Personally, I think the old bastard would have enjoyed the irony. "constant vigilance!"
...you're right. LOL!
"Wouldn't . . . come." Their expressions of consternation and disappointment made Harry feel ashamed.
About time, frankly. Buy some Viagra or something, you impotent fool.
So he couldn't get the white stuff to come out of his wand, eh?
I miss newspapers, don't you?
Now I sure do.
The voices became louder but no more intelligible as the group of men
How do you know they are men, please?
Tonal quality of the "rhubarb, watermelon, rhubarb" noise. Doesn't mean there aren't any silent women, but even unintelligible voices can usually be sexed. (Unless you mean "how do you know they are human as opposed to other intelligent creatures that can speak".)
Erastes: I don't believe in Harry Potter. Harry Potter: *falls down dead*
No, you have to wait about nineteen more chapters for that.
his words pierced Harry like scalding knives.
I wish.
Who "scalds" a knife? And how? Isn't it only liquids that can be "scalding"? A knife might be "searing", perhaps, or "burning hot", but "scalding"?
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...you're right. LOL!
"Wouldn't . . . come." Their expressions of consternation and disappointment made Harry feel ashamed.
About time, frankly. Buy some Viagra or something, you impotent fool.
So he couldn't get the white stuff to come out of his wand, eh?
I miss newspapers, don't you?
Now I sure do.
The voices became louder but no more intelligible as the group of men
How do you know they are men, please?
Tonal quality of the "rhubarb, watermelon, rhubarb" noise. Doesn't mean there aren't any silent women, but even unintelligible voices can usually be sexed. (Unless you mean "how do you know they are human as opposed to other intelligent creatures that can speak".)
Erastes: I don't believe in Harry Potter.
Harry Potter: *falls down dead*
No, you have to wait about nineteen more chapters for that.
his words pierced Harry like scalding knives.
I wish.
Who "scalds" a knife? And how? Isn't it only liquids that can be "scalding"? A knife might be "searing", perhaps, or "burning hot", but "scalding"?