House of Potter

My friend Faran, devotee of both House of Holland and Harry Potter, smooshed her two obsessions together to create these works of absolute genius.

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Divination

Subtitle: What We’ve Done Instead of Working….
Subtitle: We’re complete geeks

A short summary of our theories and idle thoughts about book seven, which we (that is, Maria and myself) have spent the better part of the day emailing about, prior to heading to Asda at midnight tonight.

* I keep wondering if perhaps Harry himself is part of a horcrux (an accidental one) – like the scar, when Voldemort tried to kill him or whatever, part of him went into Harry…
* Possibly Snape was good and he and Dumbledore had an arrangement… but then there was the unbreakable vow and stuff... Yeah I think Snape is going to be a really interesting important character in this book
* I kind of feel like Harry will die. But I don’t know. It’s been left so wide open. It’s really funny thinking back on the first book, how innocent it feels, a total kids’ book. I mean you’d think that normally the protagonist of a series named after him would defeat the baddie and live but when she killed off Dumbledore I think all the bets were off that Harry would necessarily survive
* The Weasleys... Bill’s already been attacked by a werewolf. Percy’s out the family (I was annoyed they so completely skipped over that in the movie). One of the twins would be pretty tragic. Maybe Arthur will be. Gulp. The twins would be tragic but not as bad as Ron or Ginny. No no I mean just *one* twin would be tragic. It’d all be sad but just one twin would be sadder because it’s like – breaking up the twins or whatever.
* Don’t you think Daniel Radcliffe’s acting is actually improving? I thought he was actually quite good in film 5.
* I have wondered whether Petunia will have a bigger part what with the previous howlers and her reactions to certain wizarding stuff that's happened. She's a lot more involved than she's let on....
* Oooh read this: It has not been explained why, when Dumbledore heard that Voldemort had used Harry's blood to resurrect himself, Harry sees a "gleam of triumph" in Dumbledore's eyes. Rowling has said that this is still "enormously significant". Maybe the gleam is because Harry may have passed some of his mortality to Voldemort.

Omg! Harry Potter! I feel like a child on Christmas Eve or something.

are you there god?

Last night I had a six year old tell me he wished he hadn’t been born human because he wanted to be a god. Apparently that’s his one ambition in life, to be a god. Or perhaps THE god, I’m not too sure. I don’t remember being that ambitious when I was six.

Perhaps? Could it be?

Summer? Is that you?

A Summer Chill - Ivy League
Summer Time - The Pretty Things

so:

Okayyyyyy. So. The finale. I have to admit, this last of the three-parter wasn’t actually doing too much for me – whilst The Master was psychotically brilliant as ever, I preferred 'Doomsday' with The Battle of Canary Wharf as far as finales go - until that line, that throwaway line uttered by Captain Jack a few minutes from the end, which knocked me off the sofa.

And the wedding? So I may have been a little late because of my childish reluctance to just wait and watch the Dr Who repeat on BBC3 on Sunday evening… and I may have spilled red wine all over the bride’s dress within about ten minutes of arriving… and – well, I don’t think there needs to be any more “ands”, we can just stop there. I should’ve just stayed home and hid from the rain. Oy. Weddings.