Manchester & Potter (spoilerz!)

Having done the math, I believe I helped move over 3600 lbs of floor boards for Shelley's new condo today. Oi! But I believe we got most of the tough work done. Tomorrow will be a lot of painting, and with luck we'll get to the floor project on Thursday and be fairly well wrapped up.

Now. Potter.

Ok... I HAD to stay up until now and finish the second half of the book. It was cool.

Answers:

Dumbledore is, in fact, quite dead. Though he is a focal secondary character and makes cameos of sorts.

I am tempted to go back and read the book again simply to write down the names of ALL the characters that got killed: Mad-Eye, Fred, Tonks, Lupin, Snape, Crabbe, Scrimgeour...

.... but saddest of all.... Dobby. = ( "You must NOT harm Harry Potter...BITCH!" =)

And that is reminiscent of Mrs Weasley's comment to Bellatrix before she stitched her one.

And now a brief review of Harry Potter: Generation 2... as best I can remember it.

Lupin/Tonks spawned - Teddy, who is Harry's godson

Bill / Fleur spawned - Victoire, who is dating Teddy

Ron / Hermione spawned - Rose and Hugo

Draco / Whore spawned - Scorpius

Harry / Ginny spawned - James, Albus-Severus and Lily

Interesting points of the story?

The back-story on Snape. The back-story on Dumbledore. Dobby to the rescue. (It's a good name, I think it would fit nicely as a middle-name for a kid)

But we are left to wonder.....


.... what the HECK is a crumple-horned snorkack?

We are also left to laugh at the goblin who stole the sword of godric gryfindor when it reappeared for Nevil. =P

So... someone ELSE read it now so I can talk about it with you!!!! You bums!!!

G'night!

Spoilerz = )

Harry Potter loses his life!

No, he lives. But he loses an ear.

Still kidding.

Dudley grows a personality.

But Mad-Eye "appears" to be dead, potentially for real.

I still don't believe Dumbledore is dead. There was too much allusion to him helping Draco Malfoy disappear in a staged incident in the last book.

I did cheat and read the last page-and-a-half first. ;) But I burnt through perhaps a hundred pages last night before bed. We'll have to wait and see where it goes.

Order of the Phoenix

Since I haven't posted here in a while... here you go!

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix... having not read the book recently, I can only vaguely claim that the movie seemed to faithfully follow the plot. Even if it didn't bring focus to every bit of the story from the book, it touched on the side topics. Ok, so it was a good movie all around. Of interest to me was that they finally beefed up the effects and strength of the magic. No longer just children's gimmicks and slightly used, now you see Dumbledore whooping ass on Voldemorte and vice versa in a way that made you feel.... "yes, they really ARE powerful wizards, aren't they?" Or at least much more than any time previously.

Die Hard 4: Getting Harder... the previews made me think it would be a dopey rehash of prior films. That didn't prevent me from seeing it. =) And I'm glad I did, because it really WAS on par for the Die Hard series. A good flic.

Speaking of flicks..... ::flick:: VERMIN! =)

Megatron is large and in charge in Transformers. SOOOOOOOOO an awesome movie!!!! Particularly to any child of the 80's.

The robots were done extremely well. There were loads and loads of action and cgi from start to finish. Some good laughs. Some hot skin. And a few dopey humor points as well.... I could do without the S7 guy. But all in all, the BEST overall movie experience I have had this year.

Uber Quoteage:

Megatron, having been knocked to the ground and on his back, looks over and flicks a nearby human with his finger... snapping his back when he hits a car... and with casual vehemence breaths "Vermin" under his breath. =) How can you not like Megatron?

Bumblebee, stop lubricating the human!

Bee-otch!

Dude, seriously... stop with the spanish!

And..... basically ANYTHING the Australian chick said in the movie. I want to marry her accent and have children! =)