So you want and introductory post... sigh

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

Carolina, Ginger, and June, how thrilling to see new listies and
actual active activity on this list!

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, silmariel <silmariel at t...> wrote:
> 
> Reconstructing past generations.

Oh, yes, I have pages of family trees of Blacks and Malfoys and Snapes
and Moons (so JKR will screw me up by making the "Moon" Sorted with
Harry a Muggleborn). 
> 
> Adult shipping. 

Oh, yes. I'm totally Sirius/Remus and McGonagall/Hooch, a bit Albus/Poppy.
> 
> Snape, 

A very popular topic.
There were quite a few women obsessed with him on Main List before 
the movie was even cast, so it is not all Rickman effect. Amanda, of
course, signs herself 'Snapeologist' and claims her fascination is all
intellectual, not erotic, but Dinah proclaimed that Severus is a
lovely name, she wouldn't mind naming her son Severus, in fact she
would like to name him Severus Snape, Jr.
> 
> The WW. Mirrors, rules for magic and magical objects, '(un)-'dead'
> or looking so creatures (threstrals here), power balance, laws, 
> ethics, divination, the sky,  plants, surface and underground 
> culture, dark arts...

What Steve b_boymn calls 'logical extrapolation about the wizarding
world'. I love it, too. WHY is there no Wizarding Wireless set
available to students at Hogwarts, at least for listening to the
broadcast of Quidditch matches?
> 
> That classes start every year the same day of week.

I wrote on Main List
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/110094
<< Some things are different in magic places like Hogwarts than in
muggle places, like paintings that converse with viewers, and go visit
other paintings. Maybe the day of the week is one of those
differences. Maybe part of why the kids travel on the Hogwarts Express
is to move gradually from whatever day it was when they left London
into Sunday evening. I do wonder a little about ALL THOSE SUNDAYS and
no mention of ANYONE going to church or feeling bad about missing church.

The idea of September 2 is always a Monday reminds me of this poem by
Thomas Digby:
http://bubbles.best.vwh.net/poetry/EverybodyTalksAboutIt.txt
and while I was searching for it, I found this other poem that seemed
relevant to recent list dicussions:
http://bubbles.best.vwh.net/poetry/BlindWizard.txt >>