In Tchaikovsky's ballet Nutcracker, there was a famous scene in which a little girl arrived at Candy Mountain in a dream and witnessed a great battle between the Mouse King and the sweets.
Though it was a fairy dancing, and her movements were nimble, the song's rhythm was forceful, like that of a little wooden puppet.
There were no shortcuts in ballet practice. Every movement had to be precise; besides extensive fundamentals, one also had to maintain a light figure. Many cakes featured little ballet girls, but ballet dancers who ate sweet cakes had to worry about their "careers," counting calories consumed and exercise, afraid that eating too much would make them "put on meat."
When playing Wizard's Chess, the player commanded the pieces to move to a certain position, and the pieces moved on their own, with chairs, swords, and the like destroying the opponent's "pieces."
It looked rather violent, but at least it prevented situations like Bonaparte's, where he put captured pieces back onto the board to meddle with the game—in other words, cheating.
Girls seemed more obedient than boys... Pomona had always been an obedient "sweetheart." She received more praise from Dumbledore than Snape did, while Snape was more rebellious because he was always at odds with the headmaster.
Georgiana held a bottle of whisky. Rather than pour it into a glass, she drank straight from the bottle.
She staggered over to a mirror and looked at the figure reflected within. Her vision was blurred, and she could not tell who was standing there.
"Do you know what your problem was? You died too early," she drunkenly said to the "person" in the mirror. "You thought the world was only black and white, that as long as everything black could be changed, the world would be all