The child of a pureblood and a Muggle-born is a half-blood. "Half-blood" refers to anyone with at least one Muggle grandparent, excepting the "Muggle-borns," who have entirely Muggle ancestry.
Honeydukes sells candy. Cockroach Clusters are a wizarding sweet, and therefore wouldn't be out of place on a shelf there.
As for teleportation, it's magically prohibited inside Hogwarts. That's an ancient security measure, not one of the recently added ones in Book 6.
Umm ... teleportation isn't allowed on school grounds (hermione has a huge thing about it because she keeps on telling he boys and they always forget). And yeah, Harry is kind of stupid. The scary thing is, in my opinion, he's slightly smarter than he was in the last book, but still stupider than when he was ... like ... eleven.
Well, yeah, I mean, Harry hadn't hit puberty yet in the first book. He seems to have hit that somewhere in the middle of all the angst in book four, and the hormones have made him stupid. Once he gets laid, he'll get better. So...after book seven.
OK, I would have called that "pre-verbalized" magic and used "non-verbal" to describe spells cast with...I dunno, hand gestures or card tricks. But I don't have six bestsellers, I guess.
You cannot teleport inside hogwarts! Just to reinforce a point that Hermione makes a gazillion times since Book 3, I think.That's not really the point, though. The point is that for all of Dumbledore's magical might and authority over the school, he shouldn't have to rely on students to send his messages for him. As Mike observed elsewhere, he could have the Report Card Owls summon Harry. He could hire a courier whose sole purpose is to relay notes, instead of hoping Ginny (or whoever) has nothing better to do. I'd suggest that Hogwart's install a simple intercom system or invest in some pagers, but that might make too much sense for these Luddite morons
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and no im not trying to destroy the criticism all the time - i love these reviews. im not trying to pick the wrong spots of argument - if anything, im answering anything that had obvious question marks next to it. please understand, i am not destructing any review because i think they are great.
im only trying to add info along the way to, i dunno, maybe help give explanations for further chapters or summat....most of the info im trying to give is useful, but if you'd ratehr i didnt, then fine.
Technology doesn't work at Hogwarts, which is why none of the muggle-borns have laptops or anything. It goes hand in hand with the apparating ban and is something Hermione's harped on since book 4.
Not complaining about the reviews, as I love them, just adding information. Personally, my main problem is that all these kids are sneaky little bastards and why would anyone give them confidential notes for another student?
Sirius could turn himself into a dog at will (people like that are called animagi) and got tragically killed by drapery. No, really.
Minor thing, but I thought Harry was more angry about the Order of the Phoenix people following without him knowing than Dung leaving his position. It was Mrs. Figg who was anry about him leaving Harry without protection.
As far as I understand, you don't have to marry muggles or muggle-borns to be considered a blood-traitor. Ron's dad is apparently a blood-traitor, because he collects spark-plugs. Maybe the Weasleys just failed to kiss the collective asses of the Most Noble And Ancient House of Black. *shrug*
Yes, apparently attitude alone can earn wizards "blood-traitor" status. I would think that more than the spark plugs, Arthur Weasley makes the grade because he's responsible for the Ministry's Muggle Protection Act.
Also, there are "Squibs"--people without magic who are born into Wizard families. Argus Filch is a Squib, as is Arabella Figg. Neville's whole family thought he was a Squib for much of his childhood until it turned out that he wasn't.
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The child of a pureblood and a Muggle-born is a half-blood. "Half-blood" refers to anyone with at least one Muggle grandparent, excepting the "Muggle-borns," who have entirely Muggle ancestry.
Honeydukes sells candy. Cockroach Clusters are a wizarding sweet, and therefore wouldn't be out of place on a shelf there.
As for teleportation, it's magically prohibited inside Hogwarts. That's an ancient security measure, not one of the recently added ones in Book 6.
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Also, Crabbe doesn't look like Tor Johnson, Mike. He looks like Coleman Francis.
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Oh yeeeeahh. Now I see it. That scowl on his face and everything.
"Night train to Mundo Fineeee... night train to the ennnnd..."
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and no im not trying to destroy the criticism all the time - i love these reviews. im not trying to pick the wrong spots of argument - if anything, im answering anything that had obvious question marks next to it. please understand, i am not destructing any review because i think they are great.
im only trying to add info along the way to, i dunno, maybe help give explanations for further chapters or summat....most of the info im trying to give is useful, but if you'd ratehr i didnt, then fine.
sorry
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Not complaining about the reviews, as I love them, just adding information. Personally, my main problem is that all these kids are sneaky little bastards and why would anyone give them confidential notes for another student?
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Minor thing, but I thought Harry was more angry about the Order of the Phoenix people following without him knowing than Dung leaving his position. It was Mrs. Figg who was anry about him leaving Harry without protection.
As far as I understand, you don't have to marry muggles or muggle-borns to be considered a blood-traitor. Ron's dad is apparently a blood-traitor, because he collects spark-plugs. Maybe the Weasleys just failed to kiss the collective asses of the Most Noble And Ancient House of Black. *shrug*
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Also, there are "Squibs"--people without magic who are born into Wizard families. Argus Filch is a Squib, as is Arabella Figg. Neville's whole family thought he was a Squib for much of his childhood until it turned out that he wasn't.
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