Search posterous

Search all posts and users. Type a name, type a favorite song title, whatever! See what comes up.
  

More posterous blogs

Holy Kaw!
Holy Kaw!
guykawasaki Noelle mayall Catherine Faas anniecolbert Gina Ruiz

Steve
The Steve Rubel Lifestream
Steve | Steve Rubel

clementine
ReflectionOf.Me
clementine | clementine

TweetDeck's posterous
TweetDeck's posterous
tweetdeck pocketsteve richardbarley Iain

The Official Posterous Posterous
The Official Posterous Posterous
sachin garry Posterous brett vccv

nicholaspatten
nicholaspatten's work/life :)
nicholaspatten | Nicholas Patten

sachin
Sachin's Posterous
sachin | Sachin Agarwal

ijustine
ijustine's posterous
ijustine | Justine Ezarik

Leo
Leo LaPosterous
Leo | Leo Laporte

garry
garry's posterous
garry | Garry Tan

More recommended blogs »

Here are posterous posts filed under harrypotter...

mybucketofparts says...
Oct 30, 2009

Harry Potter: OK, so the journey continues

I didn't realize that after the books, there was more obsession to follow. 

Oops. 

How dare I forget that the movies are just as much a part of the journey through the magical landscape that Rowling created. Reading books 1, 2 and 3 weren't as exciting because I had seen the movies, thinking in my anti-bandwagon-jumping way, "I'm never going to read a series of books everyone else is reading, because that is sooo beneath me, but I will stoop just slightly in my pop culture uppity-ness and see the movies." 

Who was that person I used to be? I don't see him in the mirror anymore. Thank God he left. What a downer. 

I am now going to rock my Sunday with some Harry Potter movie viewing, and rock it I will. While Steph is on vacation, I can gorge myself on all the Potter movies, guilt-free, and then do it all over again. Lucky enough, I have 1, 2 and 5 ready to go, but I'm desperate for 3 and 4. I'm not as excited to watch Sorcerer's Stone and Chamber of Secrets because I remember them, and they were more kiddish when they were created. I'm sure they'll still be enjoyable to watch again, since I've read all the novels now, but what I really can't wait to watch is Goblet of Fire, Order of the Phoenix and Half-Blood Prince because they are all darker. I enjoy the darker tones that novels ended up taking on. 

Maybe I'll even "live blog" while watching them. 

Ha ha. 

Oh, stop groaning, will you?

Filed under: harry potter, Harry potter movies
Comment (0) »

Dave says...
Oct 28, 2009

Dawlish: did he kick J.K. Rowling's dog?

It's a well-known running joke in the later Harry Potter books that Dawlish the auror is only mentioned when he's being hexed (Dumbledore in OoTP and HBP), confunded (by the Order of the Phoenix in DH to give the wrong date for Harry's departure), escaped from (Hagrid in OoTP, Dirk Cresswell in DH), or embarrassed by some other epic fail such as being put in St. Mungo's by an old woman who wears a hat with a dead vulture on it (Augusta Longbottom). His one shining moment is being praised by Dumbledore as an excellent auror who got Outstanding on all his N.E.W.T.s, but this is followed by an admonition that Dumbledore will hurt him if he tries to make an arrest. Kind of a back-handed compliment. "I'm sure you're an excellent auror, but by 'excellent' I mean an auror who has as much chance of arresting me as does Madame Pomfrey or Winky the house elf." Maybe Dawlish's curse is to be good enough to get all the tough assignments but not good enough to succeed at them. Who else was going to successfully track Dumbledore on his horcrux-hunting missions? Scrimgeour? Umbridge? (This theory kind of breaks down with Neville's grandmother, though. To be put in the hospital by her can't be good for your career when you're supposed to be a top auror. That's a note in the personnel file for sure.) Rowling has said that Dawlish had kind of become a punching bag for the Order of the Phoenix by the end of Deathly Hallows, so he wasn't firing on all cylinders, but this hardly seems like a ringing defense. She just does not like this character. All his successes go unmentioned and his failures take center stage. I think a boy named Dawlish kicked Jo Rowling's puppy when she was a little girl. It's open to revision, but that's my working theory.

Filed under: books, Harry Potter
Comment (0) »

Nabeel says...
Oct 25, 2009

Tis The Season To Make Your Pets Look Stupid

I saw this post on Jenn's Super Awesome Posterous.  Really, that's what its called!  This cat picture had me dying at 4am. lmfao

Go there if you want to see more silly pictures.  The ugly dog in the Yoda outfit is pretty awesome too!

Via Jenn's Super Awesome Posterous

Filed under: Dead, Dumb, Halloween, Harry Potter, Vacation
Comment (0) »

mybucketofparts says...
Oct 22, 2009

Harry Potter: The Journey is Over

My journey started in July and ended this past Tuesday. I have just soared through 4,100 pages of a seven-book series that I'm sad to see over. I don't normally read that much during a school year, but it helps that I had the audio versions for the last four books and listened for 30 minutes in the morning and 40 minutes in the afternoon, as well as other random times when I washed dishes, rode the elliptical, did yard work and mowed the lawn. 

A good reader makes predictions and thinks through the book as they read, evaluating what's happening and trying to place different key elements together. By the time "Deathy Hallows" is over, everything has fallen into place, and even the more boring elements of "Chamber of Secrets" is vital, since Rowling introduces the Horcruxes in "Half-Blood Prince" but, really, she introduced them all the way back in book two. Especially the Sword of Gryffindor, which is vital in the last two books. It's great to see how all the elements fit nicely into each other. They started off small and easy to read, and then they become these big, overstuffed stories that hurt my creative brain, wondering, how did she have all of this figured out? 

Being a writer, myself, I get how the plot devices and characters fit all together. None of the stories I've even considered writing have that much going on, but the creative subconscious just creates and keeps creating this world, and all the pieces fit inside it and it all makes sense to the creator. Rowling probably was overwhelmed sometimes with how much all of pieces would work out. I'm sure she has notebooks filled with just connections and notes. If not, then her brain must be super-organized. 

No wonder we haven't seen anything from her lately. She's probably still tapped out. It would be great to see another series of books from her, but her first seven books were a magnum opus, and therefore, I wouldn't care if she ever wrote another thing again. Nothing she would write again would probably hold a candle to the wind of Potter, and it would constantly be compared. 

I guess that's the blessing and the curse of writing a modern classic. I can see this series living on for eons. But, since it's so great and so vast, and the world she created was so real, it's also the curse in which everything else will be judged, if she continues writing. I don't think that's what people intend to do, but the public has fallen in love with it so much, that they can't help wanting another set of Potter. They can't help comparing it, even if the next pieces she writes/publishes have nothing in common with it. 

Filed under: harry potter, reading
Comment (0) »

mobility says...
Oct 20, 2009

Untitled

: HarryPotter: The latest movie (No. 6) of the franchise was just released into cinemas. (Plus it rocks). http.. http://bit.ly/Ov7Uw

via Ping.fm

Filed under: HarryPotter
Comment (0) »

mybucketofparts says...
Oct 17, 2009

Harry Potter: The Journey VI

I'm about 300 pages into the last installment of the book, and it's heartbreaking. The bad guys are gaining ground, Hogwarts is under the rule of hook-nosed Snape, and Hermione, Harry and Ron aren't there. 

Although, reading the books in succession made the constant return to Hogwarts a bit monotonous at times, there's a hole in me as I read the last book. They are not there, nor do they plan on even going back. And I'm concerned for the characters? Why is that? 

"Won't you be able to get a wizarding job? You haven't completed your N.E.W.T's!"

It's weird those thoughts that I have, isn't it? Not that they should even go back, though. I wouldn't want Snape and Harry in the same building anymore. Snape's a muddy apple fartbucket (a term I coined a couple weeks ago). 

So, as I travel with Harry, Hermione and Ron, it's in complete suspense, but I also feel a bit disjointed since I'm used to them being/acting out part of their adventures at Hogwarts. What I am looking forward to, though, is the next chapter that takes place in Godric's Hollow -- where more than just Harry's parents used to live.

Filed under: harry potter, reading
Comment (0) »

Paparazzi says...
Oct 16, 2009

EMMA WATSON

         
Click here to download:
EMMA_WATSON.zip (758 KB)

Filed under: Emma Watson, Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Totally Crap
Comment (0) »

pressehof says...
Oct 16, 2009

Harry Potter und sein erster Themenpark

Leipzig - Für Fans der magischen Bücherreihe rund um den Titelhelden Harry Potter wird sich im Frühjahr 2010 ein Traum erfüllen. Der erste und bislang einzige Harry-Potter-Themenpark öffnet dann in Florida seine Pforten. Das Reiseportal www.reisen.de berichtet über die Highlights des künftigen Erlebnisparks.

Als Teil der Universal Islands of Adventures in der US-Stadt Orlando wird das neue Areal die Romanschauplätze Hogwarts, Hogsmeade und den Verbotenen Wald umfassen. Damit vergrößert sich das Universal Orlando Resort, zu dem auch die Universal Studios Florida und der Universal CityWalk gehören, um eine weitere Attraktion.

Fünf Hektar groß ist die...

Harry Potter und sein erster Themenpark bei Pressehof komplett lesen

via Pressehof

Filed under: Harry Potter, Orlando, Themenpark
Comment (0) »

webappuniverse says...
Oct 12, 2009

Untitled

The Free Harry Potter Fan Insider for iPhone: http://ping.fm/NR59z
iPhone harrypotter hogwarts wizard

via Ping.fm

Filed under: harrypotter, hogwarts, iPhone, wizard
Comment (0) »

mybucketofparts says...
Oct 10, 2009

Harry Potter: The Journey V

I figured it might be important to at least let my beloved peoples know where it is I stand with the current volume of "Harry Potter." 

I think "The Order of the Phoenix" might be my favorite one yet. I'm not far enough in "Half-Blood Prince" where it's exciting, yet. Sure we met Voldemort's relatives and his mum, in a interesting chapter of history, and I'm sure we see more, of course, but I think I enjoyed the darkness and the unknown in "The Order of the Phoenix." I was more engaged with Harry when he couldn't control his temper. I enjoyed being at 12 Grimmauld, a new setting that wasn't Hogwarts, the Dursley's or the Burrow. 

I think what tends to bore me a little with the books, and just a little, is when they are in Hogwarts. Rowling does a good job with new teachers and focusing on different aspects of the school in every book, but I'm getting the feel of the listlessness that I felt when I was reading "The Goblet of Fire."

But I wouldn't want her to have changed it. I think I'm also burnt out a tad because I am reading all 7 in a row. Probably not the smartest thing. Those who read the series as they should have, with the pauses in between, probably enjoyed going back to Hogwarts each time. They had years and life experiences in between each book. 

My life experience right now is the book. 

Reading a set of books like this creates positive memories, and so returning to a familiar place in the imagination probably felt comforting. 

I have that same feeling, but it's been watered down to a place where I'm comfortable with the characters. 

Filed under: harry potter, reading
Comment (0) »