Omg...that...is...hilarious! I can see many of the fun poking instances, and i cant take the smile off my face...and if you respond, please, dont make a pun from my site name...lol

anyway, i loved it...quite funny...the toads, and all that. and then the "I forgot" hahahaha and Mary and Sue...im srue thats just an accident ;-]

Alrighty...im gone...lol.

Tricia

FUN!!  

Except when you made a 1984 reference. I am in deep denial about the existence of that book. (You try studying it for FOUR MONTHS with a lunatic lecturer and see how you feel about it).

But apart from that this was hysterical. Really liked the thousand voices bits.

I laughed every kind of laugh (except possibly evil mwahaha). From little giggle-chuckle, to a snort. (Don't spread the fact that I snorted around OK, I want to pretend to be ladylike)

Good grief. I'm really sorry but I just about felt my brain leave my head during that review. That really was a fantastic fic. Ignore the rambling

Hey, I ramble myself. My wife claims she enjoys it. :-}

I was heavily traumatized by 1984 also - in fact I wrote a short-short called "1994" in which I postulated a Swiss overthrow of the system described therin (the Swiss having remained independant, and being willing to destroy the governments of the three powers without conquering them). That helped, but I still refuse to re-read the book.

teehee this one is cute.  I muct read more.

'Mione

Thanks!

I forgot to tell you, I have something of a theory about the numbers of students, though it doesn't work in Harry's earlier years.  If magic is a natural occurance, I doubt that there are exactly twenty witches and twenty wizards born each year in England.  Even if they were, they wouldn't split evenly into the four houses, as magic came before Hogwarts.  Unless the sorting is done precisely so that the students would be split up evenly, which is hard, because the hat has to sort each student as soon as he sees them and can't look at all of them before deciding.  Also, there probably would be students born in other countries.

That being said, I would imaging that there would have been a wizarding baby boom right after Harry defeated You Know Who.  Couples would be more comfortable having children after the war, and might have waited so that they could be born in better times.  And since there were probably many deaths during the war, the students in the years above Harry would be reduced.  So I imagine that there would be at least double or triple the number of students in the years two and three below Harry in comparison to his year, and then high numbers continuing. 

Unfortunately our evidence is a little more solid - it seems that Slytherin + Gryffindor (Harry's Year) is 20 students, as is Hufflepuff + Gryffindor. With at least 8 Gryffindors, Ravenclaw would need to be huge to really bring up the numbers. The baby boom theory helps somewhat more, but we've already hit ~800 by Harry's third year.

Harry's year at Hogwarts would have to be amazingly small, or three of the four houses very unpopular in that year, to make it come anywhere close.

If you're interested in more detail, there are some more details on the Harry Potter Lexicon.

Hey, now you mentioned, Dumbledore does resemble the BB. I mean, the guy knows EVERYTHING! What are the chances of that happening in real world?

*cough* *sputter* *snicker*

Grad students . . .ages . . . Eurasia . . . chorus . . . on and on.  Oh, you covered all the bases, didn't you?

I'd probably go a little easier on her if she hadn't come up with two different sets of ages for those two, neither of which made sense. And let's not even get started on the famous "I've wanted to come ever since Bill came" line...

See what happens when you expose children to 1984 at an impressionable age? Not only do they go write sequals to un-traumative themselves, they shove catch phrases into unrelated fanfic...

Short answer on the HBP? Hagrid. I'm not sure myself by any means, but I think he's got a better shot than Draco or Snape.

Hagrid at least as something to be prince of (the giants).

Hey, I had to have Mary Sue somewhere in one of my fics - I think its part of the FanFic Writers Requirements or something...

"I could have sworn that I heard millions of voices suddenly cry out in terror," Dean said slowly.

Oh my gosh, you had me cracking up!

I suspect she gets more than enough fan mail as it is, and most of these hits are ones she's already acknowledged.

But thanks for the compliment!

  That was a silly treat! Thank you!

Delani

You do realize that its time for you to back to Arkham Asylum, right?

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