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Jul. 27th, 2005 09:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vaznettiWell, I've packed the girliest luggage ever (OK, it could be pink, but still), and we're off to Berlin in the morning. Sadly, all the German I ever knew I got from cramming for a reading comprehension test, so I can't really remember anything, and the Berlitz phrasebook is really only useful if you'd like a haircut and your trousers hemmed.
I'm bringing Krycek out for a spin because my memories of Heathrow Terminal One are not good.
It turns out that we will get a backstairs tour of the Reichstag, via a political connection of one of the BH's colleagues. (We assumed this wouldn't happen because of the elections -- everyone would be out campaigning -- but somehow it was scheduled in, I hate to think under what auspices).
And finally, BH finished HPB, the first Harry Potter book he's ever managed to read. We made the same misidentification of the HBP himself -- he too thought it was Voldemort. This was something of a relief to me, since he's at least as perceptive a reader as I am.
As an aside, I read an interesting discussion of the probable location of Spinner's End, but since my grasp of the geography of Northern England is tenuous at best, my eye stopped at "Yorkshire." In my mind, all of Yorkshire is liable to the oversight of the Mid-Yorks CID, and I therefore made the following observations:
1. Well, that explains a lot about Enscombe.
2. Was Novello a beater in school?
3. I should write the story where Rosie Pascoe gets her Hogwarts letter, but since I'm probably the only person who'd laugh, I might as well just imagine the scene and get to work on the Multiverse story and Tiberius Solves Crimes, instead.
I wonder if there's an Earth-based series I couldn't cross with the Dalziel and Pascoe books?
I'm bringing Krycek out for a spin because my memories of Heathrow Terminal One are not good.
It turns out that we will get a backstairs tour of the Reichstag, via a political connection of one of the BH's colleagues. (We assumed this wouldn't happen because of the elections -- everyone would be out campaigning -- but somehow it was scheduled in, I hate to think under what auspices).
And finally, BH finished HPB, the first Harry Potter book he's ever managed to read. We made the same misidentification of the HBP himself -- he too thought it was Voldemort. This was something of a relief to me, since he's at least as perceptive a reader as I am.
As an aside, I read an interesting discussion of the probable location of Spinner's End, but since my grasp of the geography of Northern England is tenuous at best, my eye stopped at "Yorkshire." In my mind, all of Yorkshire is liable to the oversight of the Mid-Yorks CID, and I therefore made the following observations:
1. Well, that explains a lot about Enscombe.
2. Was Novello a beater in school?
3. I should write the story where Rosie Pascoe gets her Hogwarts letter, but since I'm probably the only person who'd laugh, I might as well just imagine the scene and get to work on the Multiverse story and Tiberius Solves Crimes, instead.
I wonder if there's an Earth-based series I couldn't cross with the Dalziel and Pascoe books?
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Date: 2005-07-27 09:11 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-07-27 09:45 pm (UTC)ID'ing the prince was one place I had a problem with the novel, actually. ::makes sure there's a spoilers cut:: Most people I know had formed their adult handwriting by 16 or so. In the potions classroom, in a potions text, I would expect Harry to recognize Snape's handwriting eventually. The man hands out essays canonically; I have no doubt Harry's used to getting back papers with corrections and comments down the margin. Why he didn't know Snape's handwriting is beyond me. Oh, well. May just be me.
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Date: 2005-07-27 09:49 pm (UTC)Maybe Snape uses a magic quill to do all his marking, that does corrections for him. I suspect I would, if I had access to one. (OK, maybe I'm not quite that irresponsible, but the thought is a little tempting.)
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Date: 2005-07-28 12:11 pm (UTC)Still, perhaps it was originally Snape's mum's book, and the bits she saw were written by Eileen Prince rather than Snape. Since there isn't any wizarding primary education, she most probably taught Snape his letters, which could well lead to them having a handwriting style similar enough to be confused (by Harry), and he might then have evolved away from that style in later life. Maybe after rejoining the school as a teacher he made a deliberate effort to change his handwriting from the girly childish writing he might have got teased about to something that looked professorial to him. In view of the fact that he would only have been a few years older than the seventh years when he started teaching, he might have grasped at every opportunity he could to provide a little distance from his student years and revamp his self image.