07.19.07
Posted in Theories, Questions at 4:11 pm by Headmaster
RavenclawWit has done a great job of holding down the fort in my absence (my wife gave birth to our son on July 3) and I LOVE her predictions.
I’ll share my own tomorrow, but I wanted everyone to see the predictions of Ariel David (daughter of comic author Peter David, a personal fave) and comic author John Ostrander.
Enjoy!
Feel free to share your own predictions in the comments, sign up for an account to blog your predictions or just keep lurking until you get your grubby hands on a copy this Saturday.
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06.07.07
Posted in Meta, Questions at 4:18 am by RavenclawWit
Bridging off from the Headmaster’s post concerning the recent news about the Harry Potter theme park, I thought I’d post a wishlist of stuff I’d really like to see in the park.
Here are some things I really hope they have:
- Diagon Alley (complete with Leaky Cauldron and mechanically vanishing brick wall)
- the Whomping Willow (perhaps as a ride?)
- the Shrieking Shack
- Grimmauld place
- The Forbidden Forest (complete with creatures, eg. Spiders lair, centaurs, Grawp, etc.)
- The Burrow
- The Riddle mansion (it could be a place to show off the death eater side of things)
- the Lake
- Ministry (with department of mysteries)
Within Hogwarts itself, I hope that they have these places available to see and explore:
- Gryffindor Tower (Common room and dorms)
- Dumbledore’s Office
- The Owlery
- Various classrooms of major teachers (Potions classroom, Transfiguration Classroom, DADA class and office)
- Room of Requirement
- Astronomy Tower
- Mirror of Erised
- Chamber of Secrets
- Moaning Myrtle’s bathroom
What do you want to see in the theme park?
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10.07.06
Posted in Questions at 3:50 am by sheart
I am so disappointed right now. I missed the door opening for the second round of the W.O.M.B.A.T quiz. So anyway, how’d you guys do ?
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08.13.06
Posted in Theories, Questions at 4:43 am by RavenclawWit
As you’ll know if you’ve read this post (and to understand the following I think you should), I believe there was something important going on in the scene in Half-Blood Prince where Harry catches Mundungus Fletcher selling Black family artefacts. The scene includes an appearance of the Hog’s Head barkeeper, who we know is Aberforth Dumbledore, Albus Dumbledore’s brother.
Well, I was rereading Order of the Phoenix this weekend and came across something that I feel could be related and/or important. In book 5, Sirius is telling Harry, Ron, and Hermione that Mundungus Fletcher had overheard them planning their Defense Against the Dark Arts group in the Hog’s Head bar:
“Who overheard us?” Harry demanded.
“Mundungus, of course,” said Sirius, and when they all looked puzzled, he laughed. “He was the witch under the veil.”
“That was Mundungus?” Harry said, stunned. “What was he doing in the Hog’s Head?”
“What do you think he was doing? said Sirius impatiently. “Keeping an eye on you, of course.”
“I’m still being followed?” asked Harry angrily.
“Yeah, you are,” said Sirius, “and just as well, isn’t it, if the first thing you’re going to do on your weekend off is organize an illegal defense group.”
But he looked neither angry nor worried; on the contrary, he was looking at Harry with distinct pride.
“Why was Dung hiding from us?” asked Ron, sounding disappointed. “We’d've liked to’ve seen him.”
“He was banned from the Hog’s Head twenty years ago,” said Sirius, “and that barman’s got a long memory. We lost Moody’s spare Invisibility cloak when Sturgis was arrested, so Dung’s been dressing as a witch a lot lately…”
So apparently, Aberforth banned Mundungus Fletcher from his bar twenty years ago and hasn’t forgotten about it. And yet, only the next year he’s seen having a clandestine meeting with Aberforth outside the Hog’s Head?
My question is, why did Aberforth ban Mundungus from his bar? And why did he apparently forgive that incident in the sixth book? Also, did we ever find out conclusively what tipped off Umbridge to the secret DADA plans? Is it possible that it was either Aberforth or Mundungus? Was Mundungus really in that bar to look after Harry? You’d think that his failure to do so properly once before would give Dumbledore pause in assigning him such a task again. A couple of possibilities present themselves. Perhaps Mundungus was their to spy on Aberforth instead? Or maybe he was their for his own reasons? At any rate, I think there’s more to this situation than meets the eye, and I’m inclined to think that there’s some sort of double crossing going on. I believe that Aberforth and maybe Mundungus could possibly be untrustworthy, especially Aberforth. Why is it that Albus speaks so little of his brother, especially when he lives so close by? Is it possibly because he doesn’t trust his brother either?
What does everyone else think?
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07.16.06
Posted in Questions at 11:17 am by sheart
Okay, I know this is kinda off-topic. But I just wondered..like, what books do you guys read besides Harry Potter ? For me, I’m all like Sidney Sheldon, Paulo Coelho or John Grisham etc etc..
Anyway, just a thought. =)
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07.06.06
Posted in Theories, Questions at 10:43 pm by harrypotter_lover35
I know that most of us here are dying to read book 7 of Harry Potter.But I was thinking about what could be the other horcruxes and I came up with one-Harry.It does sound a little oddd, but I was thinking that it might somehow connect with the title! What do you think? Is Harry a horcrux?What is the title and Why?
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06.07.06
Posted in Theories, Questions at 12:44 pm by RavenclawWit
Today I’m going to talk about something I almost never talk about. Shipping. I try to avoid shipping discussions for a couple of reasons. One, I actually don’t care that much. Some people in the Harry Potter fandom seem to be obsessed with who Harry, Ron and Hermione date, and to me, such things are the furthest from the point of the story as can be. Of course the reason is probably that I’m a 26 year old adult, while many HP fans are adolescents. When I was 15, I too was preoccupied with who everyone I knew was dating. The second reason I usually avoid shipping discussions is because I’ve seen them devolve into some pretty nasty arguments. People seem to get pretty wound up about this stuff. But despite that, I’m going to open up the floor on the issue anyways.
Since Half-Blood Prince, I think it’s apparent to everybody who is going to end up with whom, provided nobody dies. At this point, it’s pretty clear that it’s Harry/Ginny and Ron/Hermione. Yes, I know there are lots of other characters to ship, but somehow I don’t think Rowling is going to deal with the romantic lives of every character in the series.
Let me say first that I never considered Harry/Hermione as a possible couple even before book 4 when it became a bit more apparent that Hermione was in fact Ron’s romantic interest. To me, there couldn’t be anyone more unsuited for each other than Harry and Hermione. Hermione is a bossy know-it-all and Harry is a kid with a quick temper who tends to resent and/or distrust authority. See the problem? You can already see it. Hermione is constantly telling Harry what to do. Harry takes it in silent anger until Hermione says something that pushes his last button, at which point he usually loses it and tells her where to go in no uncertain terms. Most of CAPS LOCK! Harry is directed at Hermione. At which point Hermione, who seems a bit frightened of Harry’s temper, either cries or sulks. Not really a good pattern for a lasting relationship.
To me, Ron/Hermione definitely makes a bit more sense. Yes, they have their share of arguments, but if you look closely, it seems that they actually like arguing with each other. Hermione likes it because she likes to argue and be right (and let’s face it, in an arguement with Ron she’ll always win), and Ron likes it because he appears to get some sort of kick out of getting her all worked up. I think everybody has known a couple who were actually like this.
But where does that leave Harry? Well, with Ginny, I guess. But to be honest, I never really considered Harry/Ginny possible couple material until the very end of book 5, when Ron advises Ginny to choose a better boyfriend and then looks pointedly at Harry. That foreshadowing was just too glaring to miss. I admit I winced when I read that line; Rowling must have been tired at that point, so she decided to do her job with a sledgehammer instead of a chisel. Anyways, my point is that until Rowling came out and said Harry/Ginny, I didn’t really consider it. And it’s not because I don’t like Ginny, or that I don’t think she and Harry are well-matched. In fact, the problem is that I don’t feel that Rowling developed Ginny enough as a character for me or anyone else to make such an assessment either way. Ginny was basically a mute for the first four books. Only in five did she really begin talking, especially to Harry. But it might be that Harry is more the problem here. Even when Ginny did start talking to him, Harry appears to have zero reaction whatsoever to her. Of course he was sort of wrapped up in Voldemort and his bizarrely dysfunctional relationship with Cho Chang, but it seems to me that he should have started to become at least marginally more aware of Ginny as a girl and a person before promptly falling in love with her in book 6. Even if he had thought to himself in book 5 that she was getting kind of cute or something, that would have set up some foundation for his sudden overpowering attraction to her in HBP. As it was, he seemed to go from caring less about Ginny Weasley in book 5 to omg!, how I lurve that red-headed gal in book 6. It just seemed a bit sudden. I’m not opposed to it really, I just think Rowling could have handled it better.
So who did I think Harry was going to end up with? Well, to tell the truth, when Luna Lovegood showed up on the scene in the beginning of book 5, and there was the whole thing with the thestrals, I thought that maybe she was it, the girl for Harry. They seemed to share something that he’d been unable to share with his other friends, a sense of personal loss. I guess, though, that she probably is just a little too flaky for Harry’s taste. Especially for a kid who all his life has just wanted to fit in and be “normal”, at least by wizarding standards.
So fess up, fellow Potter fans. Who do you think would be the perfect couple and why?
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02.24.06
Posted in Questions at 7:02 pm by RavenclawWit
Now that it’s abundantly clear that Gary Oldman’s manager (and maybe Oldman himself) is a complete prat, and that Oldman won’t be returning for Order, I’ve got a suggestion as to who could play Sirius in the movie.
I was watching The Crucible the other day, and it struck me that Daniel Day-Lewis might make an excellent Sirius Black. Maybe even better than Oldman. And he is english, so no problems there. So, of course, Warner Bros. probably does not read this blog, but it would be awesome if they’d offer him the part. And even cooler if he’d accept it. How about all us HP fans get up some sort of letter writing campaign?
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01.31.06
Posted in Scoops, Questions at 9:32 pm by RavenclawWit
via HPANA
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has created a short list of books that she thinks all young people should read. The list was published in the Royal Society of Literature magazine.
Rowling’s choices were:
Wuthering Heights — Emily Bronte
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory — Roald Dahl
Robinson Crusoe — Daniel Defoe
David Copperfield — Charles Dickens
Catch-22 — Joseph Heller
To Kill a Mockingbird — Harper Lee
Animal Farm — George Orwell
The Tale of Two Bad Mice — Beatrix Potter
The Catcher in the Rye — JD Salinger
Hamlet — William Shakespeare
I have bolded the ones that I have read, so let’s have a little on-site meme, shall we? In the comments, post the list and bold the ones you have read.
I have to say that it is wonderful that Rowling is such an advocate for education and reading. When I saw this story on HPANA, I was pleased to see a lot of kids commenting that they planned to read these books since Rowling recommended them. She probably doesn’t realize what she has done for kids and reading since she started writing Harry Potter.
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01.30.06
Posted in Scoops, Questions at 9:00 am by RavenclawWit
As I predicted a couple of weeks ago, Goblet of Fire has overtaken Chamber of Secrets on the list of the highest grossing movies of all-time. Goblet of Fire is now the eighth highest grossing movie worldwide, bumping CoS to number nine. To date, GoF has made 879.4 million dollars. The next movie up on the list is Jurrassic Park which made 914.7 million dollars back in 1993. Anyone willing to bet it’ll make that much? I personally doubt it myself. The movie went out of U.S. theaters last weekend, and it’s only playing in some smaller countries now. But you never know.
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