The Trouble With Being God

One Less Ground Squirrel in the World

Posted by William under This and That

It’s true - I am a murderer.  After being fed up with the growing 13-striped ground squirrel population in my yard today, I had to kill one.  It wasn’t fun, and I would have preferred not to do it… but it had to be done.  I’m not going to go into details, but let’s just say he didn’t pass away in his sleep.

 They’re burrowing everywhere, and are out of control.  There’s even a chance that even more than one died today, due to my massive flooding of their underground lair.  I swear, I ran the hose for about 20 minutes right down their hole (under my concrete porch, and the water never overflowed out the entrance hole.

So yes, it is sad… but at least there was a burial service.

I could have put him on a spike and let him to be warning to all ground squirrels that although they are cute, they are not welcome.  I, however, did not.

Harry Potter Deaths

Posted by William under This and That

So supposedly at least two characters are going to die in the final Harry Potter book.  Frankly I’m not surprised… although I’m surprised there’s not more.  My guess is that JK Rowling meant two major characters.

SPOILER ALERT!!! 

As of now, if I had to guess, I’d say we should be expecting both Snape and Voldemort to go down, albeit for entirely different reasons. 

I am pretty positive that Snape is going to redeem himself and end up having been working for the Order of the Phoenix all along.  He’s going to end up sacrificing himself in the end.

I also think that Harry is going to go out like a Christ figure.  There’s been a lot of allusions to the Christian story throughout this battle for good and evil - and Rowling herself has said that her religious convictions will play into the way the story ends … and even though I’m no expert on her, I’m pretty sure she’s not a devil worshipper or anything.

//END SPOILER ALERT

Anyway, I haven’t had too much time to really think about this - so my mind may change.  We’ll see.