I definitely wouldn’t use the disposable plastic spoons that fast food places give out with their food. Those might actually melt, especially if pressed against the side of a hot metal pot.
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Dealerships can be evil. They may try to get you to agree to pay X dollars/month for N months without telling you what the total actually is. Bring a calculator and for Merlin’s sake Read Before Signing Anything.
And remember that you can always just walk out of there and buy a car off craigslist. That’s what I ended up doing.
It’s pretty important not to overdo perfume/cologne, as there’s a lot of variation in people’s sensitivity to odors (and odor preferences). One squirt or dab is usually more than enough. In addition, the person who is wearing the scent becomes habituated to it after a few minutes, so “I can’t smell myself anymore” isn’t a good reason to put on more.
I’ve been thinking of Patronuses as only being able to bring back one bit of information: “delivered message” vs “couldn’t deliver message”.
Though I’m sure there are counterexamples in both canon and MoR.
So Snape heard the prophecy from...someone with a Slavic or Germanic accent. The only candidates from canon that I can think of are Grindelwald, Karkaroff (who doesn’t have a strong accent, at least not in the movies), and Krum (who may not have even been born yet.) Could Snape have visited Grindelwald in Nurmengard at some point?
Hat & Cloak seems like Quirrell to me. Who else stood up for Hermione, even a little bit, at the Head Table? Though he must have a lot of faith that multiple Obliviations don’t cause permanent damage. Hermione is way too potentially useful, both in her own right and as a lever on Harry.
I googled ‘a specific person—”genghis khan”’ and got Bob Dylan in the top result. If you want specificity, include “specific”.
Have you ever tried using a humidifier (at night or just in general)? Dry sinuses are way more susceptible to allergens, and there are plenty of ubiquitous allergens that could be responsible for your headaches no matter where you live.
And yet the broomsticks work.
Very early in the chapter: “He had regained an impossible memory, for all that the Dementor had made him desecrate it. A strange word kept echoing in his mind.”
And later: “Harry glanced in the Dementor’s direction. The word echoed in his mind again. All right, Harry thought to himself, if the Dementor is a riddle, what is the answer? And just like that, it was obvious.”
Once Harry figures out what Dementors are, he stops being able to hear their “voices”, because he no longer sees (hears) them as sentient. But if “the word” was actually coming from the Dementor, I don’t know what would’ve kept everyone else from hearing it.
The real secret is that once you know why it works, you can never cast Patronus 1.0 again. The humanoid form is a clue, so Harry needs to conceal it.
Killing Dementors is awesome, but in the short term the benefit of showing that ability off does not outweigh the risk of leaving all wizards everywhere defenseless against them.
The word “very” in this sense means “literal”. The prophecy is talking about actual stars.
Do French wizards cast French spells? What about the Chinese?
Probably. Quirrell teaches at least one spell which is clearly neither of English nor Latin origin.
...for all I know, the teachers at your school are giving everyone lessons in advanced necromancy every Monday.
If only.
I can’t wait to see Hermione resurrected as the first p-zombie.
Given your username, isn’t everyone else a Philosophical Zombie?
they sometimes find issues even where issues don’t actually exist
Issues are subjective. Something that’s not an issue for you can still be an issue for someone else.
For example, you have a problem with thakil’s phrasing and have offered a “corrected” version. However, you’ve destroyed the point of thakil’s sentence, which is that it’s possible that ((Person A finds X enjoyable) AND (Person A finds X problematic)). I know from direct experience that this is true; I have been Person A in that situation.
If you have not personally been in that situation, it doesn’t follow that another person has not, nor that they are somehow being “unfair”.
Does a Dementor count as a material object? If so, the (now-disproven) fact of their indestructibility would have made them seem to be ideal Horcruxes.
Or, since they are “wounds in the world”, are they simply places where space isn’t?
In 1992, I think Voyager 2 was still closer to the sun than Pluto. Wouldn’t the sun still be the brightest star in the sky?
Draco’s Patronus says in Parseltongue, “OK, we have the girl-child’ss body and are keeping it cold as insstructed. Now what?”
Yeah, when I try to imagine future events in HPMoR, my brain keeps editing Minerva out. She was an NPC for so long that I’m having trouble factoring her in.
I used to be extremely self-conscious about my voice before I became a volunteer DJ at my local college radio station. After six years of listening to myself through headphones, I speak much more slowly and clearly, and people who don’t know about the DJing have told me that “I should be on the radio”.
But my ability to be understood by phone systems that depend on voice-recognition doesn’t seem to have improved at all. Any suggestions there?