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Countdown to the premiere of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (HP7)!
54 more days today (Sunday). So I just thought maybe every day until HP7 comes out, everybuggy (well, just everybuggy who's into Harry Potter) can post a favorite Harry Potter related memory in their life, or just talk about what's been going on in your day. So yeah. Hope that made sense.
(There's a new HP7 commercial on the Harry Potter website. It's EPIC.)
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Butterbeer! I had some at a local HP festival and loved it.
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submitted by Hannah ☺☻, age 14, Georgia
(September 26, 2010 - 12:21 pm)
(September 26, 2010 - 12:21 pm)
OMG! I LOVE Harry Potter! I think this is a great idea! I can't wait to see the 7th movie! I am actually going to be in England in November, so I will be seeing it there. I don't really have any really significant thing about Harry Potter, besidse a copy of the marauders map, and an exact copy of Harry, and Hermionie's wands. But otherwise, nothing. So instead I'm going to post quotes from the various Harry Potter books.
"What do you see when you look in the mirior? I? I see myself holding a pair of thick, woolen socks." -Harry Potter & Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore: Harry Potter and the Sorcer's Stone- Page 214 Chapter 12.
(September 26, 2010 - 7:00 pm)
53 more days!
@Admin: When I was up at my Grandparent's house over the summer, there was a recipe in a paper for butterbeer, and we made it. It was, er, interesting. But my Grandma liked it.
@AnnaJay: I so want a replica of the Marauders Map. I'm jealous, sorry to say. Does it have all the papers that fold out and stuff like it did in the movies?
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I found a recipe somewhere, too. I think it calls for cream soda and caramel sauce.
Admin
(September 27, 2010 - 8:28 pm)
I think I got mine in New York at F.A.O Shwartz. And ya, it has all the papers that fold out! I mean it looks EXACTLY like the one in the movie! The only difference is that it doesn't have the floating tabs that show you where everybody is, and what their feet are doing! ((YA! 53 MORE DAYS!))
"I know it's weird, the whole thing's weird. What was that writing on the wall about? The Chamber Has Been Opened. . . . What's that supposed to mean?" Harry Potter- Harry Potter and the Chamber Of Secrets: Chapter 9, page 145.
(September 28, 2010 - 4:04 pm)
52 more days!
I've seen recipes for butterbeer too; they all look kind of gross and on the overly sweet side. Yes Admin, I believe most, if not all, of the ones I've seen call for cream soda and caramel sauce. Ick. When I read about it in the books, I always sort of imagined it tasting similar to a fizzy Werther's candy (saltyish).
"I didn't mean--"
"--To call me Mudblood? But you call everyone of my birth Mudblood, Severus. Why should I be any different?"
Fizzy Werther's caramel is a good description of the taste of butterbeer. Yes, it was verrrry sweet! Not really salty to me.
Admin
(September 28, 2010 - 9:30 pm)
51 more days!!! (Wow, at least it's not as long of a wait as the one last year when I started counting down in the 100s)
"I am not worried, Harry... I'm with you." -Albus Purcival Wolfric Bryan Dumbledore, Half-Blood Prince.
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(September 29, 2010 - 2:39 pm)
I have never tried butterbeer, but I imagine it tatses good. Kinda like my peach juice after it's been sitting in the fridge for days. That's what I think butterbeer tastes like. What do you think Admin?
"You were the seventh Horcrux, Harry, the Horcrux he never ment to make." Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Albus Dumbledore, Page 709.
Well, butterbeer doesn't really have a peach flavor. It's just sweet and butterscotchy. But I haven't ever tasted days-old peach juice.
Admin
(September 29, 2010 - 4:49 pm)
Yay! I LOVE HP!!!!!!! But anyway............ I have the 1st book in paperback, the last one in hardcover and Harry's wand. I have stationery, these little metal bookmarks, and my calendars have been HP for the past 3-4 years. I really want to go to a midnight premiere of this!!!!!!!!!! I'm gonna do a quote, too..........
How could I be so stupid! I had you looking in the wrong section!
-Hermione-Harry Potter in the Sorcerer's Stone
(September 29, 2010 - 6:54 pm)
I have to say I'm truly thankful to Meadow and Mary Liz (actually I already told them. Or at least I told Mary). Up until this summer, I'd never read/seen any of the books or movies. But then, I read a thread on the CB by Meadow and Mary Liz about Tom Felton's music. I looked him up on YouTube and absolutely fell in love with him and his singing (I know all the words to all his songs.. Time Well Spent has like 120 plays ((lol, not many, but I only just added it a bit ago..)) on my iTunes). I thought, ok, where I have I seen this Tom guy before..? And I realized he was Draco Malfoy. Then I decided I really wanted to watch the movies so I could see him act, but I thought it'd be a good idea to read the books first. So I read the entire series this summer (usually it takes me like two months just to finish one book, so that's pretty incredible)! :) But because of my love for Draco and the fact that I'd seen all the Potter Puppet Pal videos before I'd read the books or seen the movies, I really, really don't like Harry. At all. I pretty much always side with Slytherin.
But now I'm totally obsessed with the series... I make constant references to HP in everyday life and it drives my family insane. I've even found myself yelling the appropriate spells when something's not working the muggle way. And despite my love for Slytherin, I consider myself to be in Ravenclaw. :) My parents say that if we go to Florida again sometime this winter, we'll go to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter!! I'm gonna be in heaven. I'll get to drink butterbeer! I watched AVPM a week or two ago... Absolutely loved it. <3
Anyway, I love those books. And this is sort of random, but the only time I've ever cried when reading a book was when I read about Cedric dying. I'm not even sure why. I didn't like him that much. But when I watched the movie, I'll admit I laughed, because I just kept thinking, "Ha! So much for vampires being immortal!"
Yeah. So I love HP and I'm quite excited for HP and the Deathly Hallows. I'm going to the midnight showing with my brother and his girlfriend, then with my friends several times over the next couple days.
Oh, and I have a Gryffindor scarf too. Obviously, though, it was a gift; otherwise, it would have been Ravenclaw or Slytherin. :P
49 days, 23 hours, 41 minutes, and 25 seconds!
(September 30, 2010 - 12:18 am)
@Kenzie: Good for you!! Glad you indulged in the magical, amazing world of HP. And yay for AVPM!!! If you haven't, you must watch AVPS. They both crack. me. up. And the singing's great, too. :)
I cannot wait for this movie! I've only watched the first 6 very recently, but I am a huge book fan and so now am caught up in the movie phenomenon. Just something for everyone to contemplate: think about how young and adorable HP and Co. looked in the first movie. Now think about how old they look. It's so amazing that they've (the characters I mean, not so much the actors) grown up so fast and.... wow. I hope you get what I'm trying to say, because I'm not saying it very well. :)
~Leaf
((And sorry for the random, unplanned absence!))
(October 2, 2010 - 7:45 pm)
I started watching AVPS (hahaha. I think I like it better than the original), but I didn't have time to finish it. I will though!
(October 3, 2010 - 11:59 am)
Hem, hem! I say, 'Yay!' to HP! To HP-related merchandise! To movies that come out in less than 2 months! To friendship! To generosity! To ten galleons a hair!
@ Hannah: Oh. 'Ogwarts.
@ Kenzie: Maybe you think you'd be in Ravenclaw, but hey, you never know! Maybe you'd be in Slytherin after all. Mind you, I only said you might be. You might be in Slyth--
I am anyone who has read all 7 volmes on the life of Parry Otter, the Chosen Captain, The Boy Who Scored, of course, as well as Tales of Beedle the Bard (as is probably evident by my word choice at this point), and I own them. As for the other 2 companions, well, when in doubt, go to the library. The one at Salem Witches' Institute, I mean. It's even bigger than the Hogwarts one, so Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them and Quidditch Through The Ages are both there. I've got what posters and similar things I could find for free on my wall (but that doesn't mean much. If I love something, or did when I was 10, or 11, you can almost guarantee there's a picture of it on my wall, because I hoard photographs and never take the time to take them down when I stop liking them, because there's too many and it would be time-consuming.), and I want to buy a Ravenclaw banner, even though, of course, I am American (and a girl; I'm assuming due to the name of the school that boys must have their own school, probably because America is such a large country), so I go to SWI and not Hogwarts. It's too bad that MA (because it's definitely located in Salem, MA, not Salem, OR, or any other Salem) is so far from where I live, though; I have to fly to school and back on an airplane each year. At least it's a boarding school; otherwise I'd be made to live like a Muggle! And of course I wouldn't be able to stand that...
This was supposed to be a comment about HP, not an article called Life At Salem Witches' Institute. Sorry.
I've never had butterbeer, but I'm going to have pumpkin juice this Halloween! If I like it, I'll probably buy a shirt saying that I drink 100% pure pumpkin juice, just like in Harry Potter.
Quotes! Yay for quotes! As most of you, being HP fanatics, can probably tell by now, I've already made every excuse possible to make as many quotes as possible, but here's another! You have to guess who said it, along with the others, because for some reason, I really like these guessing games.
I never got home for Christmas.
More later; I really need to go to bed.
(October 3, 2010 - 12:00 am)
Well, I'd love to be in Gryffindor. I really wish HP was real. And Ima, I have read all HP books, and I have read the tales of Beetle and the Bard. Admin, I have never actually tried butterbeer, but I don't like fizzy drinks, so when you had it, was it fizzy? Like bubbly more likely. Mind you, my brother's a HUGE fan of bubbly drinks so, if it is bubbly, I think he'd love it. But is it?
"Sirius Black. He's supposed to be after me. So McGonagall reckons he might have sent it." Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban- Harry James Potter- Page 234.
Yes, it was fizzy/bubbly, but not extremely so. If you let it sit in an open glass for a while, it would get flatter.
Admin
(October 3, 2010 - 5:57 pm)
Luna, book 7? (Or Neville?)
I'd really love some Harry Potter posters (not the current DH ones but something a little less blood-covered and dirty), or at the very least a calendar. Unfortunately, I share a room with 3 sisters, 2 of whom are not yet of HP age. Ah, well. One can live without such things.
My sister and I may go in together to purchase the 4 Ultimate Edition DVDs currently available. Being a HUGE bonus feature fan (seriously--if it doesn't have substantial behind the scenes/pre viz/special effects/interviews, it's not worth owning in my book), these would be my dream.
I need to get out of the habit of using so many parentheses in the middle of my sentences. That's how I talk in real life, but it doesn't come across so well in writing.
46 more days!
(October 3, 2010 - 9:26 pm)
@Ima: the first line in my above post was me guessing your quote.
My sister K got the Sorcerer's Stone Ultimate Edition for her birthday! We haven't seen any of the extras yet, but maybe tonight! Anyone else seen/own the UEs? Were they actually worth the cost?
(October 6, 2010 - 1:24 pm)
44 more days!
My mama is reading my sisters and me the 7th Harry Potter (for the third time). Dobby's died *cry*. Before, I hadn't really felt anything at that part (the part when he died), but for some reason I felt really sad this time. Maybe it has something to do with watching Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets yesterday.
My sister, Rachel, is thirteen today, and she wanted to watch the second Harry Potter before she turned thirteen, so that's why we watched it last night. She got a Harry Potter journal, a treehouse doll set of furniture stuff, "Singin' in the Rain" soundtrack, sour candy (from a friend), chapstick (also from the same friend), and a pack of zoo-animal sillybands (also from that friend). That was sorta kinda random.
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(October 6, 2010 - 6:43 pm)