And as someone stated that copy'n'paste would be the greatest compliment… guilty as charged.
Go and read vikingknight's entry to understand this drabble.

The dungeons were still as cold and drafty as ever, but somehow the atmosphere had changed. Snape was glaring at his NEWTs Potions class in an almost challenging manner, while he flicked his wand at the blackboard, letting the recipe for the new concoction appear.
"Fuck!" Ron cursed, as he bumped his foot.
Snape's eyes narrowed.
"Fuck!" Seamus cursed, as his knife slipped from his hand.
Snape gritted his teeth.
"Fuck," Harry said, looking the professor calmly into the eyes.
Snape turned around and drew three lines, mumbling, "I think there's a growing shortage of common sense in some quarters…"

Info x 3 (1 x history/HP, 1 x science & 1 x cultural)

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Info x 3 (2 x HP & 1 x Science)

1) Yesterday, I incidentally read the titles of the HP series and saw that the Philosopher's Stone is also available in Latin, Ancient Greek, Welsh and Irish. The Irish version is called "Harry Potter agus an Órchloch" and if you speak German, you will be laughing by now. "Órchloch" looks just like the Viennese pronunciation of "Asshole"

2) Someone (calling her friend would be an exaggeration) told my sister about a HP t-shirt (sounds familiar?) she saw recently. On the front it read "Dumbledore dies on page 556" and on the back "What? Be glad I didn't tell you that Snape killed him!"

3) Our sun system has ten planets! And I have yet to find time to gather information *gn*!

The half-blood prince

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About a Book I
Philosopher's Stone (Softcover/Paperback)
This is not really an essay per say, more or less a collection of quotes and thoughts I (and Blueisa) had while reading the first book. As stated above, I read the British paperback, but Blueisa read the German hardcover version. Therefore I won't give page numbers for her.

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