Removing the fallback

I haven't renewed the parking permit for the car this year (where 'year' corresponds to 'academic year'), in a bid to force myself to either walk or ride to work rather than be lazy and drive.

The second bonus is that if I walk, then I get to listen to the podcasts on the Shuffle on the commute as well as whilst walking Mali.

Whether this .plan will look as inspired in January, in the howling wind and sleet is, of course, another matter, but ambling into work in dry, mild autumnal weather is not exactly one of life's great hardships. ;-)

OotP Re-Read: And Another Thing

cynthia_black wondered about who was allowed to touch the prophecy - it's labelled as (?)Harry Potter, when, as Dumbledore reveals later, it could just as easily have been (?)Neville Longbottom.

But, as we established earlier on in the re-read, Trelawney made the prophecy before either of the boys had been born. So...

...when was the prophecy stored in the glass globe? When was it labelled? If it was labelled after it had been saved, then who was able to touch it to label it? And alright, this is just one prophecy, but it's clear that there are thousands upon thousands of these stored in the Ministry, so the logistics of administration are looking suspiciously non-trivial.

The Order of the Phoenix Re-Read: Chapter 36

( OotP ch 36: The Only One He Ever Feared )