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Arrt. About which I feel the need to crow.

by Cassandra

For Christmas I got Photoshop Elements - it took me two weeks to finally get around to attempting to figure it out, and this is the product of my first real effort in the area of computer colouration.

Yeah.

maketea.jpg. A classmate of mine has this slogan branded across her bookbag, and for some reason it stuck in my mind.

Posted on Jan 12, 2002, 11:59 PM

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Nice! Very nice...!

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(*she goes misty-eyed*) I'd love something like photoshop elements.....I'm so sick of spending weeks on a sketch, inking it, and then flushing it down the proverbial toilet through smeggy colouring.

I ENVY you, Cass!!

Yours is very nice, though...that rather handsome chap seems somewhat familliar ....

( I so love tea.....)

Posted on Jan 13, 2002, 5:30 AM

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And the best thing about Elements . . .

by Cassandra

Is that it only cost about a hundred and fifty bucks! HA! Screw you, Adobe! Why should I spend $1263 or whatever the price amounts to for Photoshop, eh?

(Probably the answer is "Because you want those extra filters, don't you? You do, don't you?")

Gee, I wonder why he looks familiar? **Rocks innocently on her toes.**

Posted on Jan 13, 2002, 10:07 AM

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Wow! He looks great!

by Jemima

Hee hee, I love it! He really needs to be an advertisement for some brand of Wizard tea. That gives me an idea for a thread...

Posted on Jan 13, 2002, 6:45 AM

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*LOL* That's cool!

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It looks great! Funny pic too. ^_^

Posted on Jan 14, 2002, 3:39 AM

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(*sour look*) I am *fully* aware that I must be the last person in Britain to have done this, BUT...

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(*the sour look is instantly replaced by a beaming grin*)

...I FINISHED BOOK 4!! at...(*checks her watch*)..8:54 last night!

but NOW....(*she throws her hands to her panic-stricken face*) WHAT AM I GONNA DO?? I have too many questions! I've been reading Harry Potter for the last five days, almost non-stop, loving every minute, and now I'm finished I...I wanna read MORE!

(*growl*) guess I'll just have to find some house elves to kick until Rowling brings out the next book...

>:)

Posted on Jan 11, 2002, 6:37 AM

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Whoo hoo! Party in da house!

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I love that book! I will read it a second time... soon. I must admit that I'm running low on Harry Potter-ness, but there is so much to read, I have found! Seriously, I thought I was well-read before I read the Harry Potter books, but those suckers completely catalyzed me to read every book I can get my hands on... well, not every book, but good ones and fantasy and... okay, I'll stop now. Harry Potter the 4th rocks!

Posted on Jan 11, 2002, 2:37 PM

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try this...

by Spinele Snape

Try and see if you can find 'Quidditch Through The Ages'

I already have it. Now I can see why Snape wanted to take it! It wasn't because he wanted to make Harry miserable... it's because he wanted to read it! it's really cool. ^^

Spinele

Posted on Jan 11, 2002, 3:41 PM

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Oh, yes QuidditchTTA is great!

by Jemima

"Quidditch Through the Ages" is a hoot! My favorite part is still the story of the match between the Holyhead Harpies and the Heidelberg Harriers (I won't spoil it). Oh, and be sure to check out the celebrity endorsements in the front of the book. I just love Ludo Bagman...

Posted on Jan 11, 2002, 3:49 PM

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I personally liked "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them"

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It was great! I liked Harry's, Ron's, and occasionally Hermione's comments, and the histories are interesting and kinda make sense when you look back at the books.

Posted on Jan 12, 2002, 1:58 PM

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Oh I know LOADS of books

by Featherspy

working in a library can turn you into a real biblography. if you like sci-fi/fantasy books with a little bit of cynisicm that you can understand try:

Harry Harrison's (I think the last name is right) Stainless Steel Rat books have alot of space/crime/detective stuff

Terry Pratchett's Discworld books if you haven't heard of them you know NOTHING about British literature

and of course, the Hitch Hiker's Huide to the Galaxy are always funny (I'm just starting Dirk Gently's Holistic detective agency)

if you like slightly..eh, purer books try the Chrestomanci chronicals (I love the Witches of Caprona) by Tabitha Wynne Jones

And also, just go to your library and browse! most of the books I like I just discovered when I was wandering around!!





Posted on Jan 25, 2002, 10:01 PM

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You know what's really crazy?

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I've read one of all of those already except for the Harry Harrison thingie! I'm in the middle of The Colour of Magic, I'm in the beginning of Life the Universe, and Everything, I LOVED the Chrestomanci Quartet (the authors first name is Diana, actually), so I might just look up the Harry Harrison thing. Coolness! Have you read the Everworld books? Those are pretty awesome, too.

Posted on Jan 26, 2002, 10:04 AM

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I know that someone probably already did this, but...

by Spinele Snape

What Harry Potter characters would never be caught saying:

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Ron: Actually Hermione, it is pronounced wIzarDimaKiNN. If you say it the way you're saying it, it will bring a flying boar to the school... no, enough with this YOU-KNOW-WHO junk. his name is VOLDEMORT.

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Snape: A thousand points to Griffindoor!
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Prof. Dumbledoor: oh you beep ing beeeeeeeeep
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Dobby: You suck, Harry.
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Malfoys(father, son and mother): GROUP HUG!!! awwww!
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Hagrid: **opening Christmas Gifts** oh GOD! not ANOTHER dragon. sigh
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Draco Malfoy: OOOOOOO! FURBY!!!!!
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Percy: That's it! I'm getting a tatoo!!!
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Snape: Just lather, rinse and repeat.
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I know.. it was weird! weird is good!

Posted on Jan 9, 2002, 3:23 PM

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**Guffaws** Furby . . .

by Cassandra

Actually, I don't think anyone's done this on this board. 'S a good idea, though. May I add?

Remus Lupin: "I'm feeling a little fuzzy today."

Minerva McGonagall: (this must be said while storming into a crowded room) "THIS IS THE LAST STRAW! WHO TOOK MY PORNOGRAPHY?"

Ludo Bagman: "Today's sermon will be a discussion on the vice of gambling."

Sybill Trelawney: "I'm a realist at heart." (Actually, you might catch her saying that. She just might be daft enough.)

Hermione: "Does this colour go with my hair?"

Albus Dumbledore: "... And so it is with great pleasure that I award this year's House Cup and an additional trophy for Most Astounding Points Performance In Five Hundred Years to Slytherin."

Bartemius Crouch Sr: "Make love, not war!"

Severus Snape: "I never told you . . . I'm a flower child."

Voldemort: "Mr Fudge, I have come to tell you that I have had a change of heart. I intend to hand over my wand and do good work in the community redecorating the homes of the elderly."

Minerval McGonagall: "Dude."

Sirius Black: "I have taken my oaths, and I'm moving to the monastery next week."

Colin Creevey: "Wow, Ron, can I take your photograph? And then will you autograph it for me?"

**Tries to think of more.**

**Fails.**

**Crawls off to get to work on her Mordecai Richler essay.**

Posted on Jan 9, 2002, 5:41 PM

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**snorts trying to hold in laughter**

by Spinele Snape

FLOWER CHILD!!!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA **gasp** ehehehehehe! Snape... and flower child.... should not be in the same sentence... it could cause an uproar!

Here's some more:

(Severus askes a question to his class)
Hermione: **doesn't raise her hand**


Severus: TELETUBBIES!! YAAY! (that would be pretty disturbing.....)


........ I can't think of anymore.........

Hey, has anyone noticed... that whenever someone impersonates somthing that Snape would never do... it involves somthing...... Happy? Or maybe it's just me....

Posted on Jan 10, 2002, 2:32 PM

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(*she wipes her eyes*) it's funny, 'cause it's true... ^_^

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....sort of like the idea of Darth Vader on a swing, isn't it? okay, okay...lemme try.

(*she opens her mouth to say more, but for the third time that day the image of Severus as a hippie rears it's daisy-wreathed head, and she has to be escorted from the room in hysterics by somber-looking men in white coats.*)

Posted on Jan 11, 2002, 6:28 AM

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Oh, Kat? (*she grins slightly*) I have a wee question.

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I got me some Severus Snape fanart ready and waiting to be framed and hung in the Hogwarts Gallery. The question though, is...

A) how do I send it? PLEASE tell me I can just email it to you as an attachment, and not go through all that...that HTML hash.

Also, I assumed that the usual 'nothing above PG standard' rule applies for anything we send in (which I have no problems with)...but didn't see any message stating this, per say. Did I just miss it in my hurry to type this... (*grin*) or was there nothing to miss?

Posted on Jan 9, 2002, 7:24 AM

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Answers

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I've never mentioned it specifically before, not that I recall, but I do want to keep a PG rating. Suggestive stuff is fine. Just don't show anything. heh.

Send them as attachments. That'll be fine. But please come here and tell me that you sent it, because I don't check that email as often as I should. OK, now, I'm looking forward to it!

Posted on Jan 10, 2002, 7:41 AM

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(*evil grin*)

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Well much as I myself can't wait to see it posted up...you'll all just have to keep waiting for a teensy while longer 'til I can find a scanner. >;p

I'll try out Cassandra's tips on using HTML's (see other post)....but, erm....no promises. I'll probably buckle and end up sending 'em as attachments in the end. But on the bright side....(*sardonic smirk*) it'll give me some more time to draw more of them, won't it?




Posted on Jan 11, 2002, 6:20 AM

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Box office has cleared 300 million

by Jemima

US box office for the HP movie is now over $300 million. It's still hanging around in the top 10, too.

Posted on Jan 6, 2002, 10:42 PM

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Woohoo!!

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I want to see it AGAIN! Please let it be there when I finally make it...

Posted on Jan 7, 2002, 1:56 PM

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Yeah!

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Harry Potter kicks! (What ever it kicks is up to you)
I've seen the movie 5 times and I'm waiting for the DVD to come out. I can't wait.
That is so cool that it has made $300 million already.
But is that enough to beat the Lord of the Rings? I really don't know it Harry Potter will beat it because I saw the Lord of the Rings and I think it was better well made. Flinches while waiting for people to hit her I'm not saying that the Lord of the Rings is better than Harry Potter, just a better made movie. I love Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings will not take it's place! I soooo can't wait for the Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets movie to come out. It will be soooo coool!!

Posted on Jan 7, 2002, 6:30 PM

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IF...

by Captain Chaotica!!


...Christopher Columbus isn't allowed to direct it, and IF....they don't Hollywood/Disney-fy/kiddie-ise it up, AGAIN...

It's an adult story that just happens to have kid characters. Let's treat it as such, mood-wise, pacing wise, okay?

...Notorious

Posted on Jan 8, 2002, 2:45 AM

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Columbus, HP and LotR

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Uh... I'm holding a trashcan lid over my head, because I'm going to disagree here.

I thought Chris Columbus did a great job of the film. I thought it was extremely well adapted. Sorcerer's Stone is more childlike than the later books (they become more dark and more adult as Harry gets older). And making it more adult would have lost us the glorious sense of wonder when we first see magic, brooms, Platform 9-3/4, the Hogwarts Express, Diagon Alley, and Hogwarts lovely Hogwarts.

Now that we've been able to marvel like children at all of it, I expect it to change, just as the books do.

As for which film was the better film, I think they are about equal. HP was much more true to the original material. Trust me, I've read LotR pretty much once a year, every year since about 1969. However, they did fantastic things in LotR. I don't have a preference. They are very different films and equally good, in my eyes. In fact, I'm going to see both of them again this weekend.

Funny coincidence... total babble here... in both movies there is a character I dislike in the books (Snape and Boromir) and ended up liking in the movies. Weird.

Posted on Jan 8, 2002, 10:03 PM

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Having just finished Return of the King for the first time . . .

by Cassandra

I can see why you feel that Harry Potter stayed true to the book better than Lord of the Rings - while reading Lord of the Rings for the first time (this was Sunday before last, you understand), I did realise quickly enough that the director of LoTR did cut quite a lot of the book's scenes out. But he did manage to keep the story flowing, without making it feel chopped and edited. The Fellowship of the Ring is a very long book, and it would have been impossible to transfer all of it to the screen without making a seven-hour-long multi-installment series, like BBC did with Pride and Prejudice.

You already know how I feel about Columbus' job on Harry Potter.

I do, however, agree with you in that Columbus did a good job of keeping the tone of the movie true to that of the book. I was dreading some Disney-esque monstrosity with lots of singing and gooshy sound effects and ridiculous juvenile humour, but I was pleasantly surprised to find no trace of it, expect perhaps in Séamus' frequent mishaps with explosions. The one thing I concede Chris will do well in the following movies (if Jo doesn't come to her senses and sack him, **ducks under a trashbin lid of her own**) is keep their tones realistic, if this first one is any indication.

Boromir was a rather Snapeish character, though not of course in personality. I speak of the way the reader reacts to him. He's quite abrasive, and yet every once in a while he does something that makes us, if not like him, then at least sympathise with him.

And Legolas was cute as hell. And Arwen was annoying as hell. I was hoping all the way through to the end of Return of the King that she'd be messily slaughtered and Aragorn would marry Eowyn. Now there's a nice, sensible lass.

Posted on Jan 9, 2002, 2:06 PM

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Eh?

by Kaie

Arwen never did anything! Unless you mean Movie!Arwen, who rode a horse and did sappy things.

....

But, as I said, she's !Arwen. (that reads "not-arwen", for those of you unfortunate enough to not speak C boolean)

And, uh, I thought Eowyn was equally stupid. Give me my elf. My nice elf, with no canon competition. And I don't think his legions of fangirls count.

....

yeah.

(This amazing off topic post brought to you by caffeine and sleep deprivation and huge reports on Satan as an antihero in Paradise Lost)

Posted on Jan 9, 2002, 6:26 PM

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hmmm...*considers both movies...*

by Keeper of the Time Keys



well, ok, Harry Potter was a good movie, i will give it that. Lord of the Rings was a good movie...cool.

they both had things that were wrong...and i think this is mainly because of the time limit and money. If you gave Peter Jackson and Chris Columbus limitless time and money and no time limit on how long the film had to be....then both movies would have been even better....

Arwen was irritating, she didn't do any of the cool things she did in the movie (rescuing Frodo and raising the flood mainly...though she does get all sappy with aragorn)....just like in Harry Potter I waited and waited and waited for Fred and George and their wonderful lines....but they never came, or how Malfoy was toned down so much...into just an annoyance rather then the kid you wanna kill....

story wise, you can't choose, both are fantastic stories w/wonderful plots and all that...movie wise, both could have been made better...but i can settle for what they had...some of the mistakes where more obvious (and irritating) then others...like Ron going w/harry and hermoine on their detention in the Forest instead of Neville...and how Harry never reads the back of Dumbledore's card...which made everything fall together in the book......oh well, still hope for the next movie...and this is all just my humble opinion anyway....chow!







Posted on Jan 25, 2002, 3:32 PM

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Huhboy . . .

by Cassandra

It's probably just as bad up here in Canada (though I haven't checked the statistics), though of course the overall amount will be considerably less, our dollar being what it is. (**Whack whack whack.** Wake UP, cursed Canadian dollar!)

I agree with you on the subject of Harry Potter vs. Lord of the Rings, Tracy. Harry Potter may have been visually pleasing, but Lord of the Rings managed to stay true to the book without leaving empty scenes and lines scattered wantonly all over the place. It was far more elegantly handled, despite the (SPOIIIIIIIIIILLLLLLEEEEERRRRRRRRRR!) wholly gratuitous, completely unnecessary and positively cloying romance scene between -- [machine gun fire].

Well, you know what I mean, yes? ^_^

I very much hope that JK Rowling (or is it Murray, now?) will have the sense to sack Columbus and get a better director. My vote goes to Lasse Hallstrom, the bloke who did The Shipping News.

Posted on Jan 7, 2002, 10:45 PM

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i fear i must agree...^_^

by Keeper of the Keys



couldn't have said it better myself...(*turns and shoves Arwen off the bridge with her shoe and summons Aragorn so he knows it's safe to come out of hiding*)

Harry Potter was visually pleasing..buuuut..LOTR just, to me was more entertaining....it stayed better to the book and besides...it had elves...^__________^..no, anyway..umm....where was i?...oh yeah!!

Columbus could've done a much better job...it's like; when they mess up on stuff like having Hermoine going into the Boys' dorm...because it was to the left..and she went to the left!....and the scene cuts were pretty bad...like from the Dursleys in their house w/all the flying letters, to Oh god!! suddenly they're out on the sea...well, why did they pick that place? hmm, i found myself putting in parts of the book they skipped to fill in holes left in the movie...LOTR didn't do that..you could watch that movie and get basically everything (except maybe why Hobbits don't where my shoes...my mom had to lean over and ask me about that)...i just enjoyed it much more...

and let me get this straight for Christopher Columbus HARRY POTTER HAS GREEN EYES!!! NOT GREEN AND THEN SOMETIMES BLUE, NOT BLUE WHEN TAKING PICTURES...THEY ARE GREEN...*ALL THE TIME*! IT'S NOT LIKE THE BOY WHERES CONTACTS!..i mean, if they can make Madam Hooch have those cool yellow eyes...they can make the main character have green...it ain't that hard...

sighs...ok, that's it for now...

Posted on Jan 26, 2002, 10:39 AM

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(*she looks about her with saucer-eyed fascination*)

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My first ever time in the Potter forum. Amazing how a little thing like posting against an azure background can make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up, isn't it?

Ack - I'd best make this brief though, I just spent (*she grits her teeth and surpresses her rage*) ...10 minutes typing up this post only to be booted offline and have the whole thing wiped.
(*barely-contained mixture of contempt and near hysterical fury --->*) *Thankyou*, AOL.

So - I've just read 'philosophers stone' for the first time (in one sitting, from 7pm - 12:32pm.) I'm now utterly, totally, hopelessly HOOKED. So I may as well make myself known to you fine people.

So.......let's have a show of hands. (*grin*) Who else's a Severus Snape fan?
I hope to god this isn't all we're gonna see of him....that man's so CUTE! He CAN'T be restricted to book one!

(**no spoilers!!**)

Posted on Jan 5, 2002, 3:04 PM

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Don't worry, you're not the only Snape fan

by Shandethe

Alan Rickman is totally delicious, and yes, so is Snape. If you liked him in the first book, you'll adore the other three.

--Shandethe

Posted on Jan 5, 2002, 3:17 PM

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uh huh!

by Spinele Snape

raises hand I don't think he's cute or anything(I'm a guy...) But Severus is my favorite favorite favorite of all time!!!!!(Alot of my friends at work call me 'Sevy' O_o)

Well, i gotta go! (I'm going to see the Harry Potter novie for the 12th time!)

Posted on Jan 6, 2002, 12:39 PM

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are you kidding?

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Were you kidding about seeing the movie 12 times?? Man, I thought five was a lot.
About Severus Snape.....I think he is extremely cool in the movie. I just like how he......how do you put it...moves like all fast all of a sudden or something. I think he is my favorite person in the movie. If I were in Gryffindor, I think I still would like him. I think he is cool. I don't think he is good looking or anything. just cool.
Now, the books are a different story. I don't know why. He just makes me mad whenever he comes around in the books. Actually, I'm starting to like him more and more. I think he is really cool.

Posted on Jan 7, 2002, 6:23 PM

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Snape?

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I have to admit, I don't like him at all in the books, although if you like him, you'll enjoy the books to come, because he continues to be developed in fascinating ways. However, in the movie... well, only Alan Rickman could make Snape sexy, but he sure was!

Posted on Jan 6, 2002, 1:25 PM

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sexy?

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ok, that is really funny. I can see how people would think he is sexy, but I don't see it. I mean, he is not totaly ugly, just not my type.
Now, Quirrell is more sexy to me.

Posted on Jan 7, 2002, 6:25 PM

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WHAT?!!! *gets a really dumbfounded look on her face*

by Keeper of the Time Keys



what is it with you people and the old guys??? SNAPE??? QUIRREL??? ^________^ (*is completely tickled by this and giggles like an idiot*) Nah, personally, i liked Oliver Wood...he's older then most of the cast and younger then all the teachers...now he's cool! and he's got a nice accent....

Posted on Jan 26, 2002, 10:49 AM

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(*furious splutterings*)

by Kuraki


Snape isn't OLD!!
At least, I certainly didn't imagine him to be old!! Early 30s, maybe....but he's not OLD!!

Posted on Jan 26, 2002, 11:24 AM

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ok, maybe not THAT old...

by Keeper of the Time Keys



but he's old enough!!!! he's twice my age!!

Now Wood, he has ...umm...how do you say.. youthful energy......(*grins*)

Posted on Jan 26, 2002, 12:00 PM

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Hurrah for Snape!

by Cassandra

All Oliver Wood had was a gorgeous Irish accent. Now what Snape had was sheer presence. **Grins at the Keeper of the Time Keys.** Go on, prove me wrong. A friend of mine went on for days about that one shot of him with his hair all over his face. You know, after having been set on fire? (Myself, I liked the book's take on that scene better. The idea of Snape yelping makes me giggle like a girl.)

'Sides, mature men are much more interesting to drool over. They tend to have gotten most of that sheer annoying youth out of their bones and are capable of acting like rational beings six times out of ten.

Posted on Jan 27, 2002, 7:37 PM

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nicely said!! Cass, I salute you. (*grin*)

by Kuraki


Couldn't have put it better myself.

And what's this about the shot with his hair all over his face...? (*attempts - unsuccessflly - to appear casual*) I see the Potter film in a few weeks time, myself. (Ahem)...I'll, ah...keep an eye out for that shot. (*cough*)


Posted on Jan 28, 2002, 8:24 AM

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waitwaitwait!!!!

by Keeper of the Time Keys



Oh well, yeah, Snape may have had presence....but Wood was just cool! And besides...snape was just a pain! he was always being a jerk to everyone...now as far as the mature men go, yes, i agree completely...but not with Snape...now...if you were to say...Aragorn or Legolas, from Lord of the Rings...THEN I could agree with you! But as far as Harry Potter Movie went...**grins at Cass**..everybody in that movie was young...so as a young (turning 16 in March) teenage girl...Wood was very cool...and besides...Snape didn't have that accent....^___^...he just had longer hair...he did look kind of cool at some parts...*buuuut*....i liked wood better...and besides...he's funny in the books! {Wood and his maniac energy}....I DID like how Snape yelped like a girl!!!! That was funny!!! So i'll agree there! hahaha!!! OK...**grins at Cassandra again**...and i will say that sometimes Snape (in the books) can be cool....like at the end of the Fourth Book...i almost feel anxious about what Dumbledore's asking him to do!!! Oh snape...maybe he'll pull a Boromir (from Lord of the Rings) and be noble! And get over that schoolboy grudge.....

Posted on Jan 28, 2002, 5:38 PM

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oops!! forgot something!! now if we're looking at the older men....

by Keeper of the Time Keys



OK, forgot something! Forgive me! But if we're going to look at the older men Cassandra...let's think of the ones that haven't been introduced in the movies yet....what about Sirius Black and Remus Lupin!! Now THEY are cool! I can completely agree about the "older men being more mature" thing...when it's about those two......^________________^

Posted on Jan 28, 2002, 5:46 PM

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Excuse me?

by Cassandra

Excuse me? Are you calling Sirius mature? Are you?

Well, sure, he's sinister, but that doesn't necessarily mean the same thing as mature. Of course, I still get a rush out of seeing a thirty-six-year-old man who's been in prison for twelve years, essentially the cause of his best friends' deaths, with a face like a death mask . . . worrying like a mother hen over his godson. (**Squeal, pinches Sirius' cheeks**)

And as for the schoolboy grudge, he's even worse than Snape. Nah, my theory is that as far as life experience goes, his stopped dead between 1981 and 1993, and resumed as soon as he got out. So nowadays he's still capable of acting like a frat boy. Do you hear me, Sirius? FRAT BOY!

So . . . no. I wouldn't say he's mature at all. Just you wait until Remus comes back into the scene; he'll be nannying Sirius all over the place.

"For god's sake, clean your room!"

"Don't wanna!"

"Clean your room or you don't get any Death Eaters to beat up!"

"Don't wanna!"

Posted on Jan 28, 2002, 6:45 PM

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NO!!!! That's just wrong!!!! ^______^

by Keeper of the TIme Keys



Frat boy?????? Somehow i can't see Sirius Black running around partying!! HEY!!! Don't dis on Lupin!! I liked him! He was cool!!! He and Sirius were friends! Lupin isn't his mother...hmm, thank god...that'd just be weird.....

Sirius is just loyal to his friends!!! It doesn't sound like he ever got married or anything, and he treats harry like a son, it's not like harry has anyone else really......

oh and then there's Snape::

"I don't like Lupin! He's a werewolf and he didn't play a joke on me...i just thought he did and i don' like 'im!"

"Oh c'mon Severus (says Dumbledore) be reasonable! You're 30-something years old...get over it!!"

"Well, sirius hasn't!"

"If Sirius jumped off a high building...would you?"

"Sirius has a Hippogriff! So yeah!"

".....**Dumbledore shakes his head**.."

Lupin: "Oh good god..." **shakes his head**..."C'mon let's just go see a movie!"

^____________^

i s'pose it could go either way on who has more life expirience, either Snape or Lupin out in the world...or poor Sirius locked in with a bunch of crazy people...who scream in their sleep and then go quiet, shivers (man, what a horrid place)*buuuut*....i still think it's kinda weird....^______^








Posted on Jan 30, 2002, 4:47 PM

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WHOOPS!

by Molly Featherstone


That'll teach me to come here directly from Animated Lust...I'm also Captain Chaotica, all you newbies. I'm the one who posted the message about how the second movie should not be Hollywooded up and should not have Chris Columbus direct. Er, sorry about the confusion there.

Anyway.

Ka--er, Professor Brinklove so glad to see somebody who totally agrees with me. I mean, I just don't GET actually liking Snape, like, as a _person_, in the books. I used to totally HATE him, he's got this weird undertoned sort of on-your-side-but-grudgingly factor, where he ends up HELPING Harry but acting as nasty about it as possible, that makes him interesting, but otherwise, I always just thought of him as a jerk. In the movie, well...I don't know if I'd say he was SEXY exactly, but Alan Rickman definitely made him cool. Funny, I never really pictured him with long hair like that. My vision of Snape was always rather ordinary and conservative-looking. Does it say he's got hair like that, in the book? I honestly can't remember.
(Quirrel and Oliver Wood are both definitely pretty, though...I suppose I better go for Quirrel as Wood is like barely even legal. :P)

...Notorious


Posted on Jan 8, 2002, 2:51 AM

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Yup, long hair

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Long, greasy black hair, to be exact.

Oliver Wood was an instant favorite with me. He's *adorable*, and I don't care if I am robbing the cradle. But I think Rickman is sexy, so I have no perspective on Snape in the film - of course he's sexy, he's Rickman! LOL. I doubt I'll ever like the guy, but he's become very, very interesting in the books. And, of course, there must be some good to him, since Dumbledore trusts him.

Posted on Jan 8, 2002, 9:57 PM

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The Snape Man.

by Cassandra

As you can see, you're certainly not alone in worshipping/admiring/lusting after our boy Severus. Even I admire him for his accomplished nastiness, though I'm a Sirius fan meself. He's the only truly unfathomable character in the series. Even Harry doesn't reach his level of development.

Oooh, you're just getting into the series? I envy you, I really do. And I take it from your use of the British/Canadian title that you're either a Brit or a Canuck yourself?

Welcome!

(12 times, Spinele? Good gods, what sort of creature are you? Where do you get your income? Bank robbery?)

Posted on Jan 7, 2002, 10:37 PM

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ummm....

by Spinele Snape

not... exactly bank robbery.... eheheheh......... oh no! Their on to me!!

no actually... I'm not a theif... I'm an animator! ^^ I fix up/make up/draw up cartoons and virtual suff...

Oooo, I should make a mini clip of Snape for all you people who like him!!! Ah... too bad it's copyrighted...

Posted on Jan 8, 2002, 11:27 AM

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An animator?

by Cassandra

.... Cool!

Oh, go on, make us up a clip of Snape, oh, go on, do! If Warner Brothers wanted to go around enforcing copyright on all the fanart out there, they'd never have time to sleep! **Big dewy eyes.** We want to see animated Snape, we do!

(... but twelve times? Are you sure you don't do a little bit of corporate embezzlement on the side?)

Posted on Jan 8, 2002, 12:37 PM

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Okay okay!!

by Spinele Snape

What do you want him to be doing? Walking? potion making? what?

Posted on Jan 8, 2002, 4:04 PM

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(*she rubs her hands together...*)

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Well.....if I were feeling malicious, I'd suggest having him in Neville's grandmother's dress. But I won't - because it's just wrong. (*shudder*)

And YEAH! you know what the above means, don't you? (*insufferably smug smirk*) I've read three books in under a week - and'll probably finish the forth one in another day. I RULE!

Snape rules!

J.K. ROWLING RULES!!!!



Posted on Jan 9, 2002, 7:01 AM

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Heh heh. Snape in drag. Heh heh.

by Cassandra

Hmmm ... I'd vote for striding around in his usual "malevolent bat" mode, robes a-flowing.

You're a furious reader, I can see, Kuraki. But of course, as soon as you've finished one course, you'll just have to move back and read them all over again, yes yes?

... I'm glad that you've apparently managed to get past Prisoner of Azkaban without falling for Sirius. This is good. It means that I shall not be forced to attempt assassination. Yes, my precioussssssss.

Posted on Jan 9, 2002, 1:52 PM

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(*surprised grin*) yeah! I am British...

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I never even realised there was an alternate title!
How could you tell?!

Posted on Jan 9, 2002, 6:53 AM

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Oh, those crazy Yanks.

by Cassandra

Think they have to have it all their way . . .

Scholastic distributes the first Harry Potter book in the US under the rather ridiculous title of The Sorcerer's Stone (supposedly American children might suffer brain haemhorrages if forced to integrate new ideas too often). They also have changed quite a lot of the text itself around - words like "row" and "sherbet lemon" are changed to, for example, "lemon drop" and "argument". Doesn't make any sense at all, but there you are.

In Canada, however, we get the original British version. **Swells with pride.**

Posted on Jan 9, 2002, 1:42 PM

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Hmmm..

by Spinele Snape

We get the british version too... oh... maybe thats because... i live with the british! I AM THE BRITISH! I like that I AM CANADIAN commercial. You canadians don't take crap from anyone do you? ^^

I got take away (take out, do you call it?) for tea today(tea the snack) and i got this weird little harry potter figure thingie... but it's head accidently came off... O_o

Posted on Jan 9, 2002, 3:13 PM

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hey! That message above, was not me...

by Spinele Snape

o_O my friend is an odd fellow..... I guess he was punishing me for posting messages instead of working... (while I was away, he posted that british message thingie.... I'm from ENGLAND! ^^ not much of a diffrence I daresay! oh well) JUST SO YOU KNOW!

Posted on Jan 9, 2002, 4:19 PM

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?

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Do you people have a problem with Americans? I am just wondering because sometimes I get the hint that you don't like Americans very much. But then again, it may just because I can't see face expressions and hear voices.

Posted on Jan 9, 2002, 4:53 PM

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... decapitated Harry Potter figure?

by Cassandra

You could probably sell that on Ebay. ^_^

So, we have, so far as I can see . . . four non-Americans - two Brits, one Canuck, and Teja, whom if my memory serves me correctly is from Hong-Kong. Or I may be incredibly wrong.

Tracy: Relax. I'm not anti-American, and neither I am sure is Spinele. Or Kuraki. Or any other non-American who might possibly happen to stop by this board. (But personally, I can't help poking a little bit of fun at a people who largely don't seem aware of the name of Canada's Prime Minister - or even what a PM is. Or whom have been caught by questions from This Hour Has 22 Minutes reporters like Will you be protesting against the Calgary seal-hunt? Laugh? I thought I'd die.)

Posted on Jan 9, 2002, 8:02 PM

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And tell your friend . . .

by Cassandra

... No. Canadians don't take crap from anybody. If antagonised, we are known for Nicing our enemies to death. If really, really roused we may fling our famously vicious geese at them. Or jars of maple sugar. And possibly furry flannel knickers. Everyone knows Canadians wear flannel knickers. Even those of us who live on the coast of BC, where the deepest touch of winter this year has been never-ending rain.

Posted on Jan 9, 2002, 8:09 PM

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(*she collapses in fits of hysterics*)

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(*manages to control her mirth for all of five seconds*)

famously vicious geese....



PHWAAAAAAA HAHAHAHAAA HAHAHAAAA HA HA HA HA HAA!

(*collapses once again into uncontrolable hysterics, and has to be given a sedative before she calms down.*)

Oh...(*giggling only slightly now*)...Cassandra? Was it you who did those great pics in the Hogwarts Lib section? Please! read the post I made earlier (the one addressed to kat) - how can I send in my art? I don't have a wepage or anything....(*ack*). And I REALLY wanna send it in!!

Posted on Jan 10, 2002, 7:02 AM

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On Canada Geese.

by Cassandra

(It's true. Have you ever met a Canada goose? Those things are vicious! Take your hand off as soon as look at you. I always say that if we have to be the nicest people in the world, at least our geese are homicidal.)

You can simply send your art as attachment files to the Professor, but I warn you, it's not likely to be seen by anyone else for months on end. It'd be better for all of us if you did the following:

(Er - I'm assuming here that you have very little knowledge of HTML. Bad me. I may be completely wrong, and if I am, please excuse me.)

  • Get an account on some free server. I recommend Geocities, personally.
  • Upload your files to the File Manager.
  • Make one HTML page per file. (All you have to do is hit "New", and it'll take you to an editor with a simple page already constructed. All you need to do then is put < IMG SRC="yourimage.jpg" > between the < body > and < /body> tags.)

  • Link each page here using the tag < A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/yourname/yourimage.html" > and not forgetting to close it with < /a >. Please note that all the little spaces I've thrown in between the "< >" are just to keep the tags visible on this board. Take them out if you want real HTML.


And then we here can see your images. (And we really want to! We don't get much Snape art here!)

Posted on Jan 10, 2002, 7:28 AM

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ok

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Okay, well I was just curious because......well I already explained before. I just wasn't sure.
So how old is everyone here? I think I must be the youngest here. Maybe, but I'm not sure.

Posted on Jan 10, 2002, 5:48 PM

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age can go pick blackberries, for all I care...

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But I'm 18 - for the record. 19 in july. And I'll repeat it for emphasis....(and I'm sure I can't be the only one who stands by what I say,) ...it really doesn't matter how old or young you may be. Everybody's welcome - am I right, Professor?

Posted on Jan 11, 2002, 6:12 AM

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I'm a Yank, but...

by Jemima

... I can take some ribbing about it. I do think it's too bad that the American publishers thought that our young readers couldn't handle "Philosopher's Stone." Unfortunately, it was the first book; if they'd released it now, I'm sure they would have kept the original title. As something of an Anglophile, myself, I would have liked to see most of the language of the British edition kept intact (I think we could have figured out "sherbet lemon," and some of the other terms, such as "row," aren't that obscure), although the one thing I can certainly see them wanting to change is jumper/sweater, since in America a jumper is a girl's dress (hee hee, I can just see Harry and Ron cross-dressing in their cute little jumpers!).

Um, I must admit, I don't know who Canada's PM is these days. I do, however, know that there are no seals in Calgary; there is a Stampede, and they had the Winter Olympics there a few years back. Oh, and to answer the unrelated question posted elsewhere: 42.

Posted on Jan 11, 2002, 6:56 AM

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I'll admit to having had a little difficulty with the "jumper", too.

by Cassandra

Though as I recall, JK Rowling used the word "sweater" a couple of times in conjunction with "jumper". It shouldn't have been too large of a problem ... besides perhaps rousing the more fundamentalist Christian sects to greater rage. I can just see them accusing Rowling of "turning our young people to homosexuality" through mention of "cross-dressing", until Brits the world over very calmly remind them that "Jumper is a British term for 'sweater', and take your heads out of your bums, you silly people."

But of course we have seals in Calgary! They are the ghostly Dust Seals and haunt the prairies at night, squawking and barking until the local farmers run outside with their clubs and yell, "SHADDUP YEW STOOPID VARMINTS, DAGNABBIT!" Every year there is a great hunt to keep their numbers down, a controversial event that has caught the attention of the rest of the Nation from BC to Newfoundland. Protests abound.

Our current PM (Why isn't anyone writing to him about this? The poor guy's trying to play his cards right with this 'war on terror' business, and half of the American population don't even know his name) is Jean Chrétien.

And I'm seventeen, for the record. And I still don't have my driver's licence. (Yeha!)

Posted on Jan 11, 2002, 7:49 AM

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hmm..

by Spinele Snape

Hahahaha. Well I'm glad Severus didn't get a jumper for Christmas... then people would be going around saying Snape is a cross-dresser, and I think we've had our fair share of Snape in dresses! (Think 'Boggart Snape') Man, that was disturbing... uh oh... now I have that picture stuck in my head again.......

Spinele

Oh yeah... I'm 21

Posted on Jan 11, 2002, 3:37 PM

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Oh, But...

by Molly Featherstone


...he looks so FETCHING in that cute little blue chiffon number with matching heels!



Hee...I'm in a silly mood. Oh, by the way...Americans knowing things about Canada. I know something that I'll bet the average American doesn't: There's a good amount of Oriental-related stuff being made over there. Such as, two Jackie Chan movies--Rumble in the Bronx and Shanghai Noon--were both SUPPOSEDLY taking place in America, but were actually filmed in Canada. And when people refer to "the American version of" Sailor Moon or Ranma 1/2, they're wrong; the dubbed versions are made in studios in Vancouver (Ranma 1/2 uses "The Ocean Group", a BIG one which does a lot of other anime series and movies, too) and use mostly Canadian voice-actors. (Listen carefully and you'll hear Tuxedo Mask say "aboot" and Nabiki say something about "our hoose". :P)

There! See? I actually know something semi-obscure about the country. Canada and anime is not a combination of things that MOST average people would instantly think of...but there is definitely a connection there.

Do I get any points for knowing that?

...Notorious

Posted on Jan 11, 2002, 9:46 PM

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I know stuff about Canada too!

by Spinele Snape

The flag is red and white, The name 'Canada' was originaly Kanada(or... somthing like that...) And, the natives said Kanada, and that means 'the village' but the french(or english...(I'm a bit rusty on my history) miss took this word for Canada, and so they thought thats what the name of the place was! Oh.. and I also know that 'Nova Scotia' means New Scotland.

Do I get points for that?

spinele

Posted on Jan 12, 2002, 3:04 PM

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You only get points if you know what "Nouveau Brunswick" means, too.

by Cassandra

I think it was de Champlain who originally ran across an Iroquois group whose village was called Kanata. Tsk, tsk, silly man. (It seems to be that explorers, from 1492 through 1495 all the way up to Cartier, Champlain and the rest of them, were extraordinarily stupid. Was there a society which based its admittance of members on a private IQ test? Only people who scored under 50 got in?)

It's funny, but the only Canadians I know who use the word "eh" consistently are from Ontario. And I don't know any who say "aroond aboot the hoose" on any regular basis. Those Eastern bastards. People think they represent the whole country. **Grouse grouse grumble grumble.**

Posted on Jan 12, 2002, 8:24 PM

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New Brunswick?

by Spinele Snape

? Well, anyway.....

Well, I know about New France, and that Quebec City was originally Stadacona......... and about the fur trade, and De Monts, and Jean Talon(He populated new france by bringing many orphan women to new france to marry) ....

So do I get points now? If i don't... well I know more!!!

Spinele

Posted on Jan 13, 2002, 7:48 AM

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(*snorts down her nose in laughter at the confusion over 'jumpers'.*)

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But please! Enough with the Snapes in dresses!! Let the man retain a shred of dignity!! (*sob*)

Gnaaaargh! now *I've* got that stuck in my head!!

Posted on Jan 12, 2002, 8:54 AM

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Oh, yeah, Chretien...

by Jemima

I recognize that name. Y'know, I think we have Dust Seals 'round these parts, too, but we call 'em prairie dogs.

Posted on Jan 11, 2002, 3:51 PM

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A Sirius Filk song

by Shandethe

Okay, I couldn't resist...I was listening to "One Jump" from the Aladdin soundtrack, and I couldn't resist. Enjoy.

"One Run"

(To be sung by Sirius Black to the tune of "One Jump" from Disney's "Aladdin")

SIRIUS:
Gotta keep
One jump ahead of dementors
One swing ahead of the Aurors
They all think I'm workin' for the Dark Lord
That's insanity!
One jump ahead of ol' Wormtail
That's all, and that's no joke
Believe it or not, I'm just an innocent bloke

DEMENTORS
Riffraff! Killer! Traitor! Take that!

SIRIUS
I think they see through my disguise

DEMENTORS
Let's play a game of Spin the Bottle, guys

SIRIUS
I can take a hint, gotta face the facts
You're my only friend, Buckbeak!

DEMENTORS
Eeek!

SIRIUS' FAN GIRLS
Oh, how sad our Siri's hit the bottom
He's become a one-man rise in crime
We're amazed the Dementors haven't caught him

SIRIUS
Gotta run to live, otherwise I'm dead meat
Tell you all about it when I get some time!
One run ahead of the Dementors
Who want to seal my everlasting doom
I better get the hell outta here soon!
One jump ahead of the Hit Wiz
One step ahead of the flock
Perhaps I'll take a stroll around the block

DEMENTORS
Halt there! Traitor! Horrid! Scandal!

SIRIUS *looks around, realizing he' surrounded*
Heh..please don't be so hasty

FAN GIRLS coming along to save him
Still we think he's rather tasty

SIRIUS
Gotta run to live, otherwise I'm dead meat
Or else we just might get along

DEMENTORS
Wrong!

SIRIUS
One jump ahead of those hood guys
(Traitor!)
Can't afford to sit there like a lump
(Killer!)
One sprint ahead of disaster
(Riffraff!)
They're quick, but I'm much faster
(Take that!)

*gets on Buckbeak, and starts to take off just as the Dementors close in*

SIRIUS
Here goes, oh, don't those guys look mad an'
Wish me happy landin'
All I gotta do is RUN!

Posted on Jan 5, 2002, 11:57 AM

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that is cool

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Hey, that is cool. I bet I could never have come up with something like that. If fit the tune perfectly!

Posted on Jan 5, 2002, 1:45 PM

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Vurrah nahce!

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I love it! I love Aladdin, and I love Sirius! A better match could not be made! Now I'm gonna have this song stuck in my head!

Posted on Jan 5, 2002, 10:40 PM

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snazy!

by Spinele Snape

very nice. it was perfect!

Posted on Jan 6, 2002, 12:44 PM

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It is not dignified for a professor to fall on the floor laughing

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But I'm going to do it anyway! ROFL!!!!

Would you let me put this in the Library?

Posted on Jan 6, 2002, 1:26 PM

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The Prof is right

by Jemima

This should definitely be in the library. I love the Dementors line about playing spin the bottle, and the comments of the fangirls. Hee hee, this is really clever!

Posted on Jan 6, 2002, 4:28 PM

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Why thank you :)

by Shandethe

Wow! It's library-worthy?! Oooh, now I'm all excited. If you want to put it in the library, by all means, go right ahead. *tries to sound cool and dignified, but it doesn't work*

I'm glad you all enjoyed it!

--Shandy

Posted on Jan 6, 2002, 6:59 PM

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Are you kidding?

by Prof. Brinklove

Of course it's library-worthy! I'll post it as soon as I can sneak a few minutes. Thanks for letting me. If you come up with any more HP filk songs... well, you know where to post 'em!

Posted on Jan 8, 2002, 10:05 PM

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Ooh! Ooh! Professor! (Waves Hand in the Air)

by Molly Featherstone


Library? Songs? In the library?

Erm....

Would you, perhaps, by any chance...

(rubs toe on the ground)

...think that my Harry Potter version of Twelve Days of Christmas that I did a couple weeks ago is also good enough to put in the library? I still have it as a text file if you can't find it now.

(please please please)

...Notorious

Posted on Jan 8, 2002, 2:54 AM

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I missed it, darn it!!

by Prof. Brinklove

I have a hard enough time keeping up with AL, so I miss stuff here.

I'd love to post it. I'll try to get it from here. If I can't, I'll get you to send it.

Posted on Jan 8, 2002, 10:07 PM

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*assumes Darkwing voice* WHOAH...

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I did a Harry Potter filk of the Twelve Days of Christmas, too! Like, two years ago! Wow, it's been that long... anyways, weird! Great minds think alike! Or is that sick and psychotic minds think alike...?

Posted on Jan 9, 2002, 3:54 PM

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**Cackles** Perfect!

by Cassandra

Jeez, I'm going to be humming that one all day ...

Um. **Scuffles feet.** In honour of your creation, I flew to my drawing board and doodled this image up. The idea behind it was, Unfortunately, while leaping spiritedly through the rooftops of Agrabah, clad appealingly in only a pair of pants and a light vest, Sirius suddenly remembered that he was not a Disney hero . . . one jump too late.

onejump.jpg

Yes, it's completely moronic. I know.

Posted on Jan 8, 2002, 8:28 AM

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*roars with laughter*

by Shandethe

Moronic? How can you say such a thing? I'm sitting here at my computer, cackling with laughter while trying to type, which isn't easy because I can't see the blasted screen through my tears of laughter. You made my day, Cass.

--Shandethe

Posted on Jan 8, 2002, 2:20 PM

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Harry Potter pc game

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Hey, has anyone played the Harry Potter PC game yet? If so, Did you ever find all the stinkin wizard cards?

Posted on Jan 1, 2002, 1:41 PM

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Grr....

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I KNOW!! I have the Playstation game, but they're similar, and I share your pain. I got up to 13 out of 17, then saved my game, thinking I could go back and search after I defeated Voldemort. But then lo and behold - when you load the saved game, all it does is show you the card book, then you close it, then creepy ominous laughter, then it goes back to the title screen. GRRRR!!

A tip I can give you, if you don't know already, is look behind bookcases you can't jump on. Press whatever button you press on the PC to open doors, and the case will open for you to (after a task, usually) get a card. That and look behind sections of wall outside that are lighter or off-colored.
When I learned this tip, I started a new game and searched thoroughly, but I ended up 4 cards short. I'm wondering about the broom closet in the main entrance hall - across the hall from the Great Hall. I don't think I went in there, and I don't know how to unlock it. I'm also wondering if you can pass by Snape somehow, while he's waiting for his sloth brain, and snoop around in the dungeon. I dunno. It's annoying, to say the least. @_@

Posted on Jan 1, 2002, 10:58 PM

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thanks

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Thanks for the tips. but it sounds like the pc game is different from the playstation one. The pc game makes you collect 24 cards to open the 25th one.

Posted on Jan 2, 2002, 2:31 PM

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Dumb Question Here...

by Molly Featherstone


I've seen it and I've vaguely THOUGHT of maybe buying it but...first, I gotta know, what KIND of game is it?

Puzzle? Action? 1st person? Third person? RPG? (Oh PLEASEPLEASEPLEASE at least part RPG...) Adventure? Kiddie-oriented? Intelligent enough for adults? What?

I just gotta know.

...Notorious

Posted on Jan 2, 2002, 3:23 AM

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Ever played Resident Evil?

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For some reason, I was constantly reminded of Resident Evil (which I was too wimpy to play, btw... I just watched my brother play) when I was playing the game. It's a "first person shooter" kinda game, where you're Harry and you run around... doing stuff. Your "gun" is your wand, and throughout the game you learn four spells total. Your standard spell is a Knockback Jinx, which can do just about anything to stuff you can fire at (little sparklies appear above stuff you can "shoot"). Anything requiring a different spell has a different-colored sparkly above it, and you just aim and cast that spell automatically - nothing hard.

The animation is okay - but I absolutely HATE Hagrid's look. He's this chunk with a pointy head, and his face is flat and on a slant. Everything else is tolerable. You pretty much follow the storyline, and are only allowed to go into certain areas at certain times, after fulfilling various tasks and quests.
An annoying feature is you're sucked into doing something before you know it, so you wanna save often. A less annoying feature is you never really die - you go to Madam Pomfrey; and you have limitless "lives".
Several tasks require at least 2-3 times to run through before you get the hang of it (it did for me, anyway).
Overall, it's a pretty good game, but one I've gotten sick of after playing through it twice. As mentioned above, getting all the wizard cards is difficult. Of course, me being anal-retentive and perfectionist and stuff, I'll prolly keep playing until I find all the damn cards.

Posted on Jan 2, 2002, 1:19 PM

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lol

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I think the game is ok, but it could be harder. The pc game is really easy. You learn about 5 spells or so, but you don't have to do anything special each time you use the spell. I've played the game 3 times and I'm in the middle of the 4th one. I'm a perfectionist too and I can't tell myself to stop playing because I have like 1 more card to find. I won't stop till I find it. Once I find it, I may give the game to someone else. I wonder if they will come out with a 2nd game once the 2nd movie comes out.

Posted on Jan 2, 2002, 2:39 PM

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Weeeelll....

by Molly Featherstone


In that case, I think I'll either just look at screenshots and reviews of it on the web, or MAYBE buy it if I'm really bored once it's been out for a long time and has gone way down in price. Ya see...I really HATE first-person shooter type games...hate them hate them HATE them. Yes, I know they're popular. Doesn't mean I have to actually like the bloody things. I can never even STEER properly--I keep banging into doorways and such instead of going through them--and I always die, because I can't steer right and can't work out which button is my weapon and which one is the healing potion, WHILE a monster is attacking me...

I gather that Harry Potter would not exactly be like Doom! But you get what I mean. I just don't like that play control style.

I like the THIRD person point of view where you're still close to your character and you BASICALLY see what they see--but you can also see the character itself--like you get in a lot of Dreamcast games. Not only is that easier for me to control, but it's just a more visually interesting camera angle. Sucks me into the game world better...

Anyway, I'll shut up now. Does this have anything to do with anything? No. I just like talking about games. Games games games. I'm like the video/computer-game playing fanatic around here...

...Notorious


Posted on Jan 2, 2002, 3:40 PM

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It IS like 3rd person...

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...at least like that description you used. You can see Harry and use a couple buttons to move the camera around. You can also get that "point of view" angle - using the triangle button on PlayStation. HP is more like Spyro, if you ever played that.

So, yeah, it's an okay game - I got it for free, so I'm not complaining. ~_^

Posted on Jan 2, 2002, 5:46 PM

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Playstation game...

by Spinele Snape

hmmm... yeah... I own the playstation game to! (My friend gave it to me... FREEEE!!!!! ^^) AND I HATE HOW EVERYONE HAS SO MUCH POWER AND YOU HAVE THIS STINKY LITTLE SCAR THINGIE!! Another part I don't get- When you free Headwig... you open the gate thingie... she fly's out... then flys back in and out the other side!! @_@ like wha? why didn't she just fly out the back in the first place? Yeah.... Hagrid doesn't look like he's got a head! (from behind) heheheehe! And Quirrell has too deep of a voice! ^^ But snape looks perfect!

But I really like the game anyway! (especially the part wher you get to chase Malfoy around on broomsticks and whack him when ever you get close! * starts singing *
'Deck Malfoy and I'll be jolly...
falalalala la la la la!'

I always love being reminded of that song...



Posted on Jan 7, 2002, 5:25 PM

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New Lupin art!

by Shandethe

I'm really proud of this one. It's a pen and ink drawing of a young Remus Lupin, lookin' spiffy in his Hogwarts uniform.

Because Angelfire is a jerk about direct image linking, here's a link to my main fan art index:

http://www.angelfire.com/weird/siriusfansite/siriusfanart.html

It's at the very bottom of the "Canonical Characters" column. Enjoy.

--Shandy

Posted on Dec 31, 2001, 8:08 PM

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Love that little quirk in the corner of his mouth.

by Cassandra

And hey - Fleur Delacour looks positively slinky! I like the interpretation: it seems to visually capture my own first impression of her, e.g. bash her on the head and kick her down the stairs. Yeah. ~_^

I like the stippling on Remus there, too. Mmm, stippling.

Posted on Jan 1, 2002, 6:04 PM

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Thanks for the feedback ^.^

by Shandethe

I'm glad you like Remus...yes, I recently discovered the joys of stippling. Okay, so it takes FOREVER...but sometimes it looks good. I'm glad you like Fleur, too...er, my drawing of her, anyway. I am not crazy about the girl myself, and I think she at least warrants a bash on the head for her treatment of Ron!

--Shandethe

Posted on Jan 2, 2002, 8:33 PM

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Very Nice!

by Jemima

Oh, and you can add me to the "bash Fleur" camp. I'm with Cassandra, I think you've got her just right. I like your Remus - I really like the idea of the uniforms from the movie, and it's nice to picture how our faves look in them. Well done!

Posted on Jan 3, 2002, 5:10 AM

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Bwaa haa haa... Hello, everyone!

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Hi, I'm new here! AAAAH! A Harry Potter message board!! Coolness. I've read all the books and seen the movie (only once tho, *sigh*). Does anyone else think that Oliver Wood should get a big pat on the back for a good job? I hear he may get more lines next movie.

Question: Did anyone see Lord of the Rings and think that the scene where Frodo wakes up in the elf place and Gandolf is talking to him is like the infirmary scene with Harry and Dumbledore in HPSS? Or is it just me? Hmmm...

<The Muggles are among us>

Posted on Dec 31, 2001, 4:48 PM

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boo boos...

by Spinele Snape

So, has anyone here yet been playing harry potter with a few friends, and got hurt? Or stared at? I HAVE! Examples:

1) Having a twig shoved up my nose-Long story
2) Trying to fly off my couch-Long story
3) Thinking brooms can really fly-not very long story
4) Thinking my cat was Mrs. Norris and almost giving her a good kick, before i realised what i was doing...(Quite a long story)
5) Calling everyone Muggle?

PLEASE TELL ME I'M NOT ALONE!!

Oh yeah, if this message has put any doubts in your mind... Yes, I am a responsable adult who does not need help.

Posted on Dec 28, 2001, 12:44 PM

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you are not alone

by Willow

I made a post similar to this awhile back, "you know you are obssessed when..." can't really remember all of them, but one of them was that you expect mail by owl post. I even went so far as to make my own spell book. Now all I need is a wnad...
I LOVE HARRY POTTER!!!

Posted on Dec 28, 2001, 6:49 PM

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Hmm...

by Molly Featherstone


...I've never quite gone to that point...

However, it has become a running gag around my house that anytime somebody gets a letter, the other person will bring it over to them, fluttering it in the air like it's "flying" and making "Hoo...hooo" noises like an owl.

HEE! Yeah, it's fun being nuts. BOOYAKA!

...Notorious

Posted on Dec 28, 2001, 10:52 PM

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no kidding!

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Well, I'd have to say that I'm not that crazy. I mean, it's okay to be that crazy, but I've never actually expected the mail to come from the owls. I wish it was all so true though. That would kick. I do have to say that my sister and I have made wands. Mine is 9 inches (that is how long it is on the harrypotter.com web site)but 9 inches doesn't seem that long. Anyway.....

Posted on Jan 1, 2002, 2:03 AM

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Harry Potter-The Movie

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I didn't feel like writing out the whole name of the movie. So how many times have you all seen the movie so far? 5 times for me, but I think I might be done till it comes out on video. And for all of you that have seen it, did you like it or were you disappointed? I loved it. The only part I didn't like was when they took the whole Dragon part out, but that would add like another 15 min or so to the movie. Anyway, laterz

Posted on Dec 24, 2001, 1:52 PM

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for me

by Willow

3 so far, I want to see it over and over again! I can't wait till it comes out on DVD!!! My favorite part was the Quidditch match. very cool!


Posted on Dec 24, 2001, 3:26 PM

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Well...

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Three times so far - I dunno if I'll go back or not. But I'll definitely be one of those obsessed freaks that buys both the Sorcerer's Stone and Philosopher's Stone versions on dvd. I hope they'll put loads of extries on there - I think bloopers especially would be hilarious!! ~_^
Ugh... can't wait 'til April - the dvd is supposed to come out then. And news articles have been saying that Order of the Phoenix may come out as early as June next next year. Eeeee! Can't wait!

Posted on Dec 24, 2001, 3:50 PM

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DVD news

by Willow

me too. I am soo excited for april (my birthday month!) if you visit: http://www.harrypotterfans.net/ and scroll down to just before the bottom and click on the online petition link on the right hand side, you can sign it to have Chris Columbus release the original directors cut version which is over 4 hours long!!! I hope they do that!!!

Posted on Dec 24, 2001, 4:26 PM

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Oooh! Thanx!!

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Will do!! In fact, already did!! LOL

There's nearly 11,200 sigs by now - that's pretty substantial! O_O

I wonder if there'll be more potential "director's cut" editions? I mean, if the first film was nearly 4 hours in a "rough draft" form, then imagine how long the others may be, before the cutting room floor... Hmm...

Posted on Dec 27, 2001, 1:23 AM

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Just got home from Trip 3!

by Jemima Steptoe

I just got home from my 3rd trip. I was going to go yesterday, but they were sold out, so I went to Monsters, Inc. for the fifth time, and bought a ticket to go back to HP today. This will probably be my last trip to either, since my favorite 'plex has moved both movies down to their smaller, non-stadium-seating theatres.

I posted a ton of comments on this a while back, when I first saw it, but I'll hit a few high points again.

I love Rupert Grint as Ron! He is so cute! I just get the biggest kick out of him, and he's terrific in the big chess scene. I enjoyed Hermione a lot, too, and Harry - really, I thought the kids were enjoyable and well cast. Robbie Coltrane was absolutely perfect as Hagrid. I loved Alan Rickman as Snape, although I was very aware of it being Alan Rickman, since I've seen him in several other movies. For a couple of characters who didn't necessarily have a lot to do, I thought Filch and Hooch were great.

My biggest beef is still that I really don't care for Richard Harris as Dumbledore. I wish he'd get mad and quit so they could recast. I also don't think James Potter looked right, but that's just me (my sister really liked him).

LOVE all the Quidditch stuff, and just the atmosphere of Hogwarts, the living paintings, the great hall, just getting the visual references on everything was almost the best part of the movie.

Line that still makes me chuckle: "But, what if he don't like Romania? What if the other dragons are mean to him?" - Hagrid worrying about Norbert

Posted on Dec 24, 2001, 4:17 PM

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actors

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I thought everyone was perfect for the parts. I loved who played Ron, Harry, and Hermione. I thought they were perfect for the parts. I also like who played Dumbledore. I thought he was funny. But I think the two people I was most impressed with was Prof. Snape and Prof. Quirrell. You people might think I'm really weird for saying this but did anyone else think Quirrell was good looking? Sorta anyway? Well I did. I don't know why. And did anyone else notice the weird way Snape moved and talked? Maybe I'm just craking for noticing those things...........

Posted on Dec 24, 2001, 10:22 PM

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(Blushes, Rubs Toe on Ground...)

by Molly Featherstone


I am SO glad to hear you say that about Quirrell. I thought I was going nuts, I didn't want to admit it, but....he was definitely kinda cute. I just like skinny, delicate-looking guys. He had pretty features, in a weird way. I liked Quirrell (as a character) in the first book--before we found out he was evil, of course--and then when we DID find that out, I was disappointed! Because I WANTED to be allowed to LIKE him, dammit! :P Not because of looks, I mean, just the personality. I AUTOMATICALLY like, sympathise with and side with the pathetic lonely sad little nerd. He reminded me a bit of Simon or Ponder Stibbons from Discworld...

After the Quirrell Incident in the first book, I was kinda on-guard and paranoid about letting myself get attached to or really like any new teacher characters, 'cos I expected there to be something tragically wrong with each one. :P I had to really STRUGGLE to keep myself from getting my hopes up with Lupin...but thank the gods he didn't turn out to be evil or dead. PHEW!

I won't say about Snape (in the movie) because EVERYBODY has already said about Snape.

Actually...I hate to say this...but there was something overall about the movie that bothered me. Not a little detail, like a character who didn't look quite right or a part they cut out for time, but just something fundamental that was all about the whole movie itself, that bugged me. But in the interest of (a) peaceful relations on this board and (b) the fact that I really can't quite DESCRIBE what I mean in words, I'll just drop it there.

I've only seen the movie once, but then again, I saw it _late_, after it'd been out for a while, and I've been busy. I do plan to at least rent if not buy it once it comes out on tape, though.

...Notorious

Posted on Dec 24, 2001, 10:51 PM

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Quirrell

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Thanks for agreeing with me on thinking Quirrell is good-looking in a weird way. I seem to side and sympathize with the weirdos. Believe me, I do. I liked Quirrell in the movie. I was impressed with the actor. What is everyone else's thoughts on Snape? You know what I thought? I thought he was perfect for it. In fact, I was so impressed with Snape in the movie that he is one of my favorite characters in the movie. Him and Quirrell. Not that I think Snape is good-looking. Just had to make that clear.

Posted on Dec 25, 2001, 9:08 PM

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Quirrell... good looking?

by Spinele Snape

I woulden't know, cuz i'm a guy, but.... I asked around to all the girls I know, I held up a picture of Quirrel's actor(Ian Heart), they all went lop sided(with the exception of a few) now, there are lip stick marks all over the picture of him. -_-

Does that answer your Question?

Yes, Snape was played REALLY good. (Thats probably because Alan Rickman is a really good actor!!)

Thats all I got to say.

Posted on Dec 26, 2001, 9:02 AM

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phew!

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You have no idea what a relief to know that I'm not the only who thinks Quirrell is good-looking!

Posted on Dec 26, 2001, 12:35 PM

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Hee...

by Molly Featherstone


...although I have NEVER actually kissed a photograph in my life, that's just so....not me. (Giggly, trendy, teenagery, bubbleheaded, "what teenage girls are expected to act like" are all phrases I could use, but none of them quite WORK in the sentence. I'm NOT a teenager. But even when I was, I...._wasn't._)

But he is kinda cute.

Snape? Well, Alan Rickman is a great actor and he looked cool with the long straggly black hair, but I wouldn't say I was drooling. And, because it was Alan Rickman, he was far more....well, not LIKEABLE exactly, but more......_cool_ in the movie than in the books. In the books, I never really thought much about how he looks at all, I just thought of him as a slimy devious unfair jerk.
An INTERESTING jerk. But a jerk. (I can't really ever sympathise with or like anybody who's racist or predjudiced or thinks he's "better" than other people. I'm predjudiced against predjudiced people. That's also why I could never EVER like any of the Malfoys.)

Anybody here ever play Final Fantasy 8? I just say this because Draco Malfoy SEVERELY reminded me of a kid version of Seifer Almasy...........or maybe I'm just weird. But I swear they're SO much alike.

Shutting up now...

...Notorious



Posted on Dec 26, 2001, 6:35 PM

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Hahahaha...

by Spinele Snape

My friends and I... had a party... and we was makin' Harry potter bloopers! haha, very funny. I think it would be funny if they put bloopers on the movie. haha.

Though.... it wasn't very funny when my friend was pretending to be Lockheart(From the second book) and me Snape.

He tried to do a spell and by "Accident"(Or so he says so anyway...) he shoved his wand(A stick from outside) UP MY BLOODY NOSE!!!!!!!!!! AGH!!!!!!! Now i know how that poor old troll felt. -_-

Posted on Dec 28, 2001, 12:37 PM

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UH OH!!!!!!

by Spinele Snape

IMAGINE HOW LONG THE FOURTH MOVIE IS GONNA BEEEEEE!!!!!! (I hope no one already said that....)

uh ohhh

Posted on Dec 28, 2001, 12:53 PM

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Yeah...

by Molly Featherstone


(Shoving a stick up your nose? Oh, my! I haven't actually "played a movie" very often, but the worst I can think of is accidentally whacking someone over the head with a "light saber" (aka "stick") while playing Star Wars with my brother...)

For the fourth movie, I think they should do a TV-miniseries! No, that wouldn't be as high-profile as a big huge fat-budget movie and wouldn't get "butts in the seats", BUT, it would allow them to tell the whole story, or much closer to it anyway, and to do so in manageable chunks rather than one sitting. So, say, the ENTIRE miniseries could turn out to be four or even six hours; but since you see it in, say, one hour installments each, it wouldn't FEEL that long, and the poor moviegoers wouldn't be forced to sit through a four-hour solid movie.

To do it as a normal movie, even one the length of The Sorcorer's Stone, they would have to cut out SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much. I'd really rather have the miniseries. Even if it's quieter and lower budget and doesn't make as big of a splash in the headlines, I'd really rather have the miniseries.

Two of the Discworld books were done as cartoon miniseries, and I think that formatting (not the cartoon, but the "chapter" effect) REALLY helped. They were able to stay very true to the original story and cut very little out, and you weren't exhausted by trying to watch it all at once. And I LIKED the low-budget British feel of it. It was more appropriate. It was..._quieter_. I wish the Harry Potter movie had been a bit less loud and flashy...more seriously presented.

Sorry, I really went off there, didn't I? Shutting up now...

...Notorious

Posted on Dec 28, 2001, 3:44 PM

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What they're gonna do...

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... is divide it into two parts - the first comes out around Thanksgiving, and the second'll come out around Christmas. That way the 4-6 hour movie will be cut down into 2 managable chunks. I've read from several articles saying that this is most likely what they're (meaning WB and Columbus and Kloves and whoever else) planning. I hope they put it ALL on one dvd, though. That'd be so dumb if they sold it as Goblet of Fire Part 1 and Part 2. Ugh. I hope that they even put it on one single disc, instead of, like, two discs in the same package. It'd be annoying switching halfway through to the next disc - even with a carousel player. @_@

You know what *I'm* hoping for, besides GoF on one dvd, is that they skip a year between Azkaban and Goblet. Like, supposedly PoA is coming out in 2003, right? So skip 2004 and show Goblet in 2005, while all the while working on Order of the Phoenix. Why? 'Cause Goblet has SO many scenes requiring a HELL of a lotta CG effects. I'm hoping they slow down and take two years on it to make nice CG scenes, instead of releasing it quickly with so-so CG (kinda like the first movie - eh? ~_^)
Then to keep up with the growing child actors, film Order of the Phoenix in 2004, and work on that for a couple of years. This'd actually work out for the last three movies - getting two years for development, instead of just one, on what's most likely going to be hard films to shoot and edit - as dark as they're supposedly gonna be...

Anyone else think that Harry Potter's gonna eventually hit the PG-13 mark? **raises hand**

Posted on Dec 30, 2001, 1:10 AM

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Yep.

by Molly Featherstone


Considering the rising darkness and increasingl bloodier violence, not to mention awakening hormones? YEP. Definitely...

But please, PLEASE, not Christopher Columbus for all the movies! The Sorcorer's Stone stayed close to the book plot-wise, and the characters all looked and acted beautifully, wonderfully right, but the whole movie just had this WRONG feel to it with the pacing! It was too fast, too loud, too bright, too cutesy! It was KIDDIE!! I know these are kids books but they don't feel like kid's books when you're reading them and I would much rather NOT feel like I was watching something made by Nickelodeon or Disney!!

And since everything ELSE was fine, it's gotta be the director's fault. He's the one in charge of tone and mood. And it was just too...KIDDIE.

(Waits to get hit by everyone)...

Anyway, PLEASE let's get a different director, and do a more toned-down, serious, British feel. I DON'T want a loud happy special-effects laden Disney blockbuster, I want it to FEEL like the actual books, as well as look like it.
Especially on the later chapters. I don't want to have my ears blared out by loud, perky, chipper! music while Harry's facing Death-Eaters or Dementors...
MANY scenes in the first movie would have been much improved by making the music way, way quieter, or getting rid of it entirely. The sneaking around in the dungeon scene, for the best example. Hearing nothing but the pad of their shoes in the empty, echoing darkness, and the occasional sound from the shadows that makes you go, "WHAT WAS THAT?!" would have been far more ominous.

Okay, I've said what it was that I didn't like and EXTREMELY didn't like about the Harry Potter movie. Something that nobody else ever complained about, so I assume nobody agrees with me. So go ahead, beat me up now, get it out of your system...

...Notorious

Posted on Dec 30, 2001, 11:48 PM

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No. 2 for me.

by Cassandra

(Just got back from it last night.)

I think the movie as a whole improves on closer inspection, but I still have a few standing quibbles. Paramount among them is the fact that Richard Harris as Dumbledore still comes across as a feeble old man in need of his protein drink. This becomes particularly painful if you've seen Lord of the Rings and can compare him with Ian McKellen as Gandalf.

The acting in places is still lackluster (particularly on Daniel Radcliffe's part - time and time again I saw him simply standing there, reacting to the gravest of circumstances by moving only his head), and I very very much hope that Chris Columbus will be given the boot. He's a terrible director.

There really are only a few minor characters with whom I didn't have any quibbles at all: Madam Hooch, Vernon Dursley, Mr Ollivander, Oliver Wood, and, most especially, Filch. Gawd, I loved Filch. "Time was detention'd find you hanging by your thumbs in the dungeons . . . God, I miss the screaming . . ." Heh heh heh.

This is Cassandra, coming in a week late.

Posted on Jan 3, 2002, 8:42 AM

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ohhh...Oliver Wood.....^_^

by Keeper of the Time Keys



hey! liked the movie (in my opinion..it could have been done better..but i'll be happy w/it for now), i did like Oliver Wood....he's got a great accent, and he's not ELEVEN...he's older....so that older fans now have something to look at...^_^

Posted on Jan 26, 2002, 10:42 AM

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Break Out the Shrinking Eggnog and Dress the Poltergeists in Red and Green!

by Molly Featherstone


Well, it's that time of year at Hogwarts, Christmas or Yuletide or whatever you wanna call it, and I have an idea for something silly we can all do for fun. I confess I got this idea from another messageboard I was at, and that, in turn, the idea wasn't terribly original THERE.

But it's always _fun_, which may explain why the idea is so popular!

I'm talking about:

Writing parody Christmas carols!

In this case, I mean Christmas carol parodies organsed along a _theme_, and of course the specific theme around here should be the Harry Potter universe.

I have NO idea how to do this as I'm not really enough of a Harry Potter fan to have things memorised. I just came up with the idea because of the "Hogswatch Challenge" over at the Unseen University messageboard--where the head of the whole site got MY song stuck in his head and sang it out loud at the mall! (Getting some very funny looks as you might imagine. ;)) I had success over there so I don't mind if I fall on my butt here. YOU guys have fun with it. I just wanted to get the ball rolling and introduce the idea. (Oh, and if for any unlikely reason anybody wants to see my Discworld Christmas carols, just ask. I only did two.)

I just wanted to stir up a bit of fun, though. Pardon me if this has already been done (to death, most likely).

...Notorious




Posted on Dec 21, 2001, 11:11 PM

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Really Humiliating Myself Here...

by Molly Featherstone


...but, despite all my better judgement and even my worse judgement, I'm gonna try this anyway.

This is off the top of my head and totally unplanned.

So feel free to laugh as hard as you like. Laughter is very therapeutic anyway. Well, actually, the song is SUPPOSED to be funny, it's a parody. I mean, feel free to laugh AT me instead of WITH me if you feel the need.

Ahem.

On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me,
A wand from a white ash tree!

On the second day of Christmas my true love gave to me,
Two crystal balls,
And a wand from a white ash tree.

On the third day of Christmas my true love gave to me,
Three house elves,
Two crystal balls,
And a wand from a white ash tree.

On the fourth day of Christmas my true love gave to me,
Four broomsticks,
Three house elves,
Two crystal balls,
And a wand from a white ash tree.

On the fifth day of Christmas my true love gave to me,
FIVE...GOLDEN SNITCHES!!*

Four broomsticks,
Three house elves,
Two crystal balls,
And a wand from a white ash tree.

On the sixth day of Christmas my true love gave to me,
Six owls a'hooting
FIVE...GOLDEN SNITCHES!
Four broomsticks,
Three house elves,
Two crystal balls,
And a wand from a white ash tree.

On the seventh day of Christmas my true love gave to me,
Seven frogs a'jumping,
Six owls a'hooting,
FIVE...GOLDEN SNITCHES!
Four broomsticks,
Three house elves,
Two crystal balls,
And a wand from a white ash tree.

On the eighth day of Christmas my true love gave to me,
Eight dragons burning,
Seven frogs a'jumping,
Six owls a hooting,
FIVE...GOLDEN SNITCHES!
Four broomsticks,
Three house elves,
Two crystal balls,
And a wand from a white ash tree.

On the ninth day of Christmas my true love gave to me,
Nine potions bubbling,
Eight dragons burning,
Seven frogs a'jumping,
Six owls a'hooting
FIVE...GOLDEN SNITCHES!
Four broomsticks,
Three house elves,
Two crystal balls,
And a wand from a white ash tree.

On the tenth day of Christmas my true love gave to me,
Ten bludgers smacking,
Nine potions bubbling,
Eight dragons burning,
Seven frogs a'jumping,
Six owls a'hooting,
FIVE...GOLDEN SNITCHES!
Four broomsticks,
Three house elves,
Two crystal balls,
And a wand from a white ash tree.

On the eleventh day of Christmas my true love gave to me,
Eleven ghosts a'hunting,
Ten bludgers smacking,
Nine potions bubbling,
Eight dragons burning,
Seven frogs a'jumping,
Six owls a'hooting,
FIVE...GOLDEN SNITCHES!!
Four broomsticks,
Three house elves,
Two crystal balls,
And a wand from a white ash tree.

On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me,
Twelve griffins flying,
Eleven ghosts a'hunting,
Ten bludgers smacking,
Nine potions bubbling,
Eight dragons burning,
Seven frogs a'jumping,
Six owls a'hooting,
FIVE...GOLDEN SNITCHES!!
Four broomsticks,
Three house elves,
Two crystal balls
(Everybody, slowed way down)
And a wand...from a whi-ite ash...TREEEEEEEE!




There! I apologise if I accidentally stole anybody else's exact lyrics, I haven't been here very long. I also haven't been a Harry Potter fan very long! I'm not sure if there are white ash trees, it just sounded good and "occult"...and Five Golden Snitches doesn't EXACTLY fit the tune but it's the most OBVIOUS golden thing I could think of in the HP universe!

Shutting up now...

...Notorious

Posted on Dec 21, 2001, 11:30 PM

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That's good! Let me try...

by Jemima Steptoe

Well, I thought of a beginning, but I don't know what the rest of the song would be, so anyone feel free to finish it:

"You know Arthur and Molly and Bi-ill and Charlie,
Percy, and Fre-ed and Geo-orge and Ginny,
But do you recall the most famous Weasley of all...
Ronnie, the Red-haired Weasley - um, ladedadedadeda"
(feel free to chime in here)

I can think of some first lines and things, but I'm not getting much farther. Of course, it is 6 am.

Hmm, maybe I'll come back with something later.

Posted on Dec 22, 2001, 5:55 AM

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hmm..

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Deck Malfoy and I'll be jolly,
falalalala la la la la!
Mr. Weasly loves his Molly,
lalalalala la la la la!
Potter and Granger, in the manger,
falalalalala la la la!
Presents, presents, presents, PRESENTS!
Falalalala la la la la!!

hmm, that was embarrasing!

Spinele Snape

Posted on Dec 23, 2001, 8:49 AM

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I thought it was funny ;)

by Shandethe

I especially like "Deck Malfoy..". Now THAT is funny. And of course, "PRESENTS, PRESENTS, PRESENTS"...well, isn't that what the holiday season's all about? =D

Posted on Dec 23, 2001, 10:24 AM

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(Snicker)

by Molly Featherstone


Yeah, I especially liked "Deck Malfoy and I'LL be jolly." :P Me too. Which Malfoy? I'd be doubly jolly if it was father AND son we get to "deck"...
I'm getting in line behind you.

Or we could just turn him into a ferret and bounce him down the stairs again (evil grin.) Most entertaining, that was.

And of course PRESENTS yeah.


...Notorious

Posted on Dec 24, 2001, 4:02 AM

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Ooooh...

by Spinele Snape

how about:

Deck the Malfoys and I'll be jolly!

that better?

I think that some one should make 'Weasly the red haired third year'. haha

Posted on Dec 24, 2001, 12:07 PM

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hahaha

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Okay, now THAT is funny!! I would love to deck the Malfoys in the face. I was so proud of Hermione for doing that in the third book. I just read that part in the book again. I always laugh.


Posted on Dec 24, 2001, 1:46 PM

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I know it's kinda late, but here's another one...

by Spinele Snape

Dashing through the snow, in a one horse open sleigh...
Snape is right beside you, growling all the way...
Hagrid's getting drunk, he thinks it is good fun...
Yelling out songs, louder every time **sigh**
Oh I'm glad I'm not his son!
Ohhhhhhhhhh...
Jingle bells, Jingle bells, a jingle from the room...
Oh what fun it is to ride, on a nimbus two thousand broom...
Jingle bells, Jingle bells, a jingle from the room...
Oh what fun it is to ride, on a nimbus two thousand broom...

Quirrell is kinda weird, but girls think he's cute...
he stutters quite a bit, and wears these funky boots...
he wears a turban around his head, people this it's for hat hair.. But it's to hide the Dark Lord instead!
Ohhhhhhhhh
Jingle bells, Jingle bells, a jingle from the room...
Oh what fun it is to ride, on a nimbus two thousand broom...
Jingle bells, Jingle bells, a jingle from the room...
Oh what fun it is to ride, on a nimbus two thousand broom... ON.. A... NIMBUS... TWO THOUSAND... BROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMM!!



I know, it's weird.

Posted on Dec 28, 2001, 2:46 PM

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No...

by Molly Featherstone


MY Christmas Songs are the weird ones. Do you wanna know what _I've_ done with "Jingle Bells" in the past?

"Crashing through the snow,
With an avalanche at my back,
Through the trees we go,
Into the rocks we smack!"

--Describing how I "play" the snowboarding part in Sonic Adventure. :P (I literally DO crash into EVERYTHING, but it's still fun.)

Or then there was my "furry romance" version of Winter Wonderland, where the chorus was "Walkin' 'round with nothin' on but fur"... :P

Then there's the Discworldian Jingle Bells, with Rincewind running for his life and saying he thinks he's going to die, and then there was the Twelve Days of HOGSWATCH...(What other happy holiday song would actually have lines like "Ten assassins inhuming"...)

Trust me, you ain't nuts when it comes to songs, I am!

Anyway, I liked yours! I thought it was funny! I liked the Nimbus 2000 dealie.

...Notorious

Posted on Dec 28, 2001, 3:54 PM

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question

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Hey everyone. I have a question about this part of this web site. You know how this is a rpg? Well do we pretend we are at Hogwarts or whatever and pretend we are doing things or do we just talk about whatever? Or perhaps both?


Posted on Dec 21, 2001, 9:34 PM

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oh and..........

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What are spoilers?

Posted on Dec 21, 2001, 9:37 PM

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Okay...

by Therèse Calleron

First, the easy one. A spoiler is when you reveal something that someone will not know if they haven't read a certain book. You see, this "spoils" the book for them. Get it?

And this board is not an RPG. The RPG board is linked at the top of this one, and is quite formal compared to what you may be used to. The two oh-so-friendly GMs (An Chin and Cassandra Ravenwood) control the plot, and other people post messages moving the story along. Think of it as one of those things where everyone has one minute to tell a part of the story, only you can only tell the part that happens to your character(s).

Whee. Hope that was helpful.

Posted on Dec 21, 2001, 10:11 PM

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thanks

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Thank you for your help. it helped a lot!

Posted on Dec 21, 2001, 10:16 PM

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please join this rpg

by profesor dumbledor

this is a fabulous hogwarts rpg but we need members please join!the site is:http://www.network54.com/Forum/170208

please join

Posted on Dec 21, 2001, 11:57 AM

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Quirrell's first name

by Shandethe

Well, now we know it for sure! It's now listed on the Internet Movie Database. It's Slatero.

blank stare Yeah. That was my reaction, too. Xiomara Hooch sounds cool...but Slatero Quirrell? It makes me think of Slater from "Saved By The Bell."

Oh well. At least it wasn't Screechtero.

Posted on Dec 16, 2001, 5:29 PM

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LOL

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I bet it's pronounced Sla-TER-o
I think it's kind of a cool sounding first name,anyway.

Posted on Dec 17, 2001, 2:16 PM

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Where do they get this stuff?

by Jemima

I dunno, I'm not too sure about this... IMDB lets folk like you and me submit information for their site. Who knows where some of this is coming from. In fact, I just skipped over to the HP Lexicon, which seems to be a pretty reliable source of info. According to them, the HP Trading Card game says Madam Hooch's first name is Rolanda, although they don't take that as official (this is the same place that said that Flitwick's name is Filius in the Trading Card Game, and they don't consider that official, either). They don't have a name, Trading Card or otherwise, for Quirrell.

I have to say, "Screechtero" made me laugh.

Posted on Dec 17, 2001, 7:19 PM

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God only knows....

by Shandethe

I HOPE they're making up 'Slatero'....but I'm glad you got a kick out 'Screechtero'. That actually suits him better...;)

Hm...Rolanda, Xiomara....they're both pretty, though I prefer the latter...guess we'll have to wait for JK to tell us for sure.

Posted on Dec 17, 2001, 11:11 PM

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Names for Hooch & Quirrell

by Jemima

Why do I think JKR would tell us Hooch's name is something like "Hildegarde"? Someone pointed out the fact that Minerva McGonagall, Poppy Pomfrey, and Severus Snape have matching initials (MM, PP, SS), and that the proposed "Filius Flitwick" fits that pattern, too. With that in mind, if I had to come up with my own given names for them, I think I might go with something like Hespera (accent on the first syllable) for Hooch, and Quilvio (pron. KIL-vee-oh) for Quirrell. I'm still trying to think of a first name for Professor Sprout - I'd like to go with an S name, and have it be a flower or plant name.

You know, after she's finished with Book 7, I really think JKR owes us a "fill in the blanks" book with given names for any characters who haven't had them yet, etc.

Posted on Dec 18, 2001, 6:41 AM

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Hmmm...Names...

by Molly Featherstone


I like names. (Grins maniacally). Names are fun! When I'm writing a story, or making up a character, I'll spend a long time going all through my book of names. I like names. Names names names.

Ahem. Where was I?

Ah, yes. Well, using the "matching initial" thing, here are some ideas:

Sassafras Sprout? (hee!) Summer Sprout? Or going away from plants/nature...Samantha Sprout. I like that one. Don't know why. For Hooch I like Rolanda better than Xiomara, just...feel-wise, rhythm-wise. It seems more...._plausible_ for the Harry Potter style, somehow. But for same initials...Hmmm...Hildegarde Hooch is good. I'm looking through my nearest name book, (hey! just found out what "Hedwig" means) and I'm seeing some nice sold traditional English-y sounding names--Harriet Hooch...Heloise Hooch...Hortense Hooch. Those all work. Not every name has to be five syllables and Greek, Latin or German. :P

Quirrel...and am I the only person here who actually kind of LIKED him, and was upset when he turned out to be the bad guy, and DIDN'T want him to die...? or does anybody else agree with me there...? I'm thinking something like Quincy, Quentin or Quimby...I think Quentin Quirrel would work rather well. Ooh! Ooh! Wait! Quigley! Yeah, that's it. Quigley Quirrel. Hee hee!

Okay, I'll shut up now...I wish I could think of more plants that begin with "S", you'd think it would be easy but NOTHING is coming to my mind. :P However, that's probably because "Sassafras Sprout" is making me laugh too hard to think properly... :P

...Notorious


Posted on Dec 19, 2001, 9:34 PM

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names

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That would be cool if JKR did write a book with a list of names in it. I love the names she has chosen in her books. They are different from what I'm used to, but they are the coolest. I love Quirrel's last name. (Is that how you spell it?) I think it sounds cool. Anyway, this is cool.
This is my first time here and I like the messages.


Posted on Dec 21, 2001, 1:09 PM

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Quigley?

by Spinele Snape

hehehehehehehe! Quigley! Is it okay if I call my mouse that? That sound so funny! hehehehehehehe! Now you've got me goin! So far all day I've been callin' everyone Quigley!! Even when I was at the food store, the dude who served me.. on my way out I called him Quigley!!!!!!! AGH! HELP!!!!!!

Posted on Dec 21, 2001, 6:18 PM

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that is funny

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Hey, that is a funny name. Quigley! I like the sound of that.

Posted on Dec 21, 2001, 9:29 PM

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Hee!

by Molly Featherstone


Glad you liked that. Quigley is a real name, by the way. For some reason it just automatically strikes me as prissy-sounding. I was reading this other book out loud to my brother--the first of the "Myth" books by Robert Asprin in case anybody has heard of those--and the instant the character named Quigley (yes there is one in that series) showed up I instinctively went into a high-pitched, snooty, prissy, girly, twittery uppah-clahss British accent for him, for NO REASON! The book didn't say anything about that. His dialouge and slang seemed American enough. I just did the accent because of his name...
Which turned out to be a bit confusing when we met up with "Chumley" the Troll later on in the same series and he WAS written to be an uppah-clahss Brit! But enough of that diversion...

As for Quirrel's last name, I didn't know how to spell it at first. You see, I had these books read out loud to me rather than reading them myself, so I just HEARD the names rather than read them and not only did I guess the spellings wrong, I had a really long time to get deeply attached to my WRONG spellings. :P It took me the longest time to break myself of habits like "Malfoi", "Griffindor" and "McGonagle" for example.
I used to think Quirrel's last name was spelled "Quirl" but that could be because I was thinking of the Discworld city "Quirm". I STILL see Quirrel's name spelled all compact and minimalist in my mind. Ah, well.

Did this post have a point? Um, not really. :P

...Notorious

Posted on Dec 21, 2001, 10:58 PM

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Hey...

by Spinele Snape

Isn't his name spelt Quirrell? Oh I dunno, I'll get out my Harry Potter book later and set us all straight! Well.... umm... uhhhh... thats all I have to say for now.... bye!

Posted on Dec 23, 2001, 8:16 AM

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Hey...

by Molly Featherstone


Well, I TOLD you I spell every name in those books wrong, pretty much! :P

(I still think "Malfoi" looks kinda nifty, though.)

...Notorious

Posted on Dec 24, 2001, 4:04 AM

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oh....

by Spinele Snape

well, okay! hehehehehehehehehehe. I still think Quigley is funny.

Posted on Dec 24, 2001, 12:02 PM

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lol

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Quigley is funny. I like the sound of that.

Posted on Dec 24, 2001, 1:48 PM

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Observation: S. Quirrell... squirrell??

by Riven

**snicker**

Posted on Dec 22, 2001, 12:07 AM

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Duh...

by Molly Featherstone


I figured THAT out a LONG time ago. I mean, without having the slightest idea of his first name, not even an initial. Some character's names are very obviously meant to sound like the kind of animal they resemble. Such as "Snape" sounds like SNAKE and he's in Slytherin and Quirrel is really nervous and jittery and seems "harmless" and "fluffy"...SQUIRREL, DUH!!

:P

Also like Sprout being the Herbology teacher and Madame Trelawney's first name being Sybil...I mean, like, DUH, there's just puns in the names all over the place. :P

Not that that's a BAD thing, mind you.

...Notorious


Posted on Dec 22, 2001, 4:18 PM

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Yipe.

by Riven

Well, it had never occurred to ME before....

Posted on Dec 24, 2001, 11:55 PM

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Oh, Sorry.

by Molly Featherstone


Didn't mean to insult you. The LAST thing I need is to insult anybody on this messageboard. The people at Animated Lust don't even frickin' care that I exist in the universe, and that's my last decent messageboard. So I really need to keep any friends I might have here...sigh...

...Notorious

Posted on Dec 26, 2001, 6:37 PM

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awwww...

by Spinele Snape

pat pat I freakin' care that you exist! ^^

Posted on Dec 28, 2001, 12:28 PM

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Potter sightings

by Willow

for those of you (like me) that can't get enough of the cutie Daniel Radcliff, you might like to see him in his first role in "David Copperfield" tomorrow night at 8:00 p.m Eastern. Check local listings for channel...
Enjoy

Posted on Dec 9, 2001, 6:59 PM

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David Copperfield on PBS

by Jemima

Yes, PBS is running the Daniel Radcliffe version of "David Copperfield" as part of Masterpiece Theatre - I'm glad you brought it up; I'd forgotten! Also starring Maggie Smith (Prof. McGonagall), who is terrific as Aunt Betsey and Zoe Wanamaker (Madam Hooch) as nasty Jane Murdstone. Bob Hoskins is a great Micawber; I am increasingly convinced he'd be a good Cornelius Fudge, everyone see what you think. And one of my fave actresses, Imelda Staunton, whom I wanted for Mrs. Weasley, is Mrs. Micawber. Anyway, highly recommended show.

Posted on Dec 9, 2001, 9:06 PM

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I'm Back!

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I know, I know... "Who cares?" And "You were gone?"

Taulai reminded me about this place and since I finally got to see the movie - for the first and second times, yesterday and today - and am listening to the soundtrack for maybe the thirtieth time, it seemed the right thing to do. So here I am, with dear Muriel, ready to talk Potter!

Fezzilora, but everyone calls me Fuzzy (Gee, I wonder why?)
1st year
Hufflepuff

Posted on Dec 9, 2001, 6:42 PM

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I'm laughing, but 'ouch'!

by Jemima

http://www.theonion.com/onion3744/harry_potter_craze.html


It's satire, but ouch, it hits a bit close to home. I would be the woman with the 6 cats - if I had cats. I did laugh at the "homemade Ludo Bagman costume."

Posted on Dec 9, 2001, 11:25 AM

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Now this is interesting...

by Shandethe

I was just at the Internet Movie Database, and I discovered a couple if interesting facts. Let's see what you all make of this.

--Richard Bremmer, the actor who voices Voldemort, is credited as "He Who Must Not Be Named". Cute, no? Ian Hart is credited twice, as Quirrell and as Lord Voldemort. Hm....a good excuse to go back and see the movie!

--Madam Hooch's first name is Xiomara. (To all of you whose reply was "Xio-what?"...yeah, that was my reaction, too. Cool name, though.)

Posted on Dec 8, 2001, 7:57 PM

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