One reason among many why I consider the the Harry Potter Epilogue to be wrong, wrong, wrong ...

[Rupert] admitted that snogging Emma, who plays Hermione Granger in the movie, was a bit weird. "We were dreading it to be honest, because we've grown up together and it just seemed wrong really," he said.

Exactly.

From this BBC interview, via ( Read more... )

This result was not what I expected. ( Result with picture under the cut )

Well, due to the time difference, I managed to miss the LJ power outage. I'm not sure if I ought to be glad or sorry. I am amused at how many people fed their blogging habit by transferring immediately to GJ!

Lots of fannish goodies:

Cashback (featuring the gorgeous Sean Biggerstaff, better-known to many of you as Oliver Wood from the first ( Read more... )

My first ever Harry Potter fic!!!

( Post-Deathly Hallows, so everything but the title is under the cut just in case someone complains it's spoilery )

The first post-Deathly Hallows fanfic story is off and running in sam_storyteller's journal here. That's fast.

THANK YOU JKR!!!

( and the rest of it is under a cut so don't click if you haven't read it )

1. Australian fans will get the chance to see Billy in The Flying Scotsman starting 16 August (Greater Union/BCC and Hoyts).
2. Orlando has apparently attracted good if not rave reviews for his part in In Celebration3. HP7 is out in 63 hours from now. I've been thinking long and hard about what might happen - my guesses are under the cut, ( Read more... )

Cassandra Claire has just posted the final chapter of Draco Veritas at Fiction Alley. Regardless of whether you like or hate the fic, like or hate the author, or even like or hate HP fanfic in general, it's the end of an era.

If you've never read the Draco Trilogy, start here. Deleted.

If you want to read it in PDF form, go here. (Large file ( Read more... )

I'm not sure how many of you were following "Per Solum Lacuna", an amazing Post-Hogwarts Harry/Draco story by Azhure&Wintermoon, but their Yahoo group, PageOfPeril, was hacked a few days ago and then deleted by the hacker - two years of messages and files gone completely. wintermoon3 says that they have all the stories backed up, of course, but there were ( Read more... )

Yes, I've read it.
Yes, it's good.
And no, I'm not telling.