Friday, February 02, 2007

gauntlet of fire

Hey kids! See if you can identify which passages below are from the much anticipated new book Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and which are from the highly classified National Intelligence Estimate produced by the U.S. government's intelligence agencies!!! Find the answers at the fan club website!
  • There was a great darkness, and no one could see even a hint of light amidst the gloomy chaos.
  • It was all his fault, from the very beginning. He wished he could travel back in time and change what happened. But he could not.
  • Collapse of this magnitude would generate fierce violence for at least several years, ranging well beyond the time frame of this Estimate, before settling into a partially stable end-state.
  • When one ventures outside this realm, they find themselves vulnerable to attack. It is most dangerous, even for the brave.
  • The whole process of producing NIEs normally takes at least several months.
  • Even the school had been infiltrated by the enemy by that point.
  • The atmosphere was summed up by a bearded old man sitting outside the stone walls. "That's no ordinary prison," he said. "They torture people in there!"
  • It soon became clear that this was no simple game ... thousands of lives were at stake.
  • Harry Potter entered the chamber. Would Voldemort be inside?
  • Should these events take place, they could spark an abrupt increase in communal and insurgent violence and shift Iraq’s trajectory from gradual decline to rapid deterioration with grave humanitarian, political, and security consequences.
  • By the time they arrived at the museum, it had been looted. The guards had disappeared and the powerful relics inside were nowhere to be found.
  • The emergence of a checkered pattern of local control would present the greatest potential for instability, mixing extreme ethno-sectarian violence with debilitating intra-group clashes.
  • "Good shot, Hermione," Harry said. "That one was really close." She shivered in the darkness but did not reply.

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home