Castles really aren't so comfortable are they? Still, better than those tacky Muggles with their central heating, which they've come up with in a pitiful attempt to simulate roaring hearth fires you can light with your wand.
Not to mention heated flooring. Why would anyone want to luxuriate in houses with heated floors when there are roaring wizard fires? Stupid muggles.
Harry just had the kind of triumph that most kids never experience. But rather than enjoy that pleasure (like Ron endlessly going over his Quidditch game) it's dramatized through Malfoy's spite and jealousy. It just suddenly made me think of the kiss being more about the sight of Dean and Romilda (as opposed to the happiness of the kiss). And I don't mean that as a plea for Draco sympathy. It really does make me understand the reason Snape's at the center of everything, unable to really feel joy and always running on hate. Snape and Harry are better at anger; Malfoy's more sad.
Yes. You just hit on the reason why I think the kiss is so creepy. Instead of discovering Ginny as a friend, confidant and new love, Harry instead exults in making everyone jealous. Its plain narrow and creepy when it isn't supposed to be. Ick.
Apparently, Wizards have also not yet invented a magical equivalent to a card catalog. If you want to look something up you have to just look at every book. Guess that explains the gillyweed in GoF.
Wizards = creative Muggles with left brain capacity, using the Dewey decimal system = stupid
Pay attention to this chess thing, btw. It's the closest thing Ron will ever get to a skill and he's only got one more book for it to translate into anything useful.
I'm still disappointed about this lost Ron talent. Sigh.
The Weasleys must be pretty intimidating if they're not all laughed at for those jumpers. Does no one suggest their mother's squirted out such a huge litter they have to be labeled so she can remember their names? Seems like the type of thing certain people would say.
When I was very young, I lived near a very large family. A lot was said about them by all and sundry. None of it was nice. Its rather strange that this series would invite much of the same derision over its lead characters. But its part of the stock characteristics all authors follow - See "A Wrinkle in Time".
Harry sees his family in the Mirror of Erised. But nobody resembling the Dursleys. It's always been his greatest desire to see his non-fat, non-ugly family.
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Date: 2006-12-30 02:32 am (UTC)Not to mention heated flooring. Why would anyone want to luxuriate in houses with heated floors when there are roaring wizard fires? Stupid muggles.
Harry just had the kind of triumph that most kids never experience. But rather than enjoy that pleasure (like Ron endlessly going over his Quidditch game) it's dramatized through Malfoy's spite and jealousy. It just suddenly made me think of the kiss being more about the sight of Dean and Romilda (as opposed to the happiness of the kiss). And I don't mean that as a plea for Draco sympathy. It really does make me understand the reason Snape's at the center of everything, unable to really feel joy and always running on hate. Snape and Harry are better at anger; Malfoy's more sad.
Yes. You just hit on the reason why I think the kiss is so creepy. Instead of discovering Ginny as a friend, confidant and new love, Harry instead exults in making everyone jealous. Its plain narrow and creepy when it isn't supposed to be. Ick.
Apparently, Wizards have also not yet invented a magical equivalent to a card catalog. If you want to look something up you have to just look at every book. Guess that explains the gillyweed in GoF.
Wizards = creative
Muggles with left brain capacity, using the Dewey decimal system = stupid
Pay attention to this chess thing, btw. It's the closest thing Ron will ever get to a skill and he's only got one more book for it to translate into anything useful.
I'm still disappointed about this lost Ron talent. Sigh.
The Weasleys must be pretty intimidating if they're not all laughed at for those jumpers. Does no one suggest their mother's squirted out such a huge litter they have to be labeled so she can remember their names? Seems like the type of thing certain people would say.
When I was very young, I lived near a very large family. A lot was said about them by all and sundry. None of it was nice. Its rather strange that this series would invite much of the same derision over its lead characters. But its part of the stock characteristics all authors follow - See "A Wrinkle in Time".
Harry sees his family in the Mirror of Erised. But nobody resembling the Dursleys. It's always been his greatest desire to see his non-fat, non-ugly family.
He is just brimming with love, that Harry.