Mid-Week Linkage

[rattlesnakeroot]

If you are like me and you never met a retro picture that you didn't like, then here is a website for you: Magazine Art. It's an archive of old magazine covers, some of them absolutely beautiful. Found via Neatorama.

A restaurant in Malaysia called "McCurry" has won a nine-year legal battle against McDonald's. They've insisted that the "MC" stands

Comments

[pythia_delphi]

Seriously, is Grindelwald ever described as 'looking like a crow' or 'bird-like?' If so, I must have missed that. Granted, I've only read all the way through DH once (re-read some Snapey bits, of course). Isn't he supposed to be a really handsome, golden-haired, wild-eyed laughing youth?

[ms_arithmancer]

Yes, he is. When we first see him, in Gregorovitch's memory, he is described as perched on a window-ledge "like a giant bird". (He also has the other characteristics you list.)

[rattlesnakeroot]

I totally missed that, so thanks for refreshing my memory. Of course sometimes Harry is described as a bird that is perching, for instance during Occlumency lessons.

My guess about Grindelwald is that JKR was going for an Eagle/Germany/Hitler reference. Hitler's last refuge was called "The Eagle's Nest." If you watch the last episode of "Band of Brothers" they enter the Eagle's Nest in the Alps.

[ms_arithmancer]

I thought the way Grindelwald used the sign of the Hallows, and the Viktor/Xeno misunderstanding about that symbol at the wedding, was also evocative of the Nazis, whose symbol was the swastika. There have been real-life misunderstandings like this in the US, where Jewish groups understandably objected to buildings adorned with swastikas, but the swastikas were being used by a Hindu temple, a religion in which the swastika is a symbol whose prominent, regular use is millenia old, and the symbol possesses positive meanings.

[silentkw]

Why do ppl ask silly questions about my country?

[ms_arithmancer]

Some of those questions were probably asked by Canadians. Not the ones about Euros, perhaps, but then at least the asker is aware BC is not part of the US....

[rattlesnakeroot]

I bet people in the U.S. National Parks get strange questions, too. It's just a function of working with the public. You get the intelligent along with the confused people.

[saiphgrl]

Those questions make me fear for the future of mankind, lol.

ps Sorry I've been so absent! School is crazy and I'm super behind on internet life. Missed you guys!

[aredwitch]

LOL On the Canadian Eh thread at LL I joined in on a similar discussion about misperceptions about Canada and someone said 'like we all live in igloos' and I answered 'speak for yourself, I do'. The poor guy said 'sorry' he didn't mean to be insensitive. I was just yanking everybody's chain. I don't think even the Inuit live in igloos full time anymore. I have always thought of the tales of American tourists showing up at border crossing in summertime with ski equipment and asking where the snow is was just an urban myth.

[lunas_ceiling]

I could see you yanking their chains. I don't associate igloos with Canada for some reason. I can believe there would be Americans who would think there would be skiing though, nothing shocks me anymore.

I am kind of surprised the DH movie is supposed to come in November 2010. That just seems fast in HP terms. Everything seems to take a year or two longer than predicted.

[rattlesnakeroot]

Who knows? They might postpone the DH movie at the last minute the way they did the HBP movie!

[aredwitch]

Maybe interest in HP is waning now that all the books are out and they are in a hurry to release before the numbers drop too much.