Charlotte: "Don't Judge Me:"
Spoiler alert. Don't read if you haven't seen the 2 part episode "Indestructible Henry".
In "Indestructible Henry Part 2" Henry sees Charlotte dipping chips into the "Swoz-amole" on Ray's Face and she tells Henry something like "Don't judge me I like "Swoz-amole".
Of course she's doing something that is kind of weird but compared to what Henry, Swoz and Ray have already done in this episode they certainly don't have the right to judge her goofy little deed.
1) After learning the story of the densitizer and how it once turned Ray indestructible and later turned three men into mutant freaks, Henry and Swoz plan to try to use it to turn Henry indestructible.
Swoz has a theory that the vital difference is that young Ray and Henry are kids and the other three persons were men, and also that young Ray was moving through the densitizer when it zapped him and made him indestructible. That is very irresponsible. What if there are three or four differences between young Ray and the men who were hideously mutated, and Swoz fails to identify and duplicate one of those differences for Henry's attempt? That would be bad luck for Henry.
And of course young Ray and present day Henry are both kids, but one obvious difference is that present day Henry is a teenager and probably has a lot more hormones that young Ray did, and thus is chemically a lot more like the adult victims of the densitizer than young Ray was. Don't Henry and Swoz notice that present day Henry is, hormonaly speaking, a lot more like a man than young Ray was? Are they blind or something?
Since Charlotte kept telling Henry and Swoz that their plan was crazy and too risky and did what she could to dissuade them, she certainly would have to do a lot of crazy and super risky things for them to have the right to judge her.
2) Ray bought an old cannon and put it in the shop and showed if off to two kids, Henry and Charlotte. Charlotte saw a rope used to fire the cannon and asked Ray what it was for. Ray pulled the rope to find out. And the cannon fired a cannonball!
So Ray bought an old cannon and moved it into his shop and didn't check to make sure if it as loaded.
In Historum.com the thread " Who invented gunpowder?" has a post by wolflance saying:
They used it for war almost as soon as they invented it.http://historum.com/medieval-byzantine-history/100653-who-invented-gunpowder-3.html
Although the world oldest gun in the world is commonly believed to be the Heilongjiang Handgun (dated to 1288, Yuan Dynasty), Metal cannons were clearly in use well before that.
A much larger Western Xia (Tangut) or early Yuan Bronze cannon that predates the Handgun by about 61 years was discovered in 1980 (Western Xia was destroyed in 1227). It was still loaded with gunpowder and iron cannonball when discovered.
So a very early cannon dating from before 1227 was still loaded with gunpowder and cannonball when discovered in 1980 at least 753 years later! This just one of many examples that prove it is necessary to check if any gun or cannon is loaded after buying or obtaining it. But apparently Ray didn't bother.
The cannon ball should have exited the shop and crashed into other people's property and done a lot of damage Ray would have had to pay for. But fortunately for Ray, the cannonball hit something and stopped inside the shop. Yes, it sure was fortunate for Ray that the deadly cannonball was contained within the shop by something - namely the torso of Ray's friend, fourteen year old Henry Hart!
A grapeshot was an old fashioned projectile, a metal ball larger than an old bullet and smaller than a cannonball. Bunches of grapeshot balls were loaded into cannons and fired, making the cannons like super shotguns.
CAUTION GRUESOME STUFF AHEAD.
A boy named Edward Freeman Brooke, perhaps as brave as Henry Hart and as nice and sweet tempered as Piper, joined the crew of HMS Revenge in June, 1805 as an officer in training, his officially reported age 14. http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/ENG-YORKSHIRE/2007-07/1183409728
But a genealogy site claims that he was christened at All Saints church at Wakefield, Yorkshire, England on September 3, 1793, probably soon after his birth, and thus probably only 11 when he joined the crew of HMS Revenge, and probably just few months past 12 at the Battle of Trafalgar on October 21, 1805. http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/ENG-YORKSHIRE/2007-07/1183406821
So he could have been as cute and innocent and adorable LOOKING as David Zellaby in Village of the Damned (1960), or Hobb in Robocop II, or Henry Evans in The Good Son (1994).
Historian Peter Warwick, in Voices from Trafalgar (2005) http://www.wakefieldexpress.co.uk/news/local-news/city-folks-tales-about-trafalgar-told-in-book-1-933183 and Tales From the Front Line - Trafalgar (2012) https://books.google.com/books?id=2KLaPZhIb48C&pg=PA302&lpg=PA302&dq=edward+freeman+brooke+wakefield+YOrkshire+Trafalgar&source=bl&ots=tTbSAhtNa-&sig=9A_EvC1UGhvWx3WCSVCLAA6KHGc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjNg6vXuOfLAhXLiRoKHWwOBUYQ6AEIMjAD#v=onepage&q=edward%20freeman%20brooke%20wakefield%20YOrkshire%20Trafalgar&f=false states that Edward Freeman Brooke was the young officer mentioned by William Robinson in his memoirs:
"...a youth not more than twelve or thirteen years of age; but I have often seen him get on the carriage of a gun, call a man to him and kick him about the thighs and body, and with his fist would beat him about the head, and these, although prime seamen, at the same time dared not murmur...It as ordained by Providence that his reign of terror and severity should not last; for during the engagement [Trafalgar], he was killed on the quarterdeck by a grapeshot, his body greatly mutilated, his entrails being driven and scattered against the larboard side;..." https://books.google.com/books?id=mpSejn1bcRYC&pg=PT97&lpg=PT97&dq=his+entrails+were+driven+and+scattered+against+the+larbord+side&source=bl&ots=LS7YDjm7Al&sig=HKNNvxq6kNELPmWxvweaCGi4UIU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjZyJuFxufLAhWSJhoKHYM-DMwQ6AEIITAB#v=onepage&q=his%20entrails%20were%20driven%20and%20scattered%20against%20the%20larbord%20side&f=false
If a grapeshot could do that to a child, imagine what a larger cannonball could do!
So Ray had an incredibly improbable stroke of good luck that an unauthorized use of the Densitizer had made Henry invulnerable hours before Ray carelessly shot him with a cannonball!
Considering how recklessly and irresponsibly Henry, Swoz and Ray had acted earlier in the episode, Charlotte should have said: "Don't judge me, you guys just did things many times worse".
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