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December 21

Desperately Looking For This Piece Of Music

What is the haunting music in the 1991 Bahamas/U.S. Air commercial? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.69.25.116 (talk) 00:35, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

Can you give us a link please? --TammyMoet (talk) 08:56, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

Is it this one? It sounds similar to the Adiemus music that Karl Jenkins originally wrote for a UK advertisement. Alansplodge (talk) 23:01, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

A thorough Google search hasn't yielded any clues; it may well have been composed specially for the commercial. Alansplodge (talk) 13:59, 22 December 2012 (UTC)

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

On page 388 of the hardcover edition (about halfway through chapter 18), Hermione is concerned because Harry is taking Dobby's suggestion of using the Room of Requirement for their secret meeting seriously. In response, she states, "Well, it's just that Dobby's plans aren't always that safe. Don't you remember when he lost you all the bones in your arm?"

But it was Gilderoy Lockhart who caused Harry to lose all the bones in his arm, not Dobby? Is this a mistake? DRosenbach ^{(Talk | Contribs)} 02:18, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

They both had a role in Harry's arm injury. Dobby broke his arm by enchanting the bludger to attack Harry during a Quidditch match (in the hope that the injury would cause Harry to withdraw from school) and Lockhart then screwed up the healing spell and ended up removing all of the bones. So Hermione is right enough; had Dobby not broken Harry's arm in the first place, Lockhart wouldn't have had to misperform the healing spell. --Jayron32 02:28, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

Jayron32 is correct, but if it makes you feel better, I've always disliked Hermione's example there as well. I suppose, of all the things Dobby tried to do to keep Harry from returning or staying at the school, that was the worst case scenario. – Kerαunoςcopia^◁_galaxies 06:30, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

Hmm...it might have been initially triggered by Dobby's intervention, but I don't see it as a good example to highlight the unsafeness of Dobby's plans by suggesting that Harry remember when he lost all the bones in his arm, which focuses on Lockhart's involvement. Thanks, all! DRosenbach ^{(Talk | Contribs)} 20:05, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

Nostradamus prediction

It's hard to separate fact from reality these days. Did Nostradamus really make a prediction about a dancing horse, nine zeroes, and the end of the world? Or was somebody just having some fun by writing in his style? Hemoroid Agastordoff (talk) 15:36, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

Probably the latter, or maybe someone cobbled together pieces of other predictions to make this one (whatever it is; do you have a link to it?). If it isn't incredibly vague and nonsensical, it's probably not a real one. Adam Bishop (talk) 01:18, 22 December 2012 (UTC)

Hey, go easy on Nostradamus. He predicted the fate of a well-known baseball team in Chicago, who won back-to-back World Series in 1907 and 1908 and haven't won since: "The Three-Finger Brown Bear Cubs shall Tinker, and bear twins, but shall be barren for Evers after, with no Serious Chance." ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 07:41, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

He didn't. See this link. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 07:50, 24 December 2012 (UTC)