mostly PS/SS Chapter 16 / Fanfic / List Elves

[Catlady (Rita Prince]

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Caryl discussed PS/SS Chapter 16 in <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/188634>:

<< As they prepare to leave, Neville appears from behind a chair in the corner and confronts them about doing something that will lose more House points. They try to talk Neville out of trying to stop them, but when he continues to delay their departure, Hermione casts a body-binding spell at him and they reluctantly leave him lying frozen on the common room floor. (big snip) Harry praises Hermione's recall of Herbology facts, >>

I continue to believe that Dumbledore expected Neville to be one of the expedition, and the Devil's Snare was intended for him, because Neville is good at Herbology.

<< They tell him "Don't be stupid," and move into the room to find a harp abandoned at the dog's feet. Harry plays the flute Hagrid gave him and the dog goes back to sleep >>

Does this mean that they didn't really need the flute and could have used the harp instead, or had Quirrel enchanted the harp so that it would scream if anyone but him touched it?

I suppose Dumbledore somehow planted the idea in Hagrid's mind of giving Harry a flute, because I don't think Hagrid would have thought of it on his own; an early copy of The Monster Book of Monsters might be more his style.

<< Climbing over a knocked-out noxious-smelling troll (and relieved that they didn't have to fight it) (big snip) 6. The key was still flying around, the chess pieces were in the proper position and enough potions were available to permit Harry to make his way through to the end. Did you find it surprising that the first intruder hadn't taken steps to keep from being followed? >>

Ffred Clegg replied to the above in <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/188635>:

<< I always thought that the magic in the various traps caused them to reset themselves. >>

I agree, but why wasn't the troll reset as well?

Alla wrote in <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/188636>:

<< I rarely if ever bring the discussion of fanfiction on this list, since it is not the list to discuss fanfiction >>

As you recall, the reason that fanfic and recipes and movies and everything were exiled to their own lists is because this Main List was getting too crowded and people wanted to hold it down to approximately 500 posts a week. I believe that at this time, the other lists could be rolled back in to this one and the limit of 5 posts per person per day could be dropped. Because we would still be under 500 posts a week. Maybe even the ban on 'ROTFL' and 'I agree' posts could be dropped.

<< Lucius makes a suggestion, which he claims always worked with Draco when Draco was in one of his "do to the contrary of what parent says" moods.

Anyways, next day Harry gets a letter, which reads something like that "Potter I demand you go and surrender to the Dark Lord right now" and signed Snape, one of the Dark Lord minions (or something like that, I am paraphrasing, but you got the gist). Harry of course decides to be extra careful and not leave Dursleys till order picks them up. >>

My friend Lee has been known to use that technique on me successfully, altho' I am now 52. Wasn't I only 42 when I joined the e-groups version of this list?

The List Elves sang to us in <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/188643>:

<< Merry Christmas from the List Elves! >>

Thank you, List Elves! And thanks for your hard work all year.

<< *a small voice from back mutters, "Can I take this ridiculous red hat off now?"* >>

Do the Santa hats count as clothes that make you free now? That would be appropriate, as the depiction of Santa hats, with the pointed tip falling to one side, resembles the depiction of Phrygian caps, used by the French Revolution people as 'liberty caps', a symbol of freedom.

The Wikipedia article <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrygian_cap> begins: "The Phrygian cap is a soft, red, conical cap with the top pulled forward, worn in antiquity by the inhabitants of Phrygia, a region of central Anatolia. Originally a priestly cap, it came to signify freedom and the pursuit of liberty in the Roman west," with a good illustration.

Years ago, an exhibition about the later Roman emperors was at Muzeo and they had a recreationist group, Legion XI 'Hispana', on weekends. After looking at (among other things) a statue head of a mercenary wearing a Dacian cap, I went outside and saw a legionary wearing one. His looked to be made of fairly thick felt sewn with a seam in back.
Q: "Is that a Dacian cap?" 
A: "Yes." 
Q: "Is that the same thing as a Phrygian cap?" 
A: "Yes". 
Q: "Yours has a seam up the back. The one on the status inside doesn't have any seam, so I thought it might be knitted." "
A: "No, they aren't knitted. The statue left out the seam because the sculptors liked to idealize things."