Maybe there are professional tutors.
I read a fanfic somewhere in which this is what Remus did before he got the DADA position before PoA.
Wash: Mal, your dead army buddy's on the bridge! Zoe: He ain't dead. Wash: Oh.
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Kathy A - Aug 09, 2005 11:38:30 am PDT #1083 of 3301
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Kat - Aug 09, 2005 11:50:19 am PDT #1084 of 3301
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Fay and Jilli, did you read the JKR 3 part interview at muggle.net or the leaky cauldron? I ask because the interviewers pose the question about people other than James being in love with Lilly.
Aims - Aug 09, 2005 11:51:59 am PDT #1085 of 3301
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Has it been said which chapter from HPB was originally in CoS?
Kathy A - Aug 09, 2005 11:55:24 am PDT #1086 of 3301
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I don't know if it was one complete chapter (although the first one in HBP has been written for quite some time, according to JKR), but I think the entire "the diary is a Horcrux" issue was removed from CoS and put into HBP.
Aims - Aug 09, 2005 11:57:57 am PDT #1087 of 3301
Shit's all sorts of different now.
That's what I was thinking as well.
Fay - Aug 09, 2005 11:58:25 am PDT #1088 of 3301
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
I believe it was Chapter One.
(And I'm almost tempted to write about Wee!Wizards at Primary School, Jilli. Except that there are so many things I should be writing right now. Mostly I'm pecking away at an Original Novel, type thing. (12,000 words so far, which is a measly 3 chapters. Sigh. Although I've been doing a lot of thinking about it, and characters, even when not actually, er, writing.)
Atropa - Aug 09, 2005 12:00:50 pm PDT #1089 of 3301
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Fay and Jilli, did you read the JKR 3 part interview at muggle.net or the leaky cauldron? I ask because the interviewers pose the question about people other than James being in love with Lilly
Oooh, no. I should go read that.
And I'm almost tempted to write about Wee!Wizards at Primary School, Jilli. Except that there are so many things I should be writing right now.
Oh, I know. But that doesn't stop me from hoping.
Kat - Aug 09, 2005 12:03:09 pm PDT #1090 of 3301
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
This is part 3. All three parts are surprisingly good and give you the sense that JKR has an affection and respect for her fans.
Kathy A - Aug 09, 2005 12:07:33 pm PDT #1091 of 3301
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
IIRC, JKR contacted the two website-runners to have them come out to Scotland for the interview, since she wanted to have adult fans' questions answered as much as the "cub reporters" questions. That interview is wonderfully stuffed with info on backstory and the first six books, as well as hints as to what might be coming up in Book 7.
Wolfram - Aug 09, 2005 12:09:06 pm PDT #1092 of 3301
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That makes that H/Hr shipper website that much more annoying. That she does respect the fans and the treats them seriously, and then gets accused of doing just the opposite.