Accio blog!
I’m done.
I’m done.
I’m done.
No spoilers.
No truly sleepless nights (apart from the fact that I have a 3-week-old son).
No happier man than me tonight.
And hey, if you want to comment or blog here, please take up the mantle.
Sure, the books might be done, but were just getting started truly exploring them, seeing them become movies and truly blogging Harry Potter.
I’ll say this, whatever her reach and affect on young people through ministry it PALES when compared with the joyous, hopeful message that J.K. Rowling has achieved with Harry Potter.
I wish Laura Mallory well, and I hope the door doesn’t hit her on the way out.
Duh.
Though I’d love to do a side-by-side comparison of the line (queue) etiquette, culture and brouhaha surrounding both launches.
Did you buy both items? Did you sit in two lines in the past month?
Leave a comment.
Some Potter fans find pages missing
Didn’t happen to me, thankfully.
Did it happen to you (or someone you know and love)?
For those of us that survived the spoilers, read the book and are now blogging and talking here and elsewhere.
Oh man, if you’ve finished the book and you want a laugh, point your browser here.
The best recap/spoilers EVAR.
*MILD DEATHLY HALLOWS SPOILER*
So I was watching Goblet of Fire last night. And I noticed something kind of strange. You know the scene where Harry falls into Dumbledore’s Pensieve? Well, after Dumbledore pulls him out, he and Harry are talking and Dumbledore walks away from Harry across the room. He’s now facing one of the glass cabinets in his office, still talking to Harry. Well, if you look in the cabinet, right at eye level with Dumbledore, there’s a glass pyramid. Inside that pyramid is suspended a sphere, and bisecting the sphere is a rod. In short, it looks like a 3D model of the Deathly Hallows symbol! See below (click to enlarge):
So how did the GoF people know to put that in the movie. Rowling must have told them. I wonder though, if she explained the full import of it to them, or if she just said “there’s this symbol that’ll be important later on, think you can sneak it into the movie somewhere?”. Very interesting. Now I want to watch Order again to see if there are any more clues hidden about.
J.K. Rowling has told the TODAY show that she likely will write an encyclopedia type book promising many more details about her characters and the fate of the wizarding world beyond the few clues provided in the seventh book’s epilogue.
The encyclopedia would include back stories of characters she has already written but had to cut for the sake of narrative arc (“I’ve said before that Dean Thomas had a much more interesting history than ever appeared in the books”), as well as details about the characters who survive Deathly Hallows. The link to the full article is here, but you are warned that it contains spoilers for Deathly Hallows. The article is very interesting, and in it Rowling reveals the identity of the “reprieved” character in Deathly Hallows. Rowling stated when she finished the writing of book 7 that one character was slated to die, but that she decided at the last moment to spare them.
I’m so excited about this. Rowling should definitely have a long and much deserved break, but I can’t wait for this new book!
BloggingHarryPotter.com would like to wish actor Daniel Radcliffe a very happy 18th birthday. We hope he has a good one!
Ok, I’ve just finished it, ladies and gents. All 759 pages. I’ve decided to open up this post for discussions, impressions, rants, etc. on Deathly Hallows. I’ll start with my impressions; and those so desiring can leave their thoughts in the comments. My comments on the book won’t start until after the more link. So if you haven’t yet read the book and don’t want to be spoiled, under no circumstances should you click the more link (and the permalink or comments link for that matter).
