Harry Potter
Gaaaaaaah! J.K. Rowling has announced that two characters will die in the final book of the Harry Potter series, but she won't say which ones and she won't say when the book is coming out. We already lost Sirius! We already lost Dumbledore, for goodness' sake! I don't know how much longer I can take the suspense! Exclamation point! Exclamation point!
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yeah, it took 2 days because i'm a person who needs to sleep at night. plus, wasn't it last summer that the half-blood prince came out? i was, like, 6 weeks preggers so give me a break!
And I have my theories about the next book.
Right, Roy?
And Suze, I read the item on that yesterday, too, and am cursing the fact that she's killing off characters! Argh!
Amazon.com has a feature where they will e-mail you the second they find out when it will be released. I signed up for it yesterday!
Or a different Roy?
When Sirius died, I remember being so disconsolate. I put down the book (I stopped reading! For like, more than an hour!), went on a long walk and kept thinking, "why on earth am i so upset about this? he's a fictional character!!" But there you go. I have a bad crush on Sirius. Which is probably why, while I was quite sad over the demise of Dumbledore, I didn't have to take long brooding walks in order to go on with life after reading HBP.
Dumbledore will be reborn in some way this will be critical to Harry's success.
And Neville is going to feature very prominently in this next book. I personally think the Prophecy was about Neville, not Harry, anyway.
And of course, I have no inside knowledge. Just guessing.
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and if becca wants to have another son one day and name him after herself and one of my favorite characters on wkrp in cincinnatti, she could name him "hrbkq."
However, the trend Ann points out is potentially distressing. Then again, name me one liberal, heterosexual, female news junkie who doesn't have a crush on Jon Stewart. As for Sirius Black, I think J. K. Rowling has a crush on him herself. She made him sexy on purpose.
Go ahead. I'll wait while you look it up on iMDB. Told ya I'm old.
And yeah, I get Stephen Colbert, too.
I don't really have a crush on Sirius. Now I'm sitting here wondering if something is wrong with me because I don't. But if I were back in school, I'd be all over Fred and George like butter in beer.
I need to get a life.
Jon Stewart is MINE, y'all. AND Stephen Colbert. So keep yo mitts off.
5. Hugh Jackman (he'd need to work on changing the Aussie accent to a Britisher)
4. Joseph Fiennes (but he'd need to work on the dark and dangerous a bit. It's there, it's just untapped at this point)
3. Johnny Depp (I'm sorry, but he's just hot and has proven he can do dark but seriously sexy roles. He's only #3 on this list though because he does such a darn fine job as Jack on POC)
2. Alan Cumming (he'd need to buff up quite a bit, but he is sexy in his own twisted dark way. Did you see him and Cyndi Lauper on the Tony's from Threepenny Opera? SO HOT!!!!)
1. Colin Firth (he's been doing quite a bit of fluff roles lately, but he does angst sooooo well. I can totally see him deranged, moody and sexy in this role with longer hair. Ohhhhhhhhhh yeaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!)
Now that I've proven what a geek I, I think I'll go update my blog before I get tarred and feathered.
Now I know how my mom felt about Tom Selleck.
Alan Cumming? No. I've seen him on Graham Norton and he's just way too flaming to pull off Sirius on screen. Maybe another character, like Voldemort's second (what's his name) in HBP.
I need to go back and read HBP, obviously.
now, colin firth is a totally different story. ditto johnny depp.
As to the infamous events in HBP, there is one factor that proves Snape’s innocence during the invasion of Hogwarts. Felix Felicis. Slughorn informs us readers that this potion causes the imbiber to become extraordinarily lucky and have most of their actions succeed. Ron, Hermione and Ginny all drank the potion on that fateful night, but remember what happened. Ron talked about messing up by allowing Draco and the Death Eaters to pass by, Hermione talks about failing because she failed to notice Professor Flitwick stunned in Snape’s office. These are very unlucky coincidences, especially since they were supposed to be “extraordinarily lucky” at the time. Unless you believe that the potion simply doesn’t work, there is only one conclusion, it was lucky that Ron failed to stop the Death Eaters, and it was lucky that Hermione failed to notice Flitwick stunned in Snape’s office. If Ron had stopped Draco, the Death Eaters never would have seen Snape kill Dumbledore. If Hermione had seen Flitwick stunned, the Order would have tried to stop Snape from going up the tower. Remember Dumbledore had an “ironclad” reason for trusting Snape, and unless I am remembering wrong, there is only ONE thing in the magical world that is described as “ironclad”.
As for predictions, mine is that Draco is one of the two mentioned that are going to die (unless it is Harry AND Voldemort) and my rationale is that in PoA there are numerous references to dead ferrets and what does fake-Moody turn Draco into in GoF? Draco is going to be given a choice very similar to the one he was given on that tower but this time he won’t hesitate, and it is going to kill him.
Ok, enough being a nerd for me. I had better get back to getting some work done.
Roy
p.s. yes this is the Roy that liked to sleep in window seats (and yes I still do)
As to Alan Cumming, yes, he is "flamin" in most of his stuff. However, he just ended a run on Broadway as Mack the Knife from the Threepenney Opera. Google it for pictures of him and Cyndi Lauper, and also Google the Tony awards for pictures. When he is himself, yes, he's very obviously homosexual. In his role as Mack? Well, let's just say "Wowza!"