> It’s like Molly wants her husband to lose his job.
Some part of her does dream of exactly that. I think we read somewhere that Arthur could try to get advancement with the attendant higher salary, had he not fallen in love with Muggle stuff.
>I’m amazed that Harry never heard of Mandrakes. They even appear in the Bible!
Do students study Bible in secular schools in UK?
>How the heck Lockhart became “Honorary Member of the Dark Force Defence League” while being fraud?
May be, he memory charmed somebody important in the League while carefully keeping away from other members.
>Ladies and gents, we are at the end of chapter 6 of the second book and Harry still doesn’t even try to use magic! This is glorious!
I love the mystery element in CoS, so am OK with magic being less important in the book than reading people (like the boy from the diary or Lockhart) or interpreting clues like Hermione will do with the basilisk.
When JKR started paying more attention to magic, book quality suffered. See: new wand theory in DH.
I don't know what it's like now, but, when my parents were teaching in England in the 1970s, Religious Instruction was mandated by the state. There is no separation of Church and State in England. At least, not as we'd understand it in America.
Also, there was sometimes something from the Bible during school assemblies.
Here where I live even public secular schools have something like Religious Instruction with priest or qualified teacher. You can either take that class or Ethics, but you can't bow out of taking either of them.
Now I mentioned in my comment reading parts of Bible for Literature class. Literature classes have as required reading parts of Bible, Greek Mythology and a few Ancient Greek dramas, because majority of European literature references in one or other way those works. Granted elementary school students get to read more kid friendly parts of Bible and Greek Mythology.
i put my coin down for dobby- the way he dies and his complete story arch is just so much more cringy than collin will ever be;
i always wondered about the communication and talking about family business in public- and then i thought myself lucky to not have been written in a universe governed by jkr
he tries to rub his elbows with academics while being fraud. Real frauds and con artists know that hanging out with experts is the quickest way to being discredited this is so true and more spot on than anybody else can ever say!
also i forgot how boooring book 2 was, but now i remember, it was such a hassle to read because nothing really ever happened
Eh, IMHO CoS is much more interesting than HBP. At least here I can speculate about Tom's movements. In HBP I keep imagining Voldie sitting on couch and drowning his post OotP depression in mountains of Fortescue's ice cream.
>I’d like to imagine that Lucius started his day with good cackle
I love the image of Lucius and Narcissi sharing a good laugh together over breakfast.
Eh, Sprout doesn’t check if everybody put on their earmuffs correctly
The lack of care for student safety is amazing in these books.
>The whole Ron’s-wand-drama instead of making Weasleys look poor, makes them and Hogwarts’ staff look like bunch of irresponsible dicks
I know! Come on wands are required for almost all of the class work! Yet no one takes the time to try to help Ron get a new wand, no funds for poor student (which help poor young Tom Riddle). Wonderful head of house McG. does nothing. >I’m not expert when it comes to plants, but this repotting process sounds incorrectly to me.
I kill pretty much everything, but even I know more about how to repot than this.
>I have odd feeling that Justin’s parents didn’t send him to Hogwarts out of their free will. I figure muggle parents who don't agree to sending their child to Hogwarts are magically "persuaded" to do it
( ... )
Good catch on Molly exposing Arthur’s fraud. Classic Gryff-centric narration/IOIAGDI. All credit to the Ministry, at least Arthur does face an enquiry, although IIRC he doesn’t lose his job over it.
If Lucius had done the same it would be taken as a sign of incipient Dark Magic/anti-Muggle activity.
/Molly just pretty much admitted that the car belonged to Arthur. The same man that apparently wrote law forbidding enchanting muggle objects. In presence of whole faculty and probably majority of students
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Some part of her does dream of exactly that. I think we read somewhere that Arthur could try to get advancement with the attendant higher salary, had he not fallen in love with Muggle stuff.
>I’m amazed that Harry never heard of Mandrakes. They even appear in the Bible!
Do students study Bible in secular schools in UK?
>How the heck Lockhart became “Honorary Member of the Dark Force Defence League” while being fraud?
May be, he memory charmed somebody important in the League while carefully keeping away from other members.
>Ladies and gents, we are at the end of chapter 6 of the second book and Harry still doesn’t even try to use magic! This is glorious!
I love the mystery element in CoS, so am OK with magic being less important in the book than reading people (like the boy from the diary or Lockhart) or interpreting clues like Hermione will do with the basilisk.
When JKR started paying more attention to magic, book quality suffered. See: new wand theory in DH.
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Also, there was sometimes something from the Bible during school assemblies.
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Now I mentioned in my comment reading parts of Bible for Literature class. Literature classes have as required reading parts of Bible, Greek Mythology and a few Ancient Greek dramas, because majority of European literature references in one or other way those works.
Granted elementary school students get to read more kid friendly parts of Bible and Greek Mythology.
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i always wondered about the communication and talking about family business in public- and then i thought myself lucky to not have been written in a universe governed by jkr
he tries to rub his elbows with academics while being fraud. Real frauds and con artists know that hanging out with experts is the quickest way to being discredited
this is so true and more spot on than anybody else can ever say!
also i forgot how boooring book 2 was, but now i remember, it was such a hassle to read because nothing really ever happened
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In HBP I keep imagining Voldie sitting on couch and drowning his post OotP depression in mountains of Fortescue's ice cream.
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I love the image of Lucius and Narcissi sharing a good laugh together over breakfast.
Eh, Sprout doesn’t check if everybody put on their earmuffs correctly
The lack of care for student safety is amazing in these books.
>The whole Ron’s-wand-drama instead of making Weasleys look poor, makes them and Hogwarts’ staff look like bunch of irresponsible dicks
I know! Come on wands are required for almost all of the class work! Yet no one takes the time to try to help Ron get a new wand, no funds for poor student (which help poor young Tom Riddle). Wonderful head of house McG. does nothing.
>I’m not expert when it comes to plants, but this repotting process sounds incorrectly to me.
I kill pretty much everything, but even I know more about how to repot than this.
>I have odd feeling that Justin’s parents didn’t send him to Hogwarts out of their free will.
I figure muggle parents who don't agree to sending their child to Hogwarts are magically "persuaded" to do it ( ... )
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If Lucius had done the same it would be taken as a sign of incipient Dark Magic/anti-Muggle activity.
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