Re: THE OLD CROWD – INTRO

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Sally:

Hello, folks, and many thanks to you all for allowing me to share
board space with such distinguished posters -- particularly, I'm
grateful to dear Jen Reese for recommending me for the invitation; I
hope I can demonstrate adequately the soundness of her judgment!

hg.


THE OLD CROWD – INTRO

***Name:
Sally Gallo

Snow:

Hello Sally and welcome to, what my daughter refers to as, the 
popular table. It's a small amount of people who take Potter 
seriously but not to the extent of excluding enjoyment. 

Sally:

***Other things we might want to know about you:
I have a limited scope of reference -- I'm probably not as well-read
as most of you -- but my imagination and logic very nearly should
compensate for that shortcoming.

Snow:

I think I might have you on this one. I don't have time or patience 
just to read, a writer must be capable of intrigue from the get go 
but more than that, he/she must have the ability to make me believe 
that they are conversing with me personally. Drawing me into the 
story as if I am the only one he/she is speaking to. A place where 
you forget that you are reading and you have now become part of the 
story itself. So utterly attached. There aren't many books that can 
persuade a person to this degree so my library is limited. But as you 
say imagination and logic can defiantly compensate for the lack


Sally:

My oldest child is bipolar, and this doubles the isolation my husband
and I already automatically experience as the parents of four small
children: we have some limits on what activities we can expect to
participate in and must actively manage our children perhaps more
than the next parents. (I mostly don't regret it.)

Snow:

I can defiantly sympathize with your restraints. Twenty years ago I 
became part of the yours mine and ours family with a moderately MR 
child of mine and a, yet discovered at the time, ADHD child of his 
plus...and an added blessing a few short years later to make things 
more pleasurable (and I'm not being sarcastic). No one knows till you 
lived it how horrific and at the same time genuinely satisfying it 
can be to deal with a child that has above the average needs. The 
emotional conflict between the two emotions can however be very 
trying at times and extremely hard to put into words that others 
could possibly understand.    

Sally:

Order of the Phoenix was my favorite book. I love the old guys, the
history; I love the pace of that book, the time taken, the excessive
length (yes). HBP was nicely pared down for more rapid pace and for
the purpose of getting the information out (and so much of it) -- but
it seemed she trimmed too much in some areas.
Not a big shipper; it's fun but not the meat of it for me. Moody and
Slughorn interest me more, and the Longbottoms, and Lily.

Snow:

If there is one old guy I liked from OOP it would have to be dear 
Archie who needed to air his privates. I never laughed so hard. It 
was just so real a statement coming from an old man that never had 
such restraint thrust upon him. 

I am totally in agreement over the Longbottoms, there has to be more 
there than 'she' is willing to tell us yet because Neville has been 
such a big part of the series, it only follows that his parents would 
have some important role to play. My favorite theory is that Lily 
worked with Alice in the DOM and that's why the DE's tortured her for 
information. 
As for Lily, well she is the innocent looking lady of the night. 
Everyone has loved Lily, from Voldemort to Peter to Snape (being the 
most popular) to Lupin
 (Too Eww to be treww, and responding threads 
a long time ago, in a catalogue coming soon for your pleasure). Don't 
you know why Harry has so much money in his vault? 

Sally:

***Current/recent listening:
When I have a choice, music or silence, I choose silence. Before my
children I was not this way.

Snow:

Music has always saved me
it IS my silence. Although I like it played 
more loudly than the kids can say mum. It is one of my escapisms
but 
then again that was true before my kids. 

Sally:

***Current/recent viewing:
Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Monk, both of which used to be good
but have gone downhill. Otherwise, it's 64 Zoo Lane, Thomas the Tank
Engine, and Steve Irwin (the Crocodile Hunter).

Snow:

I do recognize the last two but the first one must be something too 
much like real life. I figure if I have to live it, why on earth 
should I be entertained to watch it. Just me, entertainment must be 
of equal gratitude to the expectation I feel I should receive from 
books, therefore I don't watch much either. 


Snow