Here (late) again!

So it's Friday again!
Still have upcoming exams, so I'm still a bit stressed and have barely used my virus-free computer, but anyway...

Nina, hope your toe will get better soon and Odette, be strong, the hand will eventually get better :)

Frankee: NO TEA?! seriously? Well, getting you a Christmas present is gonna be easy this year XD

Ch: I WANNA READ YOUR NOVEL!!! bwaaaaaa! *snif, snif* are you gonna publish it somewhere? Well, In Spain and latinamerica we start christmas on the 24th too, so I don't think its just a weir sweedish thin, though in my home town, Maracaibo (Venezuela), Christmas time starts on November the 2nd, when you put up your tree :D
You know what? PAPER TOWNS IN SPAIN: NADA! NIENTE! NOTHING! ZILCH! I go to like four bookstores about three times a week, every week, and do you think they have ANYTHING John Green?! argggg! *breath in, breath out* I think I'll write an email to John and Hank...

I'm not even gonna pretend like my deadline for this post doesn't end en...4 minutes.

Odette, Yay! finaly saw you, thanks for the pics, though I couln't read the whole post, it kept overlapping with Rons... cna't you re-post it?

Today is hogsome becouse...uhhh...ummm...yeah, it's Friday and that preaty much is all...

Just so you guys know, art school really isn't as easy as it's cracked up to be... seriously my drawing class midterm exam is to copy a bass-relief from real life into an A2 (big ass) paper. In ONLY TEN DAYS. And it's worth half of my grade. Physics and biology were soooo much easier.

Questions, Questions!

Refer to pages 706-707 in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows...what do you think the alien like thing is?

It could be an anti-abortion statement, but I can't believe you guys haven't gotten it right! It's very clearly a Crumple-Horned Snorkack! how you din't get that right away confounds me, seriously...
If you had to choose the next Hogwarts Headmaster after McGonagall, who would you choose?

... Snape is dead... and Lupin has a furry little problem and the ministry is prejudiced... Fred is dead, so that leaves...th gigant squid? no, no, no. Eureka! Flitwick (squick! and then boom!) :)

Which HP fansite is your favorite?

I'm really not that much into fansites, I'd rather watch vlogs or read blogs and get people's opinions on HP.

Which leads to my question: Is there any blog/s or vlog/s you like to watch/obsses about?

I'm not that obsessive, but I like to watch FiveAwsomeGirls, RoboFillet, LindsayBradley, JessicaLestrange, JerryHCooke and butterbeerwrocks (They broke up!) and read a couple of my friends blogs, but those are mostly in spanish :)

Well, fellow witches, read you soon, I'm off to se the wizard, Ehem I mean, I'm off to make photoshop art :D

Hey, would you guys mind checking out my deviantart page? I seriously nees feedback...

TTFN and DFTBA!
Kate

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Hello! To those who celebrate it, Happy Thanksgiving! I just ate a whole bunch of food and I am stuffed! I am so happy there is no school tomarrow! Tomorrow is also Black Friday and I am really excited to do some major shopping! Also, my foot is doing oh so much better. I even think there is some nail coming up :) Omg, Frankee, that is the coolest structure I have every seen! I would not mind to have a boulder fall on my foot if i got to climb that thing. Alrighty, so onto the questions.....
Refer to pages 706-707 in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows...what do you think the alien like thing is?
It does sound like an aborted child. That is so weird that J.K. Rowling described the creature like that. It definitely sounds like there's some hidden anti- abortion message or something. Epecially the way she says things like, "those acts of unspeakable evil" and "the attempted killing of a child." That was a major clue.
If you had to choose the next Hogwarts Headmaster after McGonagall, who would you choose?
I would love to say Snape. Too bad he isn't alive... I would either say Hagrid or Flitwick. It would be so great to have Hagrid as headmaster. It just sounds brilliant, Headmaster Hagrid...

Which HP fansite is your favorite?
I actually don't visit many HP fansites. So I do not have a favorite.

My Question
If you listen to Wizard Rock, what is your favorite band?
Mine would definitely be Draco and the Malfoys. Even though I don't really like Draco, the band is amazing! I really love the lyrics to their songs and they're just really catchy :)

I'll see (read?) you tomarrow Kate :]
Love ya guys!
Nina.

no school!

Ah. I'm tired. But it's only 8:45pm.
Anyways..
my day.... lazy. (: finally . needed a BREAK. It's Thanksgiving tomorrow so my school only had a 2 day week. I took some cool photography pictures.(I've become obsessed lately.). You know what I want? A polaroid camera. Not the brand- but the ones where you take a picture and develops it instantly? That'd be pretty sweet.

So, sorry, but the rest of this post may be quite long.

Nina- hope your toe is ok? XD My cousin had a big boulder fall on her toe while trying to get ontop of this during the middle of the night:

Ch- Ah, Paper Towns! I'm trying to get my school to get it just so I can know more people who have read it. I already own a copy (signed by john!)(I just saw him and Hank like a week and a half ago...did I talk about that?) And I actually have Harry, a History right now. It's sitting open on my bed. I'm on the chapter about Harry and the Potters. It's really interesting, but it makes me sad I didn't get involved in the fandom sooner.(& you're lucky you get Christmas a day sooner! I have to celebrate Christmas and Chanukah..long story.)

Odette- Your name reminds me of pokemon. Sorry about your hand! Get better soon! No fansites!? I only check two of them for news. & then - I'm going to cut myself off because I'm going to have to explain again in the questions . :]

Kate- Eek. Viruses. My brother just had a big trojan virus and didn't have a computer for a month. DOESN'T THE NEXT MOVIE LOOK AMAZING? Does Warner Bros. think that the trailers will tie us over until July? Psshh. It's making me want to see the movie sooner. Lmao @ what you would do at Hogwarts. and Ohh.. I wanted to watch youtube live. Me and my friend had a big bowl of popcorn and comfy chairs and stuff.... and then the picture wouldn't show up on my computer! D: Oh well. I heard it was cool, though.

questions....
Do you think that Twilight will be bigger than Harry Potter?
No. Harry Potter has a move vast and solid fanbase. Most of the twilight fans are teenage girls or their mothers who all have crushes on Edward. Well, that's a stereotype. I read twilight over a year ago, and liked it, but I didn't fall in love with Edward(he annoyed me with his cheesiness) and I wouldn't read the books again. I can read Harry Potter over and over, though. We have people of all ages..from 4 to 80(those numbers were totally made up.) & Twilight isn't really original..and the characters aren't very..i don't know..they don't have a lot of depth in my eyes. In HP there's something for everyone. In Twilight there's just the ever-so-common-vampires-loving-humans-but-oh-no-it's-forbidden plot.

Which HP fansite is you favorite?
mugglenet, hands down.
but I also go on Potter Forums when I'm bored. (:

If you had to choose the next Hogwarts Headmaster after McGonagall, who would you choose?
Hahah, Odette, nice choice with Flitwick.
This is a tough question.. I would love to say Snape, but he might be unfair to some students and not to mention he's dead.
Trelawny would make a hilarious headmistress.
I don't know..I might just have to say Flitwick, too!

my questionnnnnnn.

drum roll, please.

hold on, I have to think of it..

Refer to pages 706-707 in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows...what do you think the alien like thing is?
I'm asking this question because I'm trying to collect stuff on how Harry Potter has examples of real life in it.(for a project in english class.)
The first thing that popped into my head was an aborted baby... any thoughts or other ideas? (:

it you don't have the book here's parts of the passage:
"He had spotted the thing that was making the noises. It had the form of a small, naked child, curled on the ground, its skin raw and rough, flayed-looking, and it lay shuddering under a seat where it had been left, unwanted, stuffed out of site, struggling for breath." & then on 709 "he was distracted by the whimpering and thumpering of the agonized creature behind them" OOO and it also says "He had rendered his soul so unstable that it broke apart when he committed those acts of unspeakable evil, the murder of your parents, the attempted killing of a child" Am I picking up anti-abortion vibes here? or is it just me? *feels smart for discovering this*(althought i'm probably not the first one)

See ya tomorrow, Nina!

Oh, and, House of Awesome for the win.

In which Kate'll plead for her life

YES, I KNOW.
REALLY, I DO.

I'm not getting nominated for Blogger of the Year.

But anyway, NO, My dog did not eat my computer. The viruses did.

So, sorry I couldn't post, I'm barely using my computer as it's virus-loaded, and next week just happens to be the start of finals before Christmas break :( So, yeah, It's a bit hectic right now, but it'll be over soon... I hope.

I'm taking a little break right now from studying and.... Who am I kidding? I JUST WATCHED THE TWO NEW HARRY POTTER TRAILERS!!! *Squee!*

And I haven't read your last entries, but As soon as I finish this tardy entry I'm gonna catch 'em all! ;D

As for questions...

Do you think that Twilight will be bigger than Harry Potter?

Hmmm, I don't know, because Harry Potter is something we kinda grew with (at least me) and it was good then and it's still good now, but Twilight is more part of my young-adulthood (is that even a word?) and it's good too but... seriously, I just kept reading it becouse of Jacob, Alice and Emmett... and Charlie, of course! :D but yeah, topping The Potter is like... topping Grimm fairy tales ;)

Which set of book covers do you like best?

Hmmm, I've just seen the Latinamerican, UK and American editions, but the latinamerican editions by Salamandra (Newt :)) are my favorite becouse they were the first I knew.
So... Vòila!
If you could visit Hogwarts for day, what would you do?

Two things:

1) Recite every candy I know of to get into Dumbledor's office (and hope I don't guess right so I can blast that smug statue) to spray paint in neon pink on his walls "ALBY + GELLIE 4 EVA!" ;D I'm insane, I'm aware of that :)

2) Go down to the dungeons and have my wicked way with my potions master :D

What do you think about the new HBP trailer?

Ha, I watched it a couple of minutes before checking the questions section :) but all I can say is: AWSOME!... and SQUEE!!!
looks better than the actual book...

Anyway, Cya guys soon!

And today is a Hogsome day becouse... I'm watching Youtube Live! :D

Love ya guys!
DFTBA!
Kate

P.S.: DON'T KILL and/or MAIM ME. please?

[11/25/08] In whic my hand aches a lot.

So as my hand can only type so much without giving up I am jumping straight into the questions.
Which covers do you like the best?

I am pretty fond of the dutch covers...

I am a Mass Comm nerd so I analyze them and this one follows the rules of design well without being too safe, imo.

Do you think Twilight will be bigger than Harry Potter?

No. First off, I think Twilight is a stupid book series because the writing is poor and the story is unimaginative. So the fanbase is pretty much composed of 15 yr old girls who think Edward is their boyfriend. There is nothing wrong with fictional bf, mine is Kartik or young Remus. But you have to like the book for more reasons than it has a dreamy character. Our Fanbase is much stronger. We like Harry Potter for many reasons. Some love theadventure. Some love the magic. Some love the writing. Others? Who knows? We all love it for different reasons. Not just because young Remus Lupin is dreamy.

Which HP fansite is you favorite?

I don't go on the fansites, at all. That is kinda sad.

Now for my question from last week, which is now my question from this week. If you had to choose the next Hogwarts Headmaster after McGonagall, who would you choose?
Flitwick. I think he showed some stuff in the final battle that we didn't know he had. So did others but Sprout would never be a hardass and we don't know enough about the other teachers.

So yes my hand got smashed in a door. It hurts so I have to stop typing.

See you tomorrow Frankee,
Odette

November 24th.

Happy Monday!

I got Paper Towns last week, and I finished it last Thursday, so you can talk to me about Paper Towns now. I loved it, it was absolutely fantastic.
However, I would like to be slightly more on topic and talk about another book I got last week and just finished reading.

Harry, a History
If you haven't heard of it, it's by Melissa Anelli, the awesome webmistress of The Leaky Cauldron. The book tells the story of the fandom and her life in it, and it's so effing awesome and it makes me so squeefull! Go read it.

I've been home sick (or rather just extremely exhausted and in need of a break) today, which resulted in me reading one of my friends' blog, which goes way back, and I read a bunch of her Harry Potter related posts, and on top of reading Harry, a History, it made me miss the days we were out of the know. And I wish I'd been more active! I was never active online the year leading up to DH, and I just want to go back in time and kick me!
Anywho, it's only a month until Christmas now. Or at least for us Swedes, since we're weird and start Christmas on the 24th instead of the 25th...

Questions!

Which covers do you like the best?
Okay, first of all, I HATE the British covers. They're yuck. I mean, just look at the first book! The British cover for Beedle The Bard is nice though, I'm actually glad we're getting that one in Sweden. Btw, I'm not sure, but there doesn't seem to be coming a Swedish translation of Beedle The Bard, at least not for now. Which I am kind of happy about, since that means a certain woman no one in the Swedish fandom likes won't get to butcher it! But on the other hand, little kids who aren't capable to read it in English should get their chance to read it too.

But anyway, back to the question! the American ones are really nice. I want to have all the American edition in hardback on my shelf as well as the my British and Swedish and one German :P I'll get to that next year.

But the Swedish ones are also pretty good. That's the thing I like about the Swedish version. That and the smell. I don't know why, but the Swedish versions have this smell from the ink or something, and it makes me really sentimental, to think about the days when I'd only read the books in Swedish...

So I'm deciding to go with the Swedish cover of PS/SS as my absolute favorite. I also like the last one, but the color is different on the title which makes me kind of sad.




Do you think Twilight will be bigger than Harry Potter?
Hm, I don't think so. I don't want to be one of those HP fans who bitches about Twilight and hates it just because the Twilight fandom is doing the same thing as we've done and we're jealous. But seriously? I don't hope so.
But, I have read all the books except Breaking Dawn (I have it already, I've just not been able to bring myself to read it. Maybe I will read it for English so I can hate it in front of my class! :D), and I just don't like it. Sure, the plot is exciting and it's not boring, but the writing is not that good. And I really don't like Edward. He is creepy and I hate what he does to Bella (I like strong female characters, like McGonagall...), and the fact that every single guy on the planet seems to like her, even though she's oh, so ugly and stupid.
Sorry, I don't mean to offend any Twilightfan! You have the right to like Twilight as much as I have the right to like Harry Potter.
But, to answer the question, I don't really want the fandom to be as big. And it also seems that the fandom of Twilight didn't really have the time to grow as big as the HP one until the books were all out. I don't know, it just seems like there was this Twilight hysteria a few months ago, but then Breaking Dawn came out. The Harry Potter fandom had ten years to be out of the know, waiting for the seventh book and so on.
And I see HP and Twilight (is there a short for that?) as two very different series, and, to me at least, HP has more depth to it.
But I think that answers the question.

My question! Which HP fansite is you favorite?
I just need to take a brief moment from this blogpost, which is already becoming very long (sorry), to bitch about a Swedish HP fansite. I just googled Beedle The Bard Sweden (to check if there was anything about a translation) and it came up. It's the biggest HP fansite in Sweden, and it's horrible. I looked around on it and it made me nauseous. It's updated, like once a month, if you're 'lucky', and they don't check their sources or anything that you'd think the biggest fansite in the country would do. And the fact that they called Jo's 800-word 'Prologue' a book just makes me want to cry at it's patheticness.

But anywho, PayPal is a bitch, and have an awesome week!
The one who has too many nicknames to be named...aka the Slytherin girl.

OH MY!

Ok, so today was almost the grossest(sp?) day of my life. A door hit my big toe and the nail fell off. There was a lot of blood and it hurt like hell. On the brightside I got to go home:] Now to the questions....

"Do you have a plushie/stuffed being/inanimate object which has a name and a personality?"
Yes. I have a lot of stuffed animals because my talent in life is the crane machine:) I do have two very special ones though. One is an elephant named Ellie and the other is a dolphin/ blanket name Christie. I <3 them!

"What do you think about the new HBP trailer?"
One word: Amazing! I really liked it and I'm super excited for the movie! I am definitely going to the midnight showing.

"Which covers do you like the best(ex: uk,american..) and what is your favorite one from that set?"
I love all of the covers! My favorite American cover is the collection edition of Order of the Phoenix and I really like the Deathy Hallows UK cover. I also love the covers for the first book.

My question:
Do you think that Twilight will be bigger than Harry Potter?
I bring this up because a lot of people are saying that Twilight will be way bigger than Harry Potter and will spark a whole new phenomenon. However in my opinion, as much as i love Twilight, NOTHING can top Harry Potter!
Ciao for now,
Nina <3