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fox ([personal profile] fox) wrote2002-12-04 06:35 pm
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thought i had at 10:00 this morning

dumbledore's phoenix is named fawkes.

i just got that.
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[personal profile] thalia 2002-12-04 03:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Like Guy Fawkes, right? Or is there another reference I'm not getting?

[identity profile] darthfox.livejournal.com 2002-12-04 03:53 pm (UTC)(link)
no, that was it. all this time i hadn't made the connection between bonfire night and a bird that bursts into flames.

[beats head against desk]
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[personal profile] thalia 2002-12-04 05:26 pm (UTC)(link)
If it's any consolation, I just got it a couple weeks ago. [g] I had that same "Oh, duh!" reaction.

[identity profile] mommybird.livejournal.com 2002-12-04 06:07 pm (UTC)(link)
*thwaps darth fox in friendly fashion, in retaliation for that slippery slope remark*

*g*
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[identity profile] mamadeb.livejournal.com 2002-12-04 08:06 pm (UTC)(link)
No need to be embarrassed, sweetie.

I didn't get until just now. And I never got the Diagon/Knockturne Alley stuff. Not until my husband told me.

And Guy Fawkes Day is my birthday, too.

*grin*
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[personal profile] thalia 2002-12-04 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Um... I didn't get Knockturn Alley until, oh, ten seconds ago. [g] Diagon Alley came right away, though.

[identity profile] darthfox.livejournal.com 2002-12-04 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
well, that does pick me up a bit -- both of the alleys were immediately obvious to me. and the fact that the werewolf's name is lupin. and that sirius' familiar (or animal form, whatever) is a dog. but, shoot, you know, i speak enough brit to realize that "spellotape" is kind of a cute little gag, and i just didn't make the fawkes connection. (i'd blame it on being preoccupied with schoolwork, but i've been not making the connection for some time now, and plus it was a while before i figured out the mirror of erised, too. talk about lame -- i'm a linguist, and i couldn't crack that code. oy. [g])

[identity profile] darthhellokitty.livejournal.com 2002-12-04 09:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Awwww, go look in the Mirror of Onrop, it'll cheer you up. :-)
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[personal profile] thalia 2002-12-05 06:38 am (UTC)(link)
They're kind of like an optical illusion, where you can't see anything for the longest time, then you turn your head just right and it jumps out at you, and you're wondering how you could have missed it. I just wonder how many plays on words are going right over my head because I'm (a) not British or (b) oblivious.

[identity profile] mearagrrl.livejournal.com 2002-12-05 06:25 am (UTC)(link)
I didn't get Knockturn Alley until, oh, ten seconds ago. [g] Diagon Alley came right away, though

Heh. Um, I didn't get Diagon Alley until someone pointed it out to me. After the second movie.

But I did get Fawkes right away! Go me, non-Brit!

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