Hitler was a vegetarian, version 1.30

Rating: Null/10 (23 July 2007)

amended: 30 July 07 and 2 Aug 07 and 6 Aug 07 and 5 Nov 2007 etc
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This contains SPOILERS of the musing about plot elements type.
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This and Philosopher's Stone are special to me.
Part of that comes from the length of the novels allowing these to follow the books more closely. The special magic that Columbus was allowed to breath and form life to.
Even more relevant is that here The One True Princess, Hermione The Great, is not fully at big girl level. To many it would not be obvious at all that this makes these two to be very special indeed. How could anyone with clean and pure sense find big girls to be almost as daunting as women?
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Ginny:
One detail that stands out for me is the look of Ginny. The background notes show her, in real life, to be a classically beautiful female. I assume that is just her being herself, yet through all the features I have seen so far she mostly looks like Harry's mum, and not such a pretty imitation.
The novels that I have so far do not show them to be obviously related.
For me, Harry 5 will be special because it is the last before she is what I think of as a young woman, no longer a girl. A need to go myopic and ignore that she is a big girl in HP5. I have not noticed any mention of her in the 40 IMDb comments that I browsed re HP5, but I would expect her to again be looking like Harry's mum. Hope that the background videos continue to be different.
That is how I experienced Ginny before I wrote this comment. Magic. Now her reality has changed for me and Harry Potter is no longer the same.
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Hermione and the torn page:
I note that the novel has this too, and JK makes a mention of library defence spells in the introduction of Quidditch Through The Ages, useful for considering the storyline of HP2. Yet I cannot envisage Hermione as being able to deface a book in this way. Maybe Imperious might be powerful and devious enough to over-ride her feelings. Whatever, the fictional event did take place. I consider JK to typically have an unusually good grounding in common sense so there is always a chance that I misunderstand.
Theft of potions ingredients? Bulstrode  pussy  Crookshanks? More hangmen?
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Ron's wand:
Flying into Hogwarts at the start of the year broke one or two rules of the school, also of the state, also of Ron's family, also of etc. The extenuating circumstances feel rather weak if Dobby's influence is not taken into account.
The car developed engine and steering trouble as soon as it got close to the school. They headed straight into the most obvious tree to avoid. Ron's wand somehow got broken during some rather inept attempts to find a use for it. They then had to face Filch and then Snape.
Could be that there is still hope for Ron. Hagrid's wand was supposed to have been broken after a court upheld Voldemorte's allegations, but Ron's wand says that Hagrid's wand does not show symptoms that might be expected.
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Slytherin and his heir, Voldemorte:
Both of these had no qualms about using a girl's toilet, to the extent that something important, the gateway, could be hidden there to eventually be found by the heir, it not considered as an obvious locale by most anyone else.
As a male to female I have a problem re this. I find it normal for me to be put to the test until I eventually fail the test re most everything, considered to have a special odour as a result, sometimes the odour even being real. Strong pressures that can easily corrupt us, gargoyle formation, that and natural accounting giving the impression that we are pure evil type corrupt.
Motivation to effectively corrupt us further, two biblical tombs, curse or blessing. Invasion of our being and of our being space, a theft deeper than the theft of potions. Compare with Fame 1980. This aspect strongly hints that these two are secret girls and the secret and not so secret do have a bad enough press-press already. Englander humour: Brownsea Island nature reserve. Still, Hitler was a vegetarian and no one messes up veggies because of that.
Eye of newt and wing of bat.
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This links with my comments on All American Girl of 1994 and Fame 1980.
My comment in this re Slytherin and his heir, Voldemorte, had an overflow comment at the Harry Potter 2 message board re The Chamber's Location Question?, except it has disappeared. But HP7 novel makes it not relevant anyhow.
For further aspects I used the message board under the same heading as this, 'Hitler was a vegetarian', just that disappeared too. Again, it is stuff that is no longer relevant apart from an attempt at listing such as scarf colours and proper spelling of key names. I do need a pointer to a fan site that has a collection of stuff like that.