Love,
your Dad.
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February 15rd, 1999
From. Severus Snape
To: Annie Deveney, PhD
Subject: Essay
Dr Deveney,
find attached my essay on conceptual meaning.
S. Snape
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February 15rd, 1999
From. Annie Deveney, PhD
To: Severus Snape
Subject: Essay
Severus,
I told you in class before that you do not have to call me Dr Deveney. This is for the disrespectful youth and since I've got to know you as rather different from those and rather more devoted and intelligent, I think it's only fair for you to call me by my given name as I call you by your given name. Attached your corrected essay. It's a pleasure to grade your work.
Annie
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February 18th, 1999
From: Draco Malfoy
To: Severus Snape
Subject: Look what Aideen did
Dear Uncle Severus,
when I saw Aideen today, she decided that I needed an email address and a computer when I have earned enough money from telling men they look good in clothes that don't suit them at all at Selfridge's. ;) Aideen says ;) means wink. Oh, and I need to give Eleanor some money. Remind me of that later, please. I got a bonus already. :D (that means a grin, Aideen says). I'll come by later. :D
Bye,
Draco xx
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February 19th, 1999
From: Draco Malfoy
To: Severus Snape
Subject: :( (that's a sad face)
Why didn't you answer me yesterday? I had no new message in my inbox, apart from the one from Aideen and this is fascinating! I stepped by her place shortly after work today and we will go out to eat now. But maybe I'll see you later. :(
Draco xx
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February 20th, 1999
From: Draco Malfoy
To: Severus Snape
Subject: :( (that's a sad face, again)
Uncle Severus,
again no answer? I don't know anyone I can email apart from you and Aideen and I want to get one as well! :'( (that's crying, Aideen says).
xx
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February 20th, 1999
From: Severus Snape
To: Draco Malfoy
Subject: stop it
Do you think I have nothing better to do than to write to you when I will see you regular as clockwork anyway? Stop pestering me, I have other things to do. And use words, not symbols that make absolutely no sense.
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February 20th, 1999
From: Severus Snape
To: Drew Fletcher, .
Subject: Essay
Professor Fletcher,
please find attached my essay on implicatures.
S. Snape
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February 21st, 1999
From: Draco Malfoy
To: Severus Snape
Subject: none
No need to be mean. I'm fascinated. My father's back home, I heard.
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March 1st, 1999
From: Hermione Granger
To: James Granger
Subject: Admission to University
Dear Mum and Dad,
I received my admission to Uni in York for Maths. Somehow, the Ministry of Magic twisted my projected NEWTs into projected A-Levels and I wrote to the Uni in York and they let me in come autumn. I haven't yet decided but I could stay with Harry and apparate there. Or move to York. I don't know yet...
Love,
Hermione
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March 3rd, 1999
From: Hermione Granger
To: Draco Malfoy
Subject: your father
Draco,
thanks for meeting up with me again. I can't believe you're saving for your own computer! No offence. Anyway, I'm glad your father is back home but why haven't you met him yet? Well, it's probably not my business. Back to the point, I've tried talking to Healer Thicskin and he wouldn't give me any information. Harry tried talking to the Minister again but he won't say anything either. I'm afraid if you want to know what happened to your father, you'll have to talk to him directly. Sorry! Oh, your godfather is going to University, right? I'm thinking of going to Muggle University and I'd sort of like to know what it's like...would he talk to me?
Hermione xx
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March 4th, 1999
From Draco Malfoy
To: Hermione Granger
Subject: University
Granger,
I can ask him but I doubt he would want to talk to you, to be honest. You can however email my girlfriend Aideen, she'd know all about it. Actually, my godfather is swamped with work and everything...:) But Aideen won't mind you emailing her but she doesn't know about witches and wizards, so you have to be careful and don't run away with your Gryffindor mouth.
Malfoy
PS: How did you apply to University? With NEWTs?
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March 15th, 1999
From. Severus Snape
To: Annie Deveney, PhD
Subject: Essay
Dr Deveney,
find attached my essay on semantic roles.
S. Snape
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March 15th, 1999
From: Annie Deveney, PhD
To: Severus Snape
Subject: re: Essay
Severus,
please find the corrected version of your essay attached. I'm glad that your participation in class has approved since the beginning of term. I think you have a talent for Linguistics, I have spoken to my colleagues whose classes you're taking as well, Prof. Fletcher and Dr. Smith, and the three of us agree that it would be probably wise for you to take more classes next term if that's possible for you and further your understanding of linguistics. In the future, there might be a tutorial position open for you if you continue your work like that. Would you like to discuss this over coffee some time?
Annie Deveney
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March 19th, 1999
From. Severus Snape
To: Annie Deveney, PhD
Subject: re: re: Essay
Dr Deveney,
I will have to think about taking more courses during next term and I will talk to Prof. Fletcher and Dr. Smith about it. Thank you.
S. Snape.
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March 30th, 1999
From: Aideen Callaghan
To: Hermione Granger
Subject: Uni
Hermione,
Draco told me to email you since you didn't get in touch with me before and he said you have questions about Uni? I think it's a nuisance to type all that, so do you want to meet? :)
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April 3rd, 1999
From: Aideen Callaghan
To: Severus Snape
Subject: question
Severus,
I met with Hermione Granger yesterday. I know I'm annoying and just as nosy as gran but why was she gushing over the fact what a brilliant teacher you were?
Aideen. xx
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April 6th, 1999
From: Severus Snape
To: Aideen Callaghan
Subject: re: question
I have no idea what you do meeting Miss Granger and I have no idea either why she would think that I was a brilliant teacher. Your grandmother expects you for lunch at Sunday and she tells me to tell you that you better keep your hands from Draco or you'll eat in the kitchen.
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April 15th, 1999
From: Hermione Granger
To: James Granger
Subject: Maths!
Dear Mum and Dad,
I will start in York in Autumn! I'm not sure if it's the right decision but it seems to suit me. A friend of a friend of mine took me to attend a class with her and even though she's studying medicine, it was very, very fascinating! Just to let you know and I will come for a visit after my NEWTs/A-Levels ;) on June 23rd. Can't wait to see you again!
Love,
Hermione xx
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April 25th, 1999
From. Severus Snape
To: Annie Deveney, PhD
Subject: Essay
Dr Deveney,
find attached my essay on prototypes. I also plan to write my term-paper about that subject.
S. Snape
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April 26th, 1999
From: Annie Deveney, PhD
To: Severus Snape
Subject: re: Essay
Severus,
Why still so formal? Your essay, as always, was excellent. Please consider going for a cup of coffee with me.
Annie Deveney
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May 7th, 1999
From: Aideen Callaghan
To: Hermione Granger
Subject: Meet?
Hermione,
could we possibly meet again some time this week? Draco is a little strange lately and I know that you've known each other for a long time. I just...:/
Aideen xx
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May 8th, 1999
From: Hermione Granger
To: Aideen Callaghan
Subject: Meet!
Let's meet, Aideen :) But I must warn you, if Draco is strange, it's possibly about his father...and you know that they're relationship is not the best, I think.
How does Wednesday sound to you? 4?
Hermione xx
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May 12th, 1999
From: Draco Malfoy
To: Hermione Granger
Subject: none
Why did you meet with Aideen? What did you tell her?
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May 13th, 1999
From: Hermione Granger
To: Draco Malfoy
Subject: re:
I told her nothing. But she was worried about you. Was there news on your father?
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May 14th, 1999
From: Draco Malfoy
To: Hermione Granger
Subject: none
Do you think I'd tell you now?
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May 20th, 1999
From: Draco Malfoy
To: Hermione Granger
Subject: none
My father was hit with several spells that used to be considered Dark before you-know-who came on the scene, including a modified memory spell that failed since my father, who knew, is an Occlumens. Tell the Minister and all his bloody Gryffindors that they can all shove their wands somewhere where I don't want to know and I don't want anything to do with them anymore.
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June 18th, 1999
From: Severus Snape
To: Annie Deveney, PhD
Subject:
I'll be free for coffee next week on Thursday after my pragmatics exam.
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June 18th, 1999
From: Annie Deveney, PhD
To: Severus Snape
Subject: re:
I'll meet you in front of the building at 2 then. Looking forward to it!
Annie
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June 22nd, 1999
From: Aideen Callaghan
To: Hermione Granger
Subject: Good luck!
Good luck on your finals and have fun in Australia if I don't hear from you before!
Aideen xx
34. Unaccusative Verbs
The Unaccusative Hypothesis [...] is a syntactic hypothesis that claims that there are two classes of intransitive verbs, the unaccusative verbs and the unergative verbs, each associated with a different underlying syntactic configuration. For example, from a GB perspective — the approach we use in this book — an unergative verb takes a D-Structure subject and no object, whereas an unaccusative verb takes a D-Structure object — be it clausal or a simple NP — and no subject. Thus, the members of the two classes are associated with the following D-Structure syntactic configurations:
a. Unergative verb: NP [vp V]
b. Unaccusative verb: _ [vp V NP/CP]
Alternately, in argument structure terms, an unergative verb has an external argument but no direct internal argument, whereas an unaccusative verb has a direct internal argument but no external argument.
(Levin and Hovav, 1993)
Harry smiled uncertainly. For the past few weeks, while Hermione had completely turned to her computer and to emails, he had written owls. Back and forth. The mystery of the person who had placed the curses on Malfoy, and probably Jones was still out there. It wasn't a mystery what had happened to Malfoy at the Ministry. They had, according to Arthur Weasley, with whom he was exchanging a lively correspondence, put him into a trance-like state which was basically a variation of the Imperius Curse, made stronger by the Imperius that had still be on him. And that was only made stronger. Everything had been multiplied. And that had caused severe, but temporary damage in his brain. The Obliviate they had wanted to put on him, to remove the traces of the trance-like-curse, and him resisting it with Occlumency, had done the rest. The man had been weak, the man had to learn to walk, talk, eat anew. One of the healers had explained it to Arthur — it was basically like a Muggle stroke what he had had. And nobody so far had been held responsible.
And that was exactly why Harry had left the Ministry and Auror-Training. He couldn't be part of this. And so, after a week of thinking and without consulting Hermione, he had signed on with the Montrose Magpies. Was playing Quidditch for a living. And that was much more fun than slaving away over old files at Auror-Training. Oh, he was very well aware that he wouldn't be able to play Quidditch for the rest of his life but at the moment, with all of that going on, he had enough of the bureaucratic part of the Wizarding World.
And it had been Quidditch that had made Arthur Weasley write an owl back then. His first game, catching the snitch after only about nineteen minutes. Had earned him a congratulations from the man. And he had, hesitant at first, replied. Thanked him. And ever since then, the two of them had corresponded. It was time, Harry had decided, to get back in touch with at least some of the Weasleys and Hermione hadn't disagreed, even though she was almost done with her NEWTs, almost on her way to Australia to visit her parents. Two more days and she would be on her way. She said he should come with her — but he had the feeling that he would be only in their way. They had, well, grown closer together through all those emails and Harry was glad — but sad that she went.
Maybe that was why, he pondered as he waited, smiling uncertainly, he had agreed to meet Arthur Weasley. Half of the summer spent alone — without Quidditch since they were on a summer break — or meeting once more with the Weasleys, trying to become friends with them again, trying to make them forget that he had broken Ginny's heart. But he had to stay away. After Molly's minor tantrum, and after all that — he had to just stay away for a while. Even though, well, even though he missed all of them. He missed the noise of the Burrow, he missed playing Quidditch with all of them, he missed talking to Ron. And while he knew he hadn't done anything to Ron, he had just, well, stayed away.
But now it was more than half a year, it was time to get reacquainted. Or try to get reacquainted at least. Didn't want to be alone in that big house of his. Maybe Ron would stay with him. And maybe, he had the chance to say that he was sorry to Ginny. He was. Not about the loss of this particular relationship, but about the loss of the relationship to the entire family.
And so, he smiled nervously as he waited in front of Arthur Weasley's office. Harry knew it would just be him. And he knew that maybe, they would go to see Kingsley. But Harry knew he had no business there anymore. Arthur, well...maybe they would just run into him accidentally.
He twisted his fingers together as soon as the door open and relaxed them — instantly — when he looked into the smiling, grinning face of the man he would have loved to have as his father-in-law.
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"Hermione!" Aideen rushed towards her and embraced her in a quick,one-armed hug. It was astonishing how quickly she had warmed to the girl and who readily Aideen (who seemed to have a know-it-ally streak as well) had accepted her as a former schoolmate of Draco and how they had grown to be friends. Well, not good friends but for Aideen it seemed normal to hug her and she hugged back, naturally.
