Elder Wand (was: Harry's bed (was Re: A sandwich))

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 178765

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "va32h" <va32h at ...> wrote:
>
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister"
> <gbannister10@> wrote:
> 
> > Geoff:
> > Having worked a great deal with 11 year-old boys, I would think it
> is the 
> > last sort of thing they would say, even someone with a track record
> like Harry.
> > 
> > When I read it, I could imagine it being said by a slightly older
> guy than 
> > Harry - say a young soldier of 19 or 20 returning from the First World 
> > War and the horrors of the front somewhere like the Somme or 
> > Passchendaele.
 
> va32h:
 
> Well whatever, I guess I'm just an idiot who is incapable of
> recognizing the great depths of literature that brought us "Accio
> Hagrid".  

Geoff:
In which case, join the literary idiot's club; I'm a long-term member.
:-)

I was merely trying to consider it from a modern real world point 
of view and the way in which young people I know might express 
themselves.

I also recognise the literary depth of the character development 
which often brought us '"Yeah," said Ron' - or similar sentences.

va32h:
> Wilfred Owen, she's not.

Geoff:
For which, in all seriousness, I am grateful when you consider the 
conditions which prompted Owen and Sassoon and all the others 
to express themselves in their poetry.