“Hallows, Goodbye.
So, the end is here. After lears, laughs, frustrations and speculations, at the stroke of midnight I grabbed hold of a copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and began to devour it.
It’s a brilliant book, and one which also stays solidly true to the values of the series as a whole: that [...]
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2007-09-08 — Quote of the Day — part 1
Concerning Harry Potter…
You know you’ve read too much Harry Potter in too short a time when you one night dream that you, brandishing a fucking huge two-handed sword (originally belonging to one Godric Gryffindor, I seem to remember), kill one of your flat-mates, because, apparently, he’s Voldemort.
2007-07-22 — Quote of the Day
“I mean, you could claim that anything is real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody’s proved it doesn’t exist!”
“So you could,” said Xenophilius. “I am glad to see that you are opening your mind a little.”
- Hermione Granger and Xenophilius Lovegood,
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, p. 334.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
I finished the book five minutes ago, some 18 or 19 hours after I found it in my mailbox. I’ll try to review it, and I’ll do my best to do so without any spoilers, but for those who doesn’t want to know a godsdamned thing, I’ll hide it. Naturally, there will be spoilers for [...]
Noooooooooooooo!
Spoiler, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, page 385:
It’s here!
I just picked Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows out of my post box, and because I am terrified of spoilers and want this to be an unblemished reading experience, I will now commence “radio silence” until the deed is done. No Internet, no newspapers, no TV, no radio — none of anything in which [...]
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, #2
Watched this one again last night, and it was surprisingly much better than the first time. Mostly, this was because I focused on what was actually there rather than on what wasn’t, and it turned out that even though they could have spent another half hour for emphasis to a couple of scenes, and done [...]
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