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I am writing an HP series based on the alphabet. Oddly enough I have an E (thanks

lieueitak) but I need a D. I thought I was working out of order, but apparently not so much. So while I'm planning on writing my E story, I'd like some suggestions for D. Literally any word suggestion starting with D is good, although I of course won't be using all of them ;)

Thanks, peeps.

A bunch of icons under the cut. Some of them definitely HP, another bunch of them possibly HP, the last handful...random. Yes I should be writing. Leave me alone :p

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Why JKR...why? Just because you, as an author, know something about your character doesn't mean that you actually have to share. How does Dumbledore being gay add to the series, in any material way? If it were that important why not just make a de facto point of the series? You could have done it so easily. All those ppl whom you make digs at re not liking your series would have just had one more point against you, while the ppl whom you seem to be courting now would have loved you more. You went from a religiously and politically ambiguous series to one that quoted Scripture and seemed to take a definite stance on many of the political issues of today.

People often compare your works to the Narnia series. But you can read The Chronicles of Narnia and completely miss its Christian undertones. You don't have to be effected by it at all if you don't want to. I spent years totally oblivious. Even now, I don't think of it as a Christian series or a Christian allegory, but simply as Narnia! But now that you've spilled the beans of the internal workings of your mind, the larger world of the story that lives within the writer's own head, can I reread this series and look at Dumbledore the same way? Or even the entire series? How fundementally you've changed the story, madam, if only because of how charged a subject homosexuality is. And I'm sure someone (many someones) would argue that it shouldn't be thus, but it is and you've changed everything. For everyone. If it were not so, would your pronouncement have merritted an article in the Times?

So I'm just about done with The Guiltless by Branwyn for Harry Potter. It's a Snape and Harry gen story in which Snape comes to discover just how abusive the Dursley's really are (which is more abusive than JK Rowling makes them) and Snape and Dumbledore make moves to do something about it. A fairly common-ish story. It's...okay. Not reccing it, just saying that I read it.

I just finished Numbers Never Lie by klynie. It's an HP alternative to the Severitus challenge. I was completely willing to go with it until Hermione, who is the Snape-child in question, yells out "DAD!" after it's been established that she and Snape only barely tolerate each other. *shakes head* Read at your own risk.

the first set are definitely HP related, the other two could be for anything. in theory ;)

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i finished reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows. i tell my mother that this morning and what does she ask me? "Who died?"

no, i didn't spoil her.

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i just finished re-reading my 2005 nano-novel (does that count as having read a book? it was about 25k long) and i left myself on such a cliffhanger! i'm so mean! why do both my b'day, my friend's b'day and Thanksgiving all have to come midway through November?

in other news, i accidentally had my Harry Potter: The Deathly Hollows sent to my job instead of my house and didn't realize until Thurs night when Amazon sent the confirmation. needless to say it was too late to make the address change. i was highly tempted to go up to my job (several towns away) and pick it up but...i'm gonna suck it up and just wait until Monday. there are worse things. or so i've been told ;P

this is from a chat conversations, for which i apologize. i'm personally not a big fan of reading chat transcripts, not even my own. i also apologize for the idiocy of my male friends. hopefully they don't represent the entire male population, just their own misguided, sometimes amoral, selves.

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I started making a personal Ravenclaw icon (my official, unofficial Harry Potter house) and...lost my mind. Luckily I'm not that good and didn't have a whole lot to work with on my end. Boy icons may follow.

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so while looking up trivia info for random point winning (don't ask) i noticed two things about one of my fave Young Adult scifi/fantasy series: The books have a completely new cover. (The last few publishings have just changed the dimensions of the book, but it's visually stayed the same otherwise.) Aaaand...it's being made into a movie series!

What, pray tell, is this abfab series that i am ever so in love with? why Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising sequence of course. i cam across it in, oh, junior high or early high school thanks to a random show on PBS which i cannot now remember. then i think Mom got one of the books for her students at the time and i devoured the book and bought the rest of the series whenever i had enough money.

Since the HP books have gone all big screen - and even before that - i'd thought Cooper's books would really work. Even though they're YA, they're actually a little more dark and heavy than the HP books. They're all pretty short in typical YA style of the time since it seems like it's only more recently that YA books have topped 200-300 pages at the extreme. And with them being so short there's not a lot of room for "filler" or "worldbuilding." JKR does a lot of worldbuilding for us in the HP world. Since Cooper bases her story on a lot of British mythology in one way she doesn't need to do as much. It's funny, though, I read the Amazon.com reviews and there are people who praise The Dark is Rising sequence by trashing JKR's effort, and others who trash the sequence by praising JKR. *shrugs* Why they both can't be good in their own right, I don't know.

Anywho, read The Dark is Rising!

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