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OMG I DIDN'T SEE THIS THREAD UNTIL NOW~! *superglomps Sabe!!* Welcome back!!

Anything Franz Ferdinand. Just sticking in my brain!!

I have a feeling that it'll be a waste of money and history majors will be disappointed.

Since it was the last book, you'd think people would take it slower. I spent almost the entire weekend reading it, ON PURPOSE :0

And for those who want to know what happened to everyone afterwards. . .

Rowling tells what happened to 'Potter' characters

By LINDSAY TOLER / The Associated Press

Monday, Jul 30, 2007 - 02:30:21 pm CDT

LONDON — Just because J.K. Rowling has stopped writing about Harry Potter and his friends and foes doesn’t mean she has stopped thinking about them.

She told fans Monday what she thinks happened to many of the book’s characters after the final installment.

In a 90-minute live Web chat, she fielded some of the approximately 120,000 questions submitted by devotees. It was her first public comment since “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” — the last book in the series — debuted on July 21.

Rowling said she was elated to share with fans the secrets she’d been harboring since she conjured up the idea for the boy wizard during a train journey across England in 1990.

“It is great to be able to do this at last,” she said. “I’ve looked forward to it for so long!”

“Deathly Hallows” sold over 10 million copies in its first weekend. All seven books in the blockbuster series have sold a combined 335 million copies worldwide.

In the novel — which centers on Harry’s journey to kill Lord Voldemort, the most powerful dark wizard of all time — the young wizard learns of three powerful magical objects called the Deathly Hallows that, when combined, will make their owner the Master of Death, meaning he or she accepts mortality without fear.

Rowling said in the online chat the hallows were in part inspired by “The Pardoner’s Tale,” one of Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales” about greed and death.

Rowling shared with fans, many of whom said they’d read the final book several times in the last week, where she imagines their favorite characters went after the series’ conclusion.

SPOILER ALERT: Those who do not wish to know what happens to the characters after the book ends should stop reading here.

Rowling said the world was a sunnier, happier place after the seventh book and the death of Voldemort.

Harry Potter, who always voiced a desire to become an Auror, or someone who fights dark wizards, was named head of the Auror Department under the new wizarding government headed by his friend and ally, Kingsley Shacklebolt.

His wife, Ginny Weasley, stuck with her athletic career, playing for the Holyhead Harpies, the all-female Quidditch team. Eventually, Ginny left the team to raise their three children — James, Albus and Lily — while writing as the senior Quidditch correspondent for the wizarding newspaper, the Daily Prophet.

Harry’s best friend Ron Weasley joined his brother, George, as a partner at their successful joke shop, Weasley’s Wizard Wheezes. Hermione Granger, Ron’s wife and the third person of the series’ dark wizard fighting trio, furthered the rights of subjugated creatures, such as house elves, in the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures before joining the magical law enforcement squad. The couple had two children — Rose and Hugo.

Luna Lovegood, Harry’s airily distracted friend with a love for imaginary animals who joins the fight against Voldemort in the Order of the Phoenix, becomes a famous wizarding naturalist who eventually marries the grandson of Newt Scamander, author of “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.”

And what Muggle, or non-wizard, song would have been played at the funeral of Albus Dumbledore, the most brilliant and talented wizard the world had ever known?

“Surely ’I Did It My Way’ by Frank Sinatra,” Rowling told her fans, referring to the song “My Way,” written by Paul Anka but popularized by Sinatra, among other singers.

As the chat wrapped up, Rowling thanked readers for their loyalty to the series.

“What can I say? Thank you so much for sticking with me, and with Harry, for so long. You have made this an incredible journey for Harry’s author.”

I have done/watched 90% of all these. What about the Gummy Bears and The Wuzzles?

Also, Legends of the Hidden Temple, All That, Family Matters. . .

I was more impressed with the costumes last year. The guys this year need to really pull the potential. At least last year the names were more creative: Tiberius, Feedback, Fat Momma, Cellphone Girl, Monkeywoman, etc. . .

But I'll faithfully watch this season for the sake of anticipation!

Haha, did anybody else think Dr. Dark was a Death Eater??

Actually. . . I found myself crying less with certain deaths, knowing that some would be happier at certain times or otherwise too distracted to feel any pain. I think all but two were really justified. Excellent, excellent story, epilogue could've used a bit of work, and remember RPer, whatever she wrote IS canon.

I cried hardest when Harry was burying Dobby, and then again when he was walking through the forest with his family towards the spider's den. NOOOO NOT HEDWIG!! ;_; You think she's going to be okay when Harry catches her at the last second and is blasted the next!!!! It was terrible!

Sorry, the series is somewhat catching, but after 30 episodes of "Five Minutes Until The Planet Namek Explodes" is too much for me.

Mmm, TRC rocks--My friend and I were sharing manga for awhile and that was one of my favorites. I always cry when Sakura wakes up after the first time.

Valid points all around. It hurts, and grandma seems to be quite the emotional dictator--she knows psycho aunt lies, but she says at her age, she'd rather die with her family around her. They don't have to be happy, just present. As for psycho aunt, I'll probably not be able to talk to her ever again. Over the years, I'd come to get closer to my grandma, wanting to be close to her so she knows that I care for her, but if she tries to push this familial thing on me, I'll tell her the truth. Only by blood, that is if the drugs haven't changed that for psycho aunt too.

My mother also has a connectivity problem. She thinks a forty minute drive to the other side of town is too far away for her to visit. heh. Anyone else notice that people want to spend less time with their family? That used to bother me.

F.A.Q., huh? It sounds like a good idea--maybe I'll make a matching flowchart.

I have family issues. One psycho aunt who drinks, tells lies, and turns one person against another. . . and one grandma who takes her side whenever I get offended by something she says. After xmas I was told by my grandmother--after I'd been confronted and verbally assaulted--that my sister and I ruined the holidays indefinitely. I kept my damn mouth shut and nothing should have been pointed at me.

Six months later, I still can't hold a conversation with my grandmother, and I have this overwhelming urge to hit my psycho aunt with a blunt object in the very high hope that the blow would kill her and end her miserable life. She wants to die, anyways. She doesn't take responsibility of her actions, and alcohol is her best friend. Who takes a woman seriously with a traitorous background like hers? My god, I had to snap at her husband when my grandma was in a comatose state after he said we should get ready for a funeral. Maybe I've brought this up, but I've kept my mouth shut about what she's done to me and mine.

When she dies, psycho aunt is going to put up such a fight for anything. I read somewhere that you have 6 months to decide whether or not you can accept what is given to you, and part of me is wanting to turn anything she gives me away. I don't care how important the item in question is--I already know what it is, and I can't stop crying about such an heirloom. I'd rather die than have that woman, that atrocious, soulless woman pull everything out that I loved about my life--my relationship with my grandmother is gone, my respect for her gone, all because she thinks I'm at fault for the lies of another.

I want to vomit, I want to go back to Canada, I want to be somewhere else, where everything is easier because it's not around. What kind of woman wants that? Do I try to reconnect with someone who doesn't look at me the same as she used to, try to play nice with someone who doesn't acknowledge me as a person, and compromise my dignity for the scraps of love I used to be so freely given in hopes that one day my grandmother will see what her lying daughter has done to my family. . . or do I leave it alone and wonder if things will change without me, because the world can do that with time?

What defines a woman, anyways?

Pacific Vortex: a Dirk Pitt Adventure

mmmm, Dirk Pitt. . .

Crickets!! Everywhere I go, it's Crickets!

Also, my MP3 was wiped, all my music disappeared. ;;

OMG these shows are ridiculous but I can't stop watching them! It's like American Idol to a 12 year old~!

That is scary. I'm hoping Not to see something break like that lest my ears pick up random energies that'll make me depressed about the state of the world.

hehe, fanfiction is good now. Creative Will Turner trying to communicate with his bonny lass but Calypso having other plans, telling him that messages in bottles would be accepted but none other. Hehe, it makes me giddy!

People love to find loopholes in curses.

Yo Ho, all hands, hoist the colours high

Heave Ho, thieves and beggars, never shall they die.

fast question, was Jacks dad supposed to be captain Morgan or possibly even a decedent of Morgan?

When I first saw him that's all I could think about.

Considering Keith Richards was completely wasted during the shooting, it's no wonder that picture appeared.

Yeah, Teague is supposed to be Jack's dad [hehe, Jackie], and I think he might still be mortal--but knows what life is to live so he would choose otherwise. However, Jack might not remain that way, knowing him and his determination.

Is Elizabeth supposed to stay in Shipwreck Cove now that she's the Pirate King? I think I read that on some super fan site. I can see Jack hunting down the fountain of youth and giving Elizabeth a vial of it, complaining that, "I'll have to deal with Will's bitching if I didn't."

POTC 3 soundtrack--I'm crying during that ONE song that reminds me of the movie. Happens every damned time!! ;_;

Hoe noes you don't. I liked Orlando Bloom for Turner, reminds me of Malcolm Reynolds saying, "We can't die. You know why? Because we are too darned pretty for god to let us." Will picked up the slack in the second movie, and the story was left open--I'm just glad it ended on a semi-happy note. Will's character was brought up to speed, and I actually disliked Jack more as the movies progressed.

What I didn't like as much was Kiera's acting. Pirate King? Quoi? The story had my stomach in knots by the end of the night and I couldn't sleep. Having to leave his loved one behind so he could live forever without her, it's painful. Callisto was a goddess imprisoned by the flesh and Elizabeth would die eventually. I suppose they could make their family live on, but it's a frightening thought and I was happy Will didn't die, but at what price? When the Kraken died, I almost cried, too.

I want to read more fanfiction in a few weeks. The movie kept me up for hours when I could've been sleeping. Same reaction from LOTR.

I love that clip. <3

Je pense le langue français est très beau.

It's stressful up here, that's for damn sure. I've been trying to mellow out, but all I want to do is sit down outside and do nothing one morning. I wake up, have class at 8:30a.m., exit class at 12:30 and end up taking a nap from exhaustion. The jet lag might actually be wearing off finally. I've been fighting that since I got here.

I'm starting to listen to the language naturally, and slowly transforming my language to suit them. I still get nervous around teachers, though Marie-Andrèe is making things really easy. I failed my second vocab test--she keeps on trying to make me listen to a description and make a word out of what she says, and everyone else does a great job. I just can't seem to do it.

Oh well, it's a vocab quiz. I know most of the words, and that I tried is something.

American Idiot -- green day

There's this five-week intensive French study I'm attending right now at Laval University and I'm having a blast. My French is improving but my friends like speaking in English. I can see how it's tiring to try to speak it every day, but I need a reminder of what I'm doing in the long run. I've told them this but they brush it off.

I'm the only Nebraskan, there're people from Chicago, New Orleans, Alaska, Missouri, and a couple others, but the rest are residents of Canada.

I didn't get my main luggage for three days. Air Canada is paying for $100 of my stuff that I send a receipt for.

I've got internet in my room finally, which is a big relief because I have people I want to talk to, and I even started writing again!! at the discotheque. with alcohol in my system. It's not bad, to tell the truth, will post some when I finish the idea.

Weezer

strange discotheque music pounding in my ears from last night.