So in the HP-verse DADA profs are like Spinal Tap drummers?
Time to slay. Vampires of the world beware!
Buffybot ,'Dirty Girls'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Toddson - Jul 19, 2007 5:29:17 am PDT #3267 of 28197
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
beekaytee - Jul 19, 2007 5:32:43 am PDT #3268 of 28197
Compassionately intolerant
Exactly! Heh.
DebetEsse - Jul 19, 2007 5:33:18 am PDT #3269 of 28197
Woe to the fucking wicked.
sumi, I would choose specialists. A creatures person one year, a spells person another, etc, etc, so that, over 7 years, everyone would have learned from The Expert on each sub-topic.
Steph L. - Jul 19, 2007 5:34:16 am PDT #3270 of 28197
I look more rad than Lutheranism
So in the HP-verse DADA profs are like Spinal Tap drummers?
And owners of Sunnydale's magic shop.
sumi - Jul 19, 2007 5:39:18 am PDT #3271 of 28197
Art Crawl!!!
Maybe he tried that and they wound up horribly dead and he didn't want to risk it. (Perhaps Lupin knew the risks when he took the job -- in fact I'm certain that both Mad-Eye and Lupin knew the risks because they're OotP members.)
Frankenbuddha - Jul 19, 2007 5:40:32 am PDT #3272 of 28197
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I'm certain that both Mad-Eye and Lupin knew the risks because they're OotP members
Once I heard about the curse, I never assumed otherwise.
Connie Neil - Jul 19, 2007 5:43:06 am PDT #3273 of 28197
brillig
Hm, hire people you don't like occasionally and hope the curse takes them out?
Ginger - Jul 19, 2007 5:43:44 am PDT #3274 of 28197
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
the NYTimes review has taken just the teeniest edge off my zeal.
The NY Times review increased my zeal to get the book
Here's the quote that made me happy. I don't think it's spoilery, but I will white font and delete it if anyone else thinks it is:
With this volume, the reader realizes that small incidents and asides in earlier installments (hidden among a huge number of red herrings) create a breadcrumb trail of clues to the plot, that Ms. Rowling has fitted together the jigsaw-puzzle pieces of this long undertaking with Dickensian ingenuity and ardor.
Connie Neil - Jul 19, 2007 5:44:47 am PDT #3275 of 28197
brillig
Wow, if I was Rowling, I'd be inscribing that review in bronze and hanging it in the office. That's some heady company they're comparing her to.
Jessica - Jul 19, 2007 6:12:25 am PDT #3276 of 28197
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset