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  • Nick Armstrong
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    • Nov 2010
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    The D you're looking for unites Elizabeth Alexandra Mary and her father with a wand-stone-cloak combo
    "...the isle is full of noises,
    Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
    Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
    Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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    • amateur51

      Originally posted by Caliban View Post
      The D you're looking for unites Elizabeth Alexandra Mary and her father with a wand-stone-cloak combo
      This is our own dear Queen and her papa, George VI I take it?
      Last edited by Guest; 23-06-12, 19:33. Reason: Quee?!

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      • Nick Armstrong
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        • Nov 2010
        • 26519

        Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
        This is our own dear Queen and her papa, George VI I take it?
        Indeed, the queer old Dean (as Dr Spooner would have said) and her dad
        "...the isle is full of noises,
        Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
        Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
        Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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        • amateur51

          Originally posted by Caliban View Post
          Indeed, the queer old Dean (as Dr Spooner would have said) and her dad
          Ah indeed, to hue is ermine, as the Highly Boble say!

          Could the D be Sir George Dyson, possible tunesmith for both coronations?

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          • amateur51

            Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
            Ah indeed, to hue is ermine, as the Highly Boble say!

            Could the D be Sir George Dyson, possible tunesmith for both coronations?
            He wrote two coronation anthems, I see

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            • Anna

              Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
              He wrote two coronation anthems, I see
              Indeed he did Name that tune!

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              • Nick Armstrong
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                • Nov 2010
                • 26519

                Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                Could the D be Sir George Dyson, possible tunesmith for both coronations?
                Nowhere near, I'm afraid - apart from the fact that you are looking for a surname starting with D
                "...the isle is full of noises,
                Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                • amateur51

                  Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                  Nowhere near, I'm afraid - apart from the fact that you are looking for a surname starting with D
                  Oh well I'm glad to have broken that part of the puzzle for the others, and without mentioning any bodily functions for the timorous amongst us

                  Is the wand-stone-cloak combo perhaps to do with the Sorcerer's Apprenctice by Dukas?

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                  • Nick Armstrong
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                    • Nov 2010
                    • 26519

                    Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                    the Sorcerer's Apprentice
                    That is highly relevant but nothing to do with Dukas... We are concerned with a wand of elder wood, a cloak of invisibility and the Resurrection Stone: together, these are known as what....?
                    "...the isle is full of noises,
                    Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                    Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                    Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                    • amateur51

                      Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                      That is highly relevant but nothing to do with Dukas... We are concerned with a wand of elder wood, a cloak of invisibility and the Resurrection Stone: together, these are known as what....?
                      I bet it's sunnink to do with Hairy Potter but I've only read the first one which had owls in it, innit

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                      • Nick Armstrong
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                        • Nov 2010
                        • 26519

                        Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                        I bet it's sunnink to do with Hairy Potter but I've only read the first one which had owls in it, innit
                        Hairy Pooter: tick Forget the books though

                        Professor Google is your friend....
                        "...the isle is full of noises,
                        Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                        Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                        Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                        • Anna

                          Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                          That is highly relevant but nothing to do with Dukas... We are concerned with a wand of elder wood, a cloak of invisibility and the Resurrection Stone: together, these are known as what....?
                          Wand carried by the followers of Dionysus? No, of course not.

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                          • Nick Armstrong
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                            • Nov 2010
                            • 26519

                            Originally posted by Anna View Post
                            Wand carried by the followers of Dionysus? No, of course not.

                            'Fraid not....

                            Hope this puzzle isn't proving Deathly boring...
                            "...the isle is full of noises,
                            Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                            Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                            Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                            • amateur51

                              I'm going to have an early night because I've been sleeping later & later this past week and it would be nice to have a reasonably early start/full day tomorrow

                              Good luck Anna!

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                              • Anna

                                Originally posted by Caliban View Post

                                'Fraid not.... Hope this puzzle isn't proving Deathly boring...
                                The Resurrection Stone was one of the three Deathly Hallows, originally in the possession of Cadmus Peverell ..... Oh what are you like Cali?

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