Spike ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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You know what's awesome? Seeing the large number of adults hauling book 7 with them on the bus all week.
Totally. Although this morning there was one woman on the bus who wouldn't move over to give me a seat, and she was about 70 pages from the end of DH, and I just wanted to whisper spoilers in her ear for spite.
Seeing the large number of adults hauling book 7 with them on the bus all week.
I was the only one on my bus, although one woman asked me about it, as she was waiting for a long airplane ride this weekend to read it.
I am not afraid of cows, but neither do I dismiss them.
And cows are scary when you're walking home from the woods well after midnight and they're blocking your path across the path you need to cross a field and you're very stoned ...
I'm just saying.
Whose cows these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
As I shake in bovine fear.
The EW this week is a special Harry Potter edition. So, aside from the bit about paperdol's book in it, it's well worth picking up. It's a total Harry Potter Universe Love Letter.
That is going to be SWEET for Paperdol. What incredible luck!
Farm animals were definitely not bred for their vivacity and charm. I've got no problem staring a bovine in the eye and saying, "I like hamburgers."
Tasty, yes, sparkling conversationalists, no.
OTOH, if you hand-raise cattle from an early age, they can be quite sweet and obedient -- I've milked demonstration cows, and driven an ox who was very alert to voice commands, like a sled dog only a lot bigger and less excitable. (Really, you want a placid disposition in something that weighs nearly a ton.)
You know what's awesome? Seeing the large number of adults hauling book 7 with them on the bus all week.
Yep. I saw one woman walking down the sidewalk reading, another carrying it, a man bringing it onto BART, and an elderly woman reading it on BART. It was pretty cool.
Also, the St. Mungo's scene is the one that he really hated to lose. And Snape's worst memory was much longer and more fully developed originally.
I wish they had kept that in, because I loved how in this book we learn it's not Snape's worst memory because of his humiliation, but because he called Lily 'mudblood' and lost her friendship forever.
it's not Snape's worst memory because of his humiliation, but because he called Lily 'mudblood' and lost her friendship forever.
I KNOW! So very sad.