Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hoggy, Warty, Hogwarts, Teach us something please, Whether we be old and bald Or young with scabby knees, Our heads could do with filling With some interesting stuff, For now they're bare and full of air, Dead flies and bits of fluff, Teach us things worth knowing, Bring back what we've forgot, Just do your best, we'll do the rest, And learn till our brains all rot.
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84 Days until Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince!
(OK, so there's only 83, but today...or I mean, yesterday, was my last day in Provo for the summer, and I managed to forget completely about the countdown! So, I'll do one reason now, and another one tomorrow night when I get home to Colorado. )
Reason #84: Oliver Wood...hot in the books and the first two movies. I think it's the Scottish accent. Posts: 1635 | Registered: Aug 2002
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I'll second your reason #84 (about Oliver Wood ) and raise you another.
#84 Harry Potter books are really thick. #4 or #5 are great for long drives and painful waiting periods as they completely take your mind off of what you're waiting for for many many hours. Posts: 6415 | Registered: Jul 2000
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#84: Luna Lovegood. I think it's funny how she always looks like she just happened to wander in to a place.
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82 Days until Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince!
Reason #82: A world where goblins are bankers
quote: "Wizards have banks?"
"Just the one. Gringotts. Run by goblins."
Harry dropped the bit of sausage he was holding.
"Goblins?"
"Yeah--so yeh'd be mad ter try an' rob it, I'll tell yeh that. Never mess with goblins, Harry. Gringotts is the safest place in the world fer anything yeh want ter keep safe--'cept maybe Hogwarts."
--from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, chapter five, "Diagon Alley"
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80 Days until Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince!
Reason #80: Argus Filch...disgusting and terrible, but Hogwarts wouldn't be complete without him!
quote: "He did it, he did it!" Filch spat, his pouchy face purpling. "You saw what he wrote on the wall! He found--in my office--he knows I'm a--I'm a--" Filch's face worked horribly. "He knows I'm a Squib!" he finished.
--from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, chapter nine, "The Writing on the Wall"
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78 Days until Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince!
Reason #78: Harry's recruitment to the Gryffindor Quidditch team by Professor McGonagall.
quote: DO NOT OPEN THE PARCEL AT THE TABLE. It contains your new Nimbus Two Thousand, but I don't want everybody knowing you've got a broomstick or they'll all want one. Oliver Wood will meet you tonight on the Quidditch field at seven o'clock for your first training session.
--Professor M. McGonagall
--from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, chapter ten, "Halloween"
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75 Days until Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince!
Reason #75: Harry's messy hair
quote: About once a week, Uncle Vernon looked over the top of his newspaper and shouted that Harry needed a haircut. Harry must have had more haircuts than the rest of the boys in his class put together, but it made no difference, his hair simply grew that way--all over the place.
--from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, chapter two, "The Vanishing Glass"
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74 Days until Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince!
Reason #74: Afternoon Tea with Hagrid
quote: Dear Harry,
I know you get Friday afternoons off, so would you like to come and have a cup of tea with me around three? I want to hear all about your first week. Send us an answer back with Hedwig.
Hagrid
--from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, chapter eight, "The Potions Master"
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Reason #73: The Marauder's Map insulting Snape. I love it. "And Mr. Moony wonders how a git like that ever became a professor"
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Jennie, just because you are in CA with Paul is no reason for you to neglect your HP countdown. I mean honestly, who is more important to you? Harry (the correct answer ) or Paul (the incorrect answer )? I love you, but I think you need to get your priorities straight here. Posts: 119 | Registered: Jan 2003
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#58 Wizard Baruffio who said the wrong words for a levitation spell and ended up with a Buffalo on his stomach.
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57 Days until Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince!
Reason #57: Dumbledore's abundant wisdom
quote:"The sorting hat placed you in Gryffindor. You know why that was. Think."
"It only put me in Gryffindor," said Harry in a defeated voice, "because I asked not to go in Slytherin...."
"Exactly," said Dumbledore, beaming once more. "Which makes you very different from Tom Riddle. It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
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56 Days until Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince!
Reason #56: Ron's first telephone call
quote: "Vernon Dursley speaking."
Harry, who happened to be in the room at the time, froze as he heard Ron's voice answer.
"HELLO? HELLO? CAN YOU HEAR ME? I--WANT--TO--TALK--TO--HARRY--POTTER!"
Ron was yelling so loudly that Uncle Vernon jumped and held the receiver a foot away from his ear, staring at it with an expression of mingled fury and alarm.
"WHO IS THIS?" he roared in the direction of the mouthpiece. "WHO ARE YOU?"
"RON--WEASELY!" Ron bellowed back, as though he and Uncle Vernon were speaking from opposite ends of a football field. "I'M--A-FRIEND--OF--HARRY'S--FROM--SCHOOL--"
Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban, chapter 1, "Owl Post"
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55 Days until Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Reason #55: Fred and George Weasley, the early pranks
quote:"Now, you two--this year, you behave yourselves. If I get one more owl telling me you've--you've blown up a toilet or--"
"Blown up a toilet? We've never blown up a toilet."
"Great idea though, thanks, Mom."
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"Hurry up!" their mother said, and the three boys clambered onto the train. They leaned out of the window for her to kiss them good-bye, and their younger sister began to cry.
"Don't, Ginny, we'll send you loads of owls"
"We'll send you a Hogwarts toilet seat."
--from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, chapter six, "The Journey From Platform Nine and Three-Quarters"
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Oh my gosh! You are so funny! Are you Emily and Amanda?
OK, first of all, I feel I must apologize for the fate of this thread. I went out of town fully intending to continue it while I was gone (I even packed two of my Harry Potter books!), but it just didn't happen. I was visiting my boyfriend before he left for Japan for the rest of the summer (internship). Anyway, I could have caught this thread up this week, but I was totally overwhelmed at the idea of doing it. A friend who reads my thread actually brought it to my attention just now, or I wouldn't have seen it at all.
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Welcome back, hansenj!! We missed you! Our HP fest was quite pathetic without you around to save it. Posts: 7877 | Registered: Feb 2003
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hansenj, we were just fighting the good fight, I mean, I was just fighting the good fight in your absence. Am I Emily and Amanda? Technically: No, I am singular. But I am one who was highly motivated by the other. I and or slash we lush you lots and lots, and welcome you back to your domain of internet friendship. Please be responsible. Posts: 30 | Registered: May 2005
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54 Days until Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince!
Reason #54: Professor Trelawney's death omens
quote:"I see," said Professor McGonagall, fixing Harry with her beady eyes. "Then you should know, Potter, that Sibyll Trelawney has predicted the death of one student a year since she arrived at this school. None of them has died yet. Seeing death omens is her favorite way of greeting a new class. If it were not for the fact that I never speak ill of my colleagues--"
Professor McGonagall broke off, and they saw that her nostrils had gone white.
--from Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban, chapter six, "Talons and Tea Leaves"
PS- hansenj, we are just filling in until you choose to jump back in. We're not trying to usurp your thread!
PPS- I'm slightly distubed that the smiley only has one arm, but I'm okay with the fact that it's coming out of his head.
PPPS-I don't even know if PSs are kosher in online forums, but I do love them so! I also love this smiley: , just in case you wondered.
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Hmmm . . . I have been known to go hog wild with just about everything I do, so maybe I will refrain from PSs for the moment. Posts: 30 | Registered: May 2005
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