Interesting, isn’t it, that Colin isn't one of the kids who keep checking their DA coins, given that he likes Harry so much—or else he got over that. Or else he's just pretending to get over it in the hopes that it will make Harry fall in love with him. Smart girl, that Hermione. Great - I never thought of that.
Here’s the thing, though. Colin is Muggleborn, right? So why is his brother also at Hogwarts? Does that imply that certain Muggles are carriers of the magic gene, and if the two of them have children all their children will be magic? You'd think with Muggleborns at most you'd have one magical child that's a surprise. But their Magical success rate is the same as Wizards. So where did the Magic gene come from? Personally, I suspect Colin's father is being cuckholded. Isn't he a milkman? Nice twist on that cliché. As much as I like your inverse milkman idea, I'm afraid, it's just a case of "oh dear, biology". I remember an editorial over at mugglenet quite some time ago where someone valiantly tried to make genetic sense of the concept of muggleborns and squibs and failed spectacularly. To be fair, genetics and maths ARE somewhat related, so...
Of course Slytherin was the founder who lived in a swamp. Gothic romance moor, happy fairy glen, sweet pastoral valley, slimy bog. The sorting hat's song also depicts Slytherin worse this year and as much as I am prepared to accept the Harry-filter excuse whenever possible, it just won't wash here unless Harry is clinically delusional. Has anyone ever come up with an explanation for this change in the hat's attitude? I mean, just three years ago, you were told to look for true friends in Slytherin!
Malcolm wonders if Harry knows Gryffindor's turned out more bullying jocks than any other. YES!!! How I long to know what the other houses say about Gryffindor...
Weren't the elves covered in Hogwarts, a History? To be fair - that's exactly what she complains of. According to Hermione it either didn't state there were house elves at all or (more likely) it didn't mention the fact they were not paid and used more or less like slaves. I suppose that might be due to the authors being pure-blooded wizards to whom it doesn't occur that anyone might not know about it, as shown by Ron and the twins who quite clearly did know about it and never bothered to think about it twice.
Yes, I'm sure the Tournament fostered lots of unity between the three schools. Much like the house cup and Quidditch cup brings the four houses together every year. The funny thing is, the tournament might actually have worked in creating unity between the four Hogwarts houses (common enemys and all that)- but of course that fell through with the two Hogwarts champions. BTW, what really IS ridiculous, is to cancel Quidditch because one - I repeat one - student is going to compete in this tournament. Meaning 4 x 7 Quidditch players are practically banned from their sport which is otherwise so highly rated because one student who very likely not even is on one of the house teams has to study for three wizarding tasks? It's like cancelling football because there is an international maths test coming. WTF???
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Date: 2007-05-03 03:49 pm (UTC)Great - I never thought of that.
Here’s the thing, though. Colin is Muggleborn, right? So why is his brother also at Hogwarts? Does that imply that certain Muggles are carriers of the magic gene, and if the two of them have children all their children will be magic? You'd think with Muggleborns at most you'd have one magical child that's a surprise. But their Magical success rate is the same as Wizards. So where did the Magic gene come from? Personally, I suspect Colin's father is being cuckholded. Isn't he a milkman? Nice twist on that cliché.
As much as I like your inverse milkman idea, I'm afraid, it's just a case of "oh dear, biology". I remember an editorial over at mugglenet quite some time ago where someone valiantly tried to make genetic sense of the concept of muggleborns and squibs and failed spectacularly. To be fair, genetics and maths ARE somewhat related, so...
Of course Slytherin was the founder who lived in a swamp. Gothic romance moor, happy fairy glen, sweet pastoral valley, slimy bog.
The sorting hat's song also depicts Slytherin worse this year and as much as I am prepared to accept the Harry-filter excuse whenever possible, it just won't wash here unless Harry is clinically delusional. Has anyone ever come up with an explanation for this change in the hat's attitude? I mean, just three years ago, you were told to look for true friends in Slytherin!
Malcolm wonders if Harry knows Gryffindor's turned out more bullying jocks than any other.
YES!!! How I long to know what the other houses say about Gryffindor...
Weren't the elves covered in Hogwarts, a History?
To be fair - that's exactly what she complains of. According to Hermione it either didn't state there were house elves at all or (more likely) it didn't mention the fact they were not paid and used more or less like slaves. I suppose that might be due to the authors being pure-blooded wizards to whom it doesn't occur that anyone might not know about it, as shown by Ron and the twins who quite clearly did know about it and never bothered to think about it twice.
Yes, I'm sure the Tournament fostered lots of unity between the three schools. Much like the house cup and Quidditch cup brings the four houses together every year.
The funny thing is, the tournament might actually have worked in creating unity between the four Hogwarts houses (common enemys and all that)- but of course that fell through with the two Hogwarts champions.
BTW, what really IS ridiculous, is to cancel Quidditch because one - I repeat one - student is going to compete in this tournament. Meaning 4 x 7 Quidditch players are practically banned from their sport which is otherwise so highly rated because one student who very likely not even is on one of the house teams has to study for three wizarding tasks? It's like cancelling football because there is an international maths test coming. WTF???