Thou marvel’st at my words, but hold thee still. // Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill . . . William Shakespeare — Macbeth — Act 3, Scene 2
Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretches her fingers to touch the heavens ... Lao Tzu
I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty — a sunken beauty ... Jean Genet
Guilty pleasures include impolite swear words, the rare dirty martini with extra olives, Steampunk, Goth/EBM/Industrial music and clubs, black clothing, black humor, real books, excessive semi-colons, and effective sarcasm. Regarding this site and social niceties: "We be nice to them if they be nice to us ..." I like words. I don't program and I don't speak code. Fandoms: Harry Potter, Star Wars, Star Trek, SGA, Lord of the Rings.
‘Would you like me to do it now? Or would you like a few moments to compose an epitaph?’ - Severus Snape to Albus Dumbledore - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Even J.K. Rowling agrees ...
"Oh! Hello, Harry ... Long time no see ... "
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Why Couldn't Harry See Thestrals At the End of Goblet of Fire? @DjangoReinhardt - Seeing and internalizing the death of another human being are the two criteria required in order to be able to see Thestrals. So, yes, seeing the death is important and a factor in Thestral lore. Also, the death does not have to be that of a loved one or someone a person is close to. Harry and Cedric weren't close, for example. How someone internalizes the loss of another person depends a lot on the circumstances of the death. |
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Why is Harry taking Divination in Year 4? Pottermore doesn't say so, but the books do. In PoA, Hermione is taking, IIRC, both Divination and Muggle Studies. She drops Divination, but since she was taking 9 classes even after dropping Divination, I think McGonagall wasn't concerned about replacing Divination on Hermione's schedule. Besides, I think she was taking all the classes Hogwarts offered to third years; there was no other class left over for her to substitute Divination for. Anyhow, I think Hermione mentions dropping Muggle Studies at the end of PoA, so she did take it during year three. |
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Why is Harry taking Divination in Year 4? @DVK - Yes. There were a handful of elective classes at Hogwarts, Divination being one of them. We don't actually see Harry say, "I choose Divination!" in the books but he obviously must have had to. I thought about the possibility that electives were randomly assigned, but that seems far-fetched. But it was at the point of Prisoner of Azkaban that JKR needed to start introducing Divination and Professor Trelawney to her readers. |
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Why is Harry taking Divination in Year 4? added information from Pottermore |
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Why is Harry taking Divination in Year 4? Easy "A"? Don't you mean an easy "O"? ;) Both Harry and Ron bombed the Divination O.W.L. -- Harry wasn't taking it for an easy high grade. I have some thoughts that I'll put into an answer. :) |
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Why didn't Voldemort come back as a ghost? @RenanMalkeStigliani - Ghosts are a bit different than the portraits. Most importantly, ghosts are fully sentient, where the portraits are not (per JKR), but that would be a long, long discussion. JKR says Ghosts are transparent, moving, talking and thinking versions of wizards and witches who wished, for whatever reason, to remain on earth. I would agree that their mere presence is an imprint of sorts, though. :) |
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SciFi and Fantasy Moderator Business Cards -1 for Futurama ... ;) |
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SciFi and Fantasy Moderator Business Cards I've been to many conventions and tons of people there have had fandom-related business cards made up to give away -- they're extremely popular and useful. It allows fans (or, in this case, our mods) share their affiliation with the site, but to control what information is made public and available. Just a thought, but it might be nice to include the mod's user icon on a card too, as people come to know each other at the site by user icon, at a glance. I could see the user icon fitting nicely in the lower right corner on the back of the card. I think the cards are a good idea. |
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Why didn't Harry die in the dark forest? @Thecafremo - I believe it's in the chapter King's Cross in Deathly Hallows, but I'm just going off memory, so I might be wrong on which chapter it's in. Try King's Cross, though. |
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Why didn't the Nazgûl stab more people to create more wraiths? canon correction (Nazgûl) |
