[the_old_crowd] Is He Dead Jim?

[Randy Estes]

HI ALL,

I'm just glad to hear from everyone out there.  It was
starting to feel like walking around an empty room
with lots of echos in this group!

I figured I needed to rattle the bushes a little to
deGnome the garden!  

However, Only one of you has had the guts to comment
on my latest theory on the importance of Neville's
toad to the ending of the HP series!

I am beginning to think that Neville's grandma may not
be the nice old lady we think she is.  Perhaps she is
holding Neville in check on the orders of Lord
Voldemort just in case he is the one in the prophecy. 
Maybe Mom is trying to communicate to Neville with gum
wrappers to tell him that granny is really a bad guy!

The toad is the key I tell you.  Perhaps he is
Neville's long lost brother! BWAHAHAHAAAHHAAA 

He laughs maniacally and trips off the stage into the
orchestra pit.

RED EYE RANDY (AKA Lord Randemort)

--- Neil Ward <neilward at ...> wrote:
> Lord Randemort jumped off his stool and said:
> 
> << Has anyone noticed that 3 people account for over
> half of the messages
> posted on this list in August? >>
> 
> Since I set up this list in a flurry of owls, it may
> seem odd that I fell
> into the depths of lurkdom so soon after my first
> reading of Order of the
> Phoenix.  The truth of the matter is that I was
> rather underwhelmed by the
> book and haven't managed (or wanted) to get my teeth
> into a second reading.
> I decided to put off posting any OoP thoughts until
> I'd read the book again.
> Catherine assures me that it's much better on second
> reading, so I'm looking
> forward to it now.
> 
> Generally, I've been insanely busy at work and I'm
> currently entering a
> period of even more intense activity that won't ease
> up until mid-October,
> so I'm likely to stay pretty quiet here for a while
> longer.  Just about the
> only place I'm posting anything is on LiveJournal,
> but even that it is
> sporadic and OT.  I guess it doesn't help that I'm
> no longer involved with
> HPfGU admin in any shape (especially car-shaped), as
> that reduces my
> exposure to Harry Potter to the occasional skim of
> the HPfGU lists and The
> Leaky Cauldron.
> 
> In other news, HPfGU-London had a meet not so long
> ago in honour of Pippin's
> visit to the UK.  It was fun meeting up with Pippin
> and seeing Catherine,
> Michelle, Ali, Pip and David again.  I also met
> Eloise (Elizabeth) for the
> first time and she didn't look at all as I'd
> pictured her.  We did discuss
> HP and I felt decidedly rusty on canon details. I
> left even more determined
> to re-read OoP; fired up by the enthusiasm of
> others.
> 
> I recruited a new member of staff about a week ago
> who, according to one of
> my colleagues, looks rather like Harry Potter.  I
> should add that she is a
> grown woman in her mid-30s who plays rugby, but
> aside from that, there is a
> passing resemblance to the delicate boy wizard. 
> Come to think of it, one of
> the other candidates was very like Rita Skeeter (and
> she was a freelance
> journalist and was wearing red lipstick and looked
> evil) and another one had
> long red hair and a faraway look in her eyes! 
> Omigod!!!  Was that life
> imitating art?  Okay, perhaps not.
> 
> It may be as quiet as a graveyard in here now, but
> I'm sure we'll get some
> discussions going before too long.  Let's face it,
> we probably have years
> stretching ahead of us before Book Six surfaces -
> why rush?  I'm on a Diana
> Wynne-Jones list that moves along in fits and
> starts, sometimes falling to
> total silence for weeks and other times giving the
> HPfGU main list a run for
> its money on posting volume.  All it takes is one
> juicy thread to take
> things from 'country lane' to 'traffic jam'.  That
> list is also not afraid
> to mingle DWJ discussions with OT threads, although
> the list owner tries to
> enforce a 'obDWJ' in all OT posts - an 'obligatory
> Diana Wynne Jones'
> reference, however obscure or tenuous.  Perhaps we
> should try that here if
> things kick off?
> 
> Neil
> 
> Rusting Ford Anglia
> 
> 
> 


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