Got an e-mail from Girl Cousin this evening. The subject line? In all caps: I SAW HARRY POTTER!

Apparently she read the fine prints on the Boston Globe ad, which said they were giving out tickets to an advanced screening. After queuing up for an hour and a half, she got a ticket. Go her ( Read more... )

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Since I understand that not everyone can come out to the Thursday night 11:59 p.m. showing...

November 19, 2:00 p.m., IMAX showing of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire at Lincoln Square. Costume, trivia and other fannish activities starting 12:40 p.m. Anyone interested? Details here.

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Ganked from heidi8: GoF movie review. The general consensus ( Read more... )

Harry Potter themed post today because I'm in the midst of writing an article about the stolen Ford Anglia that was the flying car for the movie Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, first reported in mainstream media in BBC, I believe. In going through 70+ news article in Google and LJ to confirm the story about the stolen car, I discovered ( Read more... )

Yes, I’m supposed to be writing my bus article. But while rummaging through the Google news archive, I clicked into the “Harry Potter” section and found some very interesting headlines and sentences, in no particular order:

[Bold & without quotation marks = headline; with quotation marks = sentences within the article]

Harry Potter and the order ( Read more... )

Woke up this morning, did my usual ablutions, turned on the computer, started reading the usual list of BBC headline news...

*gasps* *squees* *does happy dance*

The Giant Squid is REAL

BBC: Live giant squid caught on camera

Wonder if it's related to our beloved Hogwarts Giant SquidTM(I feel really bad for it though. The human effort to contain ( Read more... )

They're DONE. Squee! Three very different ficlets this time, and I have enjoyed writing each. Pretty self-explanatory, just click on the one you want to read and, well, read. Read one, read two, read all three... they're posted for your perusal ^_^

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For ee970, Her eyes Were Watching Him, PG/G? (something really tame), 454 words ( Read more... )

Announcing Devoted - a Harry Potter Fan Study, conducted by LJ user fanstudy. The study looks very promising and has the potential to become as fleshed out as Nick Yee's MMORPG gamers study (which is AMAZING. check it out here), albeit on a smaller scale. But it needs particpants to work!

So hop on over and let yourself be counted.

And spread the word!
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No custom f-locking here, since I'm pretty sure all of you HP-reading people have at least gotten to or near the end. If not, please exert self-control because there are HBP SPOILERS AHEAD.
(And if you're done with HBP and I haven't unlocked you for my Snape discussion post... oops! Let me know so I can unlock you.)

( Appointing Slughorn... )

I got back from the Books of Wonder release party at around 2:30 a.m. (yup, as in the morning). I feel... surreal. Before I proceed, please keep in mind that this is a late night posting and I'm not exactly coherent right now, so read on at your own risk -->

( Read on... HP-related RL stuff, no spoilers whatsoever )

Look!


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