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I got into Pottermore last week: Pixiecat57. Apparently have to wait a few weeks for my Welcome email though.

Elvendork!

Also, amusing and slightly disturbing story from Neil Gaiman. It's odd to see all these established authors more-or-less drabbling :)

I know that ohnotheydidnt is the LJ equivalent of a tabloid, but if this Half Blood Prince film rumour tuns put to be true I shall be exceedingly irate. I thought we'd have trouble when I heard Kloves was coming back.

ETA: I'm referring to ( Read more... )

Note to self: Do not carry charged batteries in the same pocket as loose change. Owies.


The book!Lexicon issue is grinding merrily on. I'm reading praetorianguard's posts on it at the minute. The stupid, it burns like my battery/coin circuit. Please to stop before you get JKR and Warner Bros so annoyed they say 'Right! No more fandom!' See legionseagle tearing their arguments to tiny shreds in her journal.

Thinly disguised ads in news? Once again, LJ, Y HALO THAR EPIC FAIL.

On a brighter note, A Harry Potter Plain White Ts parody. This was played on Radio One—filking is now mainstream!

Last week I went to see OotP before it went out of the cinema. It was obviously very compressed from the book-I always finds it helps to think of the films as a very complex animated .gif illustrating the books, that way I can think of the Quidditch and Ron and Hermione being prefects and chocolate in the library all happening off the edge of the page.

My brothers aid that Umbridge wasn't ugly enough, but I didn't mind that. I thought that the contrast between her being all pink and fluffy and so evil was  very effective. I especially liked the 6 spoons of sugar in her tea. And I love cats, but those kittens on the plates were the creepiest-looking felines.

I missed the Quidditch-well, I missed seeing Ron play Quidditch. I hope that  they include it in HBP, which they might, as there's less plot in that book, and I'm sure they'd want to use the trio kids as much as they can seeing that there are so many flashbacks to young Tom.

I don't like the twins much, although they aren't as bad in the films. It's rather sad to see them doing everything together, knowing that in a couple of years Fred will be dead.

I was watching PS on video a few days ago, and I noticed the contrast between the films. Not just Tiny Squeaky Trio, but the early films are brighter. I thought it was just the change in the uniforms, but it's the whole colour palate, I think. At this rate DH will be all in assorted shades of black.

I always like the little bits around the edges that show there's a school, and a world, happening beyond the Trio, like the kids having music going in the Gryffindor common room, and the Fudge banner in the Ministry, and the boy and girl kissing that Umbridge blasts apart. Also, nice forshadowing for the snogfest in HBP.

Who is this Nigel bloke? I seem to remember him vaguely from GoF; is he a replacement for Dennis Creevey? BTW, I wonder was JKR thinking of Dennis instead of Colin when she killed him off in DH. Colin was sixth year and had to be either 17 or within two months of it, and was hardly likely to be still a midget.

This time last week I was busy reading.( Spoilers )

In International Date Line, Potterdämmerung was happening

I'm imagining a sort of line of fire moving westward, leaving the Earth blackened and post-apocalyptic in its wake, and a rumpled CNN anchorperson gravely announcing, 'First it took New Zealand, and now Australia's gone, and Russia's going and it's reached India...and something really weird happened in Beijing...'

I'm going offline now, because there will definitely be real spoilers, and I've held out so long. So, see you tomorrow.

Sudden horrible thought: the Post Office have been on strike a couple of weekends recently. What if they do it on Saturday??