i'm a little teapot, short and - hello. i am a great kid with a naive mind. feel free to share your thoughts with me. 'would you care for some bread with your Earl Grey ?' i like tall and handsome korean men. currently married to Howl of 'moving castle' fame. adios amigos. :D

on hp5 ootp:

you must watch it if that is the last thing you do and if you are a harry potter fan. of course, there's always the long-awaited release of book 7... seriously,[no pun intended, of course], the movie is so much better than the book as david yates [the director lah] knows his stuff and picked out the main stuff and weaved the gist nicely. it is rlly a commendable effort and i like it darker and not just merely storytelling. rowling has done that and she does a better job, btw. i always felt that movies cannot bring out a book/story/plot well, but for how many people - the movie has brought the book to greater height. well, that's a mystery i guess. anyway it's loads better than hp4 with harry and his hideous hair. mind you, i still can't get over that sight. AND RON! what a horror. =P



some new singers and bands i have discovered so far. and some i took a while to. =P
1. plain white t's
2. mika [trust me it's not so simple. =P]
3. travis
4. boys like girls
5. sophie ellis bextor
i guess that's all rlly. but if i were to have anymore, i guess the list will run forever. after all my knowledge of good bands and singers don't stop expanding due to some rlly great pals who are rlly MORE KNOWLEDGEABLE than me. =)




and finally, the highlight of today. the 21st of july.

the atmosphere could not be more tense than ever, all around me. the days impending to this fateful one seemed to be building up - like smth great is about to happen. and it did. i knew smth will change my life. the morning had started out horrendously and worse was coming forth. but i knew smth that will comfort me - the book.

you might laugh at my childishness [yah, i think i might. HAHAHA.] but there is so much more than there is to this book that i held in the palm of my hands.; this book, looking strikingly like its predecessor. [many people thought i had it a day earlier. must have been Confunded. =P it was just the HBP!] and a wave of happiness and dread overcame me. it was obvious - THE END WAS HERE.

it had been ages ago, ten years to be exact, that the first book was released and now looking back, i feel this emptiness and hollowness. nothing can rlly fill this hole anymore. Nothing.

i shall not retell the calamity that befell me this very morning. probably cracked under the pressure and excitement. AH, WELL... [but do forgive me for suddenly writing all of this in 'near-perfect' English. i have after all, just finished reading the book.] anyway, i'm sure what you want to know now is what i'm going to say next.










HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS:

as of 7.01 am, singapore time and well midnight in London, everybody will be embarking on the final journey with Harry Potter, the boy who lived. from the last we heard of Harry, he had been tasked the job to find all the remaining Horcruxes [rlly evil and wicked objects i guess] and destroy them and finally destroying the man who created them all, Lord Voldermort. [all Muggles, known as 'non-magical folk' in Harry's world or in my terms 'non-Harry' fans, i sincerely advise you to walk into your nearest bookstore and kindly purchase the first book and start reading if you do not know what i am talking about. best if you just did away with the whole set OR OR DON'T READ THIS POST AT ALL. =P]

many questions have been surfacing ever since the sixth book had gotten out. where is Snape, the Potions Master? what is Harry going to do? How is he going to complete and manage the complex task set before him? i'm sure everyone is rlly curious as i. i shall let in on one thing then. the first chapter is astutely titled 'The Dark Lord Ascending'. well. that has to be interesting HORH?

and so our journey begins with Voldy [as i affectionately call him. easier anyway. my hands are aching from all this typing.] and his 'so-called' friends, the Death Eaters. after a chapter of cruel punishments and Rowling mentioning a lot of 'high-pitched' 'cold' 'mirthless' 'laughter' and a whole lot of other adjectives, we see [or land upon] Harry.

unfortunately, at this very moment. i choose not to reveal anymore about the book because if i did, i might just be doing a great injustice for those who have not set eyes on them. however, i must urge you to read it as i think this is one of my favourites, besides bk 3 and 6. it is still a wonderful story nonetheless. therefore, i conclude my review.

[MAJOR SPOILERS: OR SO I THINK.]

probably everyone wants to know who dies in this book and Rowling has rather kindly revealed that 2 major ones will. there is no doubt that Voldy will be vanquished or Rowling will be tracking down hundreds of 'i-think-i'm-so-brillant' authors who think they can do another Harry spinoff. anyway, no one wants to or can rlly bother to open an 8th HP book to see Harry battling with Voldy again. BORING.

just got a glimpse of the evening news and saw that [WOW!] a girl actually cried as she felt so much for the last book. well, i cannot admit i'm not sad, but sadness comes in a form of not crying my eyes out but gazing fondly at the cover of Deathly Hallows.

so i was at the topic of deaths. YES, the title rlly says much. deaths abound. deaths like a *snaps finger in the air*. personally i was just shocked at how Rowling actually killed so many of them but i guess she just added to the tension that was surmounting in the book. i like the way she did it and some deaths have been particularly saddening but others were just plain disturbing. i felt that there was this character who died and he was very innocent and naive but no doubt, it was this death that had the most impact on both me and Harry. [ERRRRRRRRR... YAH.]

and then i come to the topic of what i had expected and what came true.

so i was right about some things and wrong too, no doubt. the fact that i was right about Aberforth, Dumbledore's brother, on some things, just made me feel happier. the death of one [well i'm not sure whether he was rlly that major or not] character was just as many have guessed. many people had also guessed what the story would be about. i think Rowling knew what was coming and she just had to do it. many people are after all quite intelligent at gathering clues and solving mysteries. [NOT ME LAH.] and i thought that the mirror that Sirius Black, Harry's godfather, had would play an important part. just waiting when though. it did anyway. throughout the whole book, whenever there was Bill Weasley present [whom all Potter fans know that he is Ron Weasley's older brother and had been bitten by the werewolf, Fenrir Greyback in bk 6] i was half-expecting him to turn into a werewolf and bite someone. [HEHE, just curious ;)] unfortunately that didn't happen. should had known that as Greyback hadn't bitten Bill in the full moon period, he couldn't possibly be a REAL werewolf.

then there was so many other things, ranging from the Horcruxes and the house-elves; the goblins and the Death Eaters; and of course the fact that once Harry turned 17 [legal age for wizards] the charm protecting him will not be present anymore, making Harry extremely vulnerable. every chapter held some sort of hope and of course, sometimes it did reveal a little thing here and there. the answers to all my countless questions were never evident - i rlly have never been very good at understanding what Rowling meant at first 'read'.

then, there were the Deathly Hallows; what did they mean and will whatever it is aid Harry in his final conquest? i was just dying to know. and with the introduction of a few [i don't rlly think a tad too many] characters, slowly i understood.

perhaps Rowling wanted all her readers to participate in unraveling the secrets and i think it tremendously enjoyable. i might not have totally agreed with how the book ended, [a bit wierd and silly and heart-warming all the same; could've been a tragedy LAH] but i still think that this date will forever be etched into the back of my mind.

until then, with painful parting, i come to the end of HP7. i closed the book with a lingering smile and a few laughs, hardly doing much of that throughout the book, but all the same... i pondered at the sight of the back cover. there is a picture of Hogwarts School of WitchCraft and Wizardry and suddenly i feel a slight twinge in my heart. how peculiar, and yet at the same time apt, that the battle should take place at Hoggy-Hogwarts. it is one of the amazing things you wonder about Rowling. had she had everything planned out then? we readers, who unfortunately do not have the Inner eye, nor nothing much of a crystal ball, cannot predict what might happen. it just so we are doing the opposite; waiting with bated breath.

alas! i knew that Harry had indeed been 'Dumbeldore's man through and through'. [*pauses to wipe the tears that are leaking out of my eyes*] and so i end off with this and in dedication - "to the well-organised mind, death is but the next great adventure", quoted from my all-time favourite character and Hogwarts Headmaster, Albus Wulfric Percival Brian Dumbeldore.

[in memory]
nitwit, blubber, oddment, tweak.
valerie.