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Reading Chapter Three: The Burrow
"Ron." breathed Harry, creeping to the window and pushing it up so they could talk through the bars.
Remus muttered under his breath at the mention of the bars.
"Ron, how did you -? What the -?"
"Ron, how did you get here? And what the heck are you doing?" Harry completed.
Harry's mouth fell open as the full impact of what he was seeing hit him. Ron was leaning out of the back window of an old turquoise car, which was parked in midair. Grinning at Harry from the front seats were Fred and George, Ron's elder twin brothers.
"Ronniekins was too young to drive," Fred said.
"So of course we had to come!"
"All right, Harry?" asked George.
"Oh yeah, just being held captive by my aunt and uncle, didn't you notice the bars?" Harry answered him in a mock cheery voice.
"What's been going on?" said Ron. "Why haven't you been answering my letters? I've asked you to stay about twelve times, and then Dad came home and said you'd got an official warning for using magic in front of Muggles-"
"It wasn't me - and how did he know?"
"He works for the Ministry," said Ron. "You know we're not supposed to do spells outside school-"
"You know, you really sounded like Hermione there mate," Harry teased. Hermione glared at him. "Not that that's a bad thing at all!" Harry added quickly.
"You should talk," said Harry, staring at the floating car.
"Oh, this doesn't count," said Ron. "We're only borrowing this. It's Dad's, we didn't enchant it.
Mrs. Weasley shot a glare at her husband, who carefully avoided looking at her.
But doing magic in front of those Muggles you live with-"
"I told you, I didn't - but it'll take too long to explain now - look, can you tell them at Hogwarts that the Dursleys have locked me up and won't let me come back, and obviously I can't magic myself out, because the Ministry'll think that's the second spell I've done in three days, so-"
"You're rambling Harry," Hermione said.
"And you're talking to a book," Harry pointed out and Hermione blushed.
"Stop gibbering," said Ron. "We've come to take you home with us."
"But you can't magic me out either-"
"Harry!" George cried. "How can you-"
"-have so little faith in our abilities?"
"We don't need to," said Ron, jerking his head toward the front seat and grinning. "You forget who I've got with me."
"Tie that around the bars," said Fred, throwing the end of a rope to Harry.
"If the Dursleys wake up, I'm dead," said Harry as he tied the rope tightly around a bar and Fred revved up the car.
"Don't worry," said Fred, "and stand back."
"You know, hearing the words 'don't worry' from either of you two is worrying." Ginny pointed out.
George shrugged. "Yeah we know."
"That's why we say it." Fred grinned.
Harry moved back into the shadows next to Hedwig, who seemed to have realized how important this was and kept still and silent.
"She is so smart," Luna sighed happily.
Harry nodded. "Yeah, she is."
The car revved louder and louder and suddenly, with a crunching noise, the bars were pulled clean out of the window as Fred drove straight up in the air. Harry ran back to the window to see the bars dangling a few feet above the ground. Panting, Ron hoisted them up into the car.
"Those were really heavy too," Ron complained. "It was like they were made out of pure steel or something!"
"Probably were," Harry said easily.
Harry listened anxiously, but there was no sound from the Dursleys' bedroom.
"Now that didn't wake them up, but Hedwig did?" Ginny asked incredulously and Harry shrugged.
When the bars were safely in the back seat with Ron, Fred reversed as close as possible to Harry's window.
"Get in," Ron said.
"But all my Hogwarts stuff - my wand - my broomstick-"
"Couldn't leave the broomstick behind." Harry said solemnly.
Hermione sighed. "Boys," she shook her head.
"Where is it?"
"Locked in the cupboard under the stairs, and I can't get out of this room-"
"No problem," said George from the front passenger seat. "Out of the way, Harry."
Fred and George climbed catlike through the window into Harry's room.
"A lot of things are catlike so far," Neville pointed out.
You had to hand it to them, thought Harry, as George took an ordinary hairpin from his pocket and started to pick the lock.
"Ah, the art of picking locks, always a good thing to know," Remus mused.
"Remus!" Molly scolded. "You shouldn't be encouraging them!"
Remus shrugged but whispered to Harry. "Old habits die hard."
"A lot of wizards think it's a waste of time, knowing this sort of Muggle trick," said Fred, "but we feel they're skills worth learning, even if they are a bit slow."
Remus nodded. "Plus it does come in handy. More often than not, a wizard just magically locks a door that can still be opened the Muggle way."
There was a small click and the door swung open.
"So - we'll get your trunk - you grab anything you need from your room and hand it out to Ron," whispered George.
"Watch out for the bottom stair - it creaks," Harry whispered back as the twins disappeared onto the dark landing.
Harry dashed around his room, collecting his things and passing them out of the window to Ron.
Harry shrugged. "There wasn't really much in my room."
Then he went to help Fred and George heave his trunk up the stairs. Harry heard Uncle Vernon cough.
"And we were making a fair bit of noise," Harry said helpfully.
"Well yeah, because your trunk was heavy!" George protested.
"Yeah what did you have in there? Books?" Fred laughed.
At last, panting, they reached the landing, then carried the trunk through Harry's room to the open window. Fred climbed back into the car to pull with Ron, and Harry and George pushed from the bedroom side. Inch by inch, the trunk slid through the window.
"I kind of kept expecting it to fall down to the ground," Ron admitted.
Uncle Vernon coughed again.
"And it's only the owl that wakes him up," Neville said, shaking his head. "Unbelievable."
"A bit more," panted Fred, who was pulling from inside the car. "One good push-"
Harry and George threw their shoulders against the trunk and it slid out of the window into the back seat of the car.
"Okay, let's go," George whispered.
But as Harry climbed onto the windowsill there came a sudden loud screech from behind him, followed immediately by the thunder of Uncle Vernon's voice.
"You forget Hedwig!" Luna cried as most people paled at the thought of Vernon Dursley being awakened in the middle of Harry's breakout.
"Seriously?" Neville sighed.
"I've forgotten Hedwig!"
"No kidding."
"Shut up."
Harry tore back across the room as the landing light clicked on - he snatched up Hedwig's cage, dashed to the window, and passed it out to Ron. He was scrambling back onto the chest of drawers when Uncle Vernon hammered on the unlocked door - and it crashed open.
"Oh not good," Ginny said, holding her breath, even though she knew the outcome.
For a split second, Uncle Vernon stood framed in the doorway; then he let out a bellow like an angry bull
"I thought he was a rhino?" Fred asked Harry who shrugged.
"Really, it varies."
and dived at Harry, grabbing him by the ankle.
Ron, Fred, and George seized Harry's arms and pulled as hard as they could.
"Petunia!" roared Uncle Vernon. "He's getting away! HE'S GETTING AWAY!"
"Shouldn't he have been happy?" Neville wondered. "I mean, he doesn't like Harry."
"That's true Neville," Remus answered. "But he likes being in control. He also likes making Harry miserable, which was achieved as long as Harry was at that house." Remus paused. "That and he's a total idiot."
Everyone laughed, except for Mrs. Weasley who was glaring slightly at Remus.
But the Weasleys gave a gigantic tug and Harry's leg slid out of Uncle Vernon's grasp - Harry was in the car - he'd slammed the door shut-
"Put your foot down, Fred!" yelled Ron, and the car shot suddenly toward the moon.
Harry couldn't believe it - he was free. He rolled down the window, the night air whipping his hair, and looked back at the shrinking rooftops of Privet Drive. Uncle Vernon, Aunt Petunia, and Dudley were all hanging, dumbstruck, out of Harry's window.
"And none of them fell out?" Ginny asked disappointedly.
"Nope," Harry sighed as well.
"See you next summer!" Harry yelled.
Several people chuckled at Harry's parting words.
The Weasleys roared with laughter and Harry settled back in his seat, grinning from ear to ear.
"Let Hedwig out," he told Ron. "She can fly behind us. She hasn't had a chance to stretch her wings for ages."
"Good." Luna sighed.
George handed the hairpin to Ron and, a moment later, Hedwig soared joyfully out of the window to glide alongside them like a ghost.
Harry shivered slightly at that line which didn't settle well with him for some reason.
"So - what's the story, Harry?" said Ron impatiently. "What's been happening?"
Harry told them all about Dobby, the warning he'd given Harry and the fiasco of the violet pudding.
"The violet pudding fiasco?" Hermione repeated questioningly.
"Well it was!" Harry argued.
There was a long, shocked silence when he had finished.
"Very fishy," said Fred finally.
"Definitely dodgy" agreed George. "So he wouldn't even tell you who's supposed to be plotting all this stuff?"
"I don't think he could," said Harry. "I told you, every time he got close to letting something slip, he started banging his head against the wall."
He saw Fred and George look at each other.
"What, you think he was lying to me?" said Harry.
"Did you?" Harry asked the twins again.
They shrugged. "We didn't know what to think actually," George began.
"But we knew that it wouldn't be good." Fred finished.
"Of course, nothing around you ever is."
"Well," said Fred, "put it this way - house-elves have got powerful magic of their own, but they can't usually use it without their master's permission. I reckon old Dobby was sent to stop you coming back to Hogwarts. Someone's idea of a joke. Can you think of anyone at school with a grudge against you?"
"Gee I don't know anyone that would have a grudge against me," Harry said with mock sincerity.
"Yes," said Harry and Ron together, instantly.
"Draco Malfoy," Harry explained. "He hates me."
"Draco Malfoy?" said George, turning around. "Not Lucius Malfoy's son?"
"How many Malfoys do you know?" Ginny asked.
"Must be, it's not a very common name, is it?" said Harry.
"I agree Ginny," Harry laughed, missing the slightly embarrassed look on Ginny's face.
"I've heard Dad talking about him," said George. "He was a big supporter of You-Know-Who."
"And when You-Know-Who disappeared," said Fred, craning around to look at Harry, "Lucius Malfoy came back saying he'd never meant any of it. Load of dung - Dad reckons he was right in You- Know-Who's inner circle."
"Oh he was." Remus muttered, thinking about how many times he had seen Malfoy during one of the early Order's missions. The long blonde hair was a bit of a dead giveaway every time.
Harry had heard these rumors about Malfoy's family before, and they didn't surprise him at all. Malfoy made Dudley Dursley look like a kind, thoughtful, and sensitive boy...
"I wouldn't go that far Harry," Fred said.
"We both know that Dudders is anything but thoughtful," George continued.
"Since he's never had one thought!" They finished.
"I don't know whether the Malfoys own a house-elf..." said Harry.
"Well, whoever owns him will be an old wizarding family, and they'll be rich," said Fred.
"Yeah, Mum's always wishing we had a house-elf to do the ironing," said George. "But all we've got is a lousy old ghoul in the attic and gnomes all over the garden. House-elves come with big old manors and castles and places like that; you wouldn't catch one in our house..."
Harry was silent. Judging by the fact that Draco Malfoy usually had the best of everything, his family was rolling in wizard gold; he could just see Malfoy strutting around a large manor house. Sending the family servant to stop Harry from going back to Hogwarts also sounded exactly like the sort of thing Malfoy would do.
"Yeah it does," Ron agreed.
Had Harry been stupid to take Dobby seriously?
"No, you hadn't." Hermione said vehemently. "He was right wasn't he?"
"I'm glad we came to get you, anyway," said Ron. "I was getting really worried when you didn't answer any of my letters. I thought it was Errol's fault at first-"
"Who's Errol?"
"Our owl. He's ancient. It wouldn't be the first time he'd collapsed on a delivery. So then I tried to borrow Hermes-"
"Well he does sound like that Harry," Fred said teasingly.
"The owl Mum and Dad bought Percy when he was made prefect," said Fred from the front.
"But Percy wouldn't lend him to me," said Ron. "Said he needed him."
"Percy's been acting very oddly this summer," said George, frowning. "And he has been sending a lot of letters and spending a load of time shut up in his room... I mean, there's only so many times you can polish a prefect badge...
Most of the Weasley's turned to glare at Percy, who blushed bright red, but his parents didn't even look his way, not being able to see their eldest son ignoring them.
You're driving too far west, Fred," he added, pointing at a compass on the dashboard. Fred twiddled the steering wheel.
"So, does your dad know you've got the car?" said Harry, guessing the answer.
"Why'd you even bother to ask?" Hermione laughed.
Harry shrugged. "Part of me was hoping I was wrong."
"Er, no," said Ron, "he had to work tonight. Hopefully we'll be able to get it back in the garage without Mum noticing we flew it."
"Good luck with that plan," Remus said.
"What does your dad do at the Ministry of Magic, anyway?"
"He works in the most boring department," said Ron. "The Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Office.
"It is not boring!" Mr. Weasley protested.
"We know Arthur," Mrs. Weasley sighed.
"The what?"
"It's all to do with bewitching things that are Muggle-made, you know, in case they end up back in a Muggle shop or house. Like, last year, some old witch died and her tea set was sold to an antiques shop. This Muggle woman bought it, took it home, and tried to serve her friends tea in it. It was a nightmare - Dad was working overtime for weeks."
"What happened?"
"The teapot went berserk and squirted boiling tea all over the place and one man ended up in the hospital with the sugar tongs clamped to his nose.
"Ouch," Neville winced sympathetically, rubbing his own nose.
Dad was going frantic - it's only him and an old warlock called Perkins in the office - and they had to do Memory Charms and all sorts of stuff to cover it up-"
Fred and George were coughing to cover up their sniggers.
"But your dad - this car-"
Fred laughed. "Yeah, Dad's crazy about everything to do with Muggles; our shed's full of Muggle stuff. He takes it apart, puts spells on it, and puts it back together again. If he raided our house he'd have to put himself under arrest. It drives Mum mad."
Mr. Weasley blushed and Fred laughed. "Sorry Dad."
"That's the main road," said George, peering down through the windshield. "We'll be there in ten minutes... Just as well, it's getting light..."
A faint pinkish glow was visible along the horizon to the east.
Fred brought the car lower, and Harry saw a dark patchwork of fields and clumps of trees.
"We're a little way outside the village," said George. "Ottery St. Catchpole."
Lower and lower went the flying car. The edge of a brilliant red sun was now gleaming through the trees.
"Touchdown!" said Fred as, with a slight bump, they hit the ground. They had landed next to a tumbledown garage in a small yard, and Harry looked out for the first time at Ron's house.
It looked as though it had once been a large stone pigpen, but extra rooms had been added here and there until it was several stories high and so crooked it looked as though it were held up by magic
"Because it is?" Ron suggested helpfully.
(which Harry reminded himself, it probably was).
"I kind of got that mate," Harry laughed.
Four or five chimneys were perched on top of the red roof. A lopsided sign stuck in the ground near the entrance read, THE BURROW . Around the front door lay a jumble of rubber boots and a very rusty cauldron. Several fat brown chickens were pecking their way around the yard.
"It's not much," said Ron.
"It's wonderful ," said Harry happily, thinking of Privet Drive.
Nearly everyone nodded and smiled at the description of the Burrow.
They got out of the car.
"Now, we'll go upstairs really quietly," said Fred, "and wait for Mum to call us for breakfast Then, Ron, you come bounding downstairs going, 'Mum, look who turned up in the night!' and she'll be all pleased to see Harry and no one need ever know we flew the car."
"Aren't you forgetting about the clock?" Ginny asked her older brothers.
"We were kind of hoping that she hadn't noticed since it was nighttime and all," Fred shrugged.
Mrs. Weasley huffed. "I always check the clock when your father works late."
"Good to know Mum," George winked.
"Right," said Ron. "Come on, Harry, I sleep at the - at the top-"
Ron had gone a nasty greenish color, his eyes fixed on the house. The other three wheeled around.
Mrs. Weasley was marching across the yard, scattering chickens, and for a short, plump, kind-faced woman, it was remarkable how much she looked like a saber-toothed tiger.
"Thank you Harry dear," Mrs. Weasley said and Harry wasn't sure whether she was being serious or not.
"Ah , "said Fred.
"Oh, dear," said George.
Mrs. Weasley came to a halt in front of them, her hands on her hips, staring from one guilty face to the next. She was wearing a flowered apron with a wand sticking out of the pocket.
"So ," she said.
"It's never good when you get caught and the first words are 'so'." Remus said, shaking his head.
"Morning, Mum," said George, in what he clearly thought was a jaunty, winning voice.
"Which didn't work," Fred said, shaking his head.
"Worth a shot," George shrugged.
"Have you any idea how worried I've been?" said Mrs. Weasley in a deadly whisper.
"Sorry, Mum, but see, we had to-"
All three of Mrs. Weasley's sons were taller than she was, but they cowered as her rage broke over them.
Those who had experienced the rage of Molly Weasley, in other words, all of the Weasleys, Harry, Hermione, and Remus who had gotten on Molly's bad side during the early days of last summer, winced sympathetically.
"Beds empty! No note! Car gone - could have crashed - out of my mind with worry - did you care? - never, as long as I've lived - you wait until your father gets home, we never had trouble like this from Bill or Charlie
"They just didn't get caught," Fred mumbled to George.
or Percy -"
"Perfect Percy," muttered Fred.
"Percy the Prat," George corrected his brother.
"YOU COULD DO WITH TAKING A LEAF OUT OF PERCY'S BOOK!" yelled Mrs. Weasley, prodding a finger in Fred's chest.
Fred snorted. "I wouldn't even touch Percy's book with a ten foot pole."
"You could have died, you could have been seen , you could have lost your father his job-"
[*It seemed to go on for hours. Mrs. Weasley had shouted herself hoarse before she turned on Harry, who backed away.
"I don't blame you," Ginny whispered sympathetically.
"I'm very pleased to see you, Harry, dear," she said. "Come in and have some breakfast."
She turned and walked back into the house and Harry, after a nervous glance at Ron, who nodded encouragingly, followed her.
The kitchen was small and rather cramped. There was a scrubbed wooden table and chairs in the middle, and Harry sat down on the edge of his seat, looking around. He had never been in a wizard house before.
"Not that I could remember anyway," Harry added, wondering if his parents' house had been anything like that.
The clock on the wall opposite him had only one hand and no numbers at all. Written around the edge were things like Time to make tea, Time to feed the chickens, and You're late. Books were stacked three deep on the mantelpiece, books with titles like Charm Your Own Cheese, Enchantment in Baking, and One Minute Feasts - It's Magic! And unless Harry's ears were deceiving him, the old radio next to the sink had just announced that coming up was "Witching Hour, with the popular singing sorceress, Celestina Warbeck."
"Ugh, I don't know how you like her Mum, she's awful," Ron complained.
Mrs. Weasley was clattering around, cooking breakfast a little haphazardly, throwing dirty looks at her sons as she threw sausages into the frying pan. Every now and then she muttered things like "don't know what you were thinking of," and " never would have believed it."
"I don't blame you , dear," she assured Harry, tipping eight or nine sausages onto his plate. "Arthur and I have been worried about you, too. Just last night we were saying we'd come and get you ourselves if you hadn't written back to Ron by Friday. But really," (she was now adding three fried eggs to his plate) "flying an illegal car halfway across the country - anyone could have seen you-"
"But they didn't," Fred added helpfully.
She flicked her wand casually at the dishes in the sink, which began to clean themselves, clinking gently in the background.
"It was cloudy , Mum!" said Fred.
"See I even agree with myself!"
"You keep your mouth closed while you're eating!" Mrs. Weasley snapped.
"They were starving him, Mum!" said George.
"And you!" said Mrs. Weasley,
Remus frowned slightly. Granted at the time George said it Molly could have been thinking that he was just trying to get out of trouble, but surely she could have looked into it a bit more…?
but it was with a slightly softened expression that she started cutting Harry's bread and buttering it for him.
At that moment there was a diversion in the form of a small, redheaded figure in a long nightdress, who appeared in the kitchen, gave a small squeal, and ran out again.
"Oh no!" Ginny cried, hiding her face to cover her embarrassment. Why did she have to sit next to Harry for this book?
"It's all right Ginny," Harry reassured her, but that didn't make her lift her head up again.
"Ginny," said Ron in an undertone to Harry. "My sister. She's been talking about you all summer."
"Yeah, she'll be wanting your autograph, Harry," Fred said with a grin,
Ginny groaned into her hands.
but he caught his mother's eye and bent his face over his plate without another word. Nothing more was said until all four plates were clean, which took a surprisingly short time.
Ron laughed. "That happens a lot in our house."
"Blimey , I'm tired," yawned Fred, setting down his knife and fork at last. "I think I'll go to bed and-"
"Nice try, but not going to work," Remus said shaking his head.
"You will not," snapped Mrs. Weasley. "It's your own fault you've been up all night. You're going to de-gnome the garden for me; they're getting completely out of hand again-"
"Oh, Mum-"
"And you two," she said, glaring at Ron and Fred. "You can go up to bed, dear," she added to Harry. "You didn't ask them to fly that wretched car-"
But Harry, who felt wide awake, said quickly, "I'll help Ron. I've never seen a de-gnoming-"
Ron sighed. "Only you would think a degnoming is exciting."
"That's very sweet of you, dear, but it's dull work," said Mrs. Weasley. "Now, let's see what Lockhart's got to say on the subject-"
"Not Gilderoy Lockhart?" Remus interrupted.
"You know him?" Harry asked and Remus nodded.
"He was two years above us, and was a complete git. We suspected that the only way he passed his O.W.L.s was because most of the examiners were witches."
"Lupin!" McGonagall said sharply but Remus rolled his eyes.
"Oh come on Professor, even you know he was an idiot."
And she pulled a heavy book from the stack on the mantelpiece. George groaned.
"Mum, we know how to de-gnome a garden-"
Harry looked at the cover of Mrs. Weasley's book. Written across it in fancy gold letters were the words Gilderoy Lockhart's Guide to Household Pests . There was a big photograph on the front of a very good-looking wizard with wavy blond hair and bright blue eyes. As always in the wizarding world, the photograph was moving; the wizard, who Harry supposed was Gilderoy Lockhart, kept winking cheekily up at them all.
"Of course," Remus muttered.
Mrs. Weasley beamed down at him.
"Oh, he is marvelous," she said. "He knows his household pests, all right, it's a wonderful book..."
Remus was looking at Mrs. Weasley with a bemused look.
"Mum fancies him," said Fred, in a very audible whisper.
Fred shrank back from the glare his mother was giving him.
"Don't be so ridiculous, Fred," said Mrs. Weasley, her cheeks rather pink.
The twins were coughing to hide their laughter.
"All right, if you think you know better than Lockhart, you can go and get on with it, and woe betide you if there's a single gnome in that garden when I come out to inspect it."
"Woe betide you Mum?" Ginny laughed. "Really?"
Yawning and grumbling, the Weasleys slouched outside with Harry behind them. The garden was large, and in Harry's eyes, exactly what a garden should be. The Dursleys wouldn't have liked it - there were plenty of weeds, and the grass needed cutting - but there were gnarled trees all around the walls, plants Harry had never seen spilling from every flower bed, and a big green pond full of frogs.
"Muggles have garden gnomes, too, you know," Harry told Ron they crossed the lawn.
"Yeah, I've seen those things they think are gnomes," said Ron, bent double with his head in a peony bush, "like fat little Santa Clauses with fishing rods..."
"Well not all of them look like that," Hermione said, speaking for the first time in a while.
There was a violent scuffling noise, the peony bush shuddered, and Ron straightened up. "This is a gnome," he said grimly.
"Gerroff me! Gerroff me!" squealed the gnome.
It was certainly nothing like Santa Claus. It was small and leathery looking, with a large, knobby, bald head exactly like a potato.
"Charming." Luna smiled happily.
Ron held it at arm's length as it kicked out at him with its horny little feet; he grasped it around the ankles and turned it upside down.
"This is what you have to do," he said. He raised the gnome above his head ("Gerroff me!")
"That's all they really say," Ron said with a shrug.
and started to swing it in great circles like a lasso. Seeing the shocked look on Harry's face, Ron added, "It doesn't hurt them -you've just got to make them really dizzy so they can't find their way back to the gnome holes."
He let go of the gnome's ankles: It flew twenty feet into the air and landed with a thud in the field over the hedge.
"Pitiful," said Fred. "I bet I can get mine beyond that stump."
"And I did!" Fred added proudly.
Harry learned quickly not to feel too sorry for the gnomes. He decided just to drop the first one he caught over the hedge, but the gnome, sensing weakness, sank its razor-sharp teeth into Harry's finger and he had a hard job shaking it off - until-
"Wow, Harry - that must've been fifty feet..."
"I think you beat Charlie's record with that one…" Ron mused.
The air was soon thick with flying gnomes.
"See, they're not too bright," said George, seizing five or six gnomes at once. "The moment they know the de-gnoming's going on, they storm up to have a look. You'd think they'd have learned by now just to stay put."
Soon, the crowd of gnomes in the field started walking away in a straggling line, their little shoulders hunched.
"They'll be back," said Ron as they watched the gnomes disappear into the hedge on the other side of the field. "They love it here... Dad's too soft with them; he thinks they're funny..."
Mr. Weasley looked at his wife helplessly and shrugged.
Just then, the front door slammed.
"He's back!" said George. "Dad's home!"
They hurried through the garden and back into the house.
Mr. Weasley was slumped in a kitchen chair with his glasses off and his eyes closed. He was a thin man, going bald, but the little hair he had was as red as any of his children's.
"Sorry Mr. Weasley," Harry said sheepishly as Mr. Weasley ran a hand over his head.
He was wearing long green robes, which were dusty and travel-worn.
"What a night," he mumbled, groping for the teapot as they all sat down around him. "Nine raids. Nine! And old Mundungus Fletcher tried to put a hex on me when I had my back turned..."
All those who knew Mundungus Fletcher chuckled under their breaths.
Mr. Weasley took a long gulp of tea and sighed.
"Find anything, Dad?" said Fred eagerly.
"All I got were a few shrinking door keys and a biting kettle," yawned Mr. Weasley. "There was some pretty nasty stuff that wasn't my department, though. Mortlake was taken away for questioning about some extremely odd ferrets,
Ron, Harry, and even Hermione laughed a bit at the mention of the ferrets.
but that's the Committee on Experimental Charms, thank goodness..."
"Why would anyone bother making door keys shrink?" said George.
"Just Muggle-baiting," sighed Mr. Weasley. "Sell them a key that keeps shrinking to nothing so they can never find it when they need it... Of course, it's very hard to convict anyone because no Muggle would admit their key keeps shrinking - they'll insist they just keep losing it. Bless them, they'll go to any lengths to ignore magic, even if it's staring them in the face...
"Kind of like your Uncle eh Harry?" George winked.
But the things our lot have taken to enchanting, you wouldn't believe-"
Mrs. Weasley had appeared, holding a long poker like a sword. Mr. Weasley's eyes jerked open. He stared guiltily at his wife.
"Now you've done it Arthur," Remus chuckled.
"C-cars, Molly, dear?"
"Yes, Arthur, cars," said Mrs. Weasley, her eyes flashing. "Imagine a wizard buying a rusty old car and telling his wife all he wanted to do with it was take it apart to see how it worked, while really he was enchanting it to make it fly ."
Mr. Weasley blinked.
"Well, dear, I think you'll find that he would be quite within the law to do that, even if - er - he maybe would have done better to, um, tell his wife the truth... There's a loophole in the law, you'll find... As long as he wasn't intending to fly the car, the fact that the car could fly wouldn't-"
"Did you write that law Mr. Weasley?" Neville wondered and Mr. Weasley shifted guiltily.
"Arthur Weasley, you made sure there was a loophole when you wrote that law!" shouted Mrs. Weasley.
"Just so you could carry on tinkering with all that Muggle rubbish in your shed! And for your information, Harry arrived this morning in the car you weren't intending to fly!"
"Harry?" said Mr. Weasley blankly. "Harry who?"
"You were the first person that didn't know who I was," Harry said wryly.
"Actually Harry, the first person was you. 'Oh him' ring any bells?" Fred teased.
He looked around, saw Harry, and jumped.
"Good lord, is it Harry Potter? Very pleased to meet you, Ron's told us so much about-"
"Aw, now I didn't get to hear what Ron said!"
"Your sons flew that car to Harry's house and back last night!" shouted Mrs. Weasley. "What have you got to say about that, eh?"
"Did you really?" said Mr. Weasley eagerly. "Did it go all right? I - I mean," he faltered as sparks flew from Mrs. Weasley's eyes, "that - that was very wrong, boys - very wrong indeed..."
Most of the people laughed at Arthur's expense, with the exception of Percy, who was a little red in the face throughout most of the chapter as it described his family.
"Let's leave them to it," Ron muttered to Harry as Mrs. Weasley swelled like a bullfrog. "Come on, I'll show you my bedroom."
They slipped out of the kitchen and down a narrow passageway to an uneven staircase, which wound its way, zigzagging up through the house. On the third landing, a door stood ajar. Harry just caught sight of a pair of bright brown eyes staring at him before it closed with a snap.
"Of course," Ginny mumbled.
"Ginny," said Ron. "You don't know how weird it is for her to be this shy. She never shuts up normally-"
"Thank you so much Ron," Ginny said, rolling her eyes.
They climbed two more flights until they reached a door with peeling paint and a small plaque on it, saying RONALD'S ROOM .
Harry stepped in, his head almost touching the sloping ceiling, and blinked. It was like walking into a furnace:
"Err…what?" Neville asked.
Nearly everything in Ron's room seemed to be a violent shade of orange: the bedspread, the walls, even the ceiling. Then Harry realized that Ron had covered nearly every inch of the shabby wallpaper with posters of the same seven witches and wizards, all wearing bright orange robes, carrying broomsticks, and waving energetically.
"Your Quidditch team?" said Harry.
"The Chudley Cannons," said Ron, pointing at the orange bedspread, which was emblazoned with two giant black C's and a speeding cannonball. "Ninth in the league."
"And how many teams are there in the league Ron?" Harry asked.
Ron mumbled something that could have been "Shut up."
Ron's school spellbooks were stacked untidily in a corner, next to a pile of comics that all seemed to feature The Adventures of Martin Miggs, the Mad Muggle. Ron's magic wand was lying on top of a fish tank full of frog spawn on the windowsill, next to his fat gray rat, Scabbers, who was snoozing in a patch of sun.
"Stupid rat," both Ron and Remus said while Harry just glared at the book.
Harry stepped over a pack of Self-Shuffling playing cards on the floor and looked out of the tiny window. In the field far below he could see a gang of gnomes sneaking one by one back through the Weasleys' hedge.
Mrs. Weasley sighed. Those gnomes just didn't stay away for long.
Then he turned to look at Ron, who was watching him almost nervously, as though waiting for his opinion.
"It's a bit small," said Ron quickly. "Not like that room you had with the Muggles. And I'm right underneath the ghoul in the attic; he's always banging on the pipes and groaning..."
But Harry, grinning widely, said, "This is the best house I've ever been in."
"And it still is," Harry informed the Weasleys with a smile.
Ron's ears went pink.
"That is the end of this chapter," Professor Sprout said.
"I'll read next Pamona," Professor Flitwick squeaked and levitated the book over to himself. He settled down in his chair until he was comfortable, then turned the page.


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MADISON, Wis. (WTAQ) - Wisconsin's next state budget is already $2.5 billion in the hole. And the Legislative Fiscal Bureau says the shortfall could grow by another $219 million over the next two years if the federal estate tax is not restored.
Wisconsin's estate tax has traditionally been linked to the national tax – and the state was collecting hundreds of millions of dollars until the federal tax was phased out over the last decade.
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FLOWERY BRANCH –Falcons coach Mike Smith, who's in his third year and is the first coach in team history to post back-to-back winning season, doesn't want the veterans to have a sense of entitlement.
Expect the tempo to be fast and furious when the mini-camp opens today.
"I told the guys when we started the offseason conditioning program, we are familiar with one another and this is year three," Smith said. "The thing I want to guard against is complacency because we know one another. They know the routine that we do in terms of the offseason and in terms of weightlifting and on the field work. So we are going change some things up and our offseason evaluations and how we do things. It's not going to be status quo in terms been doing in the first two years."
He said the changes will be subtle and really just points of emphasis in different areas of the game.
(Saturday's practices are open to the public)
Friday: Practice — 10:30 a.m. (closed to the public), practice — 4:15 p.m. (closed to the public).
Saturday: Practice — 10:30 a.m. (Practice is open to the public, gates open at 9:30 a.m.). Practice — 4:15 p.m. (Practice is open to the public, gates open at 3:15 p.m.)
Sunday: Practice — 10:30 a.m. (closed to the public).
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May 7th, 2010
7:45 am
Awesome! Can't wait to see the new birds in action!
May 7th, 2010
7:46 am
Drive safely D.Led. Let us know if you see anything worth noting.
May 7th, 2010
8:23 am
Can't wait to get there tomorrow morning
May 7th, 2010
8:27 am
DO Led, will the batmobile be at the Branch tomorrow? Would love just say high and meet the Godfather himself…
May 7th, 2010
8:28 am
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May 7th, 2010
9:01 am
I wish it was Football season for real – Hawks and Braves are a waste of time…
May 7th, 2010
9:02 am
D-Led, I'm curioius about one thing you said in the "5 things" yesterday. Does Smith mean that Abe's production dropped due to the secondary because WRs were so open that QBs could get rid of the ball too quickly? Usually he has made the point that the DLs got to help the secondary.
May 7th, 2010
10:37 am
d led what about w. moore is he out then?
May 7th, 2010
11:06 am
sorry a falcons changing the tempo wont help at winning your division
May 7th, 2010
11:18 am
Any TO sightings? Crop circles? Big foot? UFOs?
May 7th, 2010
12:06 pm
Who will the surprises be?? Some will be better than expected and some not as good.
May 7th, 2010
12:12 pm
Have fun up there D! Wish I could go but the work monster and the family have other plans for me. I look forward to your updates!
Another injury to Moore, though minor, does concern me….
May 7th, 2010
12:14 pm
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May 7th, 2010
12:31 pm
This is getting old.
1) "back-to-back winning season," – should be "winning seasons"
2) "in terms been doing" – should be "in terms of what we've been doing"
What college did you graduate from? I think they need to lose their certification.
May 7th, 2010
12:42 pm
Prof……get a life man.
May 7th, 2010
12:43 pm
To Prof: Where do you teach? Let me help you.
From which college did you graduate? I think it should lose it's accreditation.
Keep up the good work D.Orlando!
May 7th, 2010
12:48 pm
To Prof, if you don't like our sports verbage on this blog, by all means go and follow the Detroit Lions blog sessions. We only care about our daily bird updates here.
May 7th, 2010
12:49 pm
Someone who structures a sentence as follows can hardly question the education of another:
"What college did you graduate from?"
May 7th, 2010
12:56 pm
cowboy 5 time chumps- you finally won a playoff game since when? matt ryan will do bigger things with the falcons than tony homo ever dreamed of
May 7th, 2010
12:59 pm
Prof = douche
May 7th, 2010
1:00 pm
Thanks DO Led. I'll enjoy the updates, warts and all. Glad Prof was not grading my essays.
May 7th, 2010
1:18 pm
Was mini camp open to the public today? If anyone went, please tell me how the secondary is looking. I am a teacher and could not get off. Thank you.
May 7th, 2010
1:21 pm
Looks like da prof has rund ouwf wit his haed tween his lags.
Freak'n dork.
May 7th, 2010
1:31 pm
When you point 1 finger at someone else you inevitably point four at yourself. Prof, it looks like you're being taught a thing or two! Keep up the good work D- Led


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Our Night's Watch Dragonglass Dagger Set aka the "Beyond the Wall Survival Kit" will go on sale this Saturday. More images will be posted between now and then.
The kit includes a real obsidian dagger and arrowheads, sheath and belt pouch, and is mostly made in the USA.
Another beautiful addition to my collection.
Don't know if this has been asked/answered already, but will they be numbered? And will the orders be issued in random numbers, or similar to the Damascus issues? Thx
Yes they will be numbered, and yes we will try to give people numbers matching their order.
Being made in the US these are being made on demand (more or less) as opposed to all at once. So higher numbers won't always be available because they won't be made yet. But if you have an early order you will be able to request a low number.
How big is the knife?
will you be putting up a picture of the full set?
Knife is just under 6 inches, each one is slightly different though because it is hand made with a natural product.
We are going to be adding more pictures.
Can't wait! Another great item, thank you very much Valyrian!
Purchase made. Can't wait, looks awesome!
@ Valyrian. Any update on when the Dragonglass set begins to ship?
Everything is ready to go. We're waiting on something special GRRM is writing to be included in the kit, and he is really busy. As soon as he turns it in, we'll get it to the printer, and then the product will ship.
Great. I appreciate the response. Looking forward to the many new products.
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Pine Siskins, whose presence in this vicinity has been noted for several weeks, seem to be more numerous. Watching a large flock of these birds in a Cottonwood grove recently we were reminded, by their nervous movements as they fluttered about from branch to branch, of windblown leaves in the fall for their small size and general streaked brownish color made them appear as such. They seemed to be hardly still for a moment and then they would rise in unison into the air with a whir of wings -- only to return again to their original perch soon after. Then there are the Juncoes. About the size of a Sparrow their black head and throat and white streaks upon the tail (the latter being much in evidence in flight) they are readily recognized.
The most noteworthy visitor, however, during the past month is the Pileated Woodpecker. One of these giants of the woodpecker clan has been keeping such close watch on the trees about the Museum that it would seem to be inadviseable to venture about the building without a hat. Anyone who has seen this bird and watched him in his search for grubs will readily appreciate that statement for he can use that powerful beak of his much like a woodsman does an axe. Striking from side to side he removes large plates of bark and if he finds a grub -- well it will still be a grub but in a different sense. The large size and conspicuous though ungainly appearance readily identifies him. He is about the size of a Crow; jet black except for a bright red crown patch and white markings upon the side of the head and along the neck. He is a dweller of the deep woods and rather scarce although here in the Park we often see them but his wariness -- for he is adept at keeping on the opposite side of a tree trunk -- is not conducive of photos in a characteristic pose.
Early in the winter a feeding board was placed near one of the Museum windows in order that birds might be attracted to that point. At first only Jays and Camp Robbers were regular feeders but soon others became aware of the permanant "handout". The other day, while working upon some Nature Bulletins, to be used on our Nature Trails next summer, the writer noticed -- all within a few minutes -- the following birds; several Camp Robbers, Stellar Jays, a male and female Harris Woodpecker, a Downy Woodpecker (smallest woodpecker in the Park), a dozen or so Chestnut Backed Chickadees, a Junco, three or four Kinglets and a Nuthatch. A Crow and a Raven were seen a short distance away and a Creeper was exploring a nearby tree trunk for grubs. The feeding board has been the source of much material for past issues of these Nature Notes.
But a few years ago Beaver in the Park were scarce. Their numbers were few and their workings were removed from the casual eye. Now, however, they seem to be quite definitly on the increase. Ranger Carl Tice found one new colony on a small tributary of the Nisqually, but a short distance from the highway. Here they have constructed a fairly elaborate system of dams and have been working on -- not only the Cottonwood and Alder as is usually the case -- a but upon Cedar as well. Beaver in this Park rarely build the characteristic lodges. They burrow in the banks of the streams constructing suitable homes in that manner.
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Greetings from Washington, where the Cherry Blossom Festival is in full swing, which means I couldn't get into a hotel room to get a nap after my 7 a.m. flight from Ft. Lauderdale. I type this from the eighth floor of a mall in the Virginia suburbs, where the Capitals have a practice rink that is gorgeous.
The drama here is Alex Ovechkin's pursuit of Evgeni Malkin for the scoring title. Ovechkin has 104 points to Malkin's 108, and Malkin has a game in hand. There's also a team race: The Capiitals are in second place in the conference, two points ahead of New Jersey, and New Jersey has the more-victories tie-breaker.
"Alex wants to be No. 1 in everything, so it wouldn't surprise me [if he is focused on the scoring title]," Capitals coach Bruce Boudreau said about 15 minutes ago. "As long as it doesn't affect the way he plays. We don't want guys staying out longer shifts. If it comes to that, we'll stop him. But as far as the extra drive, I don't think you've seen his overdrive yet. That will come in 10 days or two weeks, whenever the playoffs start, because his goal, like ours, is to win the Stanley Cup."
The Thrashers play the Capitals Sunday afternoon at 3 p.m. and then Tuesday night at Philips Arena. I would bet Ilya Kovalchuk would like to outshine his buddy Ovechkin in those two games. The Thrashers obviously don't have a playoff-related goal left, but that hasn't seemed to stop them the past several weeks. My story to be posted later today will give you more details on that. Here's a teaser: The Thrashers are, statistically, in the midst of a franchise-record run of success on the ice.
As I wrote in the headline for this blog post, Sunday is the Thrashers' final road game. Here is an interesting stat: They're 17-19-4 on the road, which ties them for the 15th best road record in the NHL. If they also had the 15th-best home record (Vancouver does, at 22-11-5), they would have 13 more points than they do now and they'd be in the thick of the playoff hunt, tied with Florida for ninth in the Eastern Conference. One of the Thrashers' many problems this season is the way they played in front of those empty seats at Philips Arena, where they are 17-19-2. Only Tampa Bay has been worse at home.
April 4th, 2009
1:57 pm
42.5 million for a hockey rink. Wow. The 2 rinks they were trying to build down here in Peachtree City were less than 5 million
April 4th, 2009
2:05 pm
Kind of a cheap shot at the Atlanta fans Mike… If the team played well and Mgt made good moves it would not be that way.
It still needs to be a better commitment from these childish owners before I will return, a new GM would be a nice start !
April 4th, 2009
5:46 pm
I didn't take that as a shot against Atlanta fans, but rather, against the way the Thrashers have played at home. And shoot, folks. Even John Anderson has held practices telling his team that they haven't played up to snuff at home, for the hometown fans. Stating, "You must give them a reason to be here." And that's coming directly from the Head Coach.
They know they have to play better at home. I think they've played remarkably well on the road, for this roster. Now, does any of this mean the team will falter next year or perform at the same level, or even better, winning at .600 clip? No, it doesn't mean ANY of those things.
We don't even know what the roster will look like. Stop. We don't. RFA's don't always get re-signed. Sometimes, they get traded, or even poached. Not that I think any RFA offersheets are coming. We'll just have to be patient and see what happens during the offseason. A lot can change. Contracts will start to be signed in April, some in May, then the June Draft. Qualifying offers will be made. July 1st brings forth free agency.
Next year, we do know, WITH CERTAINTY, that Kozlov with have another 25-30 goal season? Is it "certain," that Todd White will have another CAREER season? Will Reasoner be back? He is a pending UFA, after all. Will Perrin be back? Some of you are screaming, "God, I hope not!!" And yet, Perrin, two seasons ago, was "Top 4″ scorer on this team, who played a lot more ice time than he did this year, and was one of the best "value for the money" type of players in the league that year.
Will Kari Lehtonen be back? See, we can't just assume we start October 2009 with the same momentum and roster that have now. Not to start anything, but what if Kovy doesn't re-sign in July and still hasn't been locked up by "Opening Night?" Doesn't THAT change some perceptions and attitudes, moving forward? Both directionally and conceptually?
Allright, then. Generally speaking, if the Thrashers play better at home, or win the way they have have been, then I do expect Blueland attendance to be robust. But want to hear something nutty, Mike?
Don't you think it's reasonable for the OWNERSHIP to set that "winning" tone? And that starts by CLEANING THEIR HOUSE this Summer. And by that, I mean offering contracts to existing Thrasher players. You all know the list by now. Of course, Kovy and Kari are high up on that list. But Bryan Little can be PROACTIVELY re-signed. So can Pavelec. So can Brett Sterling, Slava Kozlov and Colin Stuart. Even Moose. But forget about being so utterly proactive , there's a laundry list of pending UFA's and RFA's. RFA's are Colby Armstrong, Boris Valabik, Kari, Nathan Oystrick, Joey Crabb, Jim Slater. UFA's are Perrin and Reasoner. Doesn't it fall on the OWNERSHIP to establish that Atlanta isn't the "farm team" for the rest of the NHL? In other words, that OWNERSHIP open the wallet to empower Waddell to lock up our own players, and show them that this organization is a place where they can start to plan a future. Because right now, Atlanta's is just a "layover," like a flight at Hartsfield, for an NHL Player. I'd like to give our young draft picks, prospects, and modestly tenured Thrasher players reason to believe that Atlanta is a market worth staying in and CAPABLE of sustaining talent.
That continues to be my wish … until I start to see ample EVIDENCE of a "plan." Toby Enstrom was the first and only proactive contract by this organization. As I'm not too sure the 7 Dwarves can walk and chew gum, I'm not going to hold my breath.
April 4th, 2009
6:57 pm
Usually like Brendan's comments, but STOP saying STOP. That one nuance of the writing style is getting old.
Go Thrashers!
Fire Waddell!
April 4th, 2009
8:22 pm
I've seen another poster with my name posting a few silly things on the blog this week. I have not posted in a few weeks, so I think a new screen name for next season is in order. I really feel like this team can be a solid "darkhorse" contender with a good offseason. By that, I'm realistically thinking a few playoff rounds at best right now.
LAC-As much as I would like to see DW shown the door, the second half of the season may have done enough to keep him here. But, if the ASG somehow moved him into a president type role, and brought in a new GM with complete player control, would that satisfy you enough in the offseason to consider throwing dollars their way?
Mike-I didn't get a chance to respond about your interview with Kovy the other day. It was very nice as a fan to hear him say the things he did about Coach Anderson and related without you promting him to do so.
On 680 yesterday, Waddell told Kincade that Kovy has been doing and saying the type of things this season a person with one foot out the door wouldn't bother with (not sure if that was a jab at Hossa). When Kincade asked about the franchise having the cash to sign him to an extension, DW said he was already making 7.5 a year, implying that a jump of a few more million wouldn't be a problem at all. That might end up being the 3-5 Kari would have gotten, as I get a strong feeling he may be a victim of the numbers game in DW's cap. DW may still not know which of the two goalies he should go with, and that's where the money factor may make the decision for him, IMO.
Mike-With some player extensions signed this week by other teams, is DW talking like a guy that may do the same with players like Reasoner and Armstrong? The sooner he decides who he wants to sign that's already here, the more time he gives himself leading into the draft and offseason to plug other holes. I don't get the team's self imposed, non-negotiating act when we're not playing for anything other than jobs. And I would hope Anderson and Waddell have long since decided what they want to do with the two previously mentioned players.
April 4th, 2009
8:35 pm
Mike , even more reason to lock Oystrick up, right? If Oysters is gonna be unrestricted, then he can sign anywhere he jolly well pleases, provided said market WANTS him. The portion of my post that I hoped you might comment on … was the part about the ownership setting the tone and cultivating a winning environment … during this upcoming offseason. What might actually happen is another $4-$5 million from the floor of the cap as the budget for Opening Night.
Dear STOP, I gotta be me. The second I stop being me, who am I?
April 5th, 2009
6:23 am
I like to pretend it's a telegram, and without the stop it'd be one long run-on sentence after another.
April 5th, 2009
11:21 am
This team has a few tough choices to make. As far as the goalies, look at the last two seasons for Kari and Ondrej. If both had those types of seasons in the juniors, who would you pick? I'd feel much better picking the guy who could make it through half a season without injury. Plus, with the flashes that Kari has shown, he is worth more on the market. Could he end up playing 70 games and lead a team to the playoffs? Sure, but are you willing to bet 5 million over 3-5 years? Like I've said before, if you commit to that and he gets injured again, you are in a really tough cap position. That is a difficult decision. Remember there was serious discussion about who to pick, Ryan Leaf or Peyton Manning. Seems like an easy choice now, but it wasn't then. Everybody mentions Ondrej's poor showing this year, but ignore the fact that the previous year he looked pretty good in his stint with the Thrashers. I mentioned at the time that he seemed very good positionally. When Kari has struggled, he seems to get into poor positions. His hot play this year was due, in large part, to excellent positioning. Would have been nice to see if he could have maintained till the end of the season, but, of course, that is not possible….again.
April 5th, 2009
11:36 am
You should be taking shots at the fans. Its pathetic, people just dont come to the games. I came to a lot of game a few years back when we won the division and fans were still not showing up. The problem is that fans in Atlanta are as fair weather as they get. I agree that management has not been great. At the same time, it can't be easy for players to play with only 7,000 people there each game.
April 5th, 2009
11:41 am
Interesting statistic. Kovy's shooting percentage is 15.7 (good for 29th overall) and he averages 3.5 shots per game. Ovechkin 's shooting percentage is 11.1 (146 overall) but he averages 6.6 per game! If Kovy averaged 6.6 shots per game and maintained his percentage, he would be on pace to score 83! Just bump it up to 5 per game and that is a 63 goal pace.
April 5th, 2009
12:00 pm
Fans should hold management and ownership accountable. Otherwise, you get the Toronto Maple Leafs. Soldout, but Cup-less for over 40 years. Ownership gets its money … and is free to be as INEPT and INACCOUNTABLE as ever.
Regarding Kari, as Rawhide said recently, quitting on him is an ADMISSION that Waddell was wrong in 2002. And, Lethonen would be the 3rd lottery draft pick to depart the organization. Stefan and Heatley are the other two, leaving Kovalchuk, who is only under contract until 2010. Unless the organization grows a brain this summer. And provided that Kovalchuk is amenable to re-signing here.
I was at those two playoff games in 2007. I didn't see ANY empty seats. I saw an arena full of Thrasher fans, waving "Unleash the Fury!" towels. I counted all of six Ranger jerseys in the stands. When some media sources told us that Philips Arena would be filled to the rafters with New York fans, who would drown us out.
Back in 2007, there weren't many, but there were SOME dissenting voices regarding Bob Hartley. And still others thought the price we paid at the 2007 trade deadline was too steep, unless it took us to the CF. Well, obviously, neither Hartley nor Waddell was fired in 2007. And the team won zero games in the playoffs. Bygones.
But fans have the right to be unsatisfied with what transpired. That's a form of accountability. It's not entirely "lost" on John Anderson, either, as he specifically told his troops at practice, "We have to give our fans a reason to be here." It sure didn't sound like JA was advocating that fans should show up, no matter what. Or blaming them for the record.
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Shifting gears, Atlanta has clinched 4th place in the SE. Tampa can no longer catch us. And we cannot catch Florida. But something else piqued my curiosity. In preseason, I wouldn't have thought it possible that the Thrashers might avoid 40 "regulation time" losses. They sit at 38, with four games left. Can they avoid the dredded 40? We'll soon find out. And yes, they can reach .500 this year, if they won them all. It would set a franchise record for wins if it happens.
Phoenix is ahead us, but we have a game in hand. Los Angeles has played the same number of games and is also ahead of us, but not by much. If Atlanta won its game-in-hand on Phoenix, it puts the Coyotes into the lottery draft and bumps Atlanta out.


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How do I deal with multiple out-of-state family illnesses?
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I can't stop feeling guilty about not being able to visit sick family members or help them more. I'm scared of others dying or being sick.
I have a large extended family on both sides.
Let me explain the health problems first.
Currently my (college educated, former business owner) father cannot get on right track due to his past (legal reasons; mom left him, he got remarried to an abused coke addict with BPD that accused him of things that didn't happen - Dad pled guilty because it lawyer said he didn't stand a chance). He is living with his Mom's side of the family in the middle of nowhere in a shack. No one will hire him. He is constantly giving me and my sister guilt trips about how we don't love him anymore and how we don't come to visit (which I want to do - but I don't have vacation time nor the funds). He has heart problems and panic disorder and thinks he's going to die anyday. This week, I found out he was in the VA hospital because he "felt weird". He mentioned feeling suicidal to my sister.
His Grandmother (my great-grandmother) is 94 years old and in and out of the hospital. the family is thinking this may be her last year.
In Florida, I have two aunts that I'm close to that are sick. One has MS and the other (who I mentioned in my last question) has cancer most likely from Hep C (including liver damage, enlarged spleen, lost 60 pounds). My aunt with the liver damage and cancer always ends up crying when I talk to her... and she has anxiety issues and also doesn't want much details from the doctors because she is scared. She ends up asking me sometimes to look up her health problems - which pretty much says "grim". She always asks when I'm going to visit.
Both my Aunt and my father like to talk on the phone for hours at a time - which I dislike a lot. I feel guilty about not calling them more often - but it's hard to deal with 2-4 hours phone conversations. but I know I may feel guilty about not talking on the phone as much if somethign should happen.
I have NO IDEA how to handle ANY of this.
I can't be in three states at once.
Only one person really close to me has died - a family friend that we lived with my whole life until his death. And when he was sick from the cancer, I was 12 years old. I was terrified and didn't go to the hospital to see him. When he briefly came home from the hospital, I was so scared. I was too terrified to go to see his body (I have a fear of seeing dead bodies) and I guess I carry that guilt with me.
CONSTANTLY, I think about all the family members I have and how they're all possibly going to be dying within the next few decades (If I don't go early... which i hope I don't) and how my father's life has been pretty much ruined and there's not much I can do to help unless I had a lot of money.
How do I stop thinking about everyone dying?
How do I deal with the guilt of living in another state from all my sick family members?
How do I deal with them when they're crying?
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There are no easy solutions to the illness and death of family members. But in your case I will make some suggestions. Because your ill relatives tend to talk to you on the phone for excessive periods of time, you just avoid phoning. However, you can phone and tell them that you have some pre-determined amount of time available - let us say, half an hour - and although they will still be talking after half an hour, you can tell them at that time that you have to go - and do it. This is better than not phoning at all, and they should understand that you do have other demands on your time than talking to them (and even if they don't understand, you can still tell them you have to go, and hang up). If they want to know what you are going to be doing after the half hour is up, or why you only have half an hour, or whether this means that you don't love them enough to talk for more than half an hour, you don't really have to explain yourself in detail. A simple answer would just be, I have a life. If they cannot accept that, you still have the option of going back to the original plan of just not phoning them.
As for the more general issue of feeling guilty about living in another state from all your sick family members, you obviously had some good reason for living in that other state or you wouldn't be living there, and you are entitled to live your own life. My family is like this as well; I live in Canada, my parents (who are in their 80's) live in New York, and my sister lives in Michigan. None of us has ever complained in any way that the others are inconsiderate in their choice of residence. We are all living where we need to live, and we keep in touch. If my parents really had to be closer to me, they are free to move to Canada. The onus isn't on me.
And how do you deal with them when they are crying? There really isn't very much you can do about this, other than to tell them that you are sorry that they are going through such a difficult time. Obviously you would solve their problems if you could, but you can't. You can be sympathetic, that's about it.
As for the problem of how to stop thinking about everyone dying, life is full of potential distractions. If you think about something else you won't be thinking about that. Or even if the thoughts combine - some work of art reminds you of personal tragedies - it is a healthier thought, because it is more in perspective. You have problems, your relatives have problems, but that is part of the human condition, from time immemorial.
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Know this--you will never be able to do enough. You will never be able to talk to your father enough, or visit enough. He'll die, your grandmother will die, and nothing you will have done, under any circumstances, no matter how much you've done, will have been enough.
Morbid and depressing? Sure, but also very freeing.
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Regarding the phone calls, I agree with grizzled - set a limit. Call, and say right at the beginning that you are sorry, but you only have half an hour (or whatever) before you need to... go to a doctors appointment, an interview, anything that is absolute and can't be pushed back. This way, you can stick to your limit without feeling guilted into "just 10 more minutes."
You don't mention your current situation. Are you working? In school? Try to find a counselor or therapist you can talk to about this. It is not as daunting a task as you might think. If you have insurance through work, a session a week or so is probably covered. If you are in school, you probably have access to counselors for free. I think it would be very helpful for you to talk out your fears and get feedback from a professional. No matter what the situation, they've probably dealt with something similar before, and can help you figure out strategies to deal with it.
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I would make a list of things I would totally regret not doing once they're gone. Make sure you are reasonable when thinking about it, though.
Call them consistently. Once a week at least, for good chunk of time.
Send cards, old fashioned letters, little presents.
Schedule at least one visit a year, if possible. It's a pain (time and money wise, but you MUST)
Show them your affection. Tell them you love them, and be there.
When they are crying, even on the phone. Be quiet. Just being there means a lot.
Be very understanding, reassuring, and never argue, critizise or antagonize.
tell them you love them.
Once they pass away, understand that it's life. People go. The only think you can change is how happy you make them when they are with us. Even fro the distance, it's possible to show people you love them.
*Also, see if they need any kind of financial help. Maybe a grocery shop card would help them. they will be happy knowing that they are a big deal in your life, even if you're not physically with them.
I have felt like you so many times...
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The phone thing takes some getting used to, but it can become quite enjoyable. Try simply changing your mindset about it. Don't see it as a bother, but as a routine kind of thing. Pick the best time for you(Sunday afternoons, Monday nights) and call.
I use phone cards (relatives are abroad) so it's awesome because it's the card that hangs up, not me. My conversations usually last 2.7 hours. What you can do is make sure you have something to do afterwards. Set a time. (I think 1.5-2 hours is quite reasonable) and really devote to the conversation. It will pass in a jiffy, and you will feel like a great niece, daughter, etc. afterwards.
Also, consider asking them to call you when they are together. that way you can have a longer conversation in one sitting.
If you have cardio equipment at home. You could use it while you talk.
At any rate, after certain stage in life, parents/grandparents/aunts and uncles are like our children. We need to humor them, protect them and make them happy. If you see the conversations from this point of view, you will find it much easier to talk for long periods of time. You'd probably do the same for a kid of your own.
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Jack Kirby Photographed in the Marvel Offices, 1966Along with this other shot, the above photograph of Kirby is a rare glimpse of the Marvel offices of the 1960s. It includes many Marvel Comics (or cover proofs of about-to-be-published Marvel Comics) cover-dated in June and July 1966. (Again, the cover dates of comics at the time were roughly three months ahead of the publication date.)
It's possible that the other photograph, of Kirby with original art for Tales of Suspense #76 (cover date April 1966) was taken at a later date than that prop would suggest, and that he's simply pretending, for the camera, to work on a finished-long-ago inventory page. (Why would he be coming into the office in a suit to touch up the inks on a cover?)
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