Harry Potter

[peggandfrost]

I don't know whether its as big in the US as it is in the UK but over here its massive.

What do people think of the new film?

[Tristan]

I haven't seen the new film. Well, yet.

But I don't really get into the franchise since the fandom in the US and the internet kinda takes me out of it.

So I'll watch it once it all dies down in about a year.

[Aoi]

Ha...that's hilarious.
Harry Potter fan-dom and the spazziness that it entails on the internet dying...?
Surely, sir, you jest?
Its as infamous for its good and bad points alike as twilight.
Though I feel there shouldn't be a comparison at all...I love the Harry Potter movies. Getting into the dorkiness of it all is a thrill; I've dressed up for every movie and book release to date! I'm not as obsessed with it as I used to be with anime, but its still a love of mine.

In the US, its huge.
'Nuff said...or IS it!?

[Ilythia]

Actually, I personally think it's a lot better than the abomination that is the Twilight franchise. The only reason girls love the latter is because it's very stereotypical; who doesn't want a "perfect" boyfriend walking in into your life? A girl's every dream. There's nothing special about Twilight or intriguing for that matter.

Anne Rice wins by leagues.

But enough of that. I've only read the first Harry Potter book when it was the subject of much discussion. I literally went on a huge reading binge; I liked it. Unfortunately, I didn't keep up with the other books of movies for that matter. I've only ever heard commentaries from my friends who faithfully read the books and watched the movies at the theater. I only ever see the movies when they're aired on TV- with commercials. Haha, I'm not experiencing the films as I should be but alas.

I really want to watch the latest film. I'm interested in the character Belatrix Les Strange (sp?) for the reason that she actually gets to kill someone important. Yeah I went to wikipedia and spoiled everything. Good thing I don't remember much since it was such a long time ago. =P

[JAY]

Have to post this


<JonJonB> Purely in the interests of science, I have replaced the word "wand" with "wang" in the first Harry Potter Book
<JonJonB> Let's see the results...

<JonJonB> "Why aren't you supposed to do magic?" asked Harry.
<JonJonB> "Oh, well -- I was at Hogwarts meself but I -- er -- got expelled, ter tell yeh the truth. In me third year. They snapped me wang in half an' everything

<JonJonB> A magic wang... this was what Harry had been really looking forward to.

<JonJonB> "Yes, yes. I thought I'd be seeing you soon. Harry Potter." It wasn't a question. "You have your mother's eyes. It seems only yesterday she was in here herself, buying her first wang. Ten and a quarter inches long, swishy, made of willow. Nice wang for charm work."
<JonJonB> "Your father, on the other hand, favored a mahogany wang. Eleven inches. "

<JonJonB> Harry took the wang. He felt a sudden warmth in his fingers. He raised the wang above his head, brought it swishing down through the dusty air and a stream of red and gold sparks shot from the end like a firework, throwing dancing spots of light on to the walls

<JonJonB> "Oh, move over," Hermione snarled. She grabbed Harry's wang, tapped the lock, and whispered, 'Alohomora!"

<JonJonB> The troll couldn't feel Harry hanging there, but even a troll will notice if you stick a long bit of wood up its nose, and Harry's wang had still been in his hand when he'd jumped - it had gone straight up one of the troll's nostrils.

<JonJonB> He bent down and pulled his wang out of the troll's nose. It was covered in what looked like lumpy gray glue.

<JonJonB> He ran onto the field as you fell, waved his wang, and you sort of slowed down before you hit the ground. Then he whirled his wang at the dementors. Shot silver stuff at them.

<JonJonB> Ok
<JonJonB> I have found, definitive proof
<JonJonB> that J.K Rowling is a dirty DIRTY woman, making a fool of us all
<JonJonB> "Yes," Harry said, gripping his wang very tightly, and moving into the middle of the deserted classroom. He tried to keep his mind on flying, but something else kept intruding.... Any second now, he might hear his mother again... but he shouldn't think that, or he would hear her again, and he didn't want to... or did he?
<melusine > O_______O
<JonJonB> Something silver-white, something enormous, erupted from the end of his wang

<JonJonJonB> Then, with a sigh, he raised his wang and prodded the silvery substance with its tip.

<JonJonJonB> 'Get - off - me!' Harry gasped. For a few seconds they struggled, Harry pulling at his uncles sausage-like fingers with his left hand, his right maintaining a firm grip on his raised wang.