that faking it in
> homework is a reasonable action to  take, that when this is marked, the
> ethereal  Sybill obviously can't determine the accuracy of the work done.
> Otherwise Harry and Ron would score zero. She marks for effect only.

On the other side of that, anyone who cares to be a proper investigator will
gather all possible interpretations of a situation or event.  From that,
they will base their conclusions.

Despite everything else, you never know if there's a possibility of Trelawny
and Firenze reading them similarly enough to have some validity.  Trelawny
IS the one who made the two major... and accurate.. predictions about Harry
and LV, so she's not completely without talent.

Remember that JKR is also famous for misleading people in her own way.

> By the way, alluding to an earlier post, Pluto is no longer regarded as
> a planet by astronomers.

Hmmm... What is it then?

Also, are these the same astronomers who, with a reliable mathematical
formula (that Pluto does fit into) said that the asteroid belt is where a
planet should be... but it can't possibly have been a planet because the
collected mass of the asteroids wouldn't even make a planet the size of
Mercury?   (To which my reply is:  Well, couldn't there be large amounts of
mass lost due to asteroids escaping that orbit and becoming meteors that
strike other planets?  If not, where did all the meteors come from that have
struck the moon, Earth, and the other planets?)


'Nuff said

Iggy McSnurd
the Prankster


"It's times like this I look at the cameras and say 'That's my family,
y'all.'"

-- Iggy McSnurd  (How I respond when one of my family does something
strange.)