Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

The Weasley family has an owl named Errol and it's very old; it's moulting, and so exhausted that it can't even stand up after a flight - In fact it often downright loses consciousness after both long and short flights. If it even gets to where it's sent, because its eye vision has gotten so poor that it hits objects as it flies, which also can make it lose consciousness and could even kill it. Still the Weasley's keep using it for delievering their mail. In addition, their youngest son shows no compassion to it, calling it a "bloody bird", "menace" and "pathetic". And the Weasley parents bought...

The name of the straat where the Dursleys live is a reference to that most suburban plant, the liguster bush, which makes neat hedges around many English gardens. I liked the associations with both suburbia and enclosure, the Dursleys being so smugly middle class, and so determinedly separate from the wizarding world. The name of their area is 'Little Whinging', which again sounds appropriately parochial and sniffy, 'whinging' being a colloquial term for 'complaining of whining' in British English.

J.K Rowling:


Although I describe the Dursleys' house as big and square, as befitted Uncle Vernon's...

Some interesting fun facts I found and wanted to share with you! Credit to the Harry Potter wiki:

The original last name for Neville's character was "Pupp"

If u rearrange the letters in "Severus Snape" u get "Pursues Evans".

The only autograph Harry ever gave out was to Colin Creevey.

Both Michael Corner and Harry have dated the same girls, but in a different order, Cho Chang and Ginny Weasley.

Harry Potter is still the only wizard to this dag that has had all three Unforgivable Curses cast on him and survived.

David Thewlis had originally auditioned for the part of Professor Quirinus Quirrell,...

Chapter 1 - a wish come true....well sort of


I had just finished reading Harry potter and the deathly hallows 'sigh' "I wish I was a witch and that I could meet Harry Potter and maybe he would fall in love with me instead of Ginny" I thought aloud. Look I know what your thinking 'wishful thinking never going to happen in a million years' yeah well a girl can dream can't she. I was perched on the windowsill gazing out the window when I saw a couple of shooting stars passing door and I thought well I've got nothing else to do so I closed my eyes and zei "I wish I was a witch and that Harry Potter...

1. Ask him why he 'doesn't have such a cool scar?'

2. Laugh at him.

3. Wake him up door singing strand Boys songs in his ear. 'Round, round, get around, I get around...'

4. Knit him things. Really hideous things.

5. Give him kangaroo-ears for a month.

6. Smile during Death-Eater meetings and say u taught him everything he knows.

7. Chew bubblegum all the time. Should he address you, your only response will be a series of huge bubbles in quick succession, the last of which will burst everywhere and make a mess.

8. Dance the Funky Chicken.

9. Ask him when was the last time he took a bath.

10. Pat him on...

Hello my name is Caitlin and I'm a Potter-holic.

Everyone has a story of how their Potter addiction started. My addiction started on 7/16/2005. It was the premier for book 6. I went to the premier for book 5 and attempted to read the book but it was too boring. So I was determined to read book 6. I never read any of the other books. I've only seen the movies. I started to read the book and I took it everywhere. I took it to summer camp and read all day. One dag another girl at the camp came up to me and said," Oh my god, you're reading Half-Blood Prince! I just finished it. u know Dumbledore...