captainsblog | Finally! Some actual bloody spoilers! (Reply)

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I seemed to remember this toy coming out and being one of those Big Christmas Deal things sometime mid-80s, so too late for me while still too early for the kid here. Several attempts to update him since then have seemingly failed, but now we've got the necessary hook:

...it's the Teddy Lupin aminatronic talking Were-Wizard! He talks, he counts, he reads you real stories out of Beedle the Bard; he's even got the proper accent! New, Teddy Lupin- the cuddliest little friend you can ever Disapparate into bed! ^*

^*Not recommended for children under three years of age or for any users during a full moon....

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Continuing the JKR trail of canonical smut, we turn to page 167 and find Ron saying:

"It's a wonder I can't get it out, Hermione, you packed my old jeans, they're tight."

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The backup Horcruxes, left on the editing-room floor:

- (1) Snape's original bottle of Johnson's Baby Shampoo, unopened since his birth;

- (2) Goyle's brain, rejected as being too small;

- (3) Krum's ego, rejected as being too big;

- (4) Schrodinger's catbox, effectively neutralized when Hermione used it after the unfortunate Polyjuice incident in the second book;

- (5) The flying car, which would have been worked into the script if the famed Ford Anglia hadn't been named a school Prefect and left the grounds around 2005, presumably to go film another fantastic movie;

- (6) There is no Horcrux 6;

- (7) What, there have to be seven? Just because there are seven Potters, seven original Horcruxes, seven deadly sins and 700-plus pages in the thing, let's not take all the symbolism too far, shall we?
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Oh, and while we're at it, am I the only one who took one look at that mysterious symbol they're all going on about and instantly thought of this:

Of course! Only Wizard Magic would explain the Civil Defense drills that occupied the first seven or so years of my life. All these years, I thought we were mindless asshats to think we'd be protected from nuclear radiation merely by hiding under a school desk. But yes! They had powerful protection!

I wonder, though, what Dark Lord name comes about by rearranging the letters in "Richard Milhous Nixon."

ETA. Accio anagrami!

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Ok, I've had my fun for one day. Tune in tomorrow, work permitting, for some actual thoughts on what was going on in the thing....