CHAPDISC: DH20, Xenophilius Lovegood

[Karen]

No: HPFGUIDX 182911

- reply for Pea :o)

> Pea:
> 8. Hrmm... I thought they meant "rook" as in bird - I thought the
> house looked like a blackbird...there goes my reading comprehension.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rook_(bird) I figured that the look of
> the bird, combined with the look of the house made it seem, in my 
> minds eye, to be disorderly of architecture, and with roughly hewn
> shingles... My imagination runs away with me.


*giggles* Maybe you were distracted whilst reading that particular
exchange? Hermione (*footnote) made the same assumption (that Ron was
talking about a bird)

"That's got to be Luna's house, who else would live in a
place like that? It looks like a giant rook!"
"It's nothing like a bird," said Hermione, frowning at the
tower.
"I was talking about a chess rook," said Ron. "A castle to
you."

Ron, as you can see, corrected her (and probably enjoyed having the
chance to do so for once *L*). So I wouldn't worry about the fact that
you had thought the house to resemble a bird all this time - you're in
good *not to mention extremely intelligent* company ;o) - also I think
it may have been better if the Lovegood house HAD been in the shape of a giant bird; much wackier!

Karen  [:D]


(*footnote) even though, as has been pointed out previously, she
replaced the rook in Philosopher's Stone - Ron refers to it as a
'castle' when telling Hermione to take it's place "Well, Harry, you take the place of that bishop, and Hermione, YOU go next to him instead of that castle."