Go to The Leaky Cauldron IMMEDIATELY. A recent interview with JKR has dumped a literal gold mine of answers onto our spinning heads. I haven't even read the whole thing and I'm retooling all my conceptions of Book 6.

So I was flipping through an old file recently, and came across this excellent piece of ad copy from April, 1963. All spelling and punctuation is accurate to the flier.
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Overnight, our catalog has become the "bible" of your industry because the SUPERFLAKE line is complete for all foundry operations. Whatever your graphite need - you'll find a ( Read more... )

Things I've Been Doing include: trying to find a place to see The Passion of Christ on Wednesday, plagiarizing, fixing my close-to-being-busted glasses with Elmer's glue, planning a trip northward, not getting my car checked, b1llz paying, and having dreams in vivid color.

( Also thinking about OotP. Spoilers. )

Update to the Rowan-Atkinson-in-GoF buzzing:

According to the Leaky Cauldron who has it from a UK tabloid, the part Atkinson is being rumored to be after is LORD VOLDEMORT.

*faints*

Buzz from The Leaky Cauldron: This is still very much rumor, but there is word that Rowan Atkinson may end up in Goblet of Fire.

At least they wouldn't have to CGI the eye ...

I think I have just developed a ( very interesting theory regarding Order of the Phoenix and Potter 6. )

Saw Memento, which was really great, thought-provoking and well done, and it wasn't even too vulgar except for a bit where someone goes off on an f-bombing spree near the end. Highly recommended.

Lately I've been re-playing the 3-D quest-and-shoot-stuff computer game Twinsen's Little Big Adventure. It's several years old and runs in DOS, but the ( Read more... )

Go look at this.

http://www.sugarquill.net/viewa.php?artid=805

This isn't "news" exactly, but it's interesting -- apparently some Russians are up in arms about the Chamber of Secrets movie because they think that Dobby was directly modeled to look like Russian President Vladmir Putin.

(Check out some pictures. The resemblance is staggering.)