July 17, 2007 by zeeliciouszee.

Arghhh. I’ve been meaning to write this up before Book 7 came out, but I’ve recently discovered that Deathly Hollows has been leaked, so please excuse the rush job. I’ve been informed that some douche got his hands on a copy of it and videotaped the entire book. Don’t ask me how he managed that, but it’s somewhere floating around on the internet now. Don’t ask me where to get it, I saw a snapshot of the first page and stopped there.

So, until July 21st, I highly recommend unplugging your internet, locking yourself in your home, and avoiding all forms of contact with the outside world. Do NOT order delivery. Do NOT pick up your phone. It takes a second for someone to shout out “Snape kills Dumbledore!” [Sorry to everyone that hasn’t read Half Blood Prince yet. If it’s any consolation, I haven’t read it yet either.] You’ve been warned. And that’s my CYA.

Now, the reason I wanted to have this written up earlier… Dumbledore kills Snape. That’s the facts. I’ll go into a bit more detail later. Before that, I’m going to proceed to give my predictions for Deathly Hollows. And again, I haven’t seen anything past the first page, so I make no claim about the truth of these statements, but I’ve been known to be right about a lot of things.

To start: Snape’s good. Harry thinks he’s bad. Again. He’s going to be chilling with Voldemort’s crew up until the very end. Then he kills Lucius. By the end of the book, Snape either dies, or becomes the boss of some significant wizardry organization. And maybe he gets to teach defense of the dark arts.

As you may or may not have heard, someone close to Harry Potter will be dying in this book. Name? Sirius Black. Rowling will absolutely not kill off one of Harry Potter’s “close friends.” Reason: Kids will cry. Many will be traumatized. Parents will send Rowling their therapy bills. So Ron and Hermione are safe. The older Weasley brothers are done with school, theoretically they shouldn’t even be in this book [but we all know they will be]. Ginny can’t be killed for reasons I’ll get into later. And Neville’s been getting scrubbed for way too long [4 books] to bite the dust. I might give her Cho Chang, but that one’s kind of a stretch. I don’t think Harry has any other friends [I really don’t give this kid enough credit].

So here’s the logic behind Sirius Black dying. Again. He never exactly dies. He kind of just gets sent into another dimension and no one knows where he ends up. But he’s Sirius Black - that’s synonymous with bad ass. He was one of those prodigy wizards, he’s going to find a way to come back. People love him, so it’s going to get the effect rumors are claiming. At the same time, he’s been taken out of the picture before, so people won’t be totally flipping out when they read it. Again.

How will Sirius die? Killing curse. Same thing as Harry Potter’s parents. Rowling’s a fan of subtlety. More often than not, she likes to throw in a little bit of irony too. Supposedly Voldemort learned not to underestimate the “power of love.” Yeah, I think not. I’m sure you can see the brilliance of this “plot twist.” I feel pretty convinced that, despite all rumors, Harry Potter does NOT die. Rowling’s trying to pull a fast one by making us believe that the possibility is up there, but she’s not going to pull a double. Please.

The Harry Potter series continues after Deathly Hollows. Maybe not Harry Potter, but some spin-off will spawn. I have bets on Ginny getting her own series. She’s a solid character that we don’t quite know enough about. In her first year [Harry’s third?] she goes on her own crazy adventure that we don’t really hear about. One of her close [and whacky] friends is already established [Luna Lovegood]. Plus, she’s 2 years younger than Harry Potter’s crew, so in her 6th and 7th year, we’ll get to see what the aftermath of Deathly Hollows is like in Hogwarts. Not to mention, you get the story from a female perspective and we get to see how crappy Ron’s summers are. To recap: Ginny won’t die in Book 7.  She’s going to be big in future Rowling books.
Neville saves Harry’s life. Again, this kid has been getting scrubbed far too long to not do something important.

Dumbledore kills Snape! This is a bit more of a joke than anything else, but I’m certain Dumbledore comes back. And Rowling makes a nod to Lord of the Rings, as he comes back as “Dumbledore the White.” Now, that one sounds like a joke, but it was serious. Dumbledore’s first name, Albus, means “white” in Latin. Do your homework kids. Dumbledore is absolutely, positively a tribute to Tolkien’s Gandalf. In a poem titled “Errantry” by Tolkien, a dumbledore is a beetle known to visit the shire every year. Check The Tolkien Reader for a reference. I didn’t, but I’m well informed.

Do you seriously want me to believe that Hogwarts is going to be running without Dumbledore. The Ministry despises Hogwarts. The only reason it’s, for the most part, the way it is is because Dumbledore is at its head. If you take Dumbledore out, the Ministry can do whatever they want with the school, and then it’s all over. There wouldn’t even be any magic in the school. It’d just be like a boarding school… where giant spiders eat kids.

Trust me, I’m certain on this one. Dumbledore’s coming back.

And he might kill Snape.

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July 15, 2007 by zeeliciouszee.

Welcome to Loserville! Population: 6.6 billion. Home of the chumps.
I’m surfing the interweb, just doing the daily routine when I notice a small text ad for an online quiz. Now, I love taking these stupid quizzes. I know they’re fixed to make you think you’re a genius and give them money, but every so often you can find a rare gem that will tell you something different. Today I found The Loser Quiz. I already know I’m a loser, I just wanted to see how big of a loser I am. I mean, the town of Loserville, like any other city, works on a hierarchy. Wouldn’t it be great to beat the top of that hierarchy as the Mayor of Loserville? You’d be able to say you run a town full of losers that will do anything you tell them to. Anyway, back to my story. The quiz takes me maybe 5 minutes to fill out. Unfortunately, I realize that my answers aren’t quite as loserific as they could be. But hey, I’m not one to lie on a quiz [though, lying on a loser quiz must SURELY make you a bigger loser]. So I finish up my quiz and bring down my hopes to “Pathetic Loser” and click Submit. Then these jerks want me to sign up for some offers with their sponsors. Sorry guys, but I don’t think signing up for some scammy credit card deals are going to boost up my loser score. NO THANKS!

Seriously now, I’m not THAT insecure. But it really makes me wonder with all these online pyramid schemes and the like going around, how many people in the world get suckered in. Are you really going to pay to have a machine tell you either a) You’re an Uber Loser, you need to buy more iPods, or b) You’re an anti-Loser, give us money to help stop the spreading of loseritis?

Yeah, as usual, I don’t know where I’m going with this. What I do know though, is that the world is messed up.

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