23 May 2007

59 [Radio City Music Hall]

JKR's Radio City Music Hall's reading was amazing. Really.

60 [GinnyPotter]

I'm entirely partial to fanfiction, and GinnyPotter is one of the most comprehensive Harry Potter fanfiction communities. The fanfiction is just the half of it. GinnyPotter is an very active community, discussing the books, the movies, randomness, fanfiction, and fanart. Keeping up-to-date with a user-friendly set-up and helpful moderators and users, GinnyPotter is one of the friendliest and most mellow fanfiction sites.

They have a variety of fanfiction, from Alternate Universe to non-Harry Potter fanfiction, and a wide variety of discussion.

As a former member, I would suggest it. :0)

61 [Makani]

As one of the premier Harry Potter fanartists, Makani, or Heather Campbell, brings silliness and magic to all of her work. Predominantly a Death Eater artist, she is one of the most talented people on the Harry Potter scene. Along with several noteworthy artists, she brings quite a bit of fun to her work, humour that makes her excellent art easy on the eye and on the funny-bone. (Haha. Funny bone.)

The Harry Potter fandom would not be the same without Makani. She has changed Harry Potter with funnies and sillies and the Malfoys. As a necessary part of Harry Potter, Makani makes even the most Sirius things funny.

62 [Harmony]

Why can't we all get along?

I don't know in the slightest.

Harmonians are sadly still alive, even after Half-Blood Prince their claim is that Harry was broken up with Ginny at the end of The White Tomb, and Ron and Hermione were technically not together. Most assume that they will be, but those are the sane(ish) ones.

So the bad ship Harmony still insists on sailing with a hole in the bottom and a ripped sail. Figures, they are delusional.

63 [Laura Mallory]

We must even talk about the bad side of Harry Potter.

Laura Mallory.

This mother of four has not read the Harry Potter books, and is appealing (again) to remove the books from her school system, on accounts that they promote witchcraft and Wicca.

The Wiccans don't want Harry Potter.

Jo doesn't want the Wiccans.

And yet Christian extremists, if you will, insist that they are connected.

It's quite similar to that square/rectangle thing. All squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are squares. All Wicca is magic, but not all magic is Wicca.

And Laura Mallory is an idiot.

64 [Lily Potter]

Was she an alchemist? Asks this week's MuggleCast episode 91. There are certain factors that prove Lily was an alchemist, and they seem to fit. JKR has yet to tell us what Lily and James' jobs were, and she says that there is an important fact about Lily to be discovered.

Could it be that Lily is an alchemist?

She was always good at potions, suggesting a possible career in potions, such as alchemy. She was obviously a very powerful witch, and this would explain why exactly Voldemort gave her so many chances to live. It is entirely possible that he would have taken her on as a Death Eater, or to use against the good side against her will. She was not, however, a Deathly Eater, says Jo.

On the note of Voldemort, it is also probably important to know how he was "thrice defied" by the Potters. While this may be simply in the situation of life and death, and that they got away three times, another idea is that Lily successfully made a Philosopher's Stone--she defied death.

16 May 2007

65 [Fanfiction]

"Fanfiction. More addicting than crack, and cheaper, too."

This is the number one law of life.

There isn't (or rather, there shouldn't be) anyone that claims to be a Potterhead and has not written or read fanfiction. To us, 'tis a way of life. To unwind after reading the books and to change the little details (who says Dumbledore dies?) to fit our stories. Fanfiction is a way to relax, enjoy yourself, and get a kick out of making characters not act like themselves.

In fact, to most, fanfiction represents a writing tool and a good time. With fanfiction, reading and reviewing are at your fingertips. Just a click away, Harry Potter fanfiction is rocking the Internet, with sites simply devoted to it and sites that have so much, they have had to split it up. The fanfiction community is a place where you can discuss, constructively criticize, and review what other people have written. And you're all there for a single task: Harry Potter fanfiction, our own background stories and twistings of the canon that let us get by while the sixty-five days comes to a short end.