I'm having such fun seeing you guys squee over the new HBP trailer and the mysterious Harry/Ginny near-kiss scene (where's that from????) and the wonderful, terrific, fabulous news about Dean/Ginny.

And then there's this (bold mine):
That's because, as director David Yates points out, it's the "sex, drugs, and rock and roll" of the Potter books, ( Read more... )

It's 3 AM, do you know where your discretion is?

Mine being quite absent, I'm going to quote from this friends-locked post I made in May 2003 where dianora and I gigglingly predicted future fandom discourse:

Liralen: "You see, in the scene where he snogs Ginny senseless, there was obviously a love potion at work (remember the foreshadowing?). Ginny ( Read more... )

It seems that the HP world is hot right now. I mean, hotter than usual.

- The GoF movie is on a pace to significantly outperform CoS and PoA at the box office.

- HBP was voted favorite book of the year by USA Today readers.

- Entertainment Weekly voters gave Harry a double crown -- they voted HBP the best book of the year and GoF the best ( Read more... )

mrs_bombadil nudged me to do the "Ten Things I Like About H/G" meme invented by prongssr. So don't click on the cut if you don't want to see ( pro-H/G arguments )

Because I am a serious intellectual literary type, I have been reading a lot of books lately. Like re-reading Mary Stewart's Merlin trilogy quadrology and all Meg Cabot's books. Also I bought her (Cabot's) new one -- Ready or Not -- and read it. It's kind of thin and preachy. However, in the course of all this serious intellectual literary ( Read more... )

Fantastic post over on the discworld community:

Now remember what Vimes says in "Men at Arms ( Read more... )

Ha! I learned some things yesterday that made my love of Lizo Mzimba, already astronomical from the Jo interviews and the British-accent-thing, go even higher.

1 - He predicted the Horcruxes too.

2 - He supports justified!Snape.

And, most of all...

3 - He's a fellow Harrycrux believer!
I believe the seven horcruxes are ( Read more... )

Okay, I'll admit it. I have been reading the boards and journals of the H/Hr shippers who are angry -- angry at J.K. Rowling, angry at Melissa and Emerson, angry at everyone who makes fun of them or tells them to quit whining or fails to sympathize with their pain. And one comment I have seen over and over again is that the worst part of it is ( Read more... )

After six years of being a fan, this is my first-ever serious post about the former Hogwarts Potions master. Where to begin?

Well... first of all, I wish to assert this as a fact: We are in the middle of a mystery involving Snape and Dumbledore, a mystery spanning two books. We still don't know why Dumbledore trusted Snape absolutely, we still ( Read more... )

...that the pairing I most want to write right now is Ron/Lavender?

*sigh* Another one bites the dust. *turns face firmly away from TV and movie screens*

And how come there aren't tons of admiring comments on this lovely little essay on romance in HBP, huh?