What innkeeper in the Muggle world wakes customers with a cup of tea?
Well, if a simple Muggle innkeeper hosted a queen, he would have much more than a cup of tea prepared before her wake too. ;)
Mrs. Weasley is telling Hermione and Ginny about a love potion she made when she was younger and they’re all very giggly.
Interesting what are Arthur's true views on the matter, since I suppose the potion was intended (given?) for him. Guess it's Chekov's gun for Merope's story in HBP.
Ginny again shows a personality in telling Ron, “Oh, that’s nice!” at being told to go away. The personality I liked, I mean. Not the one from later books.
Interesting. I have re-read the chapter and got the opposite impression, perceiving her behavior here as a hint to "the firecracker within", as somebody nicely expressed in the previous discussion. "Oh, that's nice," said Ginny huffily, and she stalked off. Was unsure since English is a foreign tongue to me, but Cambridge Dictionary defines "huffy" as "angry and offended" and "stalk" as "to walk in an angry or proud way", so it was hard for me to see the difference you talk about. Yes, in HBP she probably would have been more aggressive to Ron, but much more deferential to Harry. Here she's still young and holds her older brother in higher esteem than he'll get from her in the future, while in HBP all deference will be reserved for Harry alone (and likely much more than she ever had for her brothers).
Okay, so why does the guy have a battered case that has his name on it, calling himself a professor, exactly? ... the excellent teacher stereotype, only it doesn’t actually seem like Lupin’s a teacher except for this year.
Just had a vision of Lupin as a private tutor in some old novel. Wait, from what we know of WW, he could be one for a while in an old, rich, pureblood family, probably preparing the child for school to give him an edge. After all, at Hogwarts children are expected to know how to read, write and do the math on our elementary school's level and teaching that takes many hours and nerves. Why wouldn't people like Narcissa and Mrs. Black pay for somebody else to do it? If I needed a tutor for my kids, Lupin would be the best choice out of all HP characters.
Has somebody read a good fic about Lupin's life from V's first disappearance to PoA? Such possibilities... he could be hired by a family like Malfoys and then probably dismissed in horror after his condition's revelation. Or have a temporary job, not less exciting than Bill or Charlie Weasley's. Or, if a fic writer prefers grim realism and is inspired by the current economical crisis, barely make ends meet. So easy to write about it in every genre and not contradict canon, why haven't I seen any such fics?
Hermione reminds us the Muggles are out looking for Black too. They’d probably catch him a lot more quickly than Wizards with the right information.
It seems so OOC for Hermione to expect Muggles to be of any help:
"But they'll catch him, on't they?" said Hermione earnestly. "I mean, they've got all the Muggles looking out for him too..."
Of course, she's young here yet and even before her first lesson of Muggle studies.
And to prove my point, the best thing in Hogsmeade is a candy shop. ...Also, Ron, you’re 13.
Or JKR wanted to mention the candy shop only since a secret passage out of the castle leads to it, which Harry'll use later, or she forgot how it's like to be 13 and thought closer to 5-year-old. A boy of Ron's age would talk about racing brooms' shop or scary spider/skull shop, similar to one Harry and Draco visited in CoS.
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Date: 2010-02-26 07:40 pm (UTC)Well, if a simple Muggle innkeeper hosted a queen, he would have much more than a cup of tea prepared before her wake too. ;)
Mrs. Weasley is telling Hermione and Ginny about a love potion she made when she was younger and they’re all very giggly.
Interesting what are Arthur's true views on the matter, since I suppose the potion was intended (given?) for him. Guess it's Chekov's gun for Merope's story in HBP.
Ginny again shows a personality in telling Ron, “Oh, that’s nice!” at being told to go away. The personality I liked, I mean. Not the one from later books.
Interesting. I have re-read the chapter and got the opposite impression, perceiving her behavior here as a hint to "the firecracker within", as somebody nicely expressed in the previous discussion.
"Oh, that's nice," said Ginny huffily, and she stalked off.
Was unsure since English is a foreign tongue to me, but Cambridge Dictionary defines "huffy" as "angry and offended" and "stalk" as "to walk in an angry or proud way", so it was hard for me to see the difference you talk about. Yes, in HBP she probably would have been more aggressive to Ron, but much more deferential to Harry. Here she's still young and holds her older brother in higher esteem than he'll get from her in the future, while in HBP all deference will be reserved for Harry alone (and likely much more than she ever had for her brothers).
Okay, so why does the guy have a battered case that has his name on it, calling himself a professor, exactly? ... the excellent teacher stereotype, only it doesn’t actually seem like Lupin’s a teacher except for this year.
Just had a vision of Lupin as a private tutor in some old novel. Wait, from what we know of WW, he could be one for a while in an old, rich, pureblood family, probably preparing the child for school to give him an edge. After all, at Hogwarts children are expected to know how to read, write and do the math on our elementary school's level and teaching that takes many hours and nerves. Why wouldn't people like Narcissa and Mrs. Black pay for somebody else to do it? If I needed a tutor for my kids, Lupin would be the best choice out of all HP characters.
Has somebody read a good fic about Lupin's life from V's first disappearance to PoA? Such possibilities... he could be hired by a family like Malfoys and then probably dismissed in horror after his condition's revelation. Or have a temporary job, not less exciting than Bill or Charlie Weasley's. Or, if a fic writer prefers grim realism and is inspired by the current economical crisis, barely make ends meet. So easy to write about it in every genre and not contradict canon, why haven't I seen any such fics?
Hermione reminds us the Muggles are out looking for Black too. They’d probably catch him a lot more quickly than Wizards with the right information.
It seems so OOC for Hermione to expect Muggles to be of any help:
"But they'll catch him, on't they?" said Hermione earnestly. "I mean, they've got all the Muggles looking out for him too..."
Of course, she's young here yet and even before her first lesson of Muggle studies.
And to prove my point, the best thing in Hogsmeade is a candy shop. ...Also, Ron, you’re 13.
Or JKR wanted to mention the candy shop only since a secret passage out of the castle leads to it, which Harry'll use later, or she forgot how it's like to be 13 and thought closer to 5-year-old. A boy of Ron's age would talk about racing brooms' shop or scary spider/skull shop, similar to one Harry and Draco visited in CoS.