Just got back from the midnight showing and it was gorgeous. Very dark, the darkest movie so far, as was the book.

( Thoroughly SPOILERY first thoughts/impressions at 3 am after just seeing HP6... )

Roger Ebert has a review up for Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.

This line got me - Dumbledore hopes they can discover a secret vulnerability of Voldemort's, and that is why they find themselves in the underground cavern. When this possible key is discovered, I promise you I'm not spoiling anything by observing that its basic message is "to ( Read more... )

...or is that combine?

The Twilight movie producers (Summit Entertainment) have officially cast Bella Swan and Edward Cullen.

Bella will be played by Kristen Stewart (Jodie Foster's daughter in Panic Room). She looks about right and can hold her own with Jodie Foster so all is well there, no big issues ( Read more... )

There are so many things I need to do ( Read more... )

Go here and watch this. 

Just brilliant.

I've been in the HP fandom for almost eight years now and I can't believe it's almost all over.

With some random Potter-ness. Official count from Scholastic - 784 pages! Longer than GoF, a bit shorter than OotP. And everyone seems to be going Green with it too. Bloomsbury and Scholastic have both said they're going to print on recycled paper ( Read more... )

Fandom: Harry Potter
Title: A Visitor
Rating: Gen
Word count: 100! An actual drabble!
Pairings or characters involved: Remus Lupin and Sirius Black
Notes: Sirius arrives with news
Prompt:“Fire”

The fire was low in the grate as Remus slept in the large, somewhat shabby, armchair facing the low red glow of the coals.  He dreamt of Hogwarts and happier ( Read more... )

I posted the drabble prompts list beside my monitor at work and whenever I got bored or overwhelmed or just didn't want to deal with the pile of other coworkers' problems that I needed to fix, I would try to write for five minutes to take myself out of it and refresh my mind.

I love drabbles.

Fandom: Harry Potter
Title: Cleaning Out
Rating: Gen
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