SIDI – Yes that’s it exactly! That’s why Rochel thanked Hashem, no??? Or maybe I’m totally off?? You probably know better than me!!

IOIWRJ – LOL!!!! Being that I’m seventeen, I highly doubt it ;P

LOL! You people make me laugh! Yes if only I could have “Everything has a place” “I ran I ran” or “I am Simcha Shtark” at my wedding……not sure what all the guests would think though ;D

“For heavens sake it’s not real” (Shopping613, quite a lot of posts back)

That’s what muggles like you think. How would you know?

oh wow! B”H glad things worked out so well :)!

“Why does this minhag stop the year Harry comes to Hogwarts?”

With a song like that, do you blame them? Not exactly a confidence-booster

Stopping with a chavrusa because he smokes

Shopping with a chavrusa because he’s broke

Just testing the various “allowed markup”s

Just testing the various “allowed ways I can post til my comment is approved”

“It would be a lot easier to slip him a portkey while Harry was in his office”

Right. Because that wouldnt be suspicious at ALL. I think that despite what people say, that putting Harry’s name in the goblet generated a lot of suspicion – while that may be true, people suspected Harry, or karkaroff, or even dumbledore, but did anyone suspect moody-crouch?? whereas had Harry just disappeared stam, the first thing Dumbledore would have done would have been to question the teachers, which was the last thing crouch would have wanted, since Dumbledore was very good at detecting lies.

“he could have Imperiused anybody else to present Harry with a Portkey”

well then wouldnt that person be transported before he got the chance to hand over the portkey?

“4) There were a bunch of suggestions but I don’t think any of them really addressed the question. I was not suggesting that Harry shouldn’t have been involved; he should have been able to get help (from a minimal amount of people).”

I believe sirvoddmort answered this satisfactorily.

“The plan had to be confined to a small group, because were it to be revealed, Voldermort could easily foil the plans. This explains why Harry (who we already have proven must be an integral part of the plan), could not enlist the entire Order to help destroy Horcruxes, as it would mean that only one person had to be broken for the plan to fail.”

Randomex – I didnt understand your post, but when I said “no google” I meant “do not google these” ! Yes you’re right bout the second one….are the rest not googleable?

“Why did Harry have to be the one to locate and destroy the horcruxes? I’m sure others (e.g. Kingsley, Moody et al) could have done a much better job.”

Imagine if Harry knew nothing about the Horcruxes, and Moody, kingsley etc. destroyed them all. Then, after Snape died, Harry learned that he would have to die, because there was a piece of Voldemort’s soul in him, one of the Horcruxes. He would have no idea that the others had all been destroyed – therefore, why SHOULD he give up his life, when it might be for nothing? For all he’d know, there could be five Horcruxes out there still. Once he dies, Voldemort will take over, and there’s no knowing that kingsley etc. would survive….. Harry gave up his life, since he had just dedicated the last year to destroying Horcruxes. When he knew the job was nearly finished, and that he was dying al kiddush Hashem, that’s when he had the courage to face Voldemort and be killed.

“Why did (fake) Moody have to devise the entire elaborate plan of entering Harry into the tournament, and helping him every step of the way, and volunteering to carry the cup etc.? He could have skipped all of that and just turned any random thing into a portkey at any random time and he would have achieved the same result of getting Harry to the graveyard, with a lot less suspicion created along the way.”

He couldn’t just make anything a Portkey. He wanted ONLY HARRY in the graveyard. If he turned any random thing into a portkey, how could he know that no other student would touch it? Even in his office – there have been numerous times where students sneaked into teachers’ offices and touched/taken things they werent supposed to. So it had to be in the maze.

“Well, READ Harry Potter and you won’t be so flabbergasted!”

SO TRUE!

I asked earlier, if it says as a subtitle “blocked” is it a joke? Randomex said no, they really are blocked. So why does it say “blocked” under Little Froggie’s name in an old thread (Question for Little Froggie) but in recent threads it says “member”?

Yeah I know how you feel! I mean it’s waaaay too early to go to sleep…..I’ll just wait till 4am, then I’ll think about it (maybe) btw, which mod is still modding off (as opposed to nodding off – sorry I know that was way too corny. Don’t judge me, I’m tired ;P)

LG – Oh I didn’t think of anything except driving! Does anyone else do that? When something has multiple meanings, automatically assume it means a certain thing (usually something important to them)? Like for e.g. I asked for something at the office in our school, and the secretary said, “Sure, we’ll cut and paste it for you.” I was really confused since I had given her a hard copy, and I didn’t have it on the computer……turns out she meant “cut and paste” as in, with scissors and glue…

Little Froggie – go sit on a speckled log and eat the most delicious bugs ;P (if you don’t know the song, go ask your three-year-old, s/he probably does)

JBD – I was thinking of Kol Berama, but I didn’t think it was appropriate for a chuppa. That song reminds me of Leiby Kletzky (probably coz the first time I heard it was on the Chofetz Chaim Tisha B’Av video the year he was killed) and it’s such a sad, sad song. A chuppa is supposed to be moving, yes, but sad?

“You can come finish my succah” It’s not finished already?!?

yekke2 – I don’t know that when people check esrogim out it’s just for show. There is the concept of hiddur mitzvah, and I don’t know about where you are from, but where I am, people choose nicer esrogim because they want to glorify the mitzvah. Also, it wasn’t my idea to bring proofs from Rishonim – I am saying that in earlier posts, people said things like, “It worked for Yaakov, why shouldn’t it work for us?” Therefore I brought the example of Boaz and Rus, to show how ridiculous it is to compare ourselves to previous doros – especially the avos, for crying out loud!

yekke2 – well-well-said!!!

DY – which gam ki elech?

streekgeek – sorry! dw i am a huge shmuel kunda fan, nevertheless!

Shopping – if I we’re talking about the same Lord Voldemort, turning people into cats sounds pretty mild and almost sweet

streekgeek – that’s one of the Shmuel Kunda songs I DON’T like!!!! (There’s very few of them, btw – I think only kipa, yum-yum-yarmulke and where is hymie himmelstein) btw, yekke2, hows the decision going? could u tell us when you have decided on songs? Thanks!

I said I like people who SING like cats, unlike RebYidd who said he likes people who ARE cats 🙂

I cbb going thru all those threads, but I highly doubt I am going to take up gemara in my spare time ;P

HB – welcome to CR! BTW, is your username describing your attitude or your appearance?

Try these (no google, Randomex):

“The streets of Jerusalem alive with song”

“And when it’s all too much for me, I’ll hold on tight and You’ll carry me”

“Birds sweet trills from Tzfat’s hills echo as they fly”

“Can you tell me the story when tragedy befell upon you in your times”