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This is where you can write ANYTHING about Harry Potter. Like: Your fav character, and why. Your fav book from the series. Do you think so or so should have died.
I'll get a conversation starting if that's OK:
What do you do to show your Harry Potter spirit?
submitted by Hannah P., age 13, GA.
(September 8, 2009 - 5:05 pm)
(September 8, 2009 - 5:05 pm)
@ Mary: I've noticed that, in the RP, HP seems to be portrayed as much more of a Gary Stu than he really is... ;)
@ Hannah: Um... I have a few HP posters on my bedroom wall... Oh yeah! The 6th book came out on my... was it 9th?... birthday, and I went to an HP party at a bookstore instead of having a birthday party of my own. Does that count?
Just out of curiosity, when did everyone else start reading the series and why? I was 8 years old. My brother had reccomeded them to me (he's 14 now and says he's 'grown out of it', but it's kind of hard to believe... well, he gave every single book in the series to me, so that has to count for something, but...), and they sounded good from what I heard, so I started reading them. However, being 8, I got scared near the end of the 4th book and couldn't finish it until nearly a year later. I then loved it, and have been obsessed ever since.
(September 10, 2009 - 10:16 pm)
@ Ima: I must say I think there was very little to work with. *polite nod* Then again, Voldy is more, well, alive, in a literal sense, Bellatrix is more alive/in love with Voldy, Albus is more evil, Ginny is more insane, Harry is going to be considerably more dead... etc. ...So... yes.
About starting to read the series, I was six or seven. My dad read them to me, and then I read every book by myself five or six times over the course of the next few years. And since then Dad's read the books to all of us when we start first grade. Which explains the fact that my *eight-year-old* sister Maggie has had them all read to her. o.O
(September 11, 2009 - 3:04 pm)
@ Hannah: But Draco is wonderful! ...and Stu's short for Gary Stu, which means a perfect character.
(September 12, 2009 - 9:45 am)
Mary W: That is a matter of opinion. I don't think Draco is all that wonderful.
(September 14, 2009 - 12:56 pm)
Ima: There's quite a story behind that. So I had seen commercials of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone on t.v when I was five. Then a while after that when it came out on dvd me my two younger sisters and parents went to a booktsore, my papa got the Harry Potter dvd, well then I thought Harry Potter was bad, little did I know that eight years later I would be obsessed with it, and writing about it on a website! Well my papa watched it a few days or so later, I saw parts of it, including the ending, I thought it was so sad because I thought the kid with black hair, round glasses and robes was not coming back. My mama asked me "so, what did you think of it?" I said "It was fine." Or something like that. Well I started getting more into it, thanks to the audio versions, I tried many times to read the first one that my Grandma had given me, but was only able to read a few sentences before getting bored. I remember once walking in wal-mart with my mama, and seeing a poster for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, My mama said that we would go and see it, which we forgot to and ended up not going. But we bought it on dvd and my favorite character became Ginny. Two years later we saw Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, not very long after that I began reading the first book (again) and finished. I loved it. I thought it was so funny and when Fred and George told Ginny they would send back a Hogwart's toilet. Well then I started to read the second and third books, which again I loved. My mama read me and one of my younger sisters the fourth, fifth, and sixth books. When she started the sixth, my mama asked me "Who do you think the Half-Blood Prince is?" I answered "I don't know, Harry?" Little did I know many years later that I would be asking my papa the same question, and he would answer also the same. (Did that make any sense?) Anyway, when the fourth one came out, we didn't go see it, we just got it on dvd, the first time was, woohoo! Finally a new Harry Potter movie! But then it started getting like, Couldn't they have made it more like the book. Two years later we went and saw the fifth in the theaters. It had been so long since I had heard the book, that I had forgotten practically everything. The next year we heard that HP6 would come out in November... My littlest sister's birthday. She was not so happy, she's not excactly a big fan of Harry Potter. Then a little while after that, we heard that it was postponed for July! I was so angry. I started counting down the days. While I was waiting for HP6 to come out, I started reading the fifth, fourth, and fifth books for myself. My favorite characters became Luna, Tonks, and Lupin. Finally the sixth movie came out. I dressed up as Luna Lovegood, the glasses, necklace, and radish stick-on earrings, my papa thought it was crazy, but I didn't care. I loved the movie, it was beyond awesome. I was a bit upset how little of Tonks they showed. But it was still a great movie. Now I am reading the fifth book.
I don't know why I wrote all this. Probably no one will really read it, but anywho.
(September 14, 2009 - 12:55 pm)
@ Hannah, about Draco: But why ever don't you think so?
(September 14, 2009 - 3:00 pm)
@ Mary W., about Draco con.: He's pretty much a whimp, he shoudn't have let himself go rotten just because his parents are. But I do sometimes wonder how he would have been if he had some other parents. Why do you like him?
(September 15, 2009 - 6:16 pm)
And has anyone else read Robbie Fischer's "Save The Hippogriff' article? Most of you won't know what I'm talking about, but if you do, please say so.
@ Hannah: I read your entire post, and I don't regret it, either!
(September 15, 2009 - 5:11 pm)
No, where can I find it?
(September 16, 2009 - 4:51 pm)
@ Ima: Ditto Brynne, sounds interesting.
@ Hannah: Well, admittedly I like movie Draco better (Tom Felton is so amaaazing...), but book Draco is great too. Mostly because young villains are so fun, and he's just so... I dunno... pitiful, that it's fun to read about... it's hard to explain. He's just fun to read about. *major, major overusage of the word 'fun' and the phrase 'fun to read about'*
That was disjointed. *sigh* D'you get the general gist, though? *is hopeful*
(September 16, 2009 - 5:41 pm)
Well, I can't really say because it's online and we can't post links to other sites... Try Googling it.
(September 16, 2009 - 10:16 pm)
My first favorite character is Snape. Why? Because he seems so *evil* in the beginning of the first book and Harry says it's him who's doing something, but he was wrong. And you can never figure out if he's good or bad. But there really isn't any "good" or "bad" as Voldemort says, "there's just those who seek power and those who are to weak to find it." Snape keeps on becoming weak, and non-weak, weak and non-weak, blah blah blah. In the sixth book, he seems to be all bad, but in the seventh, he's back to good with a little of bad. And he knew Lily and he hated Harry, or loved him. I'm guessing he loves half, and hates half, and only lets the hate half show. And I'm kind of like Snape! After I haven't taken a shower in a week.
Oh, and my second favorite character, um, not Harry, he's not even close, maybe I'll just name people that I like and put short explanations. Draco, he's so twisted a character and shows how he really feels in the end. Hagrid, he is really funny and thinks dragons are so cute. Filch, he's funny too, and hates kids and wants to hang them upside down by their ankles for three days, kind of what I want to do with Autumn sometimes, like now. Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore (that was fun) because in the end, you find out about his past a little and you are kind of confused. Voldemort, he has a very interesting past and he's such a good villain. Sirius, I don't know why, I just liked him in the beginning of the third book because he scared the Dursleys. Luna, because she's really thoughtful and wears cool jewelry and, also, she has the some name as my *four-year-old* sister who thinks the haryy Potter movies are boring. Fred and George, they are funny. Neville, he could have been "the boy who lived" and he's really humble and everything. Bellatrix, she's really kind of crazy, I like crazyness and she's so obbsessed with one thing: Voldemort and I like her name. Yes, that's all I'm going to do for now, I have to do math.
(September 17, 2009 - 9:38 am)
Hah, Filch. "I miss the screaming..."
Poor Filch. All he wants is to hang kids upside-down by their ankles...
(September 17, 2009 - 3:14 pm)
Wait... You agree with Voldemort? So in other words, you think I'm weak for not committing murder? Nice... I hope that's not really what you meant...
I don't think that Snape's personality actually changed, we just kept learning more and more about him. He was good pretending to be evil pretending t be good, so he was pretty confusing, but...
(September 17, 2009 - 5:09 pm)
No, I don't agree with voldemort, I jast was saying what he said... I don't think that anybody should kill anybody. Snape's personality didn't change, it just seemed like it did, well, in Hary's point of view. I'm not really good at words, so, it doesn't surprise me that why I like Snape doesn't make sense... just read TNO's thing, 'cause after I made my comment and submitted it, I read TNO's, and hers made a lot more sense than mine. :)
(September 18, 2009 - 7:52 am)