days spent reading are love
So instead of using the holliday to read Reaper's Gale like any sensible fan of Erikson who just bought to book would do (or, for that matter, Feast of Souls, which I finally found), I've been reading a book called Devices & Desire by KJ Parker which I had bought on a whim several months ago and which I only started reading a couple of days ago for
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Tonks a Hufflepuff? I'm guessing this is per JKR? On the one hand, I guess I'm pleased to see that JKR has recognized that good characters can be in houses other than Gryffindor, but it doesn't seem to fit. Then again, we don't see her much with her peers; it may be that she's very different with a group of same-age friends...
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Yes, she updated her website's FAQ with a couple of info, including Draco's wand (hawthorn), Tonks being Hufflepuff and Myrthe being Ravenclaw (that I can buy), and avoiding telling what Draco's Patronus is.
I sorta think the point about Hufflepuff is made, between Cedric and Zacharias, it's not her fault if fans keep ignoring that in favour of fanon.
But Tonks, yeah, the age group point is well taken, I'm also quite bold and sassy with younger and older folks, and much more unsure of myself with people my age XD then again,I doubt I'd be a Hufflepuff either.
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Now, the 'Claws...I wish we got to see a little more of them being bookish. Luna, however, does seem to fit with her knowledge-seeking, even if it's kind of far-fetched sometimes.
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I always felt the Claws were the most misrepresented. Both in definition (all the Houses have several trails going for them, but all that Ravenclaw has is intelligence, which, obviously, they're not the only ones to have). I love Luna, how she showcase others kind of approach to knowledge and learning. But all the other Ravenclaws are meh and very bland : Cho has very little personnality, Marietta has a horrendous role, Padma's little more than a name - do I forget anyone? I guess some of Ginny's boyfriends, whatever. We could do with some bookishness, or with experimenting, or with anything that show a love for knowledge, odd facts, and intellectual curiosity.
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I wonder if I should read 'Devices and Desire'. It sounds pretty good from what you've said.
XD I'd agree that love isn't the be-all end-all of life, though I'm sure that there are a lucky few for whom it all turns out perfectly in the long run. I tend to think that it's rather appropriate that the flower which is usually associated with love and romance is the rose, what with its thorns and all.
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Happy love? Cannot be! I refuse to believe in such an absurdity *poots*
Roses... hmmm, I should inform this by reading lots of medieval poetry. The answer's probably there. I always thought all the classical conceptions of love were very BDSM anyway, full of capture and bondage and suffering metaphores ♥
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And Venom was less than impressive in combat: he seems
so little compared to Sandman. I guess Sam Raimi liked
a lot this last one. <80)
Anyway, which was the Dumbledore's speech, for info?
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re: Dumebledore's speech : I was thinking of the speech about Cedric's death in GoF... Peter has a little voiceover at the funeral at the end that had a couple of very close lines. One about blah blah blah ther comes a choice (that's when Dumbly says the "between doing what is easy, and doing what is right"), and there was a line about it's our choice that makes us what we are which looks a lot to what Dumbledore said to Harry at the end of CoS. I'd need to check the script to verify that the words were as similar as what it felt like.
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