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Fred Waldrop fredwaldrop at yahoo.com
Sun Feb 1 19:35:54 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 90051

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "spang_b" <spang_b at y...> wrote:
> 
> > Hello all, Fred Waldrop here;
> > (chap. 10, page 187 US, page 170 UK, OotP)
"Liquid squirted from every boil on the plant; thick, stinking 
dark green  jets of it. They hit the ceiling, the windows, and 
splattered Luna Lovegood's magazine; Ginny, who had  flung her 
arms up in front of her face just in time, merely looked as though 
she was wearing a slimy green hat".
Ok, I know we are talking about opinion here, but how big do you 
think a magazine is? I, for one, have not seen one that is so big 
it will cover the entire body, but that is me.
If you want to claim it was a WW magizine, and is therefore larger 
than others, and take the part written " and splattered Luna 
Lovegood's magazine", literately as meaning her magazine, AND ONLY 
her magazine, I wonder what your take is on "Ginny, who had  flung 
her arms up in front of her face just in time, merely looked as 
though she was wearing a slimy green hat"? Do you think she only 
got stink sap on her head or possibly on other parts of her that was 
not covered by her arms?
Me personally, I think Luna got Stink sap on her legs, her hands 
(they were holding the paper after all), and possible, seeing that 
the stink sap splashed off the ceiling, on top of her head.

Fred

spang:
Thanks for quoting the para. But if you notice further down the 
page, till the point when Ginny removes the stinksap by her spell,it 
is explicitly mentioned that Ginny, Neville and Harry are the ones 
who got the stinksap treatment.  It is also mentioned how they got 
it. Neville is "drenched", Harry gets a "faceful" and Ginny's hands 
are covered with stinksap because she  covers her face with 
them.There is a possibility that Luna might have got it on her head 
and legs but wouldn't the the author have described it explicitly 
when she does it so elaborately for the other three? It is also said 
that the back of Luna's magazine is covered with the sap. So even 
the magazine is mentioned but Luna is not.
So I don't think Luna's got it.

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Fred Waldrop again;

spang said above: "and Ginny's hands are covered with stinksap 
because she  covers her face with them."
Where did you read that? I have all 5 books in both US and UK 
version, not to mention in CD form, and I can not find any where in 
the 10'th chapter, (Luna Lovegood chapter) where it states that 
Ginny had stink sap any where other than on her head.
So, as I said earlier, unless you are saying that because the book 
ONLY states that Ginny got stink sap on her head, and she did not 
get any on her arms OR hands that she threw up to protect her eyes, 
(because it is not in the book), or, maybe the author did not go 
into the kind of detail that spelled every little bitty tiny thing 
out, but said just enough for us to come to the conclution that ALL 
FOUR received some stink sap, whether it was spelled out or not.

Fred 





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