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What about that "Making of Harry Potter" tour in London? I see loads of adverts for it here now. £28 a ticket would...not be so bad if there weren't train and bus tickets to think of as well >_> Transport is too expensive in this country. And that programme about the Tube has put me off using their underground system XD Still be cool, though...
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Next month huh? I guess today's announcement on Pottermore that all seven books available in e-book format may start the celebrations early.
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I'm going to the Making of Harry potter!
And maybe (but not likely) I may meet actors there? I don't know. |
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You know that screeching cat sound they played in the last movie when Harry, Ron and Hermione apparated into Hogsmeade and tripped the magical alarm?
I'm lying in bed right now and that exact noise is happening outside. I think some stuff is about to go down. I'll keep you all posted. |
Dangit Andy you made me watch the entire movie again. ;~;
Boohoo, these tours and such. I can't go to them! I don't think I will ever be, too! ): |
It wasn't anything note-worthy, since I heard no magic and saw no Dark Marks :(
It was probably just cats fighting... but I swear it was exactly like it; the rhythm and everything! Very weird experience when you're half asleep at 2:45 AM :P |
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1) Rowling announced the title of her next book: "A Casual Vacancy". It's not HP related but it's due out by the end of the year. Yay! 2) Pottermore is now open to public. :D For anyone signing up now, add me and let me know who you are! My username's RiverDust150. |
I heard about that new book! I will be queuing to be the first to get it; I don't care what it is or what it's about lol. The title does sound intriguing, even independently of its association with JK, so I'm psyched!
And as for Pottermore, ehhh. I might get back into that at some point but it's not all it should be. I'll come back on when they release Book 2. |
I actually think the book sounds really boring. I'll get it and I'll definitely read it but it's not top of my list, nor am I dying for its release. :P
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Well I'm the kind of guy that, if JK Rowling gave a press release stating "I like biscuits", I would jump up and down screaming because I like biscuits too and that brings us closer together!
There's nothing she can say or write that I will not be interested in. I would be enthralled by a textbook she wrote about dirt XD |
B-but she's really only ever written the HP series. What if she's absolute rubbish at non-fantasy? XD
I mean, I'm sure it'll be brilliant, but since the plot isn't instantly intriguing for me, I'm not spazzing out. :P |
Is there anything revealed about the plot? I've heard literally only that which you've told me haha. What is it about?
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See to me, that sounds absolutely fascinating. It sounds like a small-town English version of The Good Wife and I am practically jizzing myself waiting for it now haha. It sounds like something I would either read or watch, so (while I realise I'm jumping the gun massively here) I hope it gets made into a movie!
Though one thing I think is that she should have chosen to name her protagonist something that doesn't rhyme with "Harry" lmao. |
That does sound quite interesting. I'll probably read the book :D "Barry Fairwhether" sounds like a very odd name though XD
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Tell me, Harry Potter club... have any of you ever done this? XD |
Happy 14 years since the final battle! hahahahahaaa
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Was it written somewhere that that happened on May 2nd? I can't seem to remember that! I could only bring myself to read the seventh book once because it was too painful lol
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Yes!! It happened May 2nd! hahaha goshhh andy! you should re-read it- and not be pained!
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But all the deaths and the crying, I can't! Hedwig and Fred and Tonks and Lupin and Colin Creevey and... I CAN'T READ THAT AGAIN. Not until I'm more emotionally mature!
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I have read it so many times! And I cry every time!! aaaaand sometimes the DH audiobook puts me to sleep at night! ha ha ha
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Wanna join. Like right now, please. I think there's been a few of these, lol
What house are you in?: Hufflepuff, of course. Wand description (Wood, Length, Core):Rowan, 8 3/4 inches, phoenix feather core lol original Sunshine daisies, butter mellow, turn this stupid fat rat...: DEAD. I don't want him to turn yellow, I want him to turn dead. THIS IS NOT UP FOR NEGOTIATION. um I think it is physically impossible to read Deathly Hallows without crying. It is also physically impossible to read the last few chapters of OoTP without crying. For me, at least. |
Yeah, I still sob for an hour every time I read/listen to DH. :( I mean, I cry at everything so it's not really that big a deal but I still think it's normal to cry.
But yeah, it was May 2nd that the final battle took place. I don't think it says in the books but sometime, Rowling must have released a timeline with exact dates because they've been around in an official capacity for a while, I think. |
Welcome Sakura Rain!
When Dumbledore died I was crying so hard I had to stop reading and watch four back-to-back episodes of Frasier just to calm myself down, and even then I couldn't start reading again until the next day because I couldn't bring myself to pick the book back up. I'm glad I did wait now, because holy crap the funeral and the other stuff leading up to it were sadder than the fact he was dead! So yeah, you can imagine what kind of a basket case I was through Deathly Hallows :P |
My basket-case-ness started at the end of OotP, stopped through the first part of HBP, resumed at the end of HBP, and remained in full force throughout all of DH. With a little bit of it at the end of GoF. It was sad okay even though Cedric wasn't a major character and I'm a Hufflepuff okay;____; omg that was really the start
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I can't believe that the last book was released in 2007. was it really that long ago jesus Frasier is spectacular, I watched it constantly as a kid and am in fact watching it right now XD |
When I read most of the series, I was reeeally stoic because as a tomboy I felt it was my duty to not cry at things. That... had kind of changed by the time DH came out so I was a wibbly mess the WHOLE TIME I WAS READING IT and I was so confused because the series had never done that to me before. XD I guess I also cried at Dumbledore but that was the very end of the book and it was totally unexpected for me so I didn't mind it that much. @[email protected] But omg. DH. /baaaw
I remember having to read DH veeery carefully because the day it came out was the day my university had an open house and I wanted to go to it before I came here in the fall. But despite staying up all night, I hadn't finished reading the book so I took it with me and read it during all the presentations. Had a fangirly discussion with one of the profs helping out while I was reading it. XD; (omg that was like 5 years ago and i'm not even close to done my degree what am i doing with my life aaaah) Frasier is awesome. The Crane brothers are so Ravenclaw it hurts. Hi, my name is Erica and I spend my free time figuring out what houses fictional characters would be in. |
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I've always pictured Ravenclaws as a big bunch of nerds. and I mean that in the good way XD so yes, the Crane brothers would fit in very nicely. off topic but omg I was watching that one episode the other day where Frasier wouldn't pay the toll booth man or whatever and Niles had a birdcage on his lap for whatever reason and Frasier goes "Hold on, Niles." AND PLOWS STRAIGHT THROUGH THE TOLL BOOTH GATE SDKLF:JKDFJ I WAS DYING okay not even close to my normal sheer walls of text thank god DX |
I AM USUALLY PRETTY GOOD ABOUT THAT IN THIS CLUB. Mind you, I used to be really good about that in the KH club too. :(
I think the only spoiler tags needed here would just be for new content in the series. Like details about DH2 were spoiler'd last summer, Pottermore got spoilers for a while, and so on. XD; Book content should be fine, honestly. I liked Sirius too but I uhh... when I read the book, I was speed reading it in one night and I didn't make the connection that he had died until people were yelling it at Harry trying to make him accept it. I DIDN'T THINK FALLING INTO A CURTAIN WAS DEADLY, OKAY? OTL So the sadness of his death was kind of lost on me because it seemed so ambiguous while I was reading it. :( They also have the pompous thing that a lot of Ravenclaws have going on. Seriously, my welcome letter was entirely "YEAH WE'RE BETTER THAN THE OTHERS BECAUSE REASONS. GOODNESS, WE ARE SO SMART." |
The books don't make me cry at all anymore. I used to cry during Order of the Phoenix, the end of Half-Blood Prince, and in Deathly Hallows, but I re-read it them other month and nothing. The movies, though, they still get me. All of them! I think it has to do with nostalgia or something. I'm still trying to decide if that's bad of me as a fan.
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How do the movies get you more than the books? o_O Did you watch them first or something?
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No, I had read the first four before the first movie even came out. :P
I don't really know why. Maybe it's the music? *shrug* |
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I only find the end of HBP, the end of DH, and ALL OF DH2 to be sad movie-wise so I dunno. :( I know it greatly has to do with the music in DH2 but also just knowing that it was the end. I saw DH2 in theatres like 4 times and I think I cried through most of the movie every. single. time. |
Do we need to start a Frasier fan club? XD
I didn't find the end of the HBP movie sad at all; and that made me angry. Dumbledore was dead and I was a mess all through the end of that book, yet in the movie I didn't feel a thing. They borked the ending of that movie so badly that it still makes me angry to watch. Which is a shame because the rest of that movie was amazing lol. I found a lot of DH1 and all of DH2 soul-crushingly sad (I went and saw it 5 times at the movies and cried right through, as well as getting this feeling like I'd been kicked in the stomach each time Snape said "Always"). But beyond that the only part in the movies that moved me to tears (of sadness) was that moment at the end of the Goblet of Fire when Harry had brought Cedric's body back to the edge of the maze and you felt that tone shift from cheer and excitement to "ohhhhh ****" in the crowd. Oddly, Cedric's father didn't really have an effect on me, it was just that energy shift. |
I absolutely cannot stand Snape so I don't really feel a thing for any of his scenes ever. I... I might have been cracking jokes the second and third times I saw DH2 during his death scene. (One of the Gryffindors lost their scarf in the boat house. You can see it in the background. Every time Harry runs in after Voldemort's gone, I substitute whatever he says with, "hey, that's where my scarf went!") *horrible person*
But yeah, I tear up at everything during the beginning of DH2 and the moment they get back to Hogwarts and all through the final battle I'm pretty much openly crying. XD; |
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I always found Snape extremely disturbing and creepy. Well, firstly, he is a grown man and he bullies schoolchildren, for christ's sake, and then it comes out that he hated James Potter with the passion of a thousand burning suns which is entirely reasonable, given the way James treated him but what isn't reasonable is that he takes it out on poor Harry, who had absolutely nothing to do with it omg and then in PoA when they're all in the Shrieking Shack he wasn't even willing to hear any of them out he was basically going "hahahahah I caught you, I caught you! Now the lot of you will go to prison and I'll be revered for it, lalalalala~" and he was so happy about sending an innocent man back to Azkaban Now I know he was supposedly so happy about this because he thought Sirius had betrayed Lily. But Sirius didn't, so he did not deserve to have his soul sucked out, no matter how badly he treated Snape in school and then he goes absolutely bonkers when Sirius escapes and immediately suspects Harry which is correct, Harry did help Sirius escape BUT THIS WAS A GOOD THING, OKAY. Snape you are a grown man GET OVER IT ALREADY and he busts in the hospital wing like the Kool-Aid man and goes mental omg. and then theeeeeeeeeen in DH he's all in love with Lily and I mean I really can't see how this would work he never listened to her she basically told him that she was not impressed by the Death Eaters and he keeps trying to be a Death Eater to impress her. I mean really man? The only thing that I respect him for is helping to protect Harry for Lily. but it still creeps me out this love of his is sort of obsessive omg. The "Always." thing is sort of cute though. god stopping myself there or I will turn this into another wall of text fanclub and omgomg lily's theme from DH2 makes me have so many feelings omg Quote:
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OKOKOK. I understand dislike of Snape considering the way he acted for most of the story, but... THOSE SCENES IN THE PENSIEVE SHOWED YOU WHY HE WAS THE WAY HE WAS AND HE HAD BEEN PROTECTING HARRY BECAUSE HE WAS STILL IN LOVE WITH HIS DEAD MOTHER HOW CAN YOU FEEL NOTHING ABOUT THAT YOU MONSTERS ;; I will admit though, I did laugh at Snape's death scene the second time I saw it - not the part where Nagini killed him, but his conversation with Voldemort earlier in the scene. Because it hit me that throughout that entire scene, Voldemort had the derp face on. I could not take him seriously lmao. Also look guys I made the club purty! Well actually I think it looks boring as hell but I did my best :P |
Snape is amazing don't go there! ;_; I kind of wish there was a prequel/something with Snape as the main character, that might boost everyone's opinion of him as a character. Or maybe some bonus material on him on Pottermore, I'm sure there will be lots.
Speaking of which... are they ever going to finish Pottermore? At least the 2nd book's content would be good >< |
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I think they've said that CoS stuff is coming in the next month or so. I don't think it's going to be too long from now. Or I hope it isn't, anyway. |
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Sirius? Insane? NOOOOOO. I'd never have guessed! XD but yeah Sirius did not do very much to convince anyone of his innocence in PoA. He was chanting "He's at Hogwarts." in his sleep, he slashed up the Fat Lady attempting to break into Gryffindor Tower, he actually broke into Gryffindor Tower and was standing over a thirteen-year-old boy with a knife, sirius hun what were you thinking omg and he pretty much stalks Harry for the entire year. though he was probably trying to make sure peter didn't try anything and I thought Sirius coming to watch Harry play Quidditch was adorable okay Quote:
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*edges away* :( But uhh... yeah. I don't think hating James is a good enough reason for how Snape acted throughout the books from Harry's POV. Obviously there's bias there since Harry didn't like Snape to begin with but that's Snape's fault anyway. Of course the boy's not gonna like you if you pick on him from day one and do nothing but constantly glare at him from the moment you saw him. And honestly, talking about Harry's dead mother and how much he loved her and then telling Harry that he reminds Snape of her just creeps me the heck out. XD; Snape did the right thing in the end, and he was on the right side, but it's always felt like he did it for the wrong reasons to me. |
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Also had he been less 'abusive', the revelations about him that came up in the last two books would not have been nearly as fascinating. He would have been basically Lupin 2.0 - a man with a dark past who overcame his demons and now fights on the side of good. Any interesting cast of characters needs to have light and shade... I see Snape as the shade :P Quote:
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And really, the fact that he doesn't even make the effort to be nice to anyone doesn't improve his character to me. Snape is most definitely in the 'gray' area, as far as I'm concerned. I can't call him a villain, after Lily's death, of course. Before Lily's death, I'm quite convinced he was a villain. and I most certainly can't call him a hero. He's an interesting character, but not a pleasant character. and then there's this “‘Please, sir,’ said Hermione, whose hand was still in the air, ‘the werewolf differs from the true wolf in several small ways. The snout of the werewolf - ‘ ‘That is the second time you have spoken out of turn, Miss Granger,’ said Snape coolly. ‘Five more points from Gryffindor for being an insufferable know-it-all.’” —PoA I mean really snape? Really? You have to resort to name-calling like a child? Really? and then there's this. spoilered because it's kind of long Spoiler:
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Well yeah, as I said he was an unpleasant character. He was bitter and didn't care much for the world and that made him easy to hate, but he was easily one of the most interesting characters and I look for that over general niceness any day. I think the fact that he ended up being on the side of good and the reasons for that made me love him, because before that I was hating him right alongside you. I don't think it's pathetic for him to have pined for Lily for that long, either. But maybe I'm just a hopeless romantic :P
Anyway, I don't think anybody is going to change anybody's mind on this haha - I get why people hate Snape. If anybody ever says anything bad about McGonagall, however... well, you don't want to face me then. :P |
Hey guys look at what I ordered! Hopefully it shall arrive in September, I'm so psyched :D
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Can't say anything about her new book except that it sounds like what you see on Barnes & Noble shelves nowadays. Not that it's wrong. I'm curious to see what it is.
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JKR and Sony have partnered up for a new PS Move game called "Book of Spells" at today's E3 conference. It's connected to Pottermore since that is partnered with Sony. |
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And those DVDs of course, but I have a lot of HP DVDs already. |
Okay. You have to let me join this. I LOVE Harry Potter.
I want to be in Ravenclaw. My wand is holly, phoenix, 10 inches. The rat turned purple. And Sakura Rain, you are my Sirius fandom buddy lol. He's my favorite character, I don't care how weird he is. If I start discussing my clearly insane theories that the Veil is a portal to another dimension....feel free to tell me to shut up. XDDDDD And has anyone mentioned the weird fact that the Marauders all died in reverse order of their names on the Map. Bet she planned that, lol. |
Hey Zayphora, welcome!
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As to the Marauders dying in reverse order, I never noticed that! That's really cool! But if she did plan that, why? What purpose did that serve to the story? WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?! |
I actually didn't notice it either, my friend told me...She probably did it as a sort of creepy symbolic thing...
So basically one day I saw this GIF that said something along the lines of "What happened to Sirius when he went through the Veil? He went to Narnia." It was pretty stupid but hilarious, but that got me thinking(because as he's my favorite character I am always grateful for a possible explination that would mean he's not dead, lol) What if he didn't actually...die? WHAT IF THE VEIL ISN'T JUST A CREEPY ARCHWAY THAT EATS PEOPLE, HUH? <.< Told you it was insane. |
Yeah OK that is pretty insane haha - though again I'm dumbstruck by the amount of people who call Sirius their favourite character!
I guess it surprises me so much because he really wasn't in the story that much. He was a great character, but he was only in the end of the third book, sporadic communications in the fourth and more dominantly in the fifth - but in a story with a wealth of amazing character like the Harry Potter universe has, it just shocks me that people would single him out as their favourite when others got the opportunity for shine twice as bright for twice as long. |
Oh and Shining Raichu- Don't worry, they put me in Slytherin too...xDD
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I still never really understood the point of the veil. Bellatrix used the Killing Curse on him, so he was dead anyway. I don't understand why it needed to conveniently happen right next to the portal to the realm of the dead :P
I think it would have had more impact if she'd hit him with a Stunning Curse or something and it made him stumble backwards into the veil - because that way it would be more tragic as it were a curse that wouldn't have killed him otherwise; it was just a terrible choice of location that made him die. |
My friend and I have actually argued about that. In the book it says specifically that the light shot off by what Bellatrix shot at Sirius was red. Isn't the Avada Kendavra green? Forgive me if I'm just clueless.
The Veil scene confused me too. I read the fifth book when I was around 10 and I was confused. I got that he was dead, but I really sort of forgot about the whole Veil thing until I convinced myself to reread the 5th book. (I had gotten mad right after I read it for the first time and said that I would never read it again. EH WHAT A WEIRDO I WAS I actually like the fifth book a lot now.) And when I reread it I came up with my insane conspiracy theory, which I hope all of you forget I ever said, as it's embarrassing. Two semi-random things- 1. If the chapter is called "Beyond the Veil" then why didn't the illustrator lady use a picture of the Veil as the illustration at the beginning of the chapter? To keep from giving a little spoiler, maybe? Or maybe to make the Veil itself even more confusing? Anyway, I just don't think that a picture of flying brains was the best one for that chapter. 2. Is "Veil" capitalized like that anywhere but in fan descriptions? I mean, was that something that JKR intended or did we make it up? (Or am I the only one who capitalizes it like that? Derrrp>.> |
Oh, so it wasn't the Killing Curse Bellatrix shot at Sirius? Well that does make it a lot better then - I haven't read the book in ages, I was just going by what I remember from the movie, and in the movie she definitely says "Avada Kedavra". I guess they changed it for the movie to dumb it down for people who wouldn't realise he was dead otherwise :P
Also you must be American or something :P in the Australian/English copies of the book there are no illustrations at all, so you're lucky you get any haha. I agree though, the flying brains were definitely not the main event of that chapter. Perhaps the Veil is alluded to somewhere in mythology and if people had seen what it looked like they might have remembered it and knew somebody was about to die? Just spitballing here lol |
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I call Sirius my favorite character. Or at least one of my favorites. I just think he's fascinating, and I thought it was so cool that he broke out of Azkaban just to protect Harry and kill peter but really who cares about him but I do wish he'd been given more screentime. He got reckless in OotP, and I didn't much appreciate him saying to Harry, "You're less like your father than I thought." but I think if he'd managed to hang around longer we would've got to see a lot more of him. @Zayphora YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS WE ARE UNITED IN OUR LOVE FOR PADFOOT <3 and yeah, I saw that, but I don't see what kind of difference it would make. Well, besides making me sadder. not for peter though I HATE PETER ...will I be considered a traitor to the fandom if I don't get the game? |
Nah you won't be considered a traitor for not getting the game - in fact I've thought about it and I probably won't either. The original content will probably end up on YouTube or another random site I can just look up and the game itself looks absolutely terrible, so I won't bother. It's cute that they made it tie into Pottermore, but I think Pottermore is basically a huge flop itself as well. Does anybody even still use that site?
But onto Sirius - can you shed some light on what makes him fascinating? Maybe it's just because I haven't read the books in so long, but I can't remember anything that particularly stood out to me about his character. I always liked Sirius, because he was on the side of good and he made a great father figure for Harry, but beyond that I've never understood why everybody thinks so highly of him. I guess I just missed what was so special lol. |
I still sign onto Pottermore every so often and I still really love it. I've been trying to make time this last week to read the first chapters of Chamber of Secrets that went up. I'm really excited for new content!
So long as you look at Pottermore as a companion site to the series rather than the full-fledged social networking/web game site they were sort of implying it was in the beginning, it's a great resource for additional information and interesting facts. The minigames, sorting, and social networking are just a bit of a bonus. :3 Quote:
I think I vaguely knew that the American books had illustrations at the head of each chapter, even if they're just more thumbnail-ish of an item/setting from the chapter rather than full-fledged illustrations of scenes (right?) but I never felt that not having them affected my enjoyment of the books. If anything, I feel luckier for not having them: instead of going into a chapter with expectations or already having part of the chapter visualized for me, I got to create the whole world in my head with no influence except the words on the page and the cover of the book :(. I really think I prefer my reading experience that way. (Btw, do the Australian versions use the same illustrations as the British version? Ours do. I prefer them over the American ones. :P) |
I just got an email saying the first few chapters of CoS is now available for me to read. I don't think I've finished Book 1 yet.
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I've been meaning to get to them for a week now. Finally taking the time to go through them now. There's an excellent piece on Muggle Technology (and how Wizards use/avoid it) in Chapter 3 of CoS.
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How have I never noticed this before? I want in!
I'm in Ravenclaw according to Pottermore. My wand is 10 3/4 inches, Poplar, Phoenix Feather, Hard. Yellow! My thoughts on current topics (it's long, so I spoilered it) Spoiler:
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Why didn't I see this before? I want in too!
What house would you like to be in?: Gryffindor Wand description (Wood, Length, Core): Ebony|13 inches| Veela hair Sunshine daisies, butter mellow, turn this stupid fat rat...: Yellow. Hope the Sorting Hat won't have me as the first rejection. ~Always. EDIT: @ The "Sirius' death by Veil" Topic: They were originally gonna have Arthur Weasley die, when Nagini attacked him, but instead J.K. Rowling switched to killing Harry's father figure instead. And also, the veil is somewhat of a portal to death, or something like that. |
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What house would you like to be in?: Ravenclaw. On a large RP/fansite hybrid, I'm one of Ravenclaw's Prefects.
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...To eerily echo the previous two posts: how the hell am I not in this club? (I designed the freaking header, lol.) Laziness is baaad.
What house would you like to be in?: Lord knows (well, Rowling does). I want to be a Gryffindor because I'm just a great big cliché like that, but I have a feeling I'm more Ravenclaw. Wouldn't say no to Hufflepuff though. So, um, yeah. Have fun adding me to the first post, Mr Club Owner Sir. :P Wand description (Wood, Length, Core): Pine, three feet long and three inches thick with a fiery burning core of dragon tail. Hell YES. This ain't just no wand, it's a big ol' stick for bashing with. When the going gets tough, m'wand gets smacking. Sunshine daisies, butter mellow, turn this stupid fat rat...: Pink. With purple stripes. And a cute little sunhat. Maybe some bunny slippers. Who says rats can't be adorable? NOW ONTO THE DISCUSSION... *rubs hands* My thought is that Sirius is loved by so many people because he was so important to Harry and we identify by proxy - it doesn't matter that he's not around a whole lot in GoF, because that adds to how much Harry misses him. Quote:
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Actually, Kreacher's behaviour is a result of his pure-blood masters' hatred for Muggles and blood traitors, causing their attitude to rub off on him. A bit of kindness wouldn't hurt him, though. Bribe him a little...
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Oh my God I really suck at being a club owner this week haha - welcome to GolurkIsDaBomb, Daniel Evans, Barrels and NeoPsychedelia :D.
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Oh and until you decide on a definitive house, you are going to be a Muggle! Whahahahahahaha Anyway on the point of how Sirius died - I know it was Bellatrix that killed him and JK Rowling made the right choice logically in having her use the Avada Kedavra Curse. Because, as you said, it's Bellatrix. JK knows her characters inside and out and that's why she's such a great storyteller. I still think though that it would have had more of an emotional impact if the death were more unnecessary. On me, at least. If it were just this horrible, horrible luck and not necessarily the evil side's intention, it just makes the death even more needless. And the more needless a death, the more heart-wrenching. |
I was so weirded out by one of the Malfoy's liking Elizabeth. All I can imagine is Lucius Malfoy's actor and something that looks like Elizabeth's portrait together o__O I wonder if the Malfoy's nowadays knew of the "actual" reason they hated muggle-borns. Also, I hate whoever made that gnome game.
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God I feel like such a terrible Potter fan for asking this, but... who is Elizabeth?
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This is what Jorah means: "Though hotly denied by subsequent generations, there is ample evidence to suggest that the first Lucius Malfoy was an unsuccessful aspirant to the hand of Elizabeth I, and some wizarding historians allege that the Queen's subsequent opposition to marriage was due to a jinx placed upon her by the thwarted Malfoy." (from Pottermore) So you're not a terrible potter fan after all! :D And I like the gnome game :/ even if at times it's somewhat infuriating. I HATE the stupid pudding hopping game. D:< |
Oh! Oh. Man, I really need to go catch up on my Pottermore. I should just get over the fact that it put me in Slytherin so I can go get more of my original content :P
And is this the gnome game from the PS2 games? I love that game so much. |
No, pretty sure it's the gnome game on Pottermore. :P Go explore it! Worst case, just make a new account now that it's open. Otherwise I guess you could work to sabotage Slytherin if you don't like it? XD Just start a bunch of duels and lose them on purpose or melt your cauldrons repeatedly! Mwahahaha!
I'm kind of torn, guys. ;~; The Japanese e-books finally went up on the Pottermore store and I really, REALLY wanna get them to help me practise my reading but they don't work on Kindle waaah. I hate reading things on my PC or smartphone but... but... Harry Potter books! Think it's worth it? :c (Especially since just importing the last books [they split all of the later books into two!] is like $50 per book before massive shipping costs because the books weigh a ton. ;__;) |
@Shining Raichu Just make a bunch of accounts until you get the house you want lol (just skip through the first 6 and a half chapters) That's what I did when I got bored haha
Also, the PS2 games are the best! I used to play them all the time! The fourth is good because of mutiplayer but the fifth is just the best overall. (I don't have 1-3 and I have the rest for wii) Speaking of video games, any one play the lego harry potter's? They're the best! :D @Lightning. Do it! Worst case scenario you just don't read them and then waste uh... 20 bucks? 30? (I really have no clue as to how much things cost XD) But, best case, you learn Japanese (and Japanese potter spells) in a really cool way ^_^ |
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I guess I'll just have to suck it up and be a Slytherin lol. ----- On the subject of the PS2 games; omg I love them so much. I agree with Jorah that the first three are the best; I love the format of just running free around the castle. I think that's awesome, much better than the plot-based games from 4 onward. I think the problem with 4 onward is that there is a lot more story to fit into the game, so they couldn't really keep going on in the same format. They had to fit as much in as efficiently as possible so they had to go by plot points instead. Which sucks, but I understand it. AND THE GNOME GAME OMG. OK I had the first two games on PS1, so when I first got them on PS2, I nearly lost it. I was like "LOOK AT THESE GRAPHICS!!!!!!11!1!1" So then when the first thing you did was play the gnome came in Chamber of Secrets, I think I spent over an hour just throwing gnomes over the Weasley's fence. It was so pretty and serene in the Weasley back garden, I loved it there! Ahhh memories. My main problem with the Harry Potter games was "Flipendo". What the hell was that lmao. |
Flipendo is in Pottermore, so I take it it is a canon spell now. I actually liked Flipendo...I like hitting random people with it XD Then again, I do that in most games where you have a gun and are able to shoot random citizens XD The 4th was horrible because you were outside the whole time with a plot that revolved around killing everything. You didn't even enter the castle once. I remember the camera angle being terrible, as well. From 5 onwards, I noticed that they based the plot on the films, rather than loosely on the books as the first 3 did (I have no idea what the 4th was going for). My favourite thing about the old games was running away from the prefects at night XD
I had PS and CoS for both PS1 and 2 as well...it was actually pretty cool because it wasn't just updated graphics, the game play was pretty different, too. ...I...I think I played these games too much :> Good times. |
The only aspect of the fourth I liked was multiplayer. I'm not sure why that only existed in that one.
As for the first three, I have those on PC. My favorite is the third (so fun) but the second and first are good too. Flipendo is so dumb, but I liked come of the other spells they created (glacius, carpe retractum, spongify, lapafors, draconifors or whatever it's called) Oh spongify. :D |
Well, until they make Hogwarts: Th' Game for PS3/360/Wii, we'll just have to be content with the older games... /sadface
Did anyone ever play the Game Boy Color games? Lord I fell in deep and platonic love with those. I'm with y'all on open-world utterly pwning story-driven - the best part of the first two games (and to an extent the third) was the freedom to do whatever you wanted: that experience of being a student at Hogwarts. Which is why they need to get a shuftie on with H:TG! Warning: incoming daydream alert... It wouldn't be a MMORPG - nope, the other students would all be CPUs, with lots and lotsa different dialogues all penned by Rowling herself. Like KOTOR! But more. You'd customise your character model to within inches of your true actual self and roam the castle, engaging in midnight escapades whenever you wanted. Also Peeves! There'd be new characters - a new Defence Professor, for sure, this all taking place after the War. And new enemies - not Voldemort, more Malfoy-esque, perhaps based in more hidden Slytherin-y chambers within the castle itself. After a week you'd know nearly all the secret passages, and use them more frequently than the stairs. There'd be sidequests ad infinitum - some issued by teachers, some not. All the Pottermore content would be there in some shape or form, naturally, and you'd be Sorted, getting to explore all the House-specific areas that Harry never saw. Maybe you'd pick up an adoring house-elf somewhere along the line; maybe you'd strike up a friendship with Hagrid. And Quidditch would finally, finally be fleshed out into a full PES-type sub-game. There would be an overarching good vs. evil story - but you wouldn't have to complete it if you didn't want to. Most students aren't Harry, after all. Smaller victories, like escaping detentions or duelling Prefects might suffice. There'd be a few cameos from existing Potter celebrities, and Hermione would be back for her seventh year as you started your second or third, but mostly you'd splash happily about in the deluge of new characters. Including the twenty-or-so NPCs available for you to pick and choose your best friends from. Oh, and you wouldn't have to be good. Slytherin or no, the option would be open to play as an utter scumbag from start to finish. Backstabbing, manipulating, political swerving: the floor would be yours. It'd be as close to actually attending Hogwarts as you could ever reasonably get. ...But we won't see it, I shouldn't think. Not in this lifetime. If only cos the effort required to make the game everything it should be would take twice as long. *slopes off to cry in a corner* EDIT: Also, proper voice acting. You'd sidestep the problem of spending all the budget on millionaire movie stars just by having an all-new cast of characters (though Emma Watson or bust), but it goes without saying, really, that this version of Hogwarts would be as immersive as it gets. |
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Though unfortunately on a more serious not I think you're right; it never would happen :(. Particularly if Book of Spells is any indication of the future of Potter gaming. |
I'd buy that game, Barrels...
Hey, JK's new book is available for pre-order...interesting front cover http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/ref=pe_13021_31045131_pe_pack1/140870420X The Kindle version is more expensive in the UK, which is weird. For £9, I may as well get it. |
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I truly hope you're right, though if the deal they've inked has some sort of exclusivity clause attached then it puts a dampener on any other companies making any Potter games. And to be honest I don't trust Sony whatsoever lol.
On the subject of A Casual Vacancy, aaaaaaa I'm still so excited! I read that it's released in 50-something days. I'm rushing to finish The Hungers Games so I can read it the second it comes out (I always finish a book before I start a new one). I'd never get the Kindle version though. Books are meant to be books /traditionalist |
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I was wondering, anyone ever been to Harry Potter World? Mmm butterbeer... :D |
What house would you like to be in?: Ravenclaw
Wand description (Wood, Length, Core): Ash, 12 3/4, Phoenix Feather, Unyielding Sunshine daisies, butter mellow, turn this stupid fat rat...: yellow |
Welcome, DiamondBlueMoon! Adding you onto the Ravenclaw list now. Feel free to join in the discussion :D
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I'll take a picture of it all some time, I can't be bothered right now :P I also went to the Harry Potter Exhibition back in November when it was in Sydney, that was awesome. I think the most trippy part of the entire experience was seeing the outfit Harry wore when he faced Voldemort in The Philosopher's Stone. I don't think anybody appreciates just how truly tiny that boy was until they see that thing lol. |
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Wow, that's awesome! I've heard there are a ton of hidden features ON the discs, and hidden features of the box, augh I'm so jealous! Too bad I'll never be able to afford it. D: |
Hidden features on the discs themselves? :O I'm gonna have to Google those suckers and find them all!
Also has anybody got The Casual Vacancy, JK's latest book? I got to the store like 9 minutes before it closed at 9pm on Thursday night just to get my copy. I haven't had the chance to read very far yet but I'm like ten pages in and I'm seeing that it's most definitely a JK-style book already. It even smells like a JK Rowling book... you know, superior? It's also set out exactly like the HP books font and spacing wise. Not that that matters, it just brings up a lot of nostalgia :P |
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As for A Casual Vacancy, I have not read it yet, although the fact that it smells superior kind of makes me want to read it. What's it about? Politics or something? |
Politics is definitely part of it, but on a smaller scale as it's local politics (contained within the small town of Pagford). But from what I've heard her say, she's delved into many different types of relationships for this type of book and she has some profound things to say with it, so I'm looking forward to reading it!
The way I described it just now is probably wildly inaccurate (and made it seem dull - I didn't do it justice whatsoever) but I'm only on page 10 so far! |
I can't believe I didn't see this club decades ago.
What house would you like to be in? Gryffindor, of course. Wand Description Walnut, 10 3/4 inches, Dragon Heartstring, unyielding. Bought it from Ollivander's. Sunshine daisies, butter mellow, turn this stupid fat rat ... Yellow! |
What house would you like to be in?: Ravenclaw, please
Wand description (Wood, Length, Core): Hemlock wood, 12 inches long, unicorn hair core. Sunshine daisies, butter mellow, turn this stupid fat rat...: Into chocolate Jello! Man, I love Harry Potter...I read the whole book series...:rambo: Good times... |
What house would you like to be in?: What the hell is a Hufflepuff?
Wand description (Wood, Length, Core): 9.8 inches, any type of wood, hippogriff wing. Sunshine daisies, butter mellow, turn this stupid fat rat...: YELLOW! Looks pretty cool; love the Harry Potter series, especially the third and seventh. =D |
I'm in!
I love Harry Potter, and have readed all 7 before i was 9 House: I'm intelligent and learn quickly so... Ravenclaw! Wand: Pheonix Feather, Hemlock Wood, 10 Inches. I love HP. Though Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson was bad In my Opinion. I like Nevile when he cut of the snakes head in Deathly Hallows part 2. I'm awesome! Is what i think Nevile says in his mind when he does it. |
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http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m89k3epmRS1rx73xvo1_500.gif You must explain yourself. What was wrong with them? WHAT DID THEY DO WRONG? They were marvellous! :( |
Well, I know a lot of people aren't fans of Emma for her eyebrow acting... :P
lol I know I'm the only one who still cares but the final chapters of CoS are up on Pottermore today... |
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