I have a catching-up post in draft, but I thought I'd just pop in for a second to ask a couple of quick questions.

1) Are any of you thinking of going to LeakyCon this summer (you totally should if your aren't; it's a blast)?

2) If you are, would you like to be on a "I Survived the Harry Potter Shipping Wars" panel with me and connielaneLet me know so I ( Read more... )

A little less than ten years ago, I got on an airplane all by myself and flew to a place full of people I'd never actually met before, but who I felt like I knew better than many in my real life. It was, barring meeting up with one local fan on a book release night, my first experience meeting people in real life that I had only known on the ( Read more... )

This little idea has been rolling around in my head for the last couple of weeks, and I decided to write it out today. :) Do you all realize that it's twenty years to the day that Harry found out he's a wizard? Amazing.

Happy birthday yesterday to Neville Longbottom and today to Harry Potter and Jo Rowling. This fic is for you.

( Unexpected Legacies )

So I'm about to embark on a day-trip down to Cedar City to see Cyrano de Bergerac again (yes, it was that good), and I realized that I hadn't posted something that I intended to post. So ( Read more... )

So, back right after DH came out, I posted an entry about how I thought the whole AK-in-the-forest thing worked. And now Jo has posted an explanation on her site.

And it turns out that DUDE, I WAS RIGHT. MOSTLY.

My explanation.

( Jo's Explanation )

( DH spoilers, related to the discussion on mrs_bombadil's journal )

I have an inexpressible desire to write a Dumbledore defense essay.

But I must finish my reread first.

Total time: 5 hours, 15 minutes.

Reaction: HOLY HECK. THAT WAS AWESOME. I WAS WRONG. BUT I WAS ALSO RIGHT. AND I DON'T CARE THAT I WAS WRONG CAUSE JO IS A GENIUS.

Yes.

I'm sure I'll have more to say later.

Just. . . wow.

Well played, David Yates and Michael Goldenberg.

Wow.

*tips hat to awesome screenwriter and director*

I must admit to having been a very, very bad SQer lately. It's even worse that I'm a Ghost-- because I tend to not even visit SQ much anymore. I've gone for months without even logging in. This was partly because I've been busy, and partly because, frankly, at this point I'm done with theorizing and am content to just wait and see what happens. (I' ( Read more... )