Harry Potter Challenge Blog #6

I do find this====> http://www.cracked.com/article_17510_5-ways-people-are-taking-harry-potter-waaay-too-seriously.html to be pretty hilarious. Honestly I agree, this series is just a book. I understand things can change a person dramatically  but people need to understand that we are living in a world where actual magic displayed in the Harry Potter series just does not exist. The one thing that made me want to read the Harry Potter books was because I knew that once I got to college there would be a quidditch team. If you don't understand what quidditch is...well I'm sorry but you're just going to have to read the books. I wanted to be in the know with all of my homies. I wanted to be a freak like the rest of the HP fan base. I wanted to understand all of the HP secrets too. BUT! I really just want to shake people and scream in there face that HP, is a book. It's a book, and it's never going to be real. I'm not a dream crusher, but for this franchise I will be. Seriously though, 1000 years from now, people are going to dig this stuff up and think that we were the most insane generation ever created. Thanks J.K, I always wanted people to remember me as a crazy obsessed Harry Potter fan/ lunatic.

Harry Potter Challenge Blog #5

Draco Malfoy, the character everyone hates the most, but I think there is more to. I've been reading a lot...obviously, and I've come to hate Draco like a lot of other people. However,I feel sorry for him. For some reason I feel a great deal of pain for Draco. It's not his fault he's such an ignorant little prick, his parents made him into who he is and I think that counts for something. Honestly, people can say an person is their own individual all they want, but a parent can scar and leave a huge imprint on their children. The good, the bad, and the ugly can really shine through a persons child. Parents are all about manipulation, Lucius Malfoy is the biggest manipulator ever. I haven't read all the books, truthfully I haven't read at all this week, but I find time to think about Malfoy  I just want to hug him, he might kill me, but if someone stood by him and showed him what love truly was, that it's not money, but something that resides deep inside the soul, he might not turn out as bad as everyone makes him out to be. Shout out to J.K. Rowling for toying with my feels for this one.

I mean...I never said he was perfect... just messed up, yah know?

Harry Potter Challenge Blog #4

I haven't read anything since Sunday. I haven't been feeling very well, and my concentration is all over the place, but there is something I would like to share with you all so here it is. I remember yesterday I was asked who my favorite character was. I think I said Ron...I'm not sure. A bit of a head cold here. However, I now know that that was a lie. My favorite character in the novel is the one and only Neville Longbottom. Why do you ask? Because Neville Longbottom is just simply human. Yes he is a goofball, but there is a lot more to him than just his mess ups. There is nothing extraordinary about Neville, unlike  Harry who always gets the girl and wins the fight, or Ron who is just known for being the greatest best friend in the world. Even Hermione ,who just might be smarter than Einstein. Neville messes up all the time, and he appreciates the little things in life because he knows that those are what counts the most. He cherishes his friends, and shows great strength when nobody ever expects him too. He is simply human, yet so much more powerful than that. He is a wizard, and a great one at that. So cheers to Neville!  For being my hero and having the biggest heart. Sorry Harry, I know J.K. Rowling intended for you to be everyones favorite, but in the end, you just didn't cut it in my book.

1,707 pages down/ 1,500 pages to go

Harry Potter Challenge Blog #3

Wow, I think I missed something. I think I forgot to blog on one of these days...I'm so bad at this. I just get caught up in the book and the WAM! I forget to blog about J.K.Rowling and all her perfection. I really enjoy how every chapter ends with you wanting more. There is always something building, and that is something that I thoroughly enjoy with everything Rowling does in her novels. Yes there is always a problem in her books, but she keeps you at the peak of the problem for so long before she even lets you stop holding your breath. well off to reading some more! Ta-ta!

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1,707 pages down/ 1,500 pages to go

Spell of the day: Lumos: projects a beam of light from the user’s wand

Harry Potter Challenge Blog #2

So...this weeks reading has gone by exceptionally slow. The fifth book is so long, so I understand why J.K. Rowling is really taking her time to get to the dramatic die hard scene in the novel, she has to keep her fans on edge. I particularly just want to plow my way through the book, but I want to understand what is going on right now. You know, I never knew a villain that wore pink before this novel came out. Professor Umbridge is an evil little lady in pink. I always hated that color, she makes me hate it even more. Don't give up Harry! Evil never wins!

Spell of the day: Silencio
A spell to cause something (or someone) to become silent. As Hermoine instructs Ron, this spell is done with a sharp jab of the wand, not a wave.

          

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Harry Potter Challenge Blog #1

     So today I have struggled with reading. There is just so much to be done and I have yet to read ten more chapters in the fifth book. In a weeks time I have completed four of the Harry Potter novels. Yes, you can say I am addicted. J.K. Rowling is a very talented writer if I must say so myself. I do get annoyed with all the description at times, but they do come in handy when I try to picture the next weapon that sets out to kill Harry and his friends. Well, off to reading again! 

1,999 pages down/ 2,101 more to go