Dumbledore's the king of not explaining things, though. It's one big reason I don't like him.
Angel: Will you just shut up for once?! Illyria: What? Angel: My God, the speechifying. Has it ever occurred to you that now might not be the best time for when-we-were-muck stories?
'Time Bomb'
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."
§ ita § - Jul 28, 2005 11:02:33 am PDT #8724 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Polter-Cow - Jul 28, 2005 11:02:46 am PDT #8725 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Anne, that sounds cool.
Debet, I hear you. We'll see.
Fay - Jul 28, 2005 11:06:19 am PDT #8726 of 10002
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Perkins, you are an angel, but I couldn't put you to such trouble.
...otoh, I may end up using my Dad's Paypal account to buy a Ravenclaw patch, or an Atlantis Patch. Or, and this one REALLY tempts me, a Wormhole Extreme patch.
Trudy Booth - Jul 28, 2005 11:25:34 am PDT #8727 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Debet the pensive will be able to convince anyone of whatever the Snape agreement was. And we don't know that some other member of the order isn't in on the secret -- we just haven't seen that one is.
DebetEsse - Jul 28, 2005 11:32:15 am PDT #8728 of 10002
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Trudy, that's about the only solution I can come up with that satisfies me at all, but it had better happen within the first half, and, preferably, the first 1/3 of the book. And only the first option is...uncontrovertable enough for the situation, IMO. Either that or a painting.
DavidS - Jul 28, 2005 12:49:08 pm PDT #8729 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Google defaults to and.
It's not there for the AND ability, but to insist that both words MUST be in the result. Just as you use the minus sign to remove similar but wrong results.
Though, of course, you know much more about this than I do, but that's what I recalled from advanced query stuff.
§ ita § - Jul 28, 2005 12:57:00 pm PDT #8730 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
to insist that both words MUST be in the result.
That's precisely what AND means.
From their help page:
By default, Google only returns pages that include all of your search terms. There is no need to include "and" between terms. Keep in mind that the order in which the terms are typed will affect the search results. To restrict a search further, just include more terms. For example, to plan a vacation to Hawaii, simply type vacation hawaii.
Unless you're using a stop word (you weren't -- they are common words like I, and, or that are normally filtered out of searches¹, and it'll tell you at the top of the search results), there's no need to force them in. They're in by default.
¹: Though it doesn't seem to be stopping me on anything, these days.
DavidS - Jul 28, 2005 12:58:13 pm PDT #8731 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I wonder if this is something I learned using Yahoo.
Volans - Jul 28, 2005 9:28:23 pm PDT #8732 of 10002
move out and draw fire
Patchy goodness! My DH is an adamant member of Ravenclaw, so I'll see what I can find for him. I just pulled my Banzai Institute and Tyrell Corporation patches off my fencing jacket and put them on my gi a couple years ago, but I may change to a Hogwarts patch. I just don't know what house I'm in.
I agree with Jeff on the favorite part of the book, and also the lack of surprise about the plot development.
Friend in LA tells me that the all girl L.A. street gang the "Half-blood Princesses" is suing over the name.
Maysa - Jul 29, 2005 7:56:21 am PDT #8733 of 10002
that's about the only solution I can come up with that satisfies me at all, but it had better happen within the first half, and, preferably, the first 1/3 of the book.
I thought that the reason why Dumbledore trusts Snape were revealed in this book? Wasn’t it that Snape confessed to DD all about being a death eater and telling Voldemort about the prophecy (thus being responsible for James and Lily’s deaths) and everything? That could be me making a narrative leap, though.