I think it's another meme. Or, at least, reminds me of one.
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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P.M. Marc - Oct 07, 2002 9:09:14 am PDT #380 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Dana - Oct 07, 2002 12:57:19 pm PDT #381 of 10000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Burrell - Oct 07, 2002 1:29:51 pm PDT #382 of 10000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
hee! Thanks, Dana!
Dana - Oct 07, 2002 1:39:34 pm PDT #383 of 10000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
amych - Oct 07, 2002 2:16:29 pm PDT #384 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Tetchy.
Hee! Wonderful.
Fay - Oct 07, 2002 2:36:47 pm PDT #385 of 10000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
nipping in very, very fleetingly
Rubeus Hagrid- Hagrid Rubeus was the Greek God of jewels. Rubeus meaning rubul or jewel, Hagrid meaning giant. Hagrid was banned from Mt. Olympus, but Zeus took pity on him and let Hagrid stay as the keeper of the godly creatures.
Am I on crack, or is this utter drivel? I'm researching Harry Potter (go me) for Uni, believe it or not, and compiling information about the various character names, and I keep coming across the above assertion. My Latin is minimal and my Greek nonexistent, but Hagrid Rubeus doesn't sound like a Greek name to me, and I've certainly never heard of that particular member of the Hellenic pantheon myself. 'Course, I'm not omniscient - that's what you guys are for...still, I thought 'rubeus' was Latin for red, and 'Hagrid' was simply a form of 'Hagridden', which means ridden-by-a-hag, from the medieaval belief that witches could use sleeping people as their steeds, leaving them looking utterly haggard the morning after. No?
It wouldn't be the first time I've eaten my words, but surely this is pants?
Also:
Ron Weasley, in another language, is called "Running Weasel." Running Weasel was a warlord in the 6th Dynasty. He was a brilliant statigist, and he never lost a game of chess. Unfortunately, he died when a rat that had been dyed yellow by his soldiers for fun earlier that day, knocked over a lamp in his palace, burning it to the ground, and killing Running Weasel.
Can't believe how many places have this same quote - always "in another language", never specifying which language. This paragraph makes. no. sense.
Dana - Oct 07, 2002 2:49:07 pm PDT #386 of 10000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
"rubeus" is Latin for "red".
I found this article, which mentions this book:
"It becomes like literary detective work," says David Colbert, author of The Magical Worlds of Harry Potter: A Treasure of Myths, Legends, and Fascinating Facts (Lumina Press, $14.95.)
There's also this site, which might have some info.
I've never heard of any Greek myth involving a Hagrid, and I asked my friend who also has a Classics degree, and she checked her mythology dictionary, and couldn't find anything. We think it's bullshit.
Dana - Oct 07, 2002 2:51:18 pm PDT #387 of 10000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
The name is also not listed at Encyclopedia Mythica.
Sounds like horribly pervasive fanon, to me. But it's all over the HP sites I looked at.
Fay - Oct 07, 2002 2:55:02 pm PDT #388 of 10000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Excellent links, Dana! Cheers!
P.M. Marc - Oct 07, 2002 2:55:33 pm PDT #389 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Pst... Fay, send me your address, I have Firefly tape for you