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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)
THERE IS NO JUSTICE. THERE'S JUST US.
/Discworld pun obsession.
Poor George. :(
(September 24, 2009 - 10:14 pm)
@ TNO: I love puns too. Just a few days ago I made one after I tried this chip dip that I liked. I said something like: "It's dediptious." Or something like that. Some of my puns are really bad. But ah well. And then there was another one when my friend told me that one of parents liked the mountains, and the other the ocean, and that she liked both. Then I said: "You like the motion." A combination of mountain and ocean. Again a pretty bad pun, but she cracked up laughing. I once made this whole long pun story. It was about this man who lived in this really rural area, he called himself the hairy potter. And he made pottery. Get it? Hairy potter - Harry Potter. And then this Harry Potter fan comes to the rural area, he's not that smart, and then there's a whole long story. But I bet you didn't even really want to hear all this huh?
(September 25, 2009 - 9:37 am)
TELL US! TELL US!!!!!
(September 25, 2009 - 11:14 am)
It's funny, my sister and I came up with the exact same idea of the hairy potter.
(September 26, 2009 - 3:03 pm)
@ Meadow: Are you serious? That's cool!
(September 27, 2009 - 12:22 pm)
I am telling de* truth! My dad could coat himself in mud and dance around singing "I'm a hairy potter! lalalalala!"
*De as in 'the'.
(September 28, 2009 - 10:56 am)
It was Fred.
(September 25, 2009 - 11:12 am)
Discworld as in the movie Hogfather that had to be split on two discs and didn't really make much sense? If so, I love it.
(September 27, 2009 - 7:25 am)
Yes, but the books are much better.
(September 27, 2009 - 3:40 pm)
Yes, I would think that the books are better. All books are better, except for the Twilight books... My dad just got Hogfather from the library and didn't even know it was a book... I'll tell him that Hogfather is a book and then he will probably get it, I'm am very bad at searching for books in the library.
(September 28, 2009 - 10:54 am)
I'm not sure if someone already said this, but Remus was the name of a boy who was raised by wolves in Greek mythology, and Lupin means moon in some language. Fenrir was the name of an evil wolf in Norse mythology. Hermione and The Weird Sisters were both names from Shakespearian plays. I used to think that Hogwarts was oddly referring to the warts of pigs, but JKR actually got the name from a plant, hogwort. By the way, a newly discovered species of dinosaur was recently named after Hogwarts! They called it... Draco Rex Hogwartschia or something of that sort. It means Dragon King of Hogwarts.
(September 25, 2009 - 5:42 pm)
I also thought that she was talking about a wart on a pig butt. That's how me and my friends came up with a school for younger kids. It's called Pigwarts. And also, for even younger kids, Piglwetwarts. And for the people who came up with A Very Potter Musical, Pigfarts is a GREAT name for a wizarding school!!!!!
I knew that they named a dinosaur after Hogwarts! My sister, Autumn, gets Ask magazine and something about dinosaurs was in it. And then there was something about Draco Rex Hogwartsia, and that, was a wonderful name. So, that is how I came up with a password for my email.
(September 26, 2009 - 7:38 am)
"Lupus" actually means Wolf in Latin. That's probably where she got it from, or something like that.
(September 26, 2009 - 2:20 pm)
@ Ima: I saw that you said lupin means moon in some other language. Well maybe it does, but I thought J.K. Rowling made his last name Lupin because in Latin lupinus means great wolf. There's also Sanguini, that vampire from the 6th, it was based off many different Latin words meaning blood, bloody, red in color, things like that. Ludo is another Latin word meaning to play at or deceive.
(September 26, 2009 - 2:12 pm)
JKR has all these great Latin root words to choose from and she names her MC "Harry." *Harry*. Harry *Potter*, no less. When you think about it, that's a really, really nerdy sort of name. :P
(September 26, 2009 - 5:28 pm)