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anwesu

Locked to Ernie.

Apr 25, 2007 23:04

Professor Snape's said we can do the Hufflepuff wards together!!! He said!

Perhaps you and Mr MacMillan can collaborate, taking advice from one of the more experienced warders. The fourth ward must reference the concept of conjunction, the element of earth, and a representation of Hufflepuff House.

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Locked to Suse badger_ernie April 25 2007, 22:08:24 UTC

Oh so he decided I was good enough in the end did he? He seemed a bit sniffy when I offered.

Never mind, it'll be great to work together on this! Quite like old times at school. The proper school I mean. OUR school. The one we're going to take back.

Locked to Suse anwesu April 25 2007, 22:22:16 UTC

In Our school. Safe in our common room, hot chocolate and warm sofa and fireside and everything comforting and lovely.

I miss it, Ernie. I want it back so all the Hufflepuffs can have what we had.

Locked to Suse badger_ernie April 25 2007, 22:28:30 UTC

I miss it too. Ahh they were brilliant days Suse. And such a place to live. I mean we're biased of course. But there's no better friend than a Hufflepuff is there?

What do you think he means by the concept of conjunction, the element of earth, and a representation of Hufflepuff House. ?

I mean you don't get much more conjoined to the earth than a badger. They live in it. In fact some people call the sett an "earth"

Locked to Ernie. anwesu April 25 2007, 22:47:51 UTC

Yes, of course! We badgers ARE earth! Well, you don't get much more earthy than Professor Sprout, do you? That song about the hedgehogs was -OOH!

Ernie? Remember the Sorting Hat's songs? It sang about working hard, and friendliness and being fair. But the one I liked best was when it sang about Helga Hufflepuff herself! "I'll teach the lot, And treat them just the same." Everyone treated equally, see? That's conjunction isn't it!

(I'll be honest, I did have to look up the word conjunction because for a bit I thought Snape was talking about when your eyes go sore and pink.)

Locked to Suse badger_ernie April 25 2007, 22:56:46 UTC

Oh SUSE! you are brilliant! Yes, that's it! So we have the conjunction. So we need to reference eagleita egallitar equality somehow.

Something like...I don't know..things that are opposite mixed together and creating something...better? something stronger?. Okay I'm thinking out loud, but something like that?

Locked to Ernie. anwesu April 25 2007, 23:09:45 UTC

What like? Bacon and eggs making breakfast, that sort of thing?

Locked to Suse. badger_ernie April 25 2007, 23:17:14 UTC

The house elves make the.... oh yes I see what you mean.

No I really meant something like...oh I don't know, a wand is a combination of oak (let's say) which is strong, and doesn't bend, and a phoenix feather, which is soft and pliable. Opposites. Yet together they are incredibly powerful. More so than the two things apart.

So we need to thing of something like that?

anwesu April 26 2007, 08:32:21 UTC

Oh! I see what you mean. Sort of. You're much cleverer than me, Ernie!
So what sorts of earth things can we use to make one of those, then?

Locked to Suse badger_ernie April 26 2007, 10:28:39 UTC

Well we need things that are opposites, yet related to the earth.

So..sweet things and sour things grow in the earth. Although I'm not sure if jam is really going to help us much.

Then there's the stuff you dig out of the ground. You know....gold like they still have in Wales, tin like they have in Cornwall or even things like Cairngorm stones. Or coal. Chalk even.

I suppose it's a case of thinking which ones work best. Hang on though...you can combine metals can't you? And often they are combined to make something stronger. So couldn't we do that? With something we can get from the earth?

Locked to Suse anwesu April 26 2007, 14:28:29 UTC

I think so. Isn't the metal that knives and forks are made form made out of two different metals?

Merlin, I'm hungry Ernie. And there's nothing to eat but hay.

Locked to Suse badger_ernie April 26 2007, 14:50:35 UTC

Knives and.....oh yes. That would be Britannium I think. It is tin and copper and antimony. Swap the antimony for phosporous and you get bronze! Or even Bell Metal. It all depends on the proportions.

anwesu April 26 2007, 15:32:57 UTC

...Wha?

badger_ernie April 26 2007, 15:34:09 UTC

Oh sorry. That was a bit of a lecture again, wasn't it.

anwesu April 26 2007, 15:35:58 UTC

No, no it was really impressive! Only... I don't get it.

Locked to Suse badger_ernie April 26 2007, 15:40:32 UTC

Well its basically two soft and not very pretty metals, made into something much stronger and nicer looking. So it sort of fits the task at hand....in a way. Sort of what Helga Hufflepuff had in mind, kind of thing. Apart from the nicer looking bit obviously.

Although Hufflepuffs are the best lookers. And you are the loveliest of them all!

anwesu April 26 2007, 15:44:47 UTC

Awww.......that made me smile, Ernie. ♥

So really metal-making is like mixing dung with kitchen scraps and stuff and and getting fertiliser? Something that isn't very useful on its own making something much better?

That sort of thing you mean? Cos, that's earth. And compost might not be really gorgeous looking but the plants love it.

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