The latest installment of the Harry Potter franchise will be in theaters in the US on July 13th 2007
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Harry Potter Order of the Phoenix Premiers July 13, 2007
The latest installment of the Harry Potter franchise will be in theaters in the US on July 13th 2007
Slytherin's Flags
Slytherin's flags decorated the halls momentarily but all the points were not yet counted. Eventually Griffyndor's House won.
Friday, April 20, 2007
Draco Malfoy
Slytherin's very own and Harry Potter antagonist Draco Malfoy. Sporting the latest wear from Daigon Alley School Fashion Boutique.
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Ron Weasley
Ron Weasley Harry Potter's best friend with a broken wand in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Hermione Granger
Hermione Granger carefully preparing the polyjuice potion to spy on Malfoy in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
Hermione Granger
Hermione's name is pronounced "her-MY-oh-nee" , as readers find out in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
This was the most frequently asked question J.K. Rowling received, so in The Goblet of Fire (GOF) book she cunningly had Hermione teach Viktor Krum how to pronounce her name properly.
Rowling said she obtained it from William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, claiming that she wanted it to be unusual since if fewer girls shared her name, fewer girls would get teased for it.
"Hermione", appropriately, is derived from "Hermes", the Greek god of invention, inspiration, eloquence and quick thinking. It is also the name of the legendary Helen of Troy's daughter in Greek mythology. Hermione's surname "Granger" may be derived from that of Joseph Louis Lagrange, one of the greatest mathematicians of the 18th century.
Her surname was originally going to be "Puckle" but it was quickly changed by Rowling because it didn't suit her. "Puckle" is a term for a goblin or elf.
*What is the shape of Hermione's Patronus?*
Harry Potter's Professor Minerva McGonagall
Professor Minerva McGonagall who is second in-command to Headmaster Dumbledore. Professor McGonagall transfigures into a cat at will which makes her an animagus.
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Harry Potter's Old vs New Dumbledore
Who do you prefer the "old" or "new" Dumbledore. Please comment.
- Professor Dumbledore like Harry Potter has a peculiar scar. Professor Dumbledore's scar above his left knee resembles what?*Answer*
Monday, April 16, 2007
Harry Potter and Doby the House Elf
.A nuisance at first, Doby turns out to be a real asset for Harry Potter saving his life from in the Chamber of Secrets.
Lucius, Malfoy's father, was about curse Harry with the avada kedavra curse had not Doby interfered Harry would have certainly died.
I look forward to reading more about Doby.
Sunday, April 15, 2007
Goblet of Fire Cedric Diggory
Cedric Diggory in the Goblet of Fire. I liked his character in the movie. It is a pity he died.
Saturday, April 14, 2007
Magical Monsters Book from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Magical Monster Book from Prisoner of Azkaban. This class was taught by Hagrid until Malfoy got hurt.
Friday, April 13, 2007
Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson
Daniel Radcliff and Emma Watson at Harry Potter and Goblet of Fire movie premier and dinner.
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Hermione Granger
Hermione Granger
Born: Sep 19, 1979-
House: Gryffindor
Boggart: Professor McGonagall, informing her that she has failed all her classes
*What is the shape of Hermione's Patronus?*
Next Defense Against the Dark Arts (DADA) Teacher?
The next Defense Against The Dark Arts teacher will be a woman. This is true according to JK Rowling who mentions this in one of her interviews.
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
The Merger of Two Worlds
"Dull but 200% reliable," as one newspaper described him, Jan Peter Balkenende has won widespread public affection with his plain-spoken manner and his good humoured acceptance of the nickname "Harry Potter".
It stuck me as interesting how JK Rowling brought the Prime Minister of England into the six book showing her readers how the problems of the magical and "muggle world" are interconnected.
Was JK being prophetic or was it just a coincidence?
As they say life can sometimes imitate art. And with time at least in the Netherlands JK Rowling may replace Trelawney as professor of Divination at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Monday, April 2, 2007
Why is Harry a Parselmouth?
It is clear that Harry can speak to snakes and Dumbledore can understand some parseltongue too:
The ability to speak Parseltongue is extremely rare, and is something for which Salazar Slytherin was famous (hence his nickname of "Serpent-tongue", and the choice of a serpent as the symbol of Slytherin House). Tom Riddle inherited this ability from Slytherin, and used it to control the basilisk from the Chamber of Secrets. Harry acquired the ability to speak Parseltongue from Voldemort during Voldemort's attack on the Potters. Harry used the ability unwittingly to speak to a boa constrictor in the zoo and to a snake conjured by Draco Malfoy at the Duelling Club.
Parseltongue is the language of snakes. It is in the common mind associated with Dark Magic (although Albus Dumbledore himself has denied it to be in any way evil), and those possessing the ability to speak it ("parselmouths") are very rare. It appears to be a skill acquired not through learning, but through genetic inheritance (or by use of Dark or dangerous Magic). Harry Potter is a Parselmouth: it is speculated at various points in the series that his acquisition of this skill was one of the many by-products of Lord Voldemort's attempt on his life when he was a child.
Other known parselmouths include: Salazar Slytherin and his descendants, including the Gaunts (Marvolo, Morfin, Merope), Lord Voldemort, and Herpo the Foul. Albus Dumbledore seems to be able to understand Parseltongue in one instance in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, when he repeats Morfin Gaunt's words "the big house over the way", which were spoken in Parseltongue. This means that either he himself is a Parselmouth or that he had previously viewed that memory with a Parselmouth who translated the conversation for him. It is unlikely to have been Morfin who did so: Dumbledore claims that, "apparently, ["He'll kill me for losing his ring"] was all he ever said again."
Ginny Weasley is not a parselmouth, despite the fact that at points in Chamber of Secrets she appeared to speak in parseltongue: she was at the time being possessed by the spirit of Tom Riddle, who was himself a parselmouth.
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Monday, March 19, 2007
What does Deathly Hallows means?
Jo is not telling us because according to her it would give away too much of the plot in the last book.
So I guess well will have to be patient about what it means. But there is always room for speculation.
deathly:
1. Of, resembling, or characteristic of death: a deathly silence.
2. Causing death; fatal.
hallow:
1. To make or set apart as holy.
2. To respect or honor greatly; revere.
My interpretation?
deathly hallow = a self-sacrifizing death that only resembles death but is not.
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Any clarification of the meaning of 'Hallows' would give away too much of the story - well, it would, wouldn't it? Being the title and all. So I'm afraid I'm not answering.
So I guess well will have to be patient about what it means. But there is always room for speculation.
deathly:
1. Of, resembling, or characteristic of death: a deathly silence.
2. Causing death; fatal.
hallow:
1. To make or set apart as holy.
2. To respect or honor greatly; revere.
My interpretation?
deathly hallow = a self-sacrifizing death that only resembles death but is not.
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J.K. Rowling says "Deathly Hallows is my favourite"
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire."I'm almost scared to admit this, but one thing has stopped me collapsing in a puddle of misery on the floor. While each of the previous Potter books has strong claims on my affections, 'Deathly Hallows' is my favourite, and that is the most wonderful way to finish the series." -JK Rowling.
Imagine taking 17years to write a book. Thinking about it and perfecting it. Now imagine having the imagination and skill of JK Rowling. The result should be an incredible book. A masterpiece even.
I understand the feeling of woe and emptiness knowing that it will be the last book. I felt depressed after finishing any of the previous books. But the consolation always was that there would be another book coming out. What will console the readers this time?
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Friday, March 9, 2007
Tom Riddle
Tom_Riddle.The Riddles were a family of privileged and well off gentry in the fictitious village of Little Hangleton.
The most prominent residents there, they owned large tracts of land and a fine manor house, that overlooked a cemetery and a church.
They were, however, notoriously unpopular among the Little Hangleton villagers, as they were snobbish and rude. Though Tom, the son of the family, mixed with them sufficiently to be aware of village gossip concerning the Gaunts, a local — secretly magical — family. LINK.
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