potter amy in red sure, Hermione, let's teach each other how to beat the evil adults using the talent of one which then should somehow be the talent of many? go team! (not that that doesn't happen, of course, but one day, you'll never know each other again, team, you'll be telling war stories out of memories? ) i am really slogging through book 5. i don't like it at all, this warstuff, blah. it is 100% brave, interesting, and valuable, it's just that i'm now scared of what the millenials and younger have in their psyches. thank god for the Hunger Games which proved the war-point drastically. if i were a younger, i would be very hard and cynical after reading the vast numbers of texts i.e. magical YA fiction. but i think Potter has a lot of guidance about what is good/white magic and what is the bad/black and too shocking magic. it's just that there used to be a thing where you were supposed to get out of your comfort zones in life, don't stay in them... so i wish it didn't hold a gold standard it just was what it was, imperfect and vital. i'm sure Rowling has further thoughts for me on the differences between Potter and "the team". i'll read it, it's just no fun. when i was below 5 years old we would go to this place called haegarpottery, and that along with my alma mater (which had "warts" on the buildings, no joke) i'm sure means something very damning. like God caught up with a criminal and has taken a LOT of casualties. (weird Old Testament tenses possible for that sentence) alternatively, i come from the future where i took the books too seriously and i'm doing what i should, shaking myself of it. (i find this more likely, knowing how i tend to become fangirly about things.) what would jesus do? somehow the question is *still* ridiculous. and that is such a Catch-22 160308 what's it to you? who go blather from