SHHH!!! Can you read? Want to prove it? Meet fellow book worms and discuss the literary brilliance of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
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Mon Mar 12, 2007 8:01 pm

mayanspypilot wrote:I'm tired of large-scale metaphors that professors and teachers tend to find and make a big deal out of that really, according to the author, mean absolutely nothing. :x Man, that used to make me angry in school.


Same here! One of my teachers last year said "In the character's name the 't' is a cross for christ and the 'f' is a bent cross, meaing he's half good and half bad." (one of maaaaany examples) and I was just like "Uhhhh. No."

Mon Mar 12, 2007 8:09 pm

Flame wrote:
mayanspypilot wrote:I'm tired of large-scale metaphors that professors and teachers tend to find and make a big deal out of that really, according to the author, mean absolutely nothing. :x Man, that used to make me angry in school.


Same here! One of my teachers last year said "In the character's name the 't' is a cross for christ and the 'f' is a bent cross, meaing he's half good and half bad." (one of maaaaany examples) and I was just like "Uhhhh. No."


Ask him what all the other letters mean.
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