I guess the Deathly Hallows is not as obvious as it seems in hindsight.
Everybody thinks it's completely dotty. It's like believing in Bigfoot, or Nargles which is exactly why Xenophilius is into it, I guess.
Most people don't even know about the Hallows at all. Even somebody as deep into wand lore as Olivander doesn't have a clue.
It would be like handing somebody a fairytale version of Snow White and expecting that person to deduce that there were really vampires in the world. (As Tanith Lee famously riffed on "skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood..)
I love that the spell Hermione suggests Ron try to stop it raining is "finite incantatem" the wizard equivalent of the power switch. It's fitting that some guys would call tech support.
Every time Sean Bean dies in a movie:
[link]
When Captain America throws his mighty shield...
It would appear that those who chose to oppose his shield did, in fact, yield.
It's not irreversible. She restores their memories afterwards.
Wait, I don't remember this part. She does?
My t-shirt is finished and I'm going to take a small nap and then shower and head off for my double feature of HP. I must also replace the candy which I bought to sneak in and that THE DOG ATE.
You're wearing an HP t-shirt to the movie? What a geek.
ita and Aims should totally swap shirts. That would be kind of hilarious, actually.
(I wouldn't even wear a Batman logo t-shirt to the comic-book expo last year, because I didn't want to seem like I was trying to hard. No, seriously, that was my thought process at the time. Don't ask me.)
