the intermitences of death, chapter IV
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nocturnus33For geminiscorp,
Thanks scatteredlogic for battle with my grammar and spelling and general non nativeness
Please review,
Prelude
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV : Extracts from the life of Hermione Granger years 2004 - 2005
Hermione Granger’s Ringtone:
Pablo Neruda poem:"The Dead Woman"
Dead Woman
No, forgive me.
If you no longer live,
if you, beloved, my love,
if you
have died,
all the leaves will fall in my breast,
it will rain on my soul night and day,
the snow will burn my heart,
I shall walk with frost and fire and death and snow,
my feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping,
but
I shall stay alive,
because above all things you wanted me
indomitable,
and, my love, because you know that I am not only a man
but all mankind.
***
Chat between dean_forest (dean_forest@hotmail.com ) and Herm19 (herm19@aol.com) (October 11th 2004)
02:01 dean_forest: Aren't you being a nightly owl?
Herm19: What part of “buzz off” don’t you get Dean Thomas?
dean_forest: That day of the month or just midterm exams?
Herm19<: you jerk!
Herm19 has left the chat
Fragment: Letter from Hermione Granger to Miss Judith Lorinstein, Departmental Manager, asking for more time for her thesis due to Fibromialgia Syndrome.
Departmental Manager
London School of Economics
Houghton Street
Application to postpone thesis deadline due to Fibromialgia Syndrome.
Dear Miss Lorinstein:
At the start of the academic year 2004/2005, I entered my last term at London School of Economics, Department of Sociology, and committed to end my thesis; this was accepted in consideration of my double honours degree. I now realise that due to my Fibromialgia Syndrome crisis, this will not be possible…
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Ted Lupin´s favorite Chocolate Card Frog
(Transcription has been made after several scourgify spells; (*) expresses unreadable chewed parts)
*ione Granger
(Currently on Sabbati*.)
*nsidered by many to be one of the greatest witches of modern times. Granger is particularly famous for her work during the war, helping defeat Tom Riddle with her partner, Harry Potter; being the founder of the resistance group “Dumbledore’s Army”,
* collaboration In Wizards’ Rights trials, and promotion of the Magical Creatures Rights Charter against Tortu*.
My oddmother
***
Chat between dean_forest (dean_forest@hotmail.com ) and Herm19 (herm19@aol.com) (September 15th 2005)
14:27 dean_forest: Hi Oddie!
Herm19: Hi monstrosity
dean_forest: What are your birthday plans?
Herm19: Fight with thesis of doom?
dean_forest: Wrong answer sweetie!
You need to thank the Gods for the day you met me
Herm19: ????
14:29dean_forest: I got tickets for you
Herm19:
Impossible!
They were all sold out! I double - checked.
dean_forest:
Called it my Muggle conection
First row.
Mr Rickman could whisper Neruda at your ear
14:30Herm19:
My two loves together
dean_forest:
You can dust off your copy Neruda’s
Herm19:
I wish he recited "La muerta"
dean_forest:
Dreadful poem that one, not a cheerful ringtone.
Herm19:
Shut up!
Would I be too childish if asked him to sign it ?
dean_forest:
Who cares? My lips will be sealed.
Herm19:
If you weren’t my best friend I would ask you to marry me
dean_forest:
If I weren’t gay
Herm19:
That 2
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London Public Library book, marked page from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. Underlines are suspected made by Granger
Indo-European Roots
ENTRY: mer-
DEFINITION: To rub away, harm.
Derivatives include nightmare, morsel, morbid, mortal, mortgage, and ambrosia.
II. Possibly the same root is *mer-, “to die,” with derivatives referring to death and to human beings as subject to death. 1. Zero-grade form *m -. a. Suffixed form *m -tro-. murder, from Old English morthor, murder, from Germanic suffixed form *mur- thra-; b. suffixed form *m -ti-. mort1, mortal; amortize, mortify, postmortem, from Latin mors (stem mort-), death; c. suffixed form *m -yo-. moribund, mortgage, mortmain, mortuary, murrain, from Latin mor , to die, with irregular past participle mortuus (< *m -two-), replacing older *m -to- (for which see d); d. prefixed and suffixed form * -m -to-, “undying, immortal.” (* -, negative prefix; see ne). (i) immortal, from Latin immort lis; (ii) ambrosia, from Greek ambrotos, immortal, divine (a- + -mbrotos, brotos, mortal); (iii) amrita, from Sanskrit am tam, immortality (a- + m ta-, dead). 2. Suffixed o-grade form *mor-t- yo-. manticore, from Greek mantikh ras (corrupted from marti(o)kh ras), manticore, probably from Iranian compound *martiya-khv ra-, “man-eater” (*khv ra-, eating; see swel-), from Old Persian martiya-, a mortal man. (Pokorny 4. mer-, 5. mer- 735.)
