Hello guys, it's nice to see you again! You see I'm really excited because why? My page on Facebook (which you can like at https://www.facebook.com/itsanadventur) is as of right now two likes away from one hundred! Thank you thank you thank you in immense amounts to all of you! So for those of you new to my blog welcome and we're glad you fandomeers have joined us :)
So guess what? My English teacher at the beginning of this school year that we wouldn't be doing a ton of reading in the class.... Do you know what that means?! I don't think I have required books this year! I think I'm free! I got a new teacher but as far as I can tell that still stands! I'm freeee!
Well anyway as far as things going on in the fandoms in recent time, October seventh the new book for the Heroes of Olympus series, The Blood of Olympus, is being released! And then I will finally be able to read the whole series! (I just couldn't keep going when I found out not all the books were out in the series yet.) And shortly after that, the Mockingjay Part One movie comes out! Many people thought that Mockingjay was the worst book in the series, and maybe it was but I'm not totally sure. It really moved because that whole book pretty much was a lot about how unconditional love is. I thought it was really awesome after looking back on it.
And I thought I might as well look it up, because as far as Harry Potter goes, I didn't know when the Fantastic Beasts movie was coming out. Well thank you to my dear friend Google for helping me find this information. It tells me the eighteenth of November of 2016. Wait, what? That's a long time! Well for all you Potterheads out there I guess we have a while to wait :) But another fun date that I will be waiting for: September the first, 2016. Do you know what that is? That is the day that the epilogue of Deathly Hallows, "Nineteen Years Later", takes place. I can't wait for that day! 2016 is also the fifteenth anniversary of Philosopher's Stone, November the twentieth to be specific. 2016 will be a big year for the Potterheads!
Goodbye everyone! I love you!
Thursday, September 11, 2014
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Hermione Granger
(Spoilers for Harry Potter)
My apologies in immense amounts. I haven't written for you guys in eternity. The last two posts I did were birthday posts on the twenty-third of July. So the last real post I did was posted on the thirteenth of July. I am so sorry! I hope you have missed me because I certainly love you guys!
So, fandomeers, today we have come to discuss Hermione Granger, or more specifically why she was placed in Gryffindors. Have any of you fandomeers heard of hatstalls? A hatstall happens when the sorting hat is torn between two houses for a specific student. Notice that some of the sortings take a long time while sometimes they don't. Hermione had a hatstall between Ravenclaw and Gryffindor. In the end, Hermione was placed in Gryffindor. And honestly, look at Hermione. She would've been okay in Ravenclaw I guess, but really it was good that she was placed in Gryffindor. Just think about all of the quests they went on in school. Hermione was always willing to help her friends and fight crazy Death Eaters and things like that. And all the things that happened in Deathly Hallows, when they were escaping from the Ministry and she had to randomly switch locations mid-Apparition, when Ron left and she still kept going like she was totally okay, when she was tortured by Bellatrix, all of that. And then I think about how Hermione always stood up to her teachers. How she walked out of the Divination class when she didn't agree with it or in her first lesson with Professor Umbridge when she wouldn't back down from asking about using magic! In that way Hermione's a great example to us because if she believed in something she wouldn't let go of that thing when people tried to ignore it.
But then I think about in Sorcerer's Stone, when the students were on the train to Hogwarts and Harry and Ron were talking to Hermione and Hermione was doing that thing where she rambles a lot. She was talking about what houses they wanted to be in and she mentioned how she thought that Gryffindor sounded really good and Ravenclaw sounded pretty good too. The way she said it kind of made it sound like she really liked both... but in the end Gryffindor was the favorite. You know that thing Dumbledore says about choices? How those define who we truly are far more than our abilities, as he put it? I think that it was Hermione's choice of Gryffindor over Ravenclaw that also put her there, like Harry's choice of Gryffindor over Slytherin.
My apologies in immense amounts. I haven't written for you guys in eternity. The last two posts I did were birthday posts on the twenty-third of July. So the last real post I did was posted on the thirteenth of July. I am so sorry! I hope you have missed me because I certainly love you guys!
So, fandomeers, today we have come to discuss Hermione Granger, or more specifically why she was placed in Gryffindors. Have any of you fandomeers heard of hatstalls? A hatstall happens when the sorting hat is torn between two houses for a specific student. Notice that some of the sortings take a long time while sometimes they don't. Hermione had a hatstall between Ravenclaw and Gryffindor. In the end, Hermione was placed in Gryffindor. And honestly, look at Hermione. She would've been okay in Ravenclaw I guess, but really it was good that she was placed in Gryffindor. Just think about all of the quests they went on in school. Hermione was always willing to help her friends and fight crazy Death Eaters and things like that. And all the things that happened in Deathly Hallows, when they were escaping from the Ministry and she had to randomly switch locations mid-Apparition, when Ron left and she still kept going like she was totally okay, when she was tortured by Bellatrix, all of that. And then I think about how Hermione always stood up to her teachers. How she walked out of the Divination class when she didn't agree with it or in her first lesson with Professor Umbridge when she wouldn't back down from asking about using magic! In that way Hermione's a great example to us because if she believed in something she wouldn't let go of that thing when people tried to ignore it.
But then I think about in Sorcerer's Stone, when the students were on the train to Hogwarts and Harry and Ron were talking to Hermione and Hermione was doing that thing where she rambles a lot. She was talking about what houses they wanted to be in and she mentioned how she thought that Gryffindor sounded really good and Ravenclaw sounded pretty good too. The way she said it kind of made it sound like she really liked both... but in the end Gryffindor was the favorite. You know that thing Dumbledore says about choices? How those define who we truly are far more than our abilities, as he put it? I think that it was Hermione's choice of Gryffindor over Ravenclaw that also put her there, like Harry's choice of Gryffindor over Slytherin.