Before I get to Prophecy...happiest of happy birthdays to La Femme vickita, who - back in the day - held firm to her Duncan love, when all around her had transformed into Methos fanatics. :)

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And as for Prophecy 2007 (and yes, all non-HP fen, feel free to wander away and get a cookie ( Read more... )

You know those ghoulish dead pools, right? The ones that people who work at news agencies always seem to have going? Well, now that it's been almost two weeks since the release of HBP, I figured it was about time to start getting in early predictions about which HP characters just weren't going to make it to the last page of Book 7 ( Read more... )

Hee. I saw this article linked in glitterdemon‛s LJ, and...

"Nearly-Headless-Dick"

"...considering what we already know about Potter, we should not put seducing an innocent girl into original sin past him."

"In a particularly distasteful and lewd display, Potter tries to tempt the rightfully furious Angel [note: Lucius Malfoy, in case you didn‛t ( Read more... )

There's a discussion going on over on accioslash's LJ about whether fanfiction which shows Snape taking points off from Gryffindor right and left is actually perpetrating an injustice against the poor man ( Read more... )

Yes, of course I should be sleeping, but instead I'm watching Harry Potter and the Chamber of SecretsYou know, I'm watching Harry pick up the sword and kill the Basilisk, and...I'm pretty sure if I'd been in his place, my response would have been to crawl into a corner and cry as I waited for the Basilisk to eat me. I'm *so* not a Gryffindor. I ( Read more... )

I'm in the midst of spring break and have no papers to grade, so of course I'm thinking about...school. Well. Hogwarts, at any rate ( Read more... )

When I was an undergraduate, we had a rather old-school, British professor (now retired) who had an aversion to telling anyone that their comment was stupid and wrong. Instead, she'd intone in a rather sing-song voice: "Possibly. Possibly ( Read more... )