Originally posted by: sashashyam
My dear Archana,
Greetings to a fellow Potterite. Of course we shall all, yourself, Janhvi, Nina, myself, and any other fellow faithfuls, take the Hogwarts Express at Kings Cross platform 9 3/4, and, having smuggled ourselves on board, proceed to empty the snacks cart. The butterbeer will have to wait till we can sneak into the village.
As for Harry being Savita's undoing, it cannot be Avada Kedavra, Archu, for that would land him a life sentence in Azkaban. So would the Imperius curse or the Cruciatus, but of the three, I would prefer the Imperius. He could then make Savita fetch all the water for the household from the tap without quarrelling or breaking the queue, and then cook and clean the whole day without complaint. And then sing Archana's praises all day to Ovi and Teju. That would be nicer than being able to do a Mrs. Weasley and have the kanda poha make itself!
As for Sachin, Harry should turn him into a ferret and bounce him up and down, higher and higher, just as Mad Eye Moody does with Malfoy in The Goblet of Fire.
Janhvi, at the risk of being electronically lynched by you and other fellow Potterites, I would make a clear distinction between a literary work of a high order, like JRR Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, where the language is a force in itself apart from the narrative, and the Harry Potter series. The latter work magic not because of the sheer beauty of the prose (for that is pretty flat for the most part), but because of JK Rowling's remarkable ability to create a whole, superbly detailed and entirely and internally consistent alternative world. She then links it so seamlessly to the Enid Blyton world of school at the one end, and to Tolkien's world of magical creatures at the other, that one is quite swept away and never recovers from the spell. Not even after one has devoured Book 7.
Shyamala
Hi Shyamala!!!!...you know what...you may be right! It would be great to see an Imperius curse put on Savita...just like the Professor Lockhart from Chamber of Secrets when Harry was battling the Basilisk. It would be hilarious to see Savita with that confused, dopey expression just like he had! (Although I guess the caviat here is that he is the one who actually performed the curse only to have it rebound on him so there was no harm/risk to Harry). But it would be fun to see Savita mirror the same ridiculous expressions...and Usha Nadkarni would actually be able to pull it off too!
Sachin a ferret!!! Hahaha priceless!!! I wonder what he could turn Punni into...hmmm...need to think about this one? Maybe a Moaning Myrtle? Condemned to float around in the bathrooms forever?
And as for Ovi...she reminds me of Lavender from the Half-Blood Prince. Try as she might, poor Ron cannot seem to get her off him. But he does send her packing eventually- Arjun should get some ideas from him!!!
After we all take the train to Hogwarts, raid the snack cart, and sneak into the Village for Butterbeer...we will then go have tea with our adorable giant Hagrid in his hut. (hopefully he will not have any spiders or dragons there to surprise us with- definitely not for the faint-hearted!! ) 😊
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