Several years ago (like, maybe 20!) I took a class where the subject of "cultural literacy" came up. This refers to our assumption that most people will be familiar with certain cultural references.
For example, many months ago I wrote a post in which I referred to my parents and Kaelen as "The Three Stooges." Without reading back, you may or may not remember the story I told in that post. But just from my reference, you know that something zany must have happened!
In the interest of becoming even more culturally literate, Lew and I decided that we would watch the Harry Potter movies. Part 1 (of 2) based on the final 7th book just came out in the theater. We won't pay to see it on the big screen, but it did make us finally watch the movie based on the 6th book. This movie had been on our DVR for about five or six months. (Apparently our commitment to cultural literacy is questionable.)
So we watched the movie. Didn't understand a lot of it. But we did come away with the knowledge that Hermione likes Ron, Ron subconsciously likes Hermione, and Harry and Ginny like each other (a fully conscious liking on both of their parts). Also, Harry needs to find five more of something-or-other-things in order to destroy Voldemort.
We think it's five, anyway.
We'll find out for sure when we watch the next movie in about a year or so.
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