The bikesmith
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The bikesmith
School Shopping List By Shira Hellman, Eighth Grade Here’s your school supply list Avi. Thanks Mom! Are you sure you need this nosh? It’s on the school list for second grade. See! School List 2nd Grade 2007-2008 • Backpack • 10 pencils • lined paper • 6 notebooks LATER…. HARRY POTTER MISTAKES By Miryam Lakritz, co-editor Do you read Harry Potter? If you answered no, here’s another question. Do you know anybody who reads Harry Potter? Well, I bet that you said yes to at least one of these questions. For all those Harry Potter fans out there, this is going to be a very interesting article for you to read. But, just so you know, you have to be a fan of the book to understand what you are about to read. This article is about the mistakes in the Harry Potter books 1-6. Not mistakes like a missed punctuation mark or a missed quotation mark. These mistakes are much more interesting. For example, Harry’s wand hand is his right hand, but on the cover of book five, it shows Harry holding his wand in his left. Now, jump on your broomstick and enjoy the read! Book 6 In the American edition, when Dumbledore and Harry enter Horace Slughorn's house, something "darkly red and glutinous was spattered over the wallpaper." Later, when asked what kind of blood it was, Slughorn explains, "On the walls? Dragon... My last bottle, and prices are sky-high at the moment." (p. 65) However, in Book 5, Order of the Phoenix, when Hagrid finally returns in Chapter 20, he is nursing his bloodied face with a greentinged steak of dragon meat. "He picked up the steak and slapped it over the left side of his face. Greenish blood trickled down into his beard as he gave a soft moan of satisfaction." Did you notice that the color changed? In the American Edition, page 188 of Half Blood Prince, Slughorn says, "One tiny bottle of Felix Felicis enough for twelve hours' luck. From dusk til' dawn, you will be lucky in everything you attempt." But then on page 476, Harry says, "I don't reckon I'll need all of it, not twenty-four hours' worth..." Did you notice the time difference? Book 5 The cover of Order of the Phoenix shows Harry in the Department of Mysteries holding his wand in his left hand. However, it is clearly stated that his right arm is his wand arm. Another interesting point is when Harry is able to see the Thestrals at the beginning of Order of the Phoenix. It is later explained that you can see the Thestrals after you have seen death. Harry had seen the death of his mother and possibly his father before he saw Cedric Diggory die, so why didn't he see the Thestrals before? On page 651, the illustration shows Fred and George flying into a night sky with a very full moon. However, on page 675 it says, "Fred and George wheeled about to tumultuous applause from the students below and sped out of the open front doors into the glorious sunset." They totally had the wrong time of day in the illustration! Book 4 On page 23 of the American version of Goblet of Fire, when Harry is writing to Sirius about the pain in his scar, it says that Harry was "marveling at the fact that he hadn't thought of Sirius straight away. But then, perhaps it wasn't so surprising -- after all, he had only found out that Sirius was his godfather two months ago." Harry actually found out Sirius was his godfather about eight months before, on that day in the Three Broomsticks in Hogsmeade. In Chapter 26 of Goblet of Fire, page 505, Krum tells Hermione that she has a beetle in her hair, "but Hermione brushed away the beetle impatiently." In Chapter 37 on the train after she had captured Rita Skeeter, Hermione says, "and Viktor pulled a beetle out of my hair..." Hermione says, “Viktor pulled the beetle out,” yet the book says that she brushed it away. Book 3 Prisoner of Azkaban, UK edition: On page 242, it says, "Harry felt strangely unreal, and even more so when he saw Buckbeak a few yards away, tethered to a tree behind Hagrid's pumpkin patch." Later, on page 293, however, it says, "Harry began to fumble with the rope tying Buckbeak to the fence." Here Buckbeak is tied to a fence, not a tree. On page 324, it says that after his exam with Professor Trelawney, "Harry got up, picked up his bag and turned to go." But when Professor Trelawney began her prediction, the book then says, "Her eyes started to roll. Harry sat there in a panic." How could Harry be sitting when it states that he got up right before Professor Trelawney began her prediction? Book 2 In Chamber of Secrets, on page 119 of the American version, it states, "...Harry was dragging his feet along the SECOND floor corridor to Lockhart's office. He gritted his teeth and knocked." However, on page 141, after Mrs. Norris is found petrified on the second floor, Lockhart urges Professor Dumbledore to use his office to examine her, saying that it is just upstairs. That would mean that his office is on the THIRD floor, not the second. When Professor McGonagall took Harry to Professor Dumbledore's office, the password was "lemon drop," but then in the fourth book when he's going to tell Dumbledore about Mr. Crouch in the forest it says "...five minutes later he was hurtling towards a stone gargoyle standing half way along an empty corridor. 'Sher-sherbet lemon,' he panted at it. This was the password to the hidden staircase to Dumbledore's office- or at least it had been two years ago." Continued on page 5 The bikesmith By Ben Noll, Seventh Grade My father, Scott Noll, owns a bike shop along with my uncle, Kirk Noll, on the East Side of Milwaukee. The bike shop is called The Bikesmith and it was named the best place to get your bike fixed by Milwaukee Magazine. This past summer I started working at the bike store because I didn’t go to camp. I helped build bikes and put inventory out on the showroom floor. Running a bike shop is a pretty unique occupation, so I decided to interview my dad to provide insight to our readers on what it’s like to run a bike store. Q: How long have you co-owned The Bikesmith? A: Since 1981, Twenty-six years together with my uncle. Q: Who or what gave you the idea to own a bike shop? A: My younger brother worked in a bike shop that went on sale. That’s why we were able to purchase it. Q: What are some of your daily responsibilities in owning the store? A: Take care of customers, buy merchandise, manage employees, pay bills, and plan for our future. Q: Have you ever had anything stolen from your shop? A: Yes, bikes and clothing. Q: What is the difference between buying a bike at a department store and at a bike store like yours? A: The service and the quality of the bikes that are available are better at a bike store. Q: How many different types of bikes do you sell and what are their different uses? A: I sell every kind of bike. They’re used for various uses including industrial, recreation, racing, and rehabilitation. Q: We know that wearing a helmet is an important part of bike safety. How tight should the helmet be so that it is safe? A: It should be snug all around. Proper fit is very important in order to protect the head in case of a fall. Q: Besides wearing a helmet, what other safety tips do you recommend when bike riding? A: If it is dusk or later, make sure you use a red flashing light so that drivers can see you. Also have a white headlight in the front. It is also important to have your bike checked once a year for proper fit and to make sure the tires are properly inflated and the brakes are working correctly. In addition, having a lock is important so that your bike doesn’t get stolen. It is important to have identification on you during a bike ride, especially if you bike alone or are going long distances. Q: What’s the best bike for kids and why? A: The best bike is one that properly fits them, meets their needs, and is safe. Q: How many employees do you have at The Bikesmith? A: There are a total of eight. Q: Do you bike race? A: No, I don’t have the time. After I interviewed my father, I learned that owning a bike shop is pretty fun. It seems that it could be pretty hard sometimes, like if, G-d forbid, someone breaks in. I would like to continue working at my father’s shop and maybe take over when he retires. I hope that you enjoyed my article.