P E N S I E V E

Poisoned Honey, you say?

Scholastic has their Harry Potter page updated with Order of the Phoenix info.

• A Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher with a personality like poisoned honey
• A venomous, disgruntled house-elf
• Ron as keeper of the Gryffindor Quidditch team
• And of course, what every student dreads: end-of-term Ordinary Wizarding Level exams

a personality like poisoned honey? The DADA teacher must be a woman and her character must resemble that of Miss Parker from the tv show "The Pretender."

the postal elf has to be Winky. I just know it. Ron will finally being seeing some action on the quidditch Pitch. As for the O.W.L.s the only person not worried at all is Hermione. That's just a given.

So no Oliver Wood and no Cho in the Prisoner of Azkaban movie.

It's A Madhouse

Or it will be on June 21st.

Everyone around the world will be sharing some of the same experiences come Saturday, June 21st, 12 am... right?

How about we all share them in the same place... I'm setting up a site/page to do that. I'm definitely taking pcitures of the crazy lines and people and stuff. I want other people to do the same thing - share their pictures and wait in line, (or your front door for some folks,) would be greatly appreciated. I regret not taking pictures when I worked at Borders when GoF came out... I didn't work that Friday night, but I worked the next morning. It was crazy. One kid was the first person in line at the door at 7am.

If you're interested in participating, email me here

St. Mungo's - It's A Madhouse

What?

I am so done with people.

Slytherins = Goths

Am I the only person that thinks that the house of Slytherins are synonymous with modern Goths? Let's say that we were all in highschool again, where would the Slytherins be eatting their lunch? I'll tell you where... they'd be sitting in the library quad eatting their lunch with the goth kids. Or depending on when you went to highschool the mods.

Mary GrandPré

Amazon.com has an interview up with Scholastic's Harry Potter illustrator. Amazon also has some of her previous Harry Potter illustrations up.

She notes that one of her favorite illustrators is none other than the wonderful Maurice Sendak - woohoo! He's also one of my favorites. I've had his book "The Art of Maurice Sendak" on my wishlist forever.

wee hours of the morning posting this & checking email

Music Appreciation

A punk band called the Switchblade Kittens have a song called "Ode to Harry Potter". Head over there and download the free MP3.