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Where to find HP Goods in the Real World

  • Aug. 11th, 2009 at 7:47 PM

I was out running errands today and stumbled upon two HP things I've been wanting to buy. I've gotten the majority of my HP stuff on ebay, and now that I've been looking for it in real stores, its been hard to find! So here's two things I've found at two places:

1. Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans- Family Video! These are not the old "dirt", "soap", and "earwax" jelly beans that were previously issued. These new tamer beans include "gravy", "fish", "ketchup", "cheese", "pizza" and "mashed potatoes". No more booger beans, unless you're like me and get them on ebay! I couldn't resist buying these, even though I just bought the original on the aforementioned ebay, and I'm glad I did because they are so different!

2. Harry Potter Stickers- Factory Card Outlet! When you walk in, just ask where to find them, because I had a hard time! I knew that if anyone had these stickers, it would be this store. They also had HP goody bags, if you want to throw a party! That was about it though, so, like I said, ask a salesperson!

So there you go. The other HP stuff I got this summer, besides the original beans, I got at garage sales. I got a HP board game and a poster for a total of $2! What a deal! I saw a similar HP poster at Wal-Mart for a few more bucks, but no stickers. So, there you go!

Yes, you can put the movie on your iPod!

  • Jul. 26th, 2009 at 1:13 AM

Here's how you do it (I use a PC, not sure if it will work on a Mac):

1. If you don't have Real Player, download it here

2. Hopefully, once you have that installed, you should be able to right click on the videos linked to in my previous post and download them- if not, check your Internet Options and make sure Real Player is enabled to download videos

3. Go to media-convert.com and click on the Browse button at the top left of the page

4. Select the file you want to convert

5. There is an option to connect multiple files- you do not want to do this because it will make the file too big. Each half of the movie is almost as big as their maximum file size by itself, so just repeat the process two times for each part.

6. Scroll down past the ad and select "iPod" or "Apple Quicktime Movie", both will work for the iPod. Scroll down a little further to rename the file if you want to.

7. Hit the OK button and let it do its thing! If it says "Target Server Overload", or if the little circle keeps circling after an hour or so, just keep hitting the OK button, or refresh and put in the info again. Sometimes I have had the little circle nonstop until it said "Data Processing", so that is not always a sign it did not work. But like I said, if it goes on for a long time, start over.

So thats how to get HPHBP onto your iPod! If you are lucky enough to have an iPod with video, it looks great! Not quite as good as the movie, but for a bootleg it is quite good quality.


Alllllllllright, so now, onto weiners! Weeeeeeners! )



Nice version of HPHBP now online

  • Jul. 25th, 2009 at 12:34 AM

Just in- a non-blurry version of HPHBP! Watch/download it while you can!

(You can download it with RealPlayer for free to watch on your computer- not sure yet if the files are too big to convert on media-convert.com)


The first part is here


And the second part is here!

And if you want to know every single difference fans have noticed between the book and movie, you can go here! I added my two cents about Snape not reacting to Harry.

Be back soon with non-photoshopped full frontals! ;)

A Word on the HBP Movie

  • Jul. 17th, 2009 at 7:58 AM

It was pretty good, but they cut my favorite scene (when Fleur and Bill are in the hospital ward), ruined Harry's Christmas, and left Snape's best line out, when there was no need:

"Don't call me coward!"

That left me rather disappointed. I bet it would have been beautiful.

Links

  • Jul. 13th, 2009 at 4:32 AM

Here are some links to transform your computer into everything Harry Potter (esp Snape!)

1. Harry Potter Firefox browser themes

2. A handsome Snape desktop background (I've got it on my desktop now!)

3. Harry Potter iGoogle themes

4. All five Harry Potter movies for your iPod (go here first if you need a torrent downloader)

And finally, some happy Snape:





I've got my midnight tickets- do you?

Sneers to you, Snape!

  • Jul. 8th, 2009 at 2:44 AM

Well, after a super duper long blogging sabbatical, I am back! I noticed that a few of you friended me in my abscense- thanks for liking the blog and not letting me forget about it! I have been getting back into HP lately because of HBP coming out (Snape in those trailers is soooo hot- I almost drooled all over the movie theater floor!). And on that subject, I've found some things I like enough to share:

1. The Mauraders
This adorable fan movie is about James, Peter, Remus and Sirius when they were at Hogwarts. While Snape is not canon nor a sympathetic character, I still like it! It's short and charming, and worth a watch.

You can find the movie here:
themarauders.wetpaint.com/

2. The Legends of Hogwarts
These cartoons, I like. They are silly and...well, just silly. Draco Malfoy is a cat and "Crazy V" gets drunk at a kegger and pukes of Snape.

www.thelegendsofhogwarts.com


3. And the best for last...found right here on Livejournal...

Well, you never know where you'll find Snape...or who with.

No offense to the artist, but that picture almost made me pee my pants laughing. Hehehehehehe....

And now to get back to my roots. Imagine Snape...

...lifting weights...

....with his shirt off!

...playing Wii boxing

...playing Dance Dance Revolution!

...getting hit with a pie in the face

...gargling mouthwash

...putting his hair in curlers

...sitting in a kiddie pool wearing shades and sipping a fruity drink...

...with his robes on!

...doing a keg stand with Bellatrix and Lucius holding him up

Oh, and for law school? I withdrew. Absolutely hated it. It was like having Dolores Umbridge around breathing down your neck 24/7. Unless you're into that, it wasn't very pleasant. Now I'm funemployed and job hunting, currently working my way through all the HP books again. If only I could get paid for that! I'll be back, hopefully after a shorter break that last time -_^ Sneer's to you, Snape! (get it? instead of cheers?)

 

harry law-ter: 26: one of us

  • Sep. 15th, 2008 at 9:50 PM

HOORAY!! I found out two of my friends are almost as crazy about Harry Potter as I am! No fellow Snape lovers out there, however, so far...

In other news, I stumbled upon the original movie "The Women" on TMC. Completely by accident! I didn't know what it was and I just started watching, and its pretty cute. I bet the remake coming out will be good too, hopefully. If it comes to town, I'll take my girlfriends to see it. Still too bad about the HP movie...sigh. Ah well, c'est la vie.

I have found time to read during law school! Its a miracle! Ok, so its not a miracle, I just replaced watching Adult Swim with reading.

My Snape creativity is still fried. I'm reading some other fun books but I hope to read through the series again, and when that happens, I'm sure I'll come up with plenty of material. Got to have time to make it fresh again.

In the mean time, imagine Snape:

-in a hot dog eating contest
-blowing bubbles in chocolate milk
-falling face first in a big puddle
-playing paintball
-covered in paintball paint splotches, and wearing those goggles
-flossing
-on a trampoline

Yay! I was able to shake a little out. Thats good for my brain- it needs to get out of books sometimes.

harry lawter #25: mini heart attacks

  • Aug. 28th, 2008 at 3:10 PM

Imagine yourself at Hogwarts, on your first day of potion class. You're Harry, and Snape asks you all of these questions about things you have no idea about. You are humiliated in front of the entire class and then he takes points off if you don't know what you are talking about.

That is a lot what going to class at law school is like.

Now, to be fair, if you've read your homework you probably won't be humiliated, but its a lot like the same feeling of that scene. Except, of course, the professors not anywhere near as good-looking or interesting as Snape. Legalese is a hard language to speak, and I think I've realized why- on top of all of the latin they throw at you, you have ordinary, everyday words that have completely different meanings then they do in everyday english. For example, "brief" usually means to be short, but it can also mean underwear. In legalese, a brief is a thing written about a case, and it is either a case brief or an appellant brief. And those are very different things. That is not a very good example, but one I encountered today was the word "mandatory." In everyday speech, it means "something you have to do." In legalese, it means "a type of law or court ruling" or something. I'm not sure. I have to do the worksheet.

Unlike potions class, the teachers don't always explain why you're wrong about something, or tell you what the foreign words mean.

So, all these strange terms and different usages for words I think I know and the fact that they don't explain everything so that it is clear (oh, how I miss the days when my undergrad profs used to ask "Is it clear? Do you understand?" Yeah, very little, if any, of that here) make me have mini metaphorical heart attacks. Feelings of being swamped and completely overwhelmed seem to come out of nowhere and envelop me during class or when I am doing homework, and I kinda mentally freak. Its like I have a tape reel, or a recording in those situations going on in my internal dialogue, because I always think the same things, "Why am I doing this? I don't know how to do this! What am I doing! What is that? What is this? What are they talking about?" and so on. These kinds of thoughts also come up just when I have kind of gotten comfortable with what I am doing, and am feeling OK about being in law school. I don't know- I hope my brain gets tired of freaking as a knee jerk response all the time and settles down. Just settle down, brain. I think that's going to be my new mantra...

Its times like this that I am so glad I go take a nap instead of go take a drink. I've been taking naps all of the time lately- yesterday I napped for five hours. The first day of class I fell asleep watching the Princess DIaries snuggled up with a bunch of pillows and slept 12 hours. It was pretty sweet. I love naps, although that last one was just falling asleep for the night, early. I'm such a napaholic I had to drink a bucket of pop to stay up to get my homework done today. I've been coming home whenever I have a break and napping. Anyways, naps rock. Especially when you have a lot of squishy squashy pillows. I could go for a nap now, but I have a buttload of homework for tomorrow...*yawn* I'd better get started before I'm too tempted to crawl into bed.

Oh, and PS- I haven't found anyone else who is crazy about Harry Potter yet in law school- I've met some people who aren't into it, but none who explicitly are. I'm sure there are some here, they are just hiding in plain sight, like me...you know, HP doesn't come up in everyday conversation in law school, lolz. But I have my HP poster, so you never know who might comment on it :)

harry law-ter #24: the bomb has dropped.

  • Aug. 26th, 2008 at 10:06 PM

Now is the time to blog.

So, I'm in law school. The night before my first class I was totally distracted from my fascinating homework by, what else, a Harry Potter movie marathon on the Family Channel!!! Horray! Snape cheered me up, because I was freaking out because I had no idea how to do my homework.

You see, law school is not like other schools. They don't tell you how to do what you are supposed to do. They don't give you an introduction to their class, like "Hi! I'm Mrs. X. In this class we will do A, B, and C." Nope. Its more like "So what was the dispute in this case? You, tell me." And then, as if you already know everything, they ask something like "Was this battery or negligence? What did the defendant do wrong?" Like you know exactly what that means. You think since you watch Law and Order you know what a defendant and plantiff are. They make you unsure of everything you ever knew. Law is another language. A really freakin' sucky language that no "Rosetta Stone" exists for. If the teacher rocks, they will explain what some of their foreign terms mean, but even if they explain a few, they throw a ton more at you and you have no idea what they mean most of the time. So a) they expect you to know how to do everything they tell you to do, and b) they are speaking a foreign language while not telling you any background info. My head is swimming.

I have had two days of class already, and it feels like I have been here for a month. I heard its like this all year- you have no idea what you are doing. They give you hard cases to brief on purpose, they make it super hard on purpose. I don't know why. Couldn't they just teach law like in undergrad? Where it was EASY to learn stuff? I miss the undergrad style so much. If you're in college, you don't know how good you have it!

I've been so busy lately that I kind of forgot about this blog and how nice it is to have an outlet to just vent. I mean, I can only complain so much here at law school before no one wants to hang out with me, lolz, and I'm sure my family will get enough of comments like "What am I doing! Its so hard! Maybe I'll just work at Bob Evans the rest of my life. I don't even want to be a lawyer that bad. AAAAUUUGH!!!" after a while.
Seriously, if Bob Evans paid better, it'd be a pretty sweet gig. I used to work there, and you get a discount on their food *yay* and I sometimes I got free desserts and we all got free rolls and soft drinks. Pretty sweet.

So, I think there has to be some way to get through law school so that I am not so drained all of the time. I've been making little stuff with construction paper, but I have barely thought of old Snapey Wapey at all, let alone opened my HP books. So, I don't have anything coming out of my little pink brain right now, but enjoy these links kids!

Photoshopped Sexy Snape (in Sweedish?)


Harry, what are you doing with your magic wand?

Deathly Abridgement!

I stumbled upon Chibi Snape tonight, and I was laying in bed, and I thought up an ending to the comic! Forget all you know about the Harry Potter timeline, because here is:

My Ending to THE ADVENTURES OF CHIBI SNAPE!

When we last left cute chibi Snape, he was in Moaning Myrtle's bathroom. So, here's what happened next: Myrtle picked him up and put him on a sink (she could throw the diary out of the toilet, right? Right). Snape talked to Moaning Myrtle to see if she could help him unshrink. She moaned, a lot, and of course wasn't helpful. He got angry at her for being so whiny, so naturally she burst into sobs and flooded the bathroom. The waves of water crashed down on little Snape and he was swept down the sink's pipe. Where did they go? The chamber of secrets, of course! So he drops down in the chamber just as the basilisk is heading up a pipe. He grabs onto the snake's back, and RIDES THE BASILISK up the school's pipe! But the giant monster shakes him off and he goes flying down another mysterious pipe, headed for certain doom. Or really, certain dessert, because when he emerges out of the pipe, he falls right into a pudding pie Dobby is making! "Dobby's God!" exclaims Dobby. Being the observant house elf that he is, he instantly recognizes Snape and helps him out of the pie. He carries him on his shoulder, covered in pudding, out of the kitchen to see Dumbledore.  Snape keeps asking Dobby why he is wearing so many hats, and Dobby keeps replying "Because Dobby's free, sir!" and Snape thinks he is waaay too happy about his accessory addiction. Snape calls out the password ("Cockroach clusters!") and they go into his office. Snape explains what happened in his class, and Dumbledore calls Slughorn in. Slughorn says he can fix Snape, so he puts him in his pocket and takes him down to his office. Slughorn drinks too much wine, and mixes the potion haphazardly, throwing in a dash of this and a pinch of that. Snape, disdainful of his careless potion making, expects the worst when the re-biggening potion is ready. He reluctantly sips, and voila! he is back to his big self, still covered in puddng. He takes an extra sip when Slughorn's not looking to make himself a bit taller, and Slughorn cleans the pudding off of him. In the next potions class, he deducts 50 points from Griffyndor and smacks Ron with a book, but looking back on his adventure, he secretly had a great time. The end!

Yay for mixing up books 2, 4 and 6!

harry law-ter #22: funk/the boys in the band

  • Aug. 13th, 2008 at 11:08 PM

I haven't posted in a few days because I've been in a funk. I asked this guy I've been crushing on FOREVER to dinner/and or a movie sometime next week, and he suggested lunch, sometime this fall. This would not have been a big deal, except we've been out to lunch 5 million times, and even though he never goes either way on the "we're dating" issue, its been to damn long for people who are dating to just have lunch. Ugh. So, now that the "I'm just not into you" message is clear, even though he never had the balls to actually come out and say it, I'm done wasting my time on him.

So there's that, and then theres the fact that I started babysitting full time again. And that the gloom and doom of law school is coming fast now that I'll be moving in in like, two days (ack!)

But when life gets you down, fanart can make you laugh! Like this:



It's Filch on drums and Snape on guitar! I bet he rocks. HILARIOUS, and quite good! You can see Vulkanette's other Snape-related art here. It is SexyTimes! And speaking of being related to Snape, her husband looks like Snape. *Jealous!!!!!!!* Ok, enjoy your day, I'm off to nosh and craft.
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harry law-ter #21: offical HP prequel

  • Aug. 10th, 2008 at 9:14 PM

I went looking for the prequel, and hello! I found it! I'm sure this will be old news to some of you, but here it is!

The speeding motorcycle took the sharp corner so fast in the darkness that both policemen in the pursuing car shouted,”Whoa!” Sergeant Fisher slammed his large foot on the brake, thinking that the boy who was riding pillion was sure to be flung under his wheels; however, the motorbike made the turn without seating either of its riders, and with a wink of its red tail lights, vanished up the narrow side street.

“We’ve got ‘em now!” cried PC Anderson excitedly. “That’s a dead end!”

Leaning hard on the steering wheel and crashing his gears, Fisher scraped half the paint off the flank of the car as he forced it up the alleyway in pursuit.There in the headlights sat their quarry, stationary at last after a quarter of an hour’s chase. The two riders were trapped between a towering brick wall and the police car, which was now crawling towards them like some growling luminous-eyes predator.

There was so little space between the car doors and the walls of the alley that Fisher and Anderson had difficulty extricating themselves from the vehicle. It injured their dignity to have to inch, crab-like,towards the miscreants. Fisher dragged his generous belly along the wall,tearing buttons off his shirt as he went, and finally snapping off the wing mirror with his backside.

“Get off the bike!” he bellowed at the smirking youths, who sat basking in the flashing blue light as though enjoying it.

They did as they were told, finally pulling free from the broken wing mirror, Fisher glared at them. They seemed to be in their late teens. The one who had been driving had long black hair, his insolent good looks reminded Fisher unpleasantly of his daughter’s guitar-playing, layabout boyfriend. The second boy also had black hair, though his was short and stuck up in all directions; he wore glasses and a broad grin. Both were dressed in t-shirts emblazoned with a large golden bird; the emblem, no doubt, of some deafening, tuneless rock band.

“No helmet!” Fisher yelled, pointing from one uncovered head to the other. “Exceeding the speed limit by-by a considerable amount!” (In fact, the speed registered had been greater than Fisher was prepared to accept that any motorcycle could travel.) “Failure to stop for the police!”

“We’d have loved to stop for a chat,” said the boy in glasses,”only we were trying-”

“Don’t get smart-you two are in a heap of trouble!” snarled Anderson. “Names!”

“Names?” repeated the long-haired driver.”Er-Well, let’s see. There’s Wilberforce…Bathsheba…Elvendork…”

“And what’s nice about that one is, you can use it for a boy OR a girl,” said the boy in glasses.

“Oh, our names, did you mean?” asked the first, as Anderson spluttered with rage.”You should’ve said! This here is James Potter, and I’m Sirius Black!”

“Things’ll be seriously black for you in a minute, you cheek little-”

But neither James nor Sirius was paying attention. They were suddenly as alert as gundogs, staying past Fisher and Anderson, over the roof of the police car, at the dark mouth of the alley. Then, with identical, fluid movements, they reached into their back pockets.

For the space of a heartbeat both policemen imagined guns gleaming at them, but a second later they saw that the motorcyclists had drawn nothing more than-

“Drumsticks?” jeered Anderson. “Right pair of jokers, aren’t you? Right, we’re arresting you on a charge of–”

But Anderson never got to name the charge. James and Sirius had shouted something incomprehensible, and the beams from the headlights had moved.

The policemen wheeled around, then staggered backwards. Three men were flying-actually flying- up the alley on broomsticks-and at the same moment,the police car was rearing up on its back wheels.

Fisher’s knee bucked; as he sat down hard; Anderson tripped over Fisher’s legs and fell on top of him, as flump-bang-crunch- they heard the men on brooms slam into the suspended car and fall, apparently insensible, to the ground, while broken bits of broomstick clattered down around them.

The motorbike had roared into life again. His mouth hanging open, Fisher mustered the strength to look back at the two teenagers.

“Thanks very much!” called Sirius over the throb of the engine.”We owe you one!”

“Yeah, nice meeting you!” said James. “And don’t forget: Elvendork! It’s unisex!”

There was an earth-shaking crash, and Fisher and Anderson threw their arms around each other in fright; their car had just fallen back to the ground. Now it was the motorcycle’s turn to rear. Before the policemen’s disbelieving eyes, it took off into thin air: James and Sirius zoomed away into the night sky, their tail light twinkling behind them like a vanishing ruby.

From the prequel I am not working on-but that was fun! J.K. Rowling.2008

Found here.

harry law-ter #19: snaper doll part deux

  • Aug. 9th, 2008 at 8:32 PM

I was on craftster looking for cute stuff to make for my apartment, and I found this crafty use of the Snape paper doll I featured the other day:


And its super easy to make! All you have to do is decoupage (fancy word for gluing paper with paper-friendly craft glue) Snape and his "clothes" onto a big magnet sheet and cut them out! I made my own David Duchovny magnets when I was in the 7th grade the very same way (although they weren't as nifty as these). You can probably pick up a big ol' sheet of magnet at your local Wal-Mart or craft store, and do this craft for around $7 (if you need to buy the glue). You can see about a million other Harry Potter crafts here: Just follow the threads!

bernie mac passed away today

  • Aug. 9th, 2008 at 12:56 PM

On a more serious note, Bernie Mac died today. Bernie Mac was awesome, and its super sad he's gone. He was too young. We'll miss you, dude.

http://www.usmagazine.com/Comedian-Bernie-Mac-Dies-at-50

harry law-ter #18: ride the basilisk

  • Aug. 9th, 2008 at 12:23 PM

Last night I was thinking of how funny the phrase "Ride the Basilisk" was. Too bad nobody ever rode it in CoS. And then I was thinking of putting it on a tshirt, with that phrase on the front with the Basilisk's tail on the front, and then the Basilisk's head on the back, baring its teeth at you, with the words "Ride it!" below its slobbering mouth. I thought that would be hilarious. And then my idea for the tshirt reminded me of those tshirts you can get at amusement parks, and I thought:

"Wouldn't the Basilisk be the coolest name for a Harry Potter rollercoaster?"

Yes, it totally would. You could have cars shaped like the monster, and throughout the ride there could be quotes from the movie. And it should be an indoor rollercoaster- like you're going down in the Chamber, through pipes! How creepy would it be to hear "Let me rip you...let me tear you...let me kill you...I SMELL BLOOD!" while you're in semi-darkness, going around loop-de-loops and hanging upside down? I say, IT WOULD BE AWESOME!

On this note, did you know they really are opening up a Harry Potter theme park at Universal Studios (I think) in FL. ROAD TRIP!

On a side note, the Puppy Games rock. So cute. Snape would squee.

harry law-ter #17: famous schnoz

  • Aug. 9th, 2008 at 1:32 AM

What other character but Mr. Severus Snape would you expect to find on a list of famous noses? I'd nuzzle his noozle any day. :)


Ok, so last night I was falling asleep and had this crazy idea. Here it is in story form. Forgive me.

snermaid? )


And for all you lovely readers, I would like to remind you that the contest is ending in two days- I haven't recieived any entries, so if you enter, you have a really good chance of winning! Go on, write some hot het!

Writer's Block: Your Topic

  • Aug. 8th, 2008 at 8:26 PM

Is there a topic you can't stop writing about in your journal? Why do you write about it so much?

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Snape! Snape! Snape!
Why? Duh, because he's SNAPE!