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“i saw you sad.
and your sadness is very sexy.
strong fragile man you know what i mean?
because this is love, maybe.
a_”—lady’s bag on the train today…...
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I AM HAVING AN UNPRECEDENTED GREAT HAIR DAY AND I PASSED MATH FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY COLLEGE CAREER AND IT IS SUMMER.
yeeeeeeeeeee
A NEW LEAGUE FOR A NEW ERA
A Copper on the Edge,
the Boy Who Lived,
a Misfit from the Future,
a Madman with a Box,
the Consulting Detective,
and a Ghost Roomate.(Who would be on your New League of Extraordinary Gentlemen?)
Sweet.
Harry Potter’s Resumé To Join The Aurors | Buzzfeed
Just slightly over qualified.
I don’t like to post anything HP-related but this is just too lulzy not to reblog
i know it’s silly but this really does make me feel shitty about my own resume LOLOL
Liz Feuerbach (via dizzywhore1804)
(via adventuresofcomicbookgirl)
This is what I took from Hermione, when I was reading HP. I loved that she was outspoken and decisive and had a temper. But she was also very emotional and gentle and un-sporty; and these supposedly more ‘feminine’ traits were never written as her failings, but also as her successes.
(via glockgal)
I’m not the biggest fan of the HP series, but Hermione is one of my favorite fictional characters for all these reasons.
(via glockgal)
SPOILERS: Harry and Hermione briefly kiss, but it later seems kinda creepy when they reveal that she is, in fact, his sister. Ron is jealous at first, but when he finds out that they’re siblings, he’s happy again and they wind up together in the Ewok village. Voldemort is Harry’s father, and is redeemed by Harry at the very end before he dies.
Then, JK Rowling writes a bunch of crappy prequels.
The multibillion dollar franchise will reach its conclusion when Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt 2 hits theaters on June 15th. This week, I’m saying goodbye to Harry in the only way I know how: by bombarding tumblr with fanart, videos, music, memes, and most importantly, my unsolicited opinions.
In 1998, two foreign franchises arrived in America and took the nation’s children by storm. In both narratives, a pre-adolescent boy, accompanied by his two best friends, went on a hero’s journey to discover his destiny. The worlds they lived in were occupied by strange animals and questionable science. While I was crazy about the franchise from Japan —the anime series Pokemon, which was based off the popular Nintendo games — I didn’t think much about the book series from the U.K. But by the following year, when Harry Potter costumes were showing up in Party City Halloween ads, HP mania had become impossible to ignore.
I admit: I was a hater. I didn’t like the hype and I thought Harry looked stupid. But in 1999, my fifth-grade teacher was looking for a book that he could read aloud to our class during the free time we had before we went home for the day. He decided on Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. From the first chapter on, I was spellbound (HA!).
Ever since then, I’ve been a Harry Potter fan. There’s definitely a sliding scale of fandom: I would consider most people I know to be casual fans.These are people who have read all the books and who attend the midnight showings of the movies. The funny thing is that these casual fans often profess to be “huge fans”. But when you have people who get tattoos of spell names or lightning bolt-shaped scars, or people who travel across the world just to attend a movie premiere and people
who write novel-length fanfics, you start to realize that you, along with most people, are maybe only a 2 or 3 on the dedicated-fan scale.
I’m definitely on the lower end of that scale. I love the books and have reread them dozens of times, but none of them would make my favorites books list (well, MAYBE PoA would) and I wouldn’t say that JKR is a particularly gifted writer. I didn’t take away any lessons from bravery or friendship from the series that I hadn’t seen in a hundred other young adult novels. I’ve read fanfics and fancomics, but I’ve never been invested in the fandom. If HP had never been written, my life wouldn’t have been any different. On the other hand— I did grow up with Harry Potter. He was there at Christmases and concerts. I was Harry’s age when I started reading the books (I never got a letter from Hogwarts though, darn) The last book, when Harry comes of age, was published weeks after I graduated high school. I’ll talk about this more in the upcoming week, but I’m going to take a break for now.
Let’s rank some books!
