If "reprieve" was in the sense of "he was going to die, but now won't", then I doubt it. Harry's death and revival were the turning point of the book - if he'd stayed dead, what would have happened? Neville beheads V with the sword after killing Nagini?
I won't try to guess who it was though. It wouldn't be noticeable if a death scene was simply taken out or not written; the character doesn't even need to be visibly in danger. It's impossible to see from the finished story what might have been but wasn't.
Looking at it from a reader's perspective, yes. But if you try to see it from the writer's perspective:
Tonks and Lupin die off-screen and gratuitously, after the real battle is over (because Harry has already won; he just needs to clean up). If she hadn't planned on it, why do it? It strikes me that an "unintentional" character death in fiction would be more likely to occur in the middle of a dramatic scene where the story is "writing itself", not in such a tedious recount...
My two guesses are Wormtail (if villains count) and Dobby. Neither of their deaths were essential for the big plot (she didn't need to have planned them), but both were fairly dramatic (in Wormtail's case, being killed by showing gratitude/mercy, and in Dobby's case due to the burial afterward). Looking back, they seem like plot opportunities that opened unexpectedly and couldn't be passed up.
Arabella Figg is a close fit. She doesn't actually do magic (afaik she's a squib), but she does turn out to be part of the wizarding world when she was previously assumed to be a Muggle. She was mentioned by name once in book 4 (lending a tent to someone, I think), but not in a way that the connection really became apparent.
No. All along, the intention of Voldemort was to create six horcruxes (horcruci?); the seventh part of his soul was to remain in his body.
In fact, I seem to remember Harry making the same mistake and Dumbledore reminding him that they're only looking for four (not five) more horcruxes in HBP.
Congratulations on providing competent hosting then!:)
I know that PHP5 is (fortunately) getting increasing support from hosts. I myself switched to a different one for exactly this reason and would never consider a host that doesn't have PHP5.
However, unless the statistics are skewed or outdated, they still show PHP5 adoption well below 50%...
Rejection, for one example. The human immune system is pretty paranoid when it encounters anything foreign and organic, such as a transplant. My knowledge of biology comes mostly from Wikipedia, so I don't know what happens to inorganic implants, but I would guess they don't cause that problem because the body doesn't recognize them as tissue.
Not having to artificially knock out your immunity with medication for a long time after an operation (if it works at all) would be a big plus.
You'd be surprised how many shared web-hosts are still out there running ancient and unpatched PHP versions. Partly out of laziness and partly out of an unwillingness to make their customers work on their equally ancient applications. register_globals being enabled can be one of the least security concerns there.
At the risk of "whooooosh" (sarcasm meter is broken), I'll point out that I meant "The word [you're after] is cheques". I included the verb "is" because it is the one "word" has to agree with ("word is" or "words are", but not "words is"). I left out "you're after" for brevity and to make it clear what part was the error.
And magazines have huge, page-wide advertisements. The difference is that all reputable magazines clearly distinguish the content that they are getting paid to include from the content that they produce themselves. And of course that no content fits both of these.
In a completely non-trolling and neither MS- nor Googlebashing way, I feel like poking fun at the fact that MS has to fabricate their vaporware all by themselves, while Google can have it for free without a single official press announcement.
I wonder if that one'll end up blocked, like flickr in China. Perhaps in the future, I'll have to take a WLAN-equipped notebook around town, looking for an unprotected hotspot, and use some highly encrypted, anonymized tunnel while looking over my shoulder for the Gestapo squads. And all that just to check my email!:P
It's a case of "disagreeing to agree". They're making the same point, but superficial reading has caused the GP (of this post) to think the GGP was convinced of the opposite. RTFP...
Double the ads don't mean double the revenue - the people aren't going to click or buy more. The existing revenue is split between you and the leech. Not evenly, of course - not every click on the leech's ads would go to your ads otherwise - but you're definitely getting less.
Not to mention that more ads on a page make it less attractive. So not only are they effectively setting up a competitive business that thrives on your product; they're devaluing your product in the process.
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If "reprieve" was in the sense of "he was going to die, but now won't", then I doubt it. Harry's death and revival were the turning point of the book - if he'd stayed dead, what would have happened? Neville beheads V with the sword after killing Nagini?
I won't try to guess who it was though. It wouldn't be noticeable if a death scene was simply taken out or not written; the character doesn't even need to be visibly in danger. It's impossible to see from the finished story what might have been but wasn't.
Looking at it from a reader's perspective, yes. But if you try to see it from the writer's perspective:
Tonks and Lupin die off-screen and gratuitously, after the real battle is over (because Harry has already won; he just needs to clean up). If she hadn't planned on it, why do it? It strikes me that an "unintentional" character death in fiction would be more likely to occur in the middle of a dramatic scene where the story is "writing itself", not in such a tedious recount...
My two guesses are Wormtail (if villains count) and Dobby. Neither of their deaths were essential for the big plot (she didn't need to have planned them), but both were fairly dramatic (in Wormtail's case, being killed by showing gratitude/mercy, and in Dobby's case due to the burial afterward). Looking back, they seem like plot opportunities that opened unexpectedly and couldn't be passed up.
(Well, or Bellatrix.)
Down with DRM!
Hagrid did magic pretty much throughout the series, though not often and very covertly.
I assume this is about OOTP, not DH?
Arabella Figg is a close fit. She doesn't actually do magic (afaik she's a squib), but she does turn out to be part of the wizarding world when she was previously assumed to be a Muggle. She was mentioned by name once in book 4 (lending a tent to someone, I think), but not in a way that the connection really became apparent.
No. All along, the intention of Voldemort was to create six horcruxes (horcruci?); the seventh part of his soul was to remain in his body.
In fact, I seem to remember Harry making the same mistake and Dumbledore reminding him that they're only looking for four (not five) more horcruxes in HBP.
Put it away son, it's not worth you getting beat again.
Oh wait, wrong story.
A muscle is not something you can just pull stuff with. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes!
This was funny before I posted it, I swear.
Congratulations on providing competent hosting then! :)
I know that PHP5 is (fortunately) getting increasing support from hosts. I myself switched to a different one for exactly this reason and would never consider a host that doesn't have PHP5.
However, unless the statistics are skewed or outdated, they still show PHP5 adoption well below 50%...
Rejection, for one example. The human immune system is pretty paranoid when it encounters anything foreign and organic, such as a transplant. My knowledge of biology comes mostly from Wikipedia, so I don't know what happens to inorganic implants, but I would guess they don't cause that problem because the body doesn't recognize them as tissue.
Not having to artificially knock out your immunity with medication for a long time after an operation (if it works at all) would be a big plus.
How is this a drawback? :P
You'd be surprised how many shared web-hosts are still out there running ancient and unpatched PHP versions. Partly out of laziness and partly out of an unwillingness to make their customers work on their equally ancient applications. register_globals being enabled can be one of the least security concerns there.
See also http://gophp5.org/
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> "The word you is after"?
At the risk of "whooooosh" (sarcasm meter is broken), I'll point out that I meant "The word [you're after] is cheques". I included the verb "is" because it is the one "word" has to agree with ("word is" or "words are", but not "words is"). I left out "you're after" for brevity and to make it clear what part was the error.
> not to be a spelling nazi, but the words you're after is cheques. im sure it was an honest mistake
... is
:P
- Not
- the word
- I'm
- mistake.
You had this coming; glass houses etc.
Really? I have heard of CDs being efficiently destroyed through microwaving, without any explosive effects. Perhaps the layer of metal is too thin?
I wouldn't try this myself, though.
Not "a tube"? Oh wait, that was for internets. A tube of internets.
Must be "a sphere of bloggers".
Can't be. If there was, Amazon would have tried to patent it already.
And magazines have huge, page-wide advertisements. The difference is that all reputable magazines clearly distinguish the content that they are getting paid to include from the content that they produce themselves. And of course that no content fits both of these.
In a completely non-trolling and neither MS- nor Googlebashing way, I feel like poking fun at the fact that MS has to fabricate their vaporware all by themselves, while Google can have it for free without a single official press announcement.
Perhaps this is a secret to its success...
> two possible outcomes
That are not known to be equally probable - it's an assumption.
> about 50/50
See Principle of indifference, and Statistical significance.
Statistics is not the science of making pretty pie-charts, nor the science of twisting numbers until they sound good to the media.
I use gmail.com anyway, not .de.
:P
I wonder if that one'll end up blocked, like flickr in China. Perhaps in the future, I'll have to take a WLAN-equipped notebook around town, looking for an unprotected hotspot, and use some highly encrypted, anonymized tunnel while looking over my shoulder for the Gestapo squads. And all that just to check my email!
It's a case of "disagreeing to agree". They're making the same point, but superficial reading has caused the GP (of this post) to think the GGP was convinced of the opposite. RTFP...
Double the ads don't mean double the revenue - the people aren't going to click or buy more. The existing revenue is split between you and the leech. Not evenly, of course - not every click on the leech's ads would go to your ads otherwise - but you're definitely getting less.
Not to mention that more ads on a page make it less attractive. So not only are they effectively setting up a competitive business that thrives on your product; they're devaluing your product in the process.
Egg? "Real vegetarian" does not mean "Vegan".
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As for worse things to be associated with than salads, try surgical procedures. Messy.