HAPPY HAPPY JOY JOY

I'm sooo happy! You know why? Because I saw the Harry Potter movie... and it didn't suck! Except for the Harry/Hermione/slow dance part. What the heck? I was just thinking, "If Ron came back right then, they'd be so screwed". Hee hees. But I liked the "mudblood" bit. That was quite good. Nice addition. And they did a terrific job of conveying Hermione's memory charm on her parents. Heh... I cried. I even used up half of my tissues. But you know what sucked? I cried at the Hedwig bit (I knew I would) but I wanted to save my good tissues for when Dobby died, but then I didn't even cry. How lame. Oh well. I loved that movie. I can't wait until the next part comes out. Thanks for listening, all.

Anna

MY HARRY POTTER QUIZ AND STUFF

Okay, I can't actually put it up because the HTML coding isn't working, but here it is: AND STUFF. So ominous.

WELL. I recently acquired the knowledge that THERE IS MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE ABOUT HARRY POTTER, AND I DIDN'T KNOW THAT, AND THAT IS UNFAIR. Let me explain. J. K. Rowling has a website, ja? So, you know how the seventh book has all this stuff about who marries who? Well, Miss Rowling said on her website that George marries Angelina and other things like that, stuff that wasn't in the books, and THAT IS COMPLETELY UNFAIR. Because I didn't know that, so I am angry. Mkay. Bye, gotta go check out her website.

--Anna

SO COOL

Okay, it was actually quite a while ago, but I BOUGHT MYSELF A BOX SET OF ALL THE HARRY POTTER BOOKS! YEAH BABY!!! Soooo awesome! Cos all our other ones got ruined cos we let too many people borrow them... so these ones are for ME AND ONLY ME! Selfish, huh? Well, that's me. They're so awesome sitting on my shelf in their seducing box! Every time I look at them I feel a bizarre desire-- no, a NEED!-- to abandon my current activity and read them... love love love! I even found a 40% off coupon-- I was SO PSYCHED when I discovered that they even applied to box sets-- so it was only $55 or something... SO awesome. Long live the Chosen One and his offspring! Well, technically, since Deathly Hallows came out in 2007 and the epilogue says nineteen years later... let's see... well, Albus was in his first year and Lily was ten and I don't know how old James was... um... nineteen minus three... sixteen... minus eleven... yeah, it'll be a few years before any of them are actually born, and... well... none of them are actually real, anyway...

Whatever. I'll go dig up a photo. Okay, there it is. Gotta go. See ya. Yay, it's raining. Bye. Thanks for listening, even if you (probably) didn't.

--Anna

MY RANDOM, USELESS HARRY POTTER TRIVIA (TRIVIAL)

I've read the books more than fifteen times apiece (no kidding), and I've learned much.

1. Ron's full name is Ronald Bilius (bilious... haha) Weasley
2. Hermione's is Hermione Jean Granger
3. Harry's is Harry James Potter... as if there's anyone that doesn't know that. :tosses hair snobbishly:
4. Albus's full name is... deep breath... Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore. Checkmate.
5. Fleur's middle name is Isabel.
6. Harry and Ginny's children are Albus Severus, Lily, and James... I'm pretty sure. Albus Severus is the youngest. I'm pretty sure.
7. Ron and Hermione's kids are Rose and Hugo... Rose and Lily? Ha ha ha...
8. Draco's kid's name is Scorpius... nice name. It doesn't say who he marries.
9. The Weasley kids are (in order of age) Bill, Charlie, Percy, Fred and George, Ron, and Ginny. I heart the twins!
10. Hermione's made up names for her parents were Wendell and Monica Wilkins.
11. Madame Maxime's first name is Olympe.
12. Sirius's brother's name was Regulus Arcturus Black.
13. Moaning Myrtle haunted Olive Hornby until she DIED.
14. Two Death Eaters by the names of Alecto and Amycus (thanks Poppy) Carrow.
15. Hermione fixed Harry's glasses with Occulus Reparo on the train to Hogwarts.
16. Cats make Hagrid sneeze.
17. Neville had a toad named Trevor.
18. "Professor" Longbottom teaches Herbology seventeen years after the battle. Thank god he didn't die. Yeah, I'm a fangirl of sorts.
19. Cho Chang has freckles on her nose. You can count 'em if you're inches apart under the mistletoe...
20. ...Which may be infested with Nargles.
21. Ron spoke Parseltongue to enter the Chamber of Secrets in the seventh book.
22. Xenophilius Lovegood thinks the Erumpent horn is a Crumple-Horned Snorkack's.
23. He also makes soup out of Freshwater Plimpies (rest in peace... ye who eats it).
24. The password for PotterWatch was "albus"once.
25. Professor Sprout's first name is Pomona...
26. ...and Madame Pomfrey's is Poppy.
27. The charm Nymphadora uses in the sixth book to fix Harry's nose was "Episky!".
28. Harry gets on the Quidditch team because Draco steals Neville's remembrall.
29. Molly and Arthur are the names of Ron's parents.
30. Arthur's car was a flying Ford Anglia. (Feel free to stop reading anytime now...)
31. Professor Grubbly Plank filled in for Hagrid when he went off to recruit the giants.

I have more, but I must leave (alas, alack, et cetera and et. al.) so arrivaderci, it's my time to fly.......


--anna

THINGS I'D LIKE TO BUY WITH MY JOB MONEY

(In no particular order)

• The only Regina Spektor CD I don't have, 11:11
• A cell phone (yeah, keep dreaming)
• a laptop (ditto)
• a nice, NEW box set of the Harry Potter books (see next post)
• a set of colored pencils (a few more weeks!)
• dye for my hair (I'm considering red, black, and deadly nightshade... give me your input)
• a new copy of TTFN, cos Dyani wrecked it by leaving it in a tub of water.

Oh, there will be more. Much more.