Plus, how does it work with the different schools? Do some people get acceptance letters from Hogwarts and Durmstrang and Beaubaxtons?
probably regional. like you have to go to PS182 if you live between Elm and Oak Streets.
We can come by between classes. Usually I use that time to copy over my class notes with a system of different colored pens. But it's been pointed out to me that that's, you know...insane.
Willow ,'Showtime'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
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."
Vortex - Jun 30, 2004 7:19:29 am PDT #3697 of 10002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Dani - Jun 30, 2004 7:31:46 am PDT #3698 of 10002
I believe vampires are the world's greatest golfers
I'm with Vortex - I assumed that wizarding sprogs from central Europe went to Durmstrang and Beauxbatons was for the French.
In somewhat-related news, I just finished a YA book called A School for Sorcery which was not all that great, despite a promising blurb from Joan Aiken. Some original ideas, but strange pacing (three years go by in fits and starts) and the plot gets very confusing towards the end. It's certainly not a patch on A College of Magics.
Vortex - Jun 30, 2004 7:33:38 am PDT #3699 of 10002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I just finished a YA book called A School for Sorcery which was not all that great, despite a promising blurb from Joan Aiken. Some original ideas, but strange pacing (three years go by in fits and starts) and the plot gets very confusing towards the end.
that sounds vaguely familiar. is it new?
Dani - Jun 30, 2004 7:49:06 am PDT #3700 of 10002
I believe vampires are the world's greatest golfers
New-ish; it came out last year.
Dana - Jun 30, 2004 7:58:10 am PDT #3701 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
what is a Squib?
A non-magical child in a magical family. They thought Neville was a Squib until someone threw him out a window and he levitated. Or something. Neville's family is weird.
Betsy HP - Jun 30, 2004 8:45:33 am PDT #3702 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
A friend of mine suggested Flitwick (the goblin professor.)
I'm betting Viktor, the mysterious almost-evil Durmstrang kid. That would explain why the title was considered for Cauldron.
Kate P. - Jun 30, 2004 8:46:18 am PDT #3703 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
I thought it was Chamber of Secrets she'd almost used it for?
Dana - Jun 30, 2004 8:47:23 am PDT #3704 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Flitwick's a goblin? Huh. I mean, I know he's small, but I don't think he's a goblin. He's an awfully good-natured one, if that's the case.
§ ita § - Jun 30, 2004 8:47:41 am PDT #3705 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm assuming that before she finally plotted out what she ended up renaming ... right? Since it has a lack of princeliness. So it could still be Hagrid, or something, and just royalty deferred.
I'm thinking too hard with too little data.
It's making me light-headed.
Lilty Cash - Jun 30, 2004 8:48:44 am PDT #3706 of 10002
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
I think I'd read it was Chamber.
I think that in the same place she said that book was going to have a lot that ends up important in the end. Me? I think it's talking about Neville.
ETA- Although that wouldn't explain why she'd almost used it for Chamber.