So, when do the Polywogs become Shellbacks?
"Heihachiro Nogura" - Horatio Nelson? The name just came that way to me.
One thing I noticed, you sometimes will end a phrase or sentence with a proposition. If you look, you'll know where it's at. ;-)
I'm still trying to figure out whether or not Hui Johansson is magical or not; at this point I'm thinking not she may have had an ancestor or two that were. Her reaction after Harry told everyone his birthday (plus the fact Harry wasn't injured after the fall) at the end of the chapter leads me to think that she's read some journals, diaries, or hear tales of "the Boy Who Lived".
I'll take a stab at who Hui's ancestors are...
The only two people in Hogwarts that I believe to have mentioned Scandinavia would be Luna (Snorkack hunting) and Daphne Greengrass (her mother, if I remember correctly according to a JKR interview.)
From the oriental side, it could be Cho (you've eliminated her) or Su Li. I'm sure I'm missing someone though.
It's been a few hundred years so...
Based on personality though, I'm going with Luna. ;-)
Oh, and I laughed at the fried jalapeño scene. I love'em and I've pulled the same stunt off folks from the midwest myself.
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Hehehe. Picked that one up did you. My dad went to the naval academy and both my grandfathers were navy. God knows I've heard about crossing the line.
Nogura is actually cannon from Star Trek. He's mentioned in the First Movie when McCoy is bitching about being "Drafted"
That fried jalapeño bit was actually pulled on me at that restaurant when I was coming back from Korea in 1990.
The El Toreador is a very real Mexican place near one of the cable car barns in San Francisco. I ate there the first week they were open and that food is good.
As for the ancestor...Shhhh! :)