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Hi. I'd like some opinions please. How did you feel at the end of book 7? When finding out Harry married Ginny and Ron married Hermione? Did like it? Love it? Not care? Hate it? | ||
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| Update on MA thesis on HP fan fiction | ||
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Hi! With this message, I would like to thank all of you who answered my questionnaire at http://fanfiction.frontexperts.com (see the original message below) and have given me helpful feedback. Many of you who sent me emails with comments let me know that my questionnaire did not fully embrace your experience with fan fiction. Because a survey is a highly standardized research instrument, there was no way of avoiding this problem but I decided to broaden my research design according to the concerns conveyed to me. Thus, I would like to conduct a group discussion with fan fiction authors where they will have the opportunity to freely talk about their experience without being bound by narrow questions like in the survey. Therefore, I am looking for Harry Potter fan fiction authors who will attend the LeakyCon 2009 from May 21st-24th in Boston and who would be willing to get together for an hour or two as a group to discuss their experience with me and the other fan fiction authors. As far as I can tell from the LeakyCon schedule, Saturday morning would probably work best to meet for the discussion. Also, it would give us a chance to get to know each other on Thursday or Friday. I will provide a space at the hotel where we will be undisturbed and make sure we have drinks and snacks. A group of 8-12 people would work best but if there are too few people for a group discussion, I would be happy to meet with any of you informally at LeakyCon to talk about your experience as a fan fiction author. By participating in a group discussion, you would make an immense contribution to the quality and accuracy of my research. I am looking forward to meeting you in person and hearing about your life in Harry Potter fan fiction. If you want to participate please let me know until May 19th by replying to this message or at fanfictions@ gmx.net or petra.baumann@edu.uni-graz.at. Thank you so much for your repeated help! Best, Petra | ||
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| release date | ||
| im so confused. i was under the impression that half blood prince comes out july 17 (in the US), then i saw a preview that said july 15. ive gone to a bunch of different websites and half say the 15, half say the 17. the warner brothers site and yahoo both say the 17, but wikipedia and mugglenet say the 15. anybody know for sure which date it is? i have to know which day to take off of work so i can get in line early :-) | ||
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| Harry Potter Fan Fiction - Help with MA thesis! | ||
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Hello! I hope it's OK that I'm posting this message here. I do not have any financial interest whatsoever, this message regards academic research only! My name is Petra Baumann and I’m doing research for my master’s thesis in sociology on Harry Potter fan fiction at the University of Graz, Austria. As a sociologist, I am especially interested in the social background of fan fiction authors: where they come from, how old they are, etc. Through my research I found that, many studies on fan fiction are done in the fields of literary studies, women studies, or cultural studies but there are very little sociological data available, especially on the Harry Potter fan fiction community. In order to gather sociological data on Harry Potter fan fiction authors, I developed a short online questionnaire. If you are an author of Harry Potter fan fiction you would immensely help me with my research if you could answer this questionnaire at http://fanfiction.frontexperts.com The questions will take about 10 minutes to answer and there will be no spam or advertising when you click the link. The evaluation is done anonymously and the data will be used solely for academic research. If you have any questions regarding the questionnaire or my research please feel free to contact me at fanfictions@gmx.net or visit my LifeJournal. Thank you! Best, Petra | ||
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| Emma Watson in Vs. magazine | ||
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I don't know if everyone else has seen Emma Watson's photoshoot by Ellen von Unwerth for Vs. magazine. If you haven't seen them, here they are. :] ( Pictures behind the cutCollapse ) | ||
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| Lavender Brown | ||
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I don't know if this has been discussed before, but I was just thinking about this the last few days and was wondering what other people thought happened to Lavender Brown after DH. The book isn't right in front of me so I can't remember the exact wording, but my interpretation of it is that Lavender and another person were thrown off the balcony and that is when Fenrir Greyback sprinted over to her to take advantage of the fact that she was just laying there (I assume). It doesn't say that he actually bit her or anything, but that Hermione blasted him back off of her. What do we think? Was she bitten, or just a close call? I think if she had been killed then there would have been mention of it since she was a part of Dumbledore's Army. If she was bitten, then we don't know if she would've turned into a vampire because we don't know if there was a full moon and if Lupin or Greyback had turned. It's always been a very confusing passage for me. I think that if she was bitten then she would just be like Bill and have "wolf like characteristics". | ||
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| Tales of Beedle the Bard | ||
| Anyone else order the collector's edition? I just received mine today, and I'm quite happy with it. I also bought the $8 regular edition as a reading copy, but unfortunately that hasn't come yet. :[ | ||
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| Did anyone else notice this? | ||
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Okay I feel like such a dork for posting this, but I was rereading Order of the Phoenix and noticed that JK Rowling throws "Sectumsempra" into this book. In the scene where James flips Snape upside down (while Harry is watching the memory in the Pensieve) there is a moment right before that where Snape flicks his wand, and without saying anything, a gash appears on James's face and he begins to bleed. In this scene we were clearly meant to notice the flipping (and later Harry discover's that spell too) but I never really paid attention to the cut before. (Okay- checked HP Lexicon, and it's mentioned there, so I'm not brilliant, but perhaps it's new for someone else too) | ||
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| Mod Post. VOTE TODAY! | ||
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I encourage everyone actively involved with livejournal to VOTE today for the "lj advisory board" before it's too late! Today is the last day to select your candidate! VOTE HERE. You may have heard that one candidate in particular is accused of being "anti-fandom". However, I know these accusations to be false first hand. As such I am pleased to embrace  jameth as my pro-"fandom"candidate for the lj advisory board.  VOTE HERE! VOTE HERE! | ||
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| Last 'Harry Potter' book becomes 2 films | ||
| Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be released as two films. | ||
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If this is not allowed please delete! Hello. My friend and I have just created a new Harry Potter Rating community and we'd love it if you'd like to check it out and join.  Thanks! | ||
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| Speechless... | ||
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Thoughts on the latest news? http://www.newsweek.com/id/50787 | ||
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| Fake Harry Potter books | ||
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This article has some priceless descriptions of fake Harry Potter books. My favorite description is for Harry Potter and the Big Funnel: After six years at Hogwarts, Harry Potter becomes an intern sorcerer and is assigned to teach at the Honiton School. Harry has a painful time in his aunt’s house, as Dudley has met a belly-dancing girl. As Harry prepares to report to his job, Bat Bug warns him disaster awaits. At the school, his students become wooden stools one after another. Harry doesn’t know whether an evil student is behind this, or if his old benefactor Hagrid is making a mistake, or if the shadow of Voldemort has returned. Did it have something to do with the big funnel? All I can say to that is... WTF? I read all of those and almost died laughing! | ||
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| Harry Potter machinema | ||
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For those not familiar with the term, machinema is 'cinema made with machines,' more specifically it's movies made with video games as animations. There are some really great ones out there. My favorite is a very detailed version of Deathly Hallows. Anyways, all the machinema out there inspired me to make my own. So behind the cut is my own contribution as well as the first chapter of the aforementioned interpretation and one other lovely machinema video. ( Enjoy!Collapse ) | ||
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| Questions | ||
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I'm working on a... all I can really say right now is that it's a " creative writing project", because it's not fanfic, but saying anything more would be saying too much. Anyway, I personally can never get into fanfic, so I was hoping that there's a few people here who do read it that can help me out. It's been established that there are wizarding schools in other countries. It's also a safe assumption that most, if not all, other wizarding schools likely have house systems. Has anyone encountered any fanfic which gave a plausible name to a wizarding school in North America? And, if so, were there decent house names given as well? Also, what is the word used for "mudblood" in the Spanish translations of the books? | ||
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| Winners of HALLOWOOD SQUARES announced! | ||
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For those of you who participated in the "Hallowood Squares" contest for predicting what would happen in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the winners have been announced. I must say I am quite pleased with how well the contest went and with the amount of participation. Thanks to those of you who played! Joie | ||
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| Fan Fic | ||
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So it's come to this... :P Can anyone recommend any good fanfiction out there? I'd prefer stuff with minor or very minor characters, but anything that's well written will do. A lot of the Anon editors on Wikipedia like to report fanfic as fact, and I'd like to know what they're talking about. :P | ||
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Hey, guys. I'm sorry about the lateness of this post but better late than never, right? ;) Anyway, I'm leaving tomorrow to go on vacation/move to another state and will be gone until the 18th at the very earliest. Until then, remember to use your cut tags and if you have any questions, I'm sure ingenuemuse will be only too happy to help. :D See you soon! | ||
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| Ginny Weasley | ||
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Some recent discussion has made me curious about how readers respond to the character of Ginny Weasley. So I made a poll. Please vote. Thanks. ETA: Sorry, I forgot I had set my comment settings to friends only to avoid drive-by DH spoilers. I've now reset it so that any registered user can comment, so feel free to leave a comment at my journal if you have something to add. Or you can still post a comment here if you'd prefer. Joie | ||
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| How very frustrating. | ||
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Well I know it's not "official" until it's published in a book, but as there are no more books- we have to take JKR's word on what comes next. Cut because you can't know stuff about the future without knowing who is still alive. ( Read more...Collapse ) | ||
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| Question concerning DH | ||
| ( Cuidado! Los Spoilers!Collapse ) | ||
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| Another great article | ||
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Caution! Don't follow that link unless you've read Deathly Hollows! http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19959323/ It contains some information on the wizarding world post-DH, as revealed in an interview Rowling gave to Meredith Vieira. I can't wait for that encyclopedia! :] | ||
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| Flitwick's heritage. | ||
| I know it's pretty silly for me to ask something like this in a fairly intelligent community, but it's been bugging me... does anyone have any guesses regarding Professor Flitwick's bloodline? We know that Hagrid's huge because he's half-giant. Is there any genetic explanation for Flitwick's appearance? I mean, I know it's entirely possible he's just a naturally short human (who happens to be a wizard) much like the actor who plays him in the movies, but in stories like this, any time a character's physical appearance seems out of the ordinary, there's usually some explanation for it. I personally think he might be part goblin (considering the guy that plays him in the movies also plays Griphook). | ||
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| On Snape and goodness | ||
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A bit slow to start off with, but having read some of the responses to a particular character... Cross posted to own journal. ( Read more...Collapse ) *Having written this essay, I am wondering how far off the mark I may well be, so any comments will be appreciated. | ||
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