Nothing But Spoilers, of course

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

Does a post
about 
real-life
vocabulary 
words
qualify
as
spoiler
space?

Ginger wrote in http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the_
old_crowd/message/2077 :

<< Thank you to my dear penguin. I now have a new word in my
vocabulary: fug. Who knew? OK, probably all of you, but isn't it
nice I have a place to learn these things? >>

Thanks to HBP and www.onelook.com, *I* have learned a new word, too:
SECATEURS is Brit for garden shears

How
about
one
about
CAPSLOCK!Harry
?

Mike Gray wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the_old_crowd/message/2080 :

<< Harry has managed to turn off the CAPS key  >>

My preparatory re-read of OoP pursuaded me that Harry was suffering
not only from leakage of LV's emotions and from adolescence, but also
from PTSD, and it is unrealistic for the PTSD part to just go away
overnight. It should either have gone away gradually or Harry should
have taken a potion to make it go away. In OoP, I felt that Hermione's
failure to recognize and name PTSD was unrealistic, but probably
Herself didn't recognize PTSD -- Herself seems to have a an
old-fashioned queasiness about psyches.

How
about
a
non-specific
announcement
that
I
AGREE
with
ALL
the
posts
so
far
about
Snape
?

Mooseming wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the_old_crowd/message/2072 :

<< Just to start the ball rolling how about Regulus Alphard Black? >>

Stupid Catlady never thought of that! I kept trying to squeeze the
names Ronald, Arthur, and Bilius into it....

Amy Z wrote in http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the_o
ld_crowd/message/2114 :

<< Where is everyone getting Regulus's middle name from? >>

JKR has established by example that in her world, wizarding folk give
the oldest son the father's name as a middle name, the oldest daughter
the mother's name as a middle name, and another son the uncle's name
as a middle name (Ronald Bilius Weasley after Uncle Bilius who saw a
Grim and died). Sirius's Uncle Alphard was Regulus's Uncle Alphard.
QED.

Richard replied in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the_old_crowd/message/2151 to Kneasy :

<< I also discounted "hors" from my etymology of what Horcruxes *are*
(as opposed to what I surmised they *might be* from their name),
because they are clearly something you put your soul *into*; removing
your soul seems easy enough (get a Dementor). >>

I loved your etymology post, but suddenly it occurred to me that a
Horcrux is a way to take part of the wizard's soul 'hors de' danger.
Out of danger, out of the middle of things, out of the pain of being
alive.... 

Ack! I don't understand my own thoughts well enough to know whether
Amanda expressed them better than I did, or expressed a different
thought: 
<<  Horcrux = hors (outside)
crux (soul). The outside soul. The part stored out there. As opposed
to the inside soul, the part you still have. >>

Joywitch wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the_old_crowd/message/2148 :

<< IOW, Hermione received her 11 OWLs in:

1. Astronomy
2. Care Of Magical Creatures
3. Charms
4. DADA
5. Herbology
6. History of Magic
7. Potions
8. Transfiguration
9. Ancient Runes
10. Arithmancy
11. ????? >>

I posted something on the other list last week about Divination and
Arithmancy were only half-day exams, so if Ancient RUnes (that
Hermione took while Harry and Ron had Friday off) was also a half-day
exam, she could have taken another half-day exam that same day. Some
listies have suggested that she (and every other Muggle-born) could
ace the Muggle Studies OWL without taking the class (also I think
they'd fail for failing to give the erroneous answers taught in
class). I suggested that the wizarding world is so different from the
Muggle world that there could be an OWL exam that only prefects are
allowed to take (so Harry wouldn't know about it, and Ron doesn't seem
the type to take any more OWL exams than he HAS to), with questions
about leadership and discipline and authority. 

I had another idea, that one History of Magic exam tests for 2 OWLs,
one for the BC History of Magic and one for the AD History of Magic. I
don't know if seeing Harry's OWL results blows that out of the water,
or if it can be argued that they don't further depress people who
failed both by telling them that they missed TWO qualifications.

In any case, I don't understand how Hermione only got 11 OWLs when
Bill and Percy got 12. She has been established as an unusually
outstanding student that doesn't come along as often as every 4 years.
If they got both 2 History OWLs and Prefect OWL, why didn't she?

HAS
ANYONE
BOTHERED
TO
READ
THIS
FAR
?

Where did Kreachur go (and what did he do there) when Harry yelled:
"Get out of it!" at him and he immediately Disapparated? It SHOULD
have occured to someone to wonder!

*Why* did She have those DD & raspberry jam, Arthur & Molly scenes to
establish identity verification questions, and then never have anyone
verify, much less suspect, anyone's identity in the rest of the book,
no matter how OOC they were acting? I remain irritated at the Tonks
red herring -- I really thought she was someone else using Polyjuice
and THAT was why the imposter couldn't metamorphmage like she can; JKR
can make excuses for her gloominess and loss of abilities, but WHERE
DID HER CLUMSINESS GO? Tonks can't walk down the hall at 12 Grimmauld
Place without tripping over an unbrella stand and wakening Mrs Black,
but she can jump off a moving train at Hogsmeade and land on her feet?

Can some combination of SAD DENIAL and WOLFSTAR result in 'Tonks' is
Sirius using Polyjuice?