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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."
Fay, the chapter from OotP with Snape's Pensieve scene was "Snape's Worst Memory."
As to the Potions book lying around the Potions classroom, don't forget that Snape had been in charge of that room for some 15 years. I wouldn't be surprised if he had it stored for reference purposes in the cabinet, and forgot to take it with him in the transition to the DADA room.
...but Snape's Worst Memory was just the scene with the Marauders, wasn't it? Nothing to do with his family?
::puzzled::
Sorry to be an ass - I don't have the book to hand, or I'd just check through it.
Very good point Kathy. Still? Careless.
Fay, when Snape is giving Harry the Occulemency (sp?) lessons, he takes memories out of his own head and stores them in the Pensieve. Then Snape gets called away and Harry looks in the Pensieve, and sees a wee Snape cringing in a corner while his father abuses his mother. (I think the abuse was implied, and the scene was the father yelling and the mother cringing).
The age of the potions book threw me off too. I immediately thought it was Snape's, because he's so good at Potions, but the age was wrong. But they did say that he'd no money, so his books would've been second-hand.
You know, we've never seen a Hogwarts graduation ceremony. There's the House Cup awarding dinner in a couple books, but never a graduation.
We didn't have a graduation ceremony -- do most UK high schools? The following autumn they did have an awards ceremony, though.
Hec, is your copy of Howl's Moving Castle by any chance a trade paperback? I've found hardcover available online and mass market PB locally, but I'm looking for a trade, if I can find it.
We didn't have a graduation ceremony -- do most UK high schools?
I've never heard of one. Public (which means private, 'murricans) Schools mostly have some kind of prize day, but at state school you just set off the fire alarm after your last exam and go to the pub.
So there's no Hogwarts-ceremony-closure type reason for Harry to be anywhere near Hogwarts next book, then? He's missed two Quidditch Cup matches in as many books, and the House Cup prize day thing hasn't been an issue for a couple books. No tidy school year event to close out with...
So only the fact that Hogwarts has figured so prominently in the existing 6 books would call for any of Book 7 to be there.
We didn't have a graduation ceremony -- do most UK high schools? The following autumn they did have an awards ceremony, though.
What ita said. You graduate from University. At High School there's an awards ceremony, but there is nothing remotely beginning to consider approaching the hooplah of graduation in the US and Canada. It's just - you finish school. And then you find out how you did, in the holidays, when the results come out. And then you can go back and get handed your certificates at Speech Day, which is for the whole school, in which people are getting various prizes for things. At my school, anyway. Hell, I was in Canada by then, so I missed Speech Day, and it never crossed my mind to consider that a big deal.
So if you want some sort of public hoopla for your school achievements, you have to go *back* to school after you graduate?
How strangely poetic. Because I can only imagine mocking people who are so invested in their high school career that they'd actually go back after a few months to get the accolades. Unless there was tangible benefits to the awards.
I love the British mind. Did Canada start doing this under influence from America, I wonder?