*Harry’s almost given up hope of finding Nicolas Flamel in a library book. Which is really hilarious. A Muggle kid would have found out about three minutes after he wanted to know. No wonder Wizards don’t seem to do fiction—reference books are hard enough for them until someone invents an index spell.
I'm actually constantly surprised by the number of people I deal with who have no clue how to use a library. The saddest part about it is that these are almost all university students.
*If Gryffindor can beat Hufflepuff they’ll overtake Slytherin for the first time in seven years. Those must have been the same seven years that Percy Weasley was being born over and over in a time loop, years now completely lost to the continuum and so impossible to fit into the canon we have.
Huh?
* Gryffindor is angry at Snape refereeing, presuming he’s unfair, and yet Oliver also trusts that if they play a clean game he won’t be able to take points. Quite different from the position of Slytherin, who could have played the fairest game ever for the House Cup and still don’t have a chance. (Though people have explained to me that since they are Slytherin they *must* have cheated, and so it’s automatically fair to make sure they lose.)
Of course they must have cheated by virtue of being Slytherin: after all, any defensive move by a Slytherin player is cheating. It's in the rulebook.
In real life it’s actually Hermione who treats people like chess pieces, not Ron.
I'm glad of that. At least this way I still like at least one of the trio members.
*Ron and Harry look mystified at mention of the Philosopher’s Stone. If I were reading the American version I would here point out that they had every reason to be confused by what Hermione said, because there’s no such thing as a Sorcerer’s Stone.
I think the rationale I heard for this was not that American children wouldn't know what a Philosopher's Stone was, but that they wouldn't know what a Philosopher was. Which leaves me speechless in bafflement.
![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
timeasmymeasure
no subject
Date: 2007-01-05 08:34 pm (UTC)I'm actually constantly surprised by the number of people I deal with who have no clue how to use a library. The saddest part about it is that these are almost all university students.
*If Gryffindor can beat Hufflepuff they’ll overtake Slytherin for the first time in seven years. Those must have been the same seven years that Percy Weasley was being born over and over in a time loop, years now completely lost to the continuum and so impossible to fit into the canon we have.
Huh?
* Gryffindor is angry at Snape refereeing, presuming he’s unfair, and yet Oliver also trusts that if they play a clean game he won’t be able to take points. Quite different from the position of Slytherin, who could have played the fairest game ever for the House Cup and still don’t have a chance. (Though people have explained to me that since they are Slytherin they *must* have cheated, and so it’s automatically fair to make sure they lose.)
Of course they must have cheated by virtue of being Slytherin: after all, any defensive move by a Slytherin player is cheating. It's in the rulebook.
In real life it’s actually Hermione who treats people like chess pieces, not Ron.
I'm glad of that. At least this way I still like at least one of the trio members.
*Ron and Harry look mystified at mention of the Philosopher’s Stone. If I were reading the American version I would here point out that they had every reason to be confused by what Hermione said, because there’s no such thing as a Sorcerer’s Stone.
I think the rationale I heard for this was not that American children wouldn't know what a Philosopher's Stone was, but that they wouldn't know what a Philosopher was. Which leaves me speechless in bafflement.