um, it's a recessive allele, JK. the magic quill is super cute though.

How can two Muggles have a kid with magical powers? Also how does the Ministry of Magic find out these kids have powers?
It’s the same as two black-haired people producing a redheaded child. Sometimes these things just happen, and no one really knows why! The Ministry of Magic doesn’t find out which children are magic. In Hogwarts there’s a magical quill which detects the birth of a magical child, and writes his or her name down in a large parchment book. Every year Professor McGonagall checks the book, and sends owls to the people who are turning 11.

beautiful

After all this time? Always.

OH MY GOD.

Cassidy's #1: EPORIPEOIREPIRPOIPOEI

i'm just going to copy sarah and say I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT HARRY POTTER!!!! we're leaving for the release in less than one hour and i'm about to poo in my pants!!!

AHHHHH I LOVE HP BUILD-UP! I LOVE HP FANS! I LOVE HP MUSIC! I LOVE EEEVERYTHING!!!
OH, HAPPY DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!


WIEUIOWEUOIWUEIUWIOUWIOEUOWEUOPWIEPOWIEOWIEOPWIEPOWIEPWIE
HARRY POTTER BOOKS, YOU ARE SO BEAUTIFUL AND YOU SPAWN SUCH BEAUTIFUL THINGS AND I LOVE YOU AND YOU ARE ONE OF THE TOP FIVE THINGS IN MY WHOLE LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!

AHHHHHHHHHHH


SIX HOURS TILL THE MOVIE STARTS!!!!!! I'M ALREADY BARFING

Alas, earwax.

Today I was walking across campus and the sun was shining, the leaves were blustering, and my hair was drying. Only a few hours till EVERYTHING GREAT. "Happy Thanksgiving, Happy Break, Happy Harry Potter." A friend said to me as we parted after a brief conversation about our anticipation for the movie. I admired her handmade shirt that proclaimed simply, Alas, Earwax. "Oh, and Happy Glee!" she said, walking backwards. Happy glee filled me up and I did a weird little dance to the soundtrack in my head, and the balloon in my heart lifted me a few inches off the pavement.


YAY

#1 by s.s. The Dedication Page of Deathly Hallows

This is what I was originally was going to do as number one. I also meant to do JK Rowling. And a million other things. But the fist page of DH. I remember so clearly getting home a few hours after midnight and calmly brushing my teeth, with the crisp and unopened book on my bed. Wow, I just got some crazy flashbacks of all of the times I held an unread Harry Potter book in my hands. Wow. Quite a powerful sensation. But so the book was on my bed and I got into bed. Slowly picked up the book and felt its weight in my hands, smelled it, smoothed the cover with my hand. Then I turned the first few virgin pages and as I read the seven part dedication page my heart began to swell, and when I got to the last one,

"And to you,
if you have
stuck
with Harry
until the
very
end."

I sobbed with the raw emotion of an exposed and full heart.


"After all this time?"
"Always."

#1 by s.s. EVERYTHING

It is technically the day of so. Number one. EVERY FUCKING THING ABOUT HARRY POTTER.

MY HEART IS GOING TO EXPLODE WITH OBSESSIVE AND ALL-ENCOMPASSING LOVE FOR IT. AHHH If it exploded it would be like a huge expanding sonic boom force field thing of explosive love. I can't take it!

Listening to HP7 on tape, slightly melancholy and panicky. I am a bit upset because the seventh book has been the one that has been unsullied with associations with the movies. Also, panicked because as EXCITED AS I AM (so excited) I am also full of this sort of desperation because we are getting closer and closer to the end of this much-milked franchise. 

I have to pause and take deep breaths. Because my love is making me want to barf and diarrhea and hyperventilate and claw my heart out of my chest. I just can't contain this excitement and love and overwhelming emotion about Harry Potter. How can something make us so overwhelmed? I can't be literate right now. My guts are all twisty.

I love Harry Potter so much I don't know what to do with myself. I am dying. I can't really be too sad though because I KNOW my love will live on forever. But at the same time--YIKES. Life without a Harry Potter movie or book on the horizon??? I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT KIND OF LIFE THAT IS!!!!!!!! I mean, the last book came out and I survived. But...it will never be like that again. The wondering and speculation...the giddy, barf-inducing excitement...The movies generally suck but the TRAILERS, man. They kill me. And we've only got ONE MORE ROUND LEFT.

What are we going to do?

Cassidy's #2: Wrock

Yeah, wizard rock. Mostly I just love how creative the Harry Potter fan-base is. Even if we disregard all of the HP Erotica that abounds, there is still tons of creativity going on! It's true that all of the wizard rock is just... not great musically. But I love it and find it super awesome how we all just love it anyway and all these nerdy half-musicians have this weird cult following.
And now... ladies and gentlemen... I give you...
Draco and the Malfoys performing "Voldemort is Awesome" (ignore the video)




And to counter that, I now present to you...
Harry and the Potters performing "Voldemort Can't Stop the Rock"

#2 by s.s. Hargid's Moleskin Coat

Absolutely hilarious. A coat made of the skins of moles? What an inefficient animal with which to make a coat! Especially one for a half giant!!

Cassidy's #3: Fawkes

Fawkes cries tears of healing magic. He spontaneously combusts and is reborn from his own ashes. His tail feather resides in Harry's wand. He's Dumbledore's pet and BFF. As much as I love my eczema-ridden asthma dog, I think Fawkes has to be the most BAMF animal ever. plus he's all super literary and shit but it's nearly midnight and I have to write another one of these tonight.

Cassidy's #4: Harry and Ron, Bros

I'm rereading HPDH before the movie release and I just read the part where Harry and Ron bro hug and a great balloon of joy erupted in my chest because I just love those dudes and their friendship so much. Remember the olden days when Harry and Ron sat together on the Hogwarts Express? Remember that time Hermione was like, "You've got dirt on your nose, did you know? Just there." and then Ron tried to turn his rat yellow?
I don't want to discount the veritable amazing-ness of Hermione and, of course, Harry and Ron would not be the same/alive without her. but there is something beautiful about bros and Harry and Ron are the epitome of bros. Not bros, like frat bros. Bros like the brutha from anotha mutha... or whatever. They seriously love each other. And it was so beautiful when Ron found Harry and Ron with the deluminator and he was like, "Dumbledore must've known I'd run out on you." and Harry said, "No, he must've known you'd always want to come back."

IT'S THE DREAAM!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIOb8BQMexc&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW4mDy468n8

#3 by s.s. The Burrow

I feel very badly about being so blah about the last few posts. But it really is like crunch time with lots of essays and classes and projects and club meetings and so on but that is NO EXCUSE for being blasé about Harry Potter. I only have a few minutes before I have to leave but here goes.

Number three, the Burrow. And, of course, the family that inhabits it. The Burrow is this super cool place that is everything that #4 Privet Drive is not. It is weird and messy and homey. It is full of family and love and pets and weeds. It's the kind of home that nurtures a family. Growth, exploration and creative are not trimmed (symbolism of overgrown garden?) The Weasley children are all confident and happy people, walking through life with the aplomb of being well-loved. The Burrow is the family environment that we all want. Big and loud, full of knitted things and sumptuous hardy food. The Burrow is that second family & home to Harry that a lot of people seek and find in their youth.

Things like weeds and wellies clogging the garden are not important. What is important is that a family be full of love and laughter and warmth. Really, the Weasley family gives me hope for the whole institution of marriage and family. So many familiess are broken or full of anger or sadness. But they shouldn't be! They don't need to be! With humor and love and big knitted sleeves and a lot of fried eggs...the home is a haven.

Harry is an orphan, raised by abusive and cold relatives. The Burrow is the best place he's ever been. Mrs Weasley. Bless her, she's the absolute best. She should be the model for homemakers--screw martha stewart. She can cook and hug like no other and also is a complete badass and killed a bitch that tried to kill her daughter. Molly Weasley is such a great character. I think that JKR knows from experience that loving mothers like Mrs Weasley would literally murder to protect their family. I like how Mrs Weasley is a housewife, but she's a total BAMF. Mrs Weasley treats Harry like a son. She's the mother he never had. Everyone needs adult figures that love them and care about them in their life. I think that JKR really wanted to grow up in a Weasley family, even though she didn't. Harry's subtle longing for such a family comes across rather poignantly in the story.

Also, great name, the Burrow! Makes me think of lil bunnies cuddling together in their bunny home. Also makes me think of The Wind in the Willows. That sort of super Englishness with the tea and the toast and so on is similar in the Burrow. Ish.

#4 by s.s. Hedwig

Hunger and fatigue are gnawing on my brain. But this is what I got:

HEDWIG. she's symbolic of harry's youth and innocence, his connection to the wizarding world, etc.

I'm really brain dead.

Cassidy's #5: The Ministry of Magic

The Ministry of Magic is my #5 because it's like everything I love about government but MAGICAL. One awesome Ministry-related scene is the one in which Fudge visits the muggle Prime Minister. SO COOL. and the muggle PM is like WHUT? it makes it seem like there really is a magical world going on right under our noses.
The second cool thing is the Dept. of Mysteries. Mysteries? Whut! In the muggle world we're just lame and have like the FBI file room or whatever but the wizarding world has a freaking whole labyrinth of MAGICAL secrets. and freaking life and death and love and prophecies. HUUUH?

hilar.

#5 by s.s. RON & HERMIONE

These two bros always have Harry's back. They're the best friends a boy wizard could ask for! It's totes cute when they're lil buddies.
"There are some things that you can go through with a person without ending up liking them. And knocking out a 12-foot mountain troll is one of them."
And totes moving when Harry thinks of them to make a patronus. And totes moving when Hermione says,

"No, Harry, you listen. We're coming with you. That was decided months ago — years, really."

Which makes me want to explode because their loyalty and friend love is so strong and they made the choice to be Harry's wing friends years ago. They've been loyal for all their years at school and follow him as he goes on the final quest. Really, Harry would not have gotten far without his friends.

HARRY, RON AND HERMIONE. the trio that roles off the tongue and KICKS ASS.

Cassidy's #6: Inside jokes

"MY BODY'S GONE!"





"DEH!"





"POTTER IS A BOY, NOT A PIECE OF MEAT!"





Oh, yeah. And also this:

#6 by s.s. HPFESTS

nuff said. actually it's just 11:30 and time for bed and I forgot to write anything.