( movie spoilers for Order of the Phoenix )

so, in 25 days, we all (well, all of us who read the book) will find out who lives and who dies in Harry Potter's world.

Because I'm all about predictions (you remember my baseball predictions right? Harry wins the World Series - wait, no...) I'm going to post some.

( my bets on life and death and the Deathly Hallows )

so, here's something I just don't get, if the Harry Potter canon is to be believed ( Read more... )

just something strange I observed when rereading the Harry Potter books.

all the Sorting Hat's songs can be sung to the tune of the Gilligan's Island theme.

my brain is a scary and dangerous place, let me tell you.

Laura Mallory, who, for those who haven't been playing along at home, is an ignorant, self-righteous religious zealot who has tried repeatedly, and unsuccessfully, to have Harry Potter books removed from Gwinnett County, Georgia public school libraries.

here are two consecutive paragraphs from the most recent article on her shenanigans:

At ( Read more... )

I've finally reserved my copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows at a Borders near where I'll be living. I'll be doing the midnight thing and reading all night again, so you need not worry about spoilers ( Read more... )

I've been putting this post off for a while, trying to write about real life things that my friends list might actually be interested in, but it's been a little while since I wrote about fannish things, so here we go ( Read more... )

dorrie6 wrote an excellent drabble about Peter Pettigrew and it got me thinking about something that has to be answered in the final book.

( some Harry Potter discussion as the new book approaches )

is the CW promoting this movie or something?

I have issues with a lot of the opening credit mashups on YouTube - you know, Veronica Mars with the Buffy theme, or Harry Potter with the Buffy theme, things like that. Usually they use the wrong font or style (hard to duplicate the way the words come on screen in the Buffy credits, 'cause that's a complicated effect), or choose the wrong ( Read more... )