Harry Potter

[dpxcomicsgirl]

These books are so great, the movies keep getting better and better, and the kids' hair keeps getting longer!

Here are some fun links:

J.K. Rowling official site
It has lots of nice info bits and it's a fun site to navigate.
http://www.jkrowling.co.uk

The Leaky Cauldron
Tons of info, photos and news. It's the Ultimate HP site.
http://www.comicscorral.com/viewtopic.php?t=34

The Harry Potter Lexicon
Info on EVERYTHING, visit the Spell Encyclopedia, lots of fun.
http://www.hp-lexicon.org/

[habib]

Cool DPX!

I am a Harry Potter junkie......even got my nine-year-old to read the 1st book!

[dpxcomicsgirl]

Cool, Habib! I knew I wasn't the only one 8)

Turns out they are a few HP fans in Venezuela as well... I started bringing different HP products like folders, figures, trading cards and they've been selling quite well (it also helps that no one else in the auction site I sell has anything of the sort.) I've begun bringing the books (in English) and the movies, there seems to be a market for both. I am surprised that Venezuelans would want to own the English versions, I dunno if it's because they read them or they just want to have them (the Spanish versions are not as cool).

I've been also recently adquired a Starter Set of the Harry Potter Trading Card Game, as well as Adventures at Hogwarts, Quidditch Cup and Diagon Alley Boosters. Luckily my best friend is majorly into HP too, so I can play with her, and with my brother as well. Even if I don't get to play, it's cool to see the Illustrations and cleverness of the cards. I am not much of a Gamer (Comics are more my thing), but I enjoy this and the Pokemon Trading Card Game.

Have you taken the Quiz in the Leaky Cauldron Site? It's quite difficult. First time I took it, I got a D (Dreadful). I entered a second time with a different e-mail addy :oops: and got an E (Exceeds Expectations). Much better! At least I didn't get a T (Troll), that would have smashed my ego!

[rowand]

Potter Rules. Well soon after He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Nicknamed is dealt with he will. Personally, I'm still looking for the proper venue for my HP fan fics. Have you found any Chocolate Cockroaches down there in South America yet? Let me know and I'll look around here to see if they still sell them! As my daughter said, "Bis-custing!"

[dpxcomicsgirl]

Surely you mean Cockroach Clusters? I have found none in Southamerica, though we have plenty of huge cockroaches, some of them even fly, they thrive in warm weather. I am pretty sure I can make some homemade ones if I wanted to. 8)

Have you tried fanfic.net?

[rowand]

Yes, to Cockroach Clusters being what I meant but NO to my being able to find any locally still for sale cheaply. Much to my suprise they seem to have all been gobbled up. That is just wrong on so many levels. :shock:

Any XMas packages from you are going to be opened outdoors!

I will look into fanfic for "The Seven Harry Potters and How They Slew!"

[dpxcomicsgirl]

I don't dwell much into fan fic reading. Most of it seems to be horribly written, and with the sole purpose of pushing forward certain relationships (many Harry/Hermione fans out there, they've got to be mental) or some other pet themes or ideas. And a lot of it it's slash (porno fan fic, ew).

I'd rather read and re-read my 6 official HP volumes. I've got a quarter of a book left for reading book 5 for the upteenth time at the moment. Having fun with Fred and George wreacking havok against Umbridge. This is certainly the book were the Waesley twins shine! 8)

[rowand]

I rather thought that they shone in OotP as well. Dangly ear extentions and so on. I met the actors when they toured the US with Neville and some other minor characters. The mall near my house was one of their three stops. They proved to be very nice guys rather a case of type casting.

I tried to explain the concept of selling hundreds of $10 photos and autographs and not the $50 set they were offering. $200 for a group photo with ALL the HP actors. The short line was finished in about 10 minutes.

SIGH! Such is fame.

Hermione and Harry? Hey he only stalled that mountain troll, it was Ron who used the very spell she had just taught him to save her! Ginny on the other hand is a perfect fit for Harry. So says Jo, so say we all!

[rowand]

Of course, I was the one whose Dungeons and Dragon's characters became rich selling a modified rope trick as the perfect gift for honeymooners and those who have had too much to drink!

Shoulda gotta patent on that spell, I should have!

[rowand]

Yep system is slow today. I must have clicked twice on the post button!

Appropriate apologies

[fulltimer56]

Hi roward,

What is it with your double postings? Are you having a bit of trouble?

Linda :?:

[dpxcomicsgirl]

I love reading about Ron and Hermione bickering all the time. It's so funny. They got it bad! I am loathing hating JK Rowling for leaving the Ron/Hermione kiss for the very last book.

Almost done with Book Six today, Harry and Dumbledore just got out of the cave. This is the third time I read this book (mind you, I just purchased it a couple of months ago!).

I don't know what to think of Snape. Sometime he does seem loyal to Dumbledore, but then again you could say he's been on You-Know-Who's side. I like how in Book Six we realize just what an powerful wizard Snape is, he's pretty hard to overcome in a duel.

Box Six is weird in a way. Althought highly entertaining and very iluminating, it doesn't give me the sense of suspense and inmediate danger than the other books have. Perhaps is because no one but Harry takes the main threat (Draco Malfoy) seriously, and at one point JK leads the reader to believe there's nothing to it.

My expectations for Book Seven run higher as time goes by. If retrieving the ring Horcrux cost Dumbledore a shriveled hand, and the locket Horcrux proved so hard to remove, I just don't see how Harry is going to manage to get the remaining ones, even with Ron and Hermione's help.

[rowand]

My hint of the week: Start with the three known factors of each known Horcrux. First, a patsy to take the blame. We are short patsies unless you count Peter Petigrew and Sirius Black. The item of use and influence. A book that converses with you. A ring you wear and it speaks to you. A locket that when worn talks to you. Lastly, a location of one of Tom Riddle or Voldamort's personal victories.

I think we are still missing at least one of each for Jo to "let us in on" in the seventh book. If you have been to JKRowlins websight and visited the links page using, I think, the hairbrush Portkey, then the book on Arithmancy on the lower shelf gives an icon for each number. The number seven has artwork but states that the true significance of the number seven has yet to be discovered.

I personally think that the snakeskin Harry found outside the Chamber of Secrets is a Horcrux. Make it into riding boots or a jacket and wear your Horcrux out and about! Makes for easier reconstitution!

[cluelesscomicnewbi]

I like Harry Potter too. My oldest has read all of the books, but I've only read the first two, I really have to find more time to read. I heard there's a possible delay in putting out book 7, it might not be out until 2008? Did I hear that right, or was it planned to come out that late all along?

I actually got to enjoy those cockroach clusters, YUM! I had my 5 year old convinced it was real as I was eating it :wink:

[dpxcomicsgirl]

Yay! Another fan! You must find the time to read the other 4 books, the series get better and better with each one :D

[rowand]

Happy Birthday, Draco Malfoy!

Hope he survives until the next book.

JKR has at least written the last chapter already.