Rereading PS and think this quote perfectly encapsulates the trio:
“Hermione took out a list of subjects and titles she had decided to search while Ron strode off down a row of books and started pulling them off the shelves at random. Harry wandered over to the Restricted Section,” (page 198).
Any other examples you’ve found for other characters?
Dealing with hand-foot-mouth for the first time. I know the virus just has to run its course but was wondering if anyone has any remedies to help with comfort through it for a 2 year old!
Things I’m doing:
Calendula/lavender salve for sores
Manuka honey (recent study shows promising effects of propolis on length and severity of illness)
Elderberry syrup
Probiotics (just leaned that the viruses that cause HFM are enteroviruses)
TIA!
Intelligent & capable FMC, swashbuckling MMC. Minimal spice.
This might be a silly question but I just want to make sure I'm not missing anything for the upcoming school year.
My oldest is 7 going into 2nd grade. We worked through The Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading when she was 5 and she's now reading chapter books on her own well above her grade level.
We did First Language Lessons last year and will do Level 2 this year, but my question is: do I need to be doing anything more for Language Arts? Or is her reading on her own / us reading together for other subjects and the grammar work in FLL enough?
TIA!
In OotP, we see Snape goading Sirius about not doing anything useful for the Order, staying nice and safe in Grimmauld Place, etc. Sirius is clearly angry about these comments when Snape is at Grimmauld Place to tell Harry about the Occlumency lessons.
Harry, understandably, believes that these comments and ensuing feelings play a role in Sirius recklessly coming to his aid at the Ministry at the end of the book.
However, Dumbledore kind of brushes all this off, saying Sirius was too old and too clever to let such things get under his skin.
But in HBP, Harry maintains the attitude that Snape WAS somewhat responsible for Sirius leaving Grimmauld Place.
I’m curious what you think: is this Harry being an unreliable narrator and Dumbledore is correct? Or is Dumbledore misunderstanding the extremely complicated and poor relationship between Snape & Sirius and Harry is right?
Would Sirius have ended up at the Ministry no matter what, for Harry’s sake?
My daughter is a great reader and I’m trying to find a new (to her) series for her to get into.
Things she reads and enjoys:
Magic Treehouse
Kingdom of Wrenly
Dragon Masters
Fancy Nancy (the chapter books)
Ramona books
Christmas Pig
I think she’d like Nancy Drew but not sure if they’re a bit out of her reach yet.
Any suggestions?
I’ve come to the end of an 800+ page book, only to find myself wishing that there was MORE.
The prose, the world, the characters…everything was SO GOOD. What a world to inhabit.
And the prose. I could talk about the prose all day. Funny, complete (none of these choppy sentences in so much fantasy nowadays), vivid, precise…I loved it all.
Clarke has my allegiance.
If you enjoyed JS&MN, is there anything in the same vein you’d recommend? (I’ve already ordered Piranesi)
Also is the BBC series any good?
“He understood for the first time that the world is not dumb at all, but merely waiting for someone to speak to it in a language it understands.”