Poetry

Just read a fic wherein the Sorting Hat has, er, hatlings. Apparently the father is Godric Gryffindor's sword.

*snickers self to death*

Have been flipping through my Edna St. Vincent Millay anthology, the one that my AP English teacher gave me, tonight. It always gives me lots and lots of deathfic plotbunnies, especially "Song of a Second April" and "When the Year Grows Old," and the last two lines of "Lament." "Ebb" and "Thursday" always give me angsty, missed-chance, not-in-love-anymore plotbunnies (hmmmm...hey, Natalie, you might get that McGonagall/Dumbledore piece after all...). The woman is almost always depressing, but I do so love her poetry. I remember I had "For rain it hath a friendly sound / To one who's six feet underground; / And scarce the friendly voice or face: / A grave is such a quiet place" (from "Renasance") as my .sig for a loooong time a few years ago.

Oh, and I think I've found my poem to read when winter in Ohio starts really sucking (Kluge calls late January/early February "cold and isolated enough to make everyone wnat to slit their wrists," or something like that).

( 'Woods in Winter' - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow )

I've never really paid much attention to Longfellow--obviously, I've heard of him and read "Song of Hiawatha" and a few other things in English classes, but never really formed much of an opinion on the fellow--but I quite like that. Will have to investigate more from him.

In the meantime, trying to finish this weirdfic I've got goin' on...

Addendum to previous entry

Speaking of plotbunnies from poems, the desire to write a fighting-death fic based on Robert Frost's"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" is starting to become a physical need. That whole "Woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep" thing? Oh, yeah. So easy to use.

*goes off to write*

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I have an SG-1 fic. It's a crossover. Kind of. In a certain manner. After a fashion. I'm waiting for a certain someone to tell me if it's too ridiculous to see the light of day, or if it might make some people giggle. Not too sure about it myself, but I'm bowing to her judgement. You may see it here soon. :)

To go vaguely with the above, I have an HP question. So the Hogwarts students get seven years of magical instruction, but what about regular subjects you learn in school, like English and math? (Not that I think anyone should have to suffer through Calculus--hell, I don't even use any algebra I managed to retain--but if first-year students at Hogwarts are the same age as sixth-graders here, then I remember I still hadn't mastered fractions by that point.) Do they have a "Magical Literature" class that no one ever mentions? Has anyone come up with a good answer to/rationalization for this?