Heh. I haven't read it yet (my copy *should* be delivered to the office tomorrow), but I can't resist checking in here, and the posts of nothing but whitefont is cracking me up!
We use the latest in scientific technology and state-of-the-art weaponry and you, if I understand correctly, poke them with a sharp stick.
Dr. Walsh ,'Potential'
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."
Steph L. - Jul 17, 2005 12:03:21 pm PDT #8307 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Narrator - Jul 17, 2005 12:33:18 pm PDT #8308 of 10002
The evil is this way?
Steph L. (safe) ** Look -- A whitefont just for you!!! **
Fay - Jul 17, 2005 12:45:24 pm PDT #8309 of 10002
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
I was REALLY pleasantly surprised with the character development that Draco got here. I think he made wonderful progress from bratty, bullying kid to young adult here, and the shades of grey and depth of character we got given were far more than I'd dared hope for. Loved it.
I am particularly thrilled that this book, like OotP, continues to lend substance to my own conviction that Snape was in love with Lily. I totally buy that, and it just kills me. This is why he's always harping on about James rather than Lily - Lily was brilliant at potions, she was funny, she was snarky, she was eminently loveable. Slughorn says she'd have made a good Slytherin. This is SO the Lily I've been envisioning these past years, and I'm so chuffed to see her delineated thus in canon. Harry is the spitting image of his father (who was a fairly ghastly, bullying bastard of an adolescent), but with Lily's eyes. Snape is personally responsible for Lily's death - not intentionally - and it was THIS that made him turn his back on Voldemort and become Dumbledore's man. It was this death that made it all real to him, this death that is the 'greatet regret of his life'.
Snape's going through all this shit for love of a girl who knocked him back, and whose death he inadvertently caused. And whose death Harry caused too, by being the subject of the prophecy.
Narrator - Jul 17, 2005 1:02:57 pm PDT #8310 of 10002
The evil is this way?
Ok, without giving away the substance of what Fay posted, she used the word "chuffed", which my American brain hasn't heard before. So, I looked it up on line -- at infoplease. And this online dictionary defines the term:
chuffed
Pronunciation: (chuft), [key]
—adj. Brit. Informal.
delighted; pleased; satisfied.
and
chuffed
Pronunciation: (chuft), [key]
—adj. Brit. Informal.
annoyed; displeased; disgruntled.
Well, that clears things up nicely.
Steph L. - Jul 17, 2005 1:04:46 pm PDT #8311 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Narrator -- great, now I know that there's (safe) whitefont for me. I'm spoiled! Oh noes!
Narrator - Jul 17, 2005 1:05:58 pm PDT #8312 of 10002
The evil is this way?
Steph L -- Well, I didn't want you to feel left out.
Fay - Jul 17, 2005 1:10:35 pm PDT #8313 of 10002
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
I have never ever heard 'chuffed' used to mean displeased. Never. This is crazy talk.
Narrator - Jul 17, 2005 1:14:11 pm PDT #8314 of 10002
The evil is this way?
Hey, all I know is what I read on the internets.
Jars - Jul 17, 2005 1:19:47 pm PDT #8315 of 10002
I think I may have heard an occasional "chuffed off". But chuffed still means pleased. It just does. And I'll chuff anyone who says otherwise.
Scrappy - Jul 17, 2005 1:26:56 pm PDT #8316 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Fay-- so TRUE and heartbreaking. Harry not only has his mother's eyes, he is a constant living reminder of the woman he loved and her love for another man. I am pleased for my ex-husband has kids whom he loves, but I think it would be personally difficult to be around them all the time. Especially if they didn't trust or respect me and my great sacrifices on their behalf.