Lots of genealogy.
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'Lineage'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Connie Neil - Jun 07, 2004 3:15:32 pm PDT #3159 of 10002
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Connie Neil - Jun 07, 2004 3:18:33 pm PDT #3160 of 10002
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I don't remember where I saw it, but Rowling's put some FAQs up on her website--oh, People magazine, I think. No particular order and paraphrased.
She'd like people to stop calling Voldemort Voldie, it's disturbing.
No, Voldemort is not Harry's real father, please stop confusing the Potterverse with Star Wars, which people are obviously watching too much of.
No, she won't be writing the adventures of Harry's parents when she's done with the series. See above re: Star Wars.
Polter-Cow - Jun 07, 2004 3:19:43 pm PDT #3161 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
No, Voldemort is not Harry's real father, please stop confusing the Potterverse with Star Wars, which people are obviously watching too much of.
He he he. Yesterday, I had the passing fancy of Snape being Harry's real father.
Aims - Jun 07, 2004 3:20:41 pm PDT #3162 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
So help me gawd in the rerelease of the DVD's, if they go back and A) put Michael Gambon's face on Richard Harris' body or B) Have Draco hit first, I'll go apeshit.
Katerina Bee - Jun 07, 2004 3:24:50 pm PDT #3163 of 10002
Herding cats for fun
Calling You Know Who "Voldie" is disturbing The Author? OK, then can we threaten JKR into editing and pruning #6 by saying we'll refer to Lord Voldemort as Oldie Van Voldie if she pulls an Anne Rice on us. I was so impatient with OotP. Nothing much happened for pages on end, except that Harry was angry. Fume, Harry, fume. It was like having an actual self pitying annoying teenager spewing angst in my living room.
§ ita § - Jun 07, 2004 3:24:59 pm PDT #3164 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I bobbed over to her site.
Is every book going to be bigger than the previous one?
No, definitely not, or book seven would be around the weight of a baby hippopotamus. According to the plan for book six, it will be quite a bit shorter than 'Order of the Phoenix'. I am not going to swear on my children's lives that that is going to be the case, but I am 99% certain of it.
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JKR is deadly serious when she forbids people to call Voldemort 'Voldy'
Erm... I was joking. I thought it was very amusing when I found a chat room full of people calling him 'Voldy'. Maybe I should develop a secret symbol that means 'this is a joke', a kind of anti-Dark Mark? And incidentally... I wasn't really Squidward that day in the MuggleNet chat room, either. That's a SpongeBob SquarePants in-joke. I used a different name. So you can all stop logging on as Squidward now ;)
§ ita § - Jun 07, 2004 3:25:51 pm PDT #3165 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Nothing much happened for pages on end, except that Harry was angry.
Wait -- did we also find out that his father had been an ass? I think we're up to three pages, tops, and that's only if we stop by to see how Hagrid is.
Aims - Jun 07, 2004 3:27:08 pm PDT #3166 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Waitaminnit.
The most popular boy in school was an ass??
That's unheard of!!
Polter-Cow - Jun 07, 2004 3:27:38 pm PDT #3167 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Wait -- did we also find out that his father had been an ass?
Yeah, and there was one of those wacky prophecies that told us what we already knew.
Katerina Bee - Jun 07, 2004 3:29:00 pm PDT #3168 of 10002
Herding cats for fun
That's right, it came to light that Harry's father wasn't consistently the nicest kid on his corridor. I could re-read it, I suppose, but it seems so daunting when I have so many other books in queue.