Brenda stood by the door and kept her eyes on the pair. Artie Bower kept twitching and moving around."God damn this floor is cold lady," he snarled, "...an't we get up? My hemorrhoids are hurtin'."Brenda swung the gun around to Artie in a menacing way and stared at him. Arte kept twitching. Artie had small hands for a man and they were not much larger than his wrists. He kept wiggling until he had one hand free and reached into his back pocket and took out his penknife. He kept wiggling and. Thirty years — that’s all it takes for a vibrant culture to commit suicide,” Jack said.“You can’t be serious!” Jane exclaimed.Jack said, “Cinco De Mayo celebrates the day that Mexico declared its freedom from Spain. Now that has nothing to do with the United States, but in my original timeline the Cinco De Mayo celebration was even greater than the Fourth of July celebration. Why? Well, at one time the Fourth of July was a day of family picnics, barbecues, and families setting off fireworks. Perhaps I’ll just wait and seduce them when I’m eighteen instead. I’m not sure. Time enough to decide on that.In any case, I’ve got some new friends. That is just as well, because most of my old friends rejected me when they learned that I’m dating Demy. Yes, it’s official. Demy’s my boyfriend and I made that abundantly clear to all of my classmates.I think that some of them were so snobby that they looked down on him for whatever stupid excuse they had. Others were so shallow that they. Harry felt himself getting angry and desperate. He wanted- no… he needed the ring now. He wanted to talk to Sirius and his parents. He wanted to apologize to Cedric Diggory."Harry? It’s dinner time." Hermione came to kneel in front of him, gently reaching out to rub his arm. Her hand was now bandaged as they had visited the hospital wing upon reentering the castle. Madame Pomfrey had asked that they not make their visit a weekly ritual this year after she had fixed everyone up. Harry felt.