Chapdisc: HBP28, Flight of the Prince & Dark Mirror

[silmariel]

About the calls, it was nothing after all.

I'll explain. We had a problem in the MUD with a badly addicted player, he
can be up to 16 hours a day online, and after losing job he started flooding
the staff with notes and suggestions on how to run the mud, so I had to
confront him, and not nicely, because he didn't understand a 'no' as an
answer. We froze his account and two days later I started receiving calls.
After answering the first five to find no one at the other end of the line,
I didn't answer, the calls multiplied... it was a commercial from a
telephone company, which only happened to answer when my bf took the phone
yesterday.

The player is known to say things like 'All the staff is against me, but I
always win' and 'Everyone conspires against me'. Sorry to have worried you,
but I thought I had a motive to be worried.

About TOL, I'm following about 20-30% of list volume, and the discussion for
ch 28 by Colebiancardi contained a nice and fresh question:

"1. Why so much blood? The blood in the corridor by the tower, bloody
footprints, blood on the flagstones. Who was wounded? Malfoy? Snape?
The blond DE? The brother & sister act was behind Harry, so it could
not have been them."

Actually I'm interested in the blood from the flagstones below the broken
Gryffindor point counter, it seems to be form nowhere, since the scared
students there don't appear to be hurt. A Hx, maybe? A blooding but unseen
house elf?

Discussion starts in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/163570

a lonely message in other thread by Ceridwen
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/163603

For those who appreciate theories, Talisman has a new one in "Dark Mirror,
Part 1: Hairy as Lupin..." *cheers* to be found here:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/163728

Pippin, I seem to recall you asked about unreliable first POV in fantasy.
The last 3 books of The Mists of Avalon closely follow that pattern, and
being a story everyone already knows, has merit. Oh, hum. I've just
remembered the original is supposed to be just one book, but it was
published as a four book series in Spanish.

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