"Mars is Bright Tonight"

This is one of my posts about how genius J.K. Rowling is. Just to warn you.
Many of you real hardcore Potterheads will remember Harry, Hermione, Draco and Neville's detention in the Forbidden Forest with Hagrid, the part when they run into the centaurs. All of the centaurs noticed that Mars was particularly bright that night. (I'm about to have a little fangirl moment.) Do you have any idea how awesome that is?!
Now you Percy Jackson fans will know very well that Ares is the war god. Others of you will know that the planets are named after the Roman names of the Greek gods, except for Earth and Saturn, Saturn being named after the Titan Kronos. Mars is Ares's Roman name. Remember, Ares is the god of war.
The events that happened in the first book of the Harry Potter are events that helped Lord Voldemort get back to power, which started the greatest wizarding war of all time. If Mars was bright, they had to know that the brightness of Mars, the Roman war god, had to mean that a huge was coming on! Ahh!

Best Friends

In the Nancy Drew books, Nancy meets a lot of different people. With a lot of them she becomes great friends. She promises to keep visiting them and she loves them so much she has to see them sometimes. But I have a question. These friends, these minor characters, are never mentioned again. What happened to friends forever? You might say that these visits are not mentioned in the book because they are unimportant to the story. But Nancy is so busy sleuthing all the time how does she have time to visit these friends! And Carolyn Keene describes Nancy's other daily endeavors, not always in very much detail, but she says what Nancy is up to. Nancy's got a pretty full schedule and it seems she doesn't have time for any of her old friends.
Let me use as an example The Secret of the Old Clock. Judy and her aunts Edna and Mary were really close to Nancy and Nancy said she would check on Judy and things. Well she never goes to see them after that book, does she? And even worse, the Hoover sisters! The Hoover sisters were so nice; I loved them! But Nancy probably never goes to see them again! The weird thing is that Nancy isn't the type of person to just say, "All right, the case that you were involved in is solved, see you never again, have a nice life." It just doesn't make sense. She would at least want to check in on them!
Oh well. That is my rant.

New Movies!

Firstly: Catching Fire, of course! Who hasn't been waiting for this movie for eternity? Well, I was a little bit afraid. I hear there was a new director...? And the first trailer wasn't too fantastic. But oh my gosh! I love this one! It made me excited again!
http://movies.yahoo.com/video/hunger-games-catching-fire-trailer-211105191.html
And now, secondly: The Sea of Monsters. I know what half of you diehard Percy Jackson fans just thought: that the first movie was a disaster, it was nothing like the book and you can't believe they thought they could just make a sequel. But honestly? I had hope for this, for many reasons. (By the way, Percy Jackson fans, you can't deny the fact that Annabeth's blond hair intrigued you.) Well, I saw the trailer, and while I was watching it, I was thinking it could be good or bad. But it looks like in general they're sticking to the story! Check it out.
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/percy-jackson-sea-of-monsters/trailers/

Luke Castellan

Yes, as you may have noticed from my "Sassiest Book Characters" post I am a Percy Jackson fan :) But I must say before I begin my rant: some serious spoilers for the Percy Jackson series coming up.
You know, there are always people discussing whether or not Luke Castellan is a hero. You know, I used to say he was both. But when I said that, did I even really understand why he was a hero? I probably pitied him, because you just can't help but feel bad for Luke, and he was kind of tricked into trusting Kronos.
A little while ago I lost my Nancy Drew book so I couldn't read it. I found it today, but I needed something to entertain me. I've been going through a Hunger Games phase the past week so I was kind of clinging to that but one can only go through so much Hunger Games. So last night I got out my copy of The Last Olypian. I've been looking over it for about twenty-four hours now.
Let me just say, having just looked over Luke's death (Well, he isn't actually dead yet, but he's stabbed himself), I can tell you, now I know why they called him a hero. It finally makes sense.
Why didn't I see it before, guys? Honestly? He realizes he was wrong. He sacrifices himself so they can stop Kronos. He is amazing. I hope you guys get what I'm saying. Because I just realized a few minutes ago how much of a hero Luke Castellan really was.

House-Elves

Were you guys hoping that I would stop posting about Harry Potter now that I'm done rereading it? Sorry, you were mistaken. It's my fandom. You guys will understand.  Let me begin by pointing out that Dobby and Harry Potter have the same color eyes.
(By the way, spoilers for Deathly Hallows: the paragraph in which Dobby dies, or in which characters die in general, is absolutely stunningly written. I recommend you to reread it. It is quite fantastic. The description!)
You know, it's no joke: You can tell a lot about a person by the way they treat house-elves. Take Mr. Weasley. He was very kind to Winky the house-elf in The Goblet of Fire, and if I do say so myself, Mr. Weasley is a very kind person. In the very same book Amos Diggory is rather rude to Winky. I don't particularly like Mr. Diggory. At all.
As Sirius said in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire:

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”

(We'll ignore the fact that he treats Kreacher so horribly.) But while we're talking about Kreacher, remember how much Kreacher used to hate Harry? Then Harry started treating Kreacher kindly, and Kreacher was kind to Harry as well! It all adds up.

And I know how much Hermione wants to free house-elves. You know, personally I think she's dead wrong. Sure, there are house-elves like Dobby who had bad masters, but really, most house-elves are quite happy with the fact that they get to work all day and serve a family. She doesn't understand that house-elves like to work and that it's in their nature to want to work. Some things about house-elves are never going to change. Even Dobby, he was afraid of getting too much payment and holidays when he started working at Hogwarts. He wants to be a house-elf because he is a house-elf. That's just what they do.

 

 

 

Nancy Drew

Hello, everyone! I would just like to let you know some useless information, being that I have finished my rereading of the Harry Potter series. Along with the seven original books I also read Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Quidditch Through the Ages, and The Tales of Beedle the Bard. These books are just excellent, kids. I could reread these seven masterpieces again and again.
So now I am reading the Nancy Drew series! I have only read four of them, being the first, thirty-second (I believe, unless The Scarlet Slipper Mystery is some other number in the thirties), the fifty-ninth, and the sixtieth. I will be reading a few others too, because we now have many more Nancy Drew books in my home. I was just telling my mother that Nancy Drew is like the Mary Poppins of the American 1930's: she's practically perfect in every way! She is very kind, and as my mother pointed out a few months ago and which I have certainly noticed upon rereading The Secret of the Old Clock, Nancy always is wearing the perfect outfit. You can't solve a mystery without wearing something fashionable.
Who doesn't love an old-fashioned teen detective story?

I Love Harry Potter

Hey guys, me and my sister admin this page on Facebook. Guess what it's about? Good guess! Harry Potter! Check us out and like us:
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