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Seventh Harry Potter Book Named
Croakyvoice writes "JK Rowling has today given fans of the Harry Potter books the name of Book 7 of the very popular series via a Christmas present on her site, to get to the name you need to follow a complicated procedure but thankfully the name of the book has been revealed as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows."
I'm so obsessed with Harry Potter. This was the best Christmas present she could give out... short of the book itself.
What part of the "stuff that matters", don't you understand?
... I was hoping it would be called "Harry Potter and the Back Alley Abortion."
:: goes and pre orders five copies-- one for self, one for wife, one for sister, one for children, one for mother ::
Seriously, why do people keep on reading this stuff?
Hallowed are the Ori.
Please, for the good of Humanity, vote Obama.
What god awful dribble those books are. Now if you don't mind I need to roll this d20.
It was originally called "Harry Potter Laughes All The Way To The Bank". But the publisher convinced her to change the title.
It's actually: "Harry Potter: the plot is shallow".
Circumcision is child abuse.
Are you implying that because an English writer will dominate the Best Seller list for a while?
Or perhaps you are concerned about millions of kids who have discovered books can be entertaining thanks to Rowlings books?
Or maybe you're just point out how stupid you are in that you didn't realize one of the biggest selling modern writers is neither American nor are her novels set in America, or that literature and popular books are completely independant?
Would be Hirsute Ceramist and the Holy Lambda for those of us who like Lord Voldemort's Schemes.
Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.-- Frontinus, 1st cent. AD
I was so hoping for Harry Potter and the Closed Casket Funerals. Guess I should have known that that wasn't going to happen.
I was hoping it was going to be "Harry Potter and the Balance of Earth" and that it would come bundled with a copy
of "An Inconvenient Truth" and some moon sapphires...
No, It's going to be named " Harry Potter and the Franchise of Sequels."
"Things are more moderner than before- bigger, and yet smaller- it's computers-- San Dimas High School football RULES!"
I am now severing my connection to the Internet. I can no longer trust even the most unlikely sources for Harry Potter spoilers. Fucking Richard Stallman ruined it for me last time. He sure got an earful from me, though.
Did you ever notice that *nix doesn't even cover Linux?
Man, that naming formula is even more boring than Star Wars' "Episode NUMBER: VERB of the NOUN".
sic transit gloria mundi
One of the best comments ever was in a long thread about the technicalities of RAID hardware. Someone wrote four long paragraphs, and halfway through the second, tacked on to the end of one sentence "and besides, Hermione dies in the last book anyways." *
The outrage was tremendous because, before you even realized you were reading a spoiler, you'd finished and comprehended it. Sweetest troll ever.
* No one knows who dies in the last book, if someone does. At the time, Rowling explicitly said she hadn't decided who. It wasn't a real spoiler, and isn't now. Don't freak out.
Anyone who loves or hates any language, platform, or manufacturer, doesn't know what they're talking about.
#111338
<JonJonB> Purely in the interests of science, I have replaced the word "wand" with "wang" in the first Harry Potter Book
<JonJonB> Let's see the results...
<JonJonB> "Why aren't you supposed to do magic?" asked Harry.
<JonJonB> "Oh, well -- I was at Hogwarts meself but I -- er -- got expelled, ter tell yeh the truth. In me third year. They snapped me wang in half an' everything
<JonJonB> A magic wang... this was what Harry had been really looking forward to.
<JonJonB> "Yes, yes. I thought I'd be seeing you soon. Harry Potter." It wasn't a question. "You have your mother's eyes. It seems only yesterday she was in here herself, buying her first wang. Ten and a quarter inches long, swishy, made of willow. Nice wang for charm work."
<JonJonB> "Your father, on the other hand, favored a mahogany wang. Eleven inches. "
<JonJonB> Harry took the wang. He felt a sudden warmth in his fingers. He raised the wang above his head, brought it swishing down through the dusty air and a stream of red and gold sparks shot from the end like a firework, throwing dancing spots of light on to the walls
<JonJonB> "Oh, move over," Hermione snarled. She grabbed Harry's wang, tapped the lock, and whispered, 'Alohomora!"
<JonJonB> The troll couldn't feel Harry hanging there, but even a troll will notice if you stick a long bit of wood up its nose, and Harry's wang had still been in his hand when he'd jumped - it had gone straight up one of the troll's nostrils.
<JonJonB> He bent down and pulled his wang out of the troll's nose. It was covered in what looked like lumpy gray glue.
<JonJonB> He ran onto the field as you fell, waved his wang, and you sort of slowed down before you hit the ground. Then he whirled his wang at the dementors. Shot silver stuff at them.
<JonJonB> Ok
<JonJonB> I have found, definitive proof
<JonJonB> that J.K Rowling is a dirty DIRTY woman, making a fool of us all
<JonJonB> "Yes," Harry said, gripping his wang very tightly, and moving into the middle of the deserted classroom. He tried to keep his mind on flying, but something else kept intruding.... Any second now, he might hear his mother again... but he shouldn't think that, or he would hear her again, and he didn't want to... or did he?
<melusine > O_______O
<JonJonB> Something silver-white, something enormous, erupted from the end of his wang
<JonJonJonB> Then, with a sigh, he raised his wang and prodded the silvery substance with its tip.
<JonJonJonB> 'Get - off - me!' Harry gasped. For a few seconds they struggled, Harry pulling at his uncles sausage-like fingers with his left hand, his right maintaining a firm grip on his raised wang.
Of course it's on the Beeb, it's major financial news. Harry Potter is the UK's only export. :P
If I remember correctly Harry Potter was always going to be seven books.
And Guid^H^H^H^H Voldemort shot first.
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
Joanne K. does it again: she announces the death of two main characters. She did this before 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix' and killed Sirius Black in a pretty inconvincing way.
Who will die this time? My guess: Dudley eats himself to death and owls hunt Uncle Vernon into the sea...
They're also, by the way, great books for brushing up on a foreign language
Yes. That's why I buy the British editions and not those translated into my native American. I had no idea that they called sorcerers "philosophers" in the UK!
And the brethren went away edified.
Snape kills Dumbledore!
Oh wait...
What gets me is that he's essentially a jock, but we have trouble recognizing it because he hasn't yet adopted jockish bravado nor gotten a pair of magic contact lenses. Think about it. He's:
Seriously, a trip to Aberzombie and Fitchicus and a six pack of Cooricon's Light is all he needs to become a typical beer-swilling young jock.
_Harry Potter and the Dark, Moist Cave_.
The same can be said of the U.S. military in US. the only difference is that you can enjoy harry potter.
:)
disclaimer : i'm neither british nor american.
Nut... but... he can't be a jock! He wears glasses!
For every expert, there is an equal and opposite expert. - Arthur C. Clarke
A friend showed me this... I agree that it's hilarious
http://bash.org/?111338
Two.
How many for you?
Not everyone only reads C++ GUI interfaces guides.
Why not?
They're there affecting their effect.
I'm not familiar with this comparison. The only trojan I know works very well until you pull it off!
Those poor Americans have to get their literature from somewhere.
That's why we grew Christopher Paolini [Eragon] in vat in a secret laboratory.
My Heart Is A Flower
Hands don't count, dude.
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Cause J.K Rowling hasn't written "Harry Potter and the Blue Screen of Death"