Inspired by the opening of the snarry_olympics art games, this week we're talking about brilliant fan art. Pen and ink drawings, watercolors, oil paintings, cartoons, comic strips, computer generated and computer enhanced pictures, photo manips, and icons, the HP fandom has an abundance of gorgeous fan art. Fanfic illustrations are awesome (we'll talk about them ( Read more... )

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

Fitzgerald had a gift for writing gorgeous last lines, a task many writers find challenging. What does an author say just before she drops the curtain and ends the play? The last few lines are meant to round out a story, reveal a final twist, send the reader back ( Read more... )

“I’ve watched through his eyes, I’ve listened through his ears, and I tell you he’s the one ( Read more... )

He's one of Harry's roommates. He always seems to be there just when you need him most, sometimes in unorthodox ways (getting those last ten points at the end of Philosopher's Stone or heading to the Ministry with the Trio). At the same time, there are lots of unanswered questions about Neville (how old was he when his parents went to St. Mungo's? ( Read more... )