a.k.a. Why What Makes Book 5 Good Ultimately Condemns It

I started replying vanimy here and LJ told me that my reply was too rantish long for one comment. Apparently, I do have time to write one Harry Potter meta after all.

So this was vanimy’s statement:
Admittedly I loved Book 5 so can't agree with you on that one, if only because it made me sob at ( Read more... )

So the "J. K. Rowling vs. the Harry Potter Lexicon" saga has gone to trial. The Witness for the Prosecution punctuated her deposition with a few well-timed tears.

( I have to give it to Rowling. She is clearly in the right profession... )

Well it looks like I only use this blog to send out birthday wishes - which is a good and noble thing of course - but variety is the spice of life and all that ( Read more... )

( Meme: What kind of Catholic are you? )

The women in Harry's life.

( Where is Ginny? )

Using my Angry!Harry icon because this was the book that began the CAPSLOCK phase...

Edit: Fixed the links.

( Image Heavy. Image Spoiler-ish. Snark Alert. )

I finally watched Goblet of Fire. *ducks tomatoes* Yes, I know. It’s only been over a year. :P But I didn’t get the chance to see it in theatre, I didn’t feel like renting it on DVD and it’s only just yesterday that it finally aired on Cable.

So what did I think?

I’m too lazy to write a properly coherent review so I’ll just list points at random.  ( Read more... )

I seem to be in an image posting mood today. :P


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I can't remember the episode number but it was supposed to be a Thanksgiving-theme based one. It was a nice change having a re-run actually coincide with actual calender time.

In this episode we find out that Jenna's husband is gay and her marriage is a farce, Craig had an affair with his secretary and Sam already knew, Clare smokes, Aaron has no ( Read more... )

Big question mark floating in my head at this moment. Fan fiction is one thing but I've becoming across more and more speculations after HBP that Snape was in love with Lily Evans. I've never got any indication from any of JKR's books that this shipping ever existed. The only time she writes an interaction between this pseudo-couple, Lily's 2secs ( Read more... )