Great Advice from Hermione and Ginny

(Spoilers for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)
So this is in the last chapter of Half-Blood Prince. This is something Ginny tells Harry after he breaks up with her.
"I never really gave up on you. Not really. I always hoped.... Hermione told me to get on with life, maybe go out with some other people, relax a bit around you, because I never used to be able to talk if you were in the room, remember? And she thought you might take a bit more notice if I was a bit more-- myself."
Maybe this is stupid of me to say. Maybe you have heard it a million times before, but always be yourself. People will like you that way. Trust me, it works for me, and it also works for our friend Luna. Sometimes especially since you guys are fandomeers you might feel like:

 

 

But guys, you should never fee like that! In fact my sister met one of her best friends because she said something about Harry Potter and then her friend said "Harry Potter? I love Harry Potter!" and now they are best bros!

So always be yourself, people will like you better, Harry liked Ginny that way :)



Um, Valentine's Day? Not Valentine's Day? I Don't Know.

So yeah, yesterday was Valentine's Day and I'm just on Facebook this morning and I see everyone who admins any page at all posting something for Valentine's Day and I'm just like I didn't post anything what kind of person am I. Yeah so I haven't been here for a while it's been a long time, sorry. But hey maybe that's okay. Because honestly Valentine's Day isn't such a big deal and if your Valentine was your copy of Prince Caspian then you're totally cool in my book.
So here are just a few reasons why books are amazing.
1. Books never make you talk. You don't want to talk? The book doesn't care. It only wants you to talk if you want to read it out loud. And if you don't? It's okay with that too. Read it in your head. The book is fine with either one.
2. Books make you happy. Funnily enough, even sad books make you happy, because if you can't get a problem in your life out of your head then the book is like, "It's okay, just read this," and all the characters in the books have problems that make you forget about your problems. Books are just like your really good friends.
3. Books introduce you to tons of new people. There are firstly the fictional people. So you have like a hundred fake friends right there. And then there are the real people who like those same books. And that adds about a million real friends to the fake ones.
4. Books take you on adventures! Like, adventures you couldn't go on if you didn't read.
So yeah, don't worry if you don't have a boyfriend/girlfriend. The books of the universe are there for you in the meantime.

Where They Were and Where They Are, Part Percy Jackson

(Spoilers for Percy Jackson and the Olympians)
The moment you've all been waiting for!!! The final part of "Where They Were and Where They Are"! So Hunger Games can be a little depressing to think about, but luckily with Percy Jackson we can generally all be satisfied with the outcomes of the characters.
Percy starts off a kid who gets into a lot of trouble. He doesn't have very many friends. He gets kicked out of every school he goes to. His mom married a horrible guy, his family is really poor and his super sweet mom just can't seem to make it. In the end, Percy's new stepdad is a lot better for him and his mom. He's the demigod hero of the universe. He has a girlfriend (YES!) and tons of friends. He has almost everything he didn't have in the beginning.
Annabeth was a twelve-year-old who thought she knew everything. She pretty much ruled over Camp Half-Blood and thought she was amazing because her mother was Athena. She was determined Percy was the hero and that they shouldn't be friends. She loved Grover, missed Thalia, and hated her mortal family. Annabeth changed a lot too. She grew up to actually be a leader at Camp Half-Blood instead of just thinking so. She and Percy became more than friends and she didn't have to miss Thalia anymore because she was alive again. She could be happy with her mortal family. (The loving Grover thing didn't change, though.)
All we know about Grover is that he's a crip who is Percy's only friend because of how wimpy he is. He turns out to be pretty much the exact opposite of that. Grover is a brave person who will do anything for his friends. He was never a crip, he was a satyr. And in the end, he's not just any satyr, but a searcher, and a successful one too. He even faces his fear of Cyclopes, not to mention a few other things.
The first time we technically meet Thalia, she's a tree. When we meet her as a human, she's a tough, Huntress-hating, powerful and totally awesome daughter of Zeus, and she didn't hate Percy, she didn't love him, he was her friend except for when he irritated her. Thalia didn't change that much. But where she did change, she changed a lot. She and Percy became really great friends. And not only did she stop hating the Huntresses, but she actually BECAME a Huntress. Talk about plot twist.
When we meet Nico, he's a nerdy ten-year old kid who loved Mythomagic. He irritated the heck out of Percy and pretty much everyone else, but his sister loved him and would do anything for him. In the end he doesn't have a sister, and that pretty much changed everything about him. he wasn't a nerdy, sweet ten-year-old kid anymore. He grew up fast. He was tough and deadly, and despite the fact that he hated Percy after Bianca's death, they became friends.
It appears this is the end! And at least we got to end on a relatively happy note :)



other things.

Some People Do Superbowl for the Football, Some People Do Superbowl for the Food

And I would be the second type. In honor of Superbowl Sunday, I would like to say that Superbowl would be a million times cooler if it were Quidditch.

 

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Where They Were and Where They Are, Part Hunger Games

(Spoilers for the Hunger Games Trilogy)
So as for our Hunger Games characters, they change at least as much if not more than our Harry Potter characters. Sadly, the end for our Hunger Games characters are slightly more tragic. This might be kind of sad.
Katniss starts out a teenage girl who has no father and has to take care of her family. She only has one friend, Gale, and sometimes Madge tries to be her friend too. She wants to protect the people she loves from the Capitol and the Hunger Games and that's generally all she cares about. By the end Katniss is about as sad as people get. The world around her has pretty much been destroyed and is in the process of being recreated. She has a husband (and she definitely made the right choice) and two cute kids, even though she was afraid to have them. But now that there's no more Hunger Games, she doesn't have to worry about them anymore.
Peeta was reaped and no one cared enough to volunteer for him. He was one of the baker's sons and, according to Katniss, had tons of friends and was a wrestler and made bread and cakes. By the end, he is married to a girl he has been in love with since kindergarten and has two kids that he wanted so badly. Sadly, he still has some of the hijacked images in his mind every once in a while, but in general he was better, he was as back to normal as he can get, and as Katniss said he said, they'll be okay.
Gale was pretty much in the same place as Katniss. His father was dead. He was taking care of his family. His only friend was Katniss, but all the girls were secretly in love with him. He hated the Capitol and the Games almost more than Katniss. He was pretty much as rebellious as they come. What happened to Gale at the end? What we do know is that after the war he went to District Two. Greasy Sae said it was a fancy job. He might even be getting paid a lot. Gale might be living good in District Two. Probably still getting over Katniss. Will Gale ever find someone for him? (Me and my sister say that Gale and Eponine from Les Miserables were made for each other, the rebel who gets friendzoned for a blond person. But who knows.)
Haymitch was dead drunk all the time. He was late to reapings and falling off stages. He was the drunk of District Twelve, and besides being a victor, that was pretty much how people knew him. At the end, he's still drunk, but not drunk to the point of falling around everywhere. He goes back to District Twelve and lives in his home. Katniss even says he raises geese while waiting for liquor to come. Haymitch's life was rough, but it actually did get better in a number of ways.
Prim was a very delicate little girl. She had lost her father and for a time her mother wasn't even there to look after her. So she relied on her sister. And when her name was reaped, I actually think she was pretty brave, just walked up there without a word. By the end of her story, which sadly ends in her death, she changes about as much as Neville from Harry Potter does. She is now strong and is working with other people. She has an important role in the rebellion, until her unfortunate passing. Prim was a great girl.
When we meet Finnick, he appears to be flirting with Katniss, and at least what I got from it is we're not sure that we can trust him. We later learn that Finnick was not flirting with Katniss at all, he was trying to gain her trust so they could be allies so that they could get her out of the Games safely. Sadly, Finnick's story ends in his death too. But before that, he got married, and that's really happy. Sadly, he never got to see his son, because Annie was still pregnant when he died and the baby was born after his death. But he still had a son. Katniss and him were friends. He had a lot of pain in his life, and he did die in the end, but Finnick still gained a few things too.
When we meet Johanna, she's all about messing with everybody. Katniss, the tributes, the Gamemakers, and always the Capitol. That's all she ever does, basically. And she can't stand Katniss. But by the end of the books I actually really liked Katniss and Johanna's friendship, because I think that had grown between them. In the end Johanna does become a morphling addict. But other than that, she's okay. She knew that Katniss had to kill Snow, she had to end it. And when that happened, everything else would fall into place. And it did. We aren't completely sure what happened to Johanna, but in general I think that Johanna was alright.
And Effie. You have to love Effie. Effie started out being the District Twelve escort and doing her job enthusiastically in that magical Effie way, but she really did not want to have her job. She would rather have been the escort for a better district. At the end? We don't really know where she'd been, but she survived. She somehow made it out of all the chaos alive. She led Katniss through her very final victory, killing Snow. (Or at least, she was supposed to kill Snow.) I love how Effie got to be there for Katniss in the end. Does that part make you want to cry or what? Effie's probably living a good life in the Capitol now, but I bet that she's definitely been changed by the war.
Well, guys, be ready! The last part is coming!

Where They Were and Where They Are, Part Harry Potter

 

This is something I thought about a lot when I was reading. I look at all the characters at the end of their stories and think, "Wow. Think of where they were at the beginning of their story. And now they're totally different." Well I wanted to do this with all three of the fandoms, but that would be a super long post, so I am doing a THREE PART POST. (I know, I just blew your mind right there.) (Spoilers for Harry Potter.)

Well let's start with Harry. At the literal beginning of the story he is a tiny child that is a few months over one year old. He probably doesn't realize that his parents are dead, and he was living in a totally magical universe. He had two great parents, a cat and a toy broomstick, not to mention an amazing godfather, but now that universe has just been taken from him. He doesn't know that his entire world has just changed. So in a word, not that he is at fault here but in a word he is completely clueless. Then at the end of the story he is happy despite the fact that he no longer has parents, a cat (or maybe he does), a toy broomstick (but he does have a real one), or a godfather. But he does have a wife, three children, friends, probably a great job and a great home and his scar never hurts him anymore. He's even got a godson himself. He went through a lot of pain in the middle, but that's in general a pretty happy ending.

Our friend Ron, when we meet him he's an eleven-year old kid who doesn't want to be overshadowed by his brothers and wants to go to Hogwarts and make his mark there, no one considering he is just another Weasley but that he's him, Ron Weasley. At the end he's pretty much as happy as Harry. He has a wife and two kids and he has his friends and he probably has a great job too. And he even made it on a chocolate frog card, so I guess Ron's wish did come true, people did know him, and not just by his family.

Hermione, when we met her she was a loner and a nerd. You all knew she was a nerd, but face it, she was a loner. No one really liked her or paid her a horrendous amount of attention until she became friends with Harry and Ron. She wanted to fit in to a magical universe that she had just put into. It was all really exciting to her, but since she was so enthusiastic and she didn't have the advantage of being famous like Harry did that everyone thought she was kind of weird. She has a family of her own now, and Hermione's so smart, I wonder what kind of job she got. She could pretty much do anything she wants, but she said she didn't want to work at the Ministry of Magic because she wanted to do something good in the world c: Hermione, this is why we love you.

Ginny was a silly little ten-year-old girl when we first meet her, who really, really wanted to meet Harry Potter. Classic, a ten-year-old girl who hears that a celebrity is around and has to go meet them. But obviously growing up in a war changes a lot because by the end Ginny is rather... I need a good word. Fierce? Strong? Strong is a good word. That is correct. But she really was strong. She's probably a great mother, especially since she had a great mom to teach her how it's done. Honestly, though, are you guys wondering what Ginny did as far as careers go? Isn't there a rumor that she played for the Holyhead Harpies? That would be pretty cool.

Neville. When we meet Neville he's a forgetful kid who couldn't do magic for his life in a completely pureblood family and has an extreme lack of confidence. By the end, wow, has Neville gone through a lot of change. He's great at magic and is just about as brave as people get. He teaches at Hogwarts and is still, at least this is what I got out of it, in contact with his bros, Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny. And, as says the Harry Potter Facts, is married to Hannah Abbot. I know you Nuna shippers (me and my sister call it Lunville) are having a fit about that, and honestly, of all the ships that didn't actually work out, that one I actually agree with. Luna and Neville were a match made in heaven. Why are they not together, J.K. Rowling? Why?

Which brings us to cute Luna! When we meet Luna she's considered the weird kid to pretty much everyone at Hogwarts, even Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Neville. Luna doesn't care, though, and she's friendly with them. At the end Luna has plenty of friends when she didn't really have many at first. She is happily married (NOT to Neville) and has a son, I believe. Do you think that Luna could possibly work for The Quibbler? Because that's all I have about her life.

Isn't it crazy where our characters started? And they all got their happily ever after. Yayy!