This was originally started as a comment about Ron's attitude toward house elves ( Read more... )

So, there's a quote in the second Harry Potter book to the effect that Slytherin's house symbol is a snake because Salazar Slytherin was a parseltongue (able to speak/understand snake language). Which led me, recently, to say this: "What, so Godric Griffindor could speak with lions? Hufflepuff could converse with badgers? Ravenclaw listened to ( Read more... )

Re-reading Harry Potter for the umpteen thousandth time. I'm beginning the second book again, at the scene where he escapes the Dursleys. I have to say, the Dursleys may have taken him in for their own inscrutible reasons, but Harry is a lot better to them than I'd have been under the same circumstances. After all they put him through, he helped ( Read more... )

The other day, I was re-watching old Warehouse 13 episodes, including the one at the end of season 2 where Helena G. Wells is using that trident thing to try to set off the super-volcano under Yellowstone. At one point, she gives this speech about how she had herself bronzed so she could wake up to a better future, only to find out the world had ( Read more... )