Then something happened, something difficult to describe. Sitting there, alone in a foreign country, far from my job and everyone I know, a feeling came over me. It was like remembering something I’d never know before, or had always been waiting for, but I didn’t know what. Maybe it was something I’d forgotten or something I’ve been missing all my life. All I can say is that I felt, at the same time, joy and sadness. But not too much sadness, because I felt alive. Yes, alive.
Harry Potter Things
I’m finally getting around to seeing Harry Potter tonight. I’m only a little less than halfway through the books right now, so this will all be new to me. Over the past two-ish years of being into Harry Potter, I’ve run into some spoilers through the verbosity of irresponsible fans and my own Wikipedia mishaps. (Stumbling on a spoiler always feels like when you were a kid and you accidentally saw what you were getting for Christmas.) Despite what I already know, there are plenty of details of which I’m unsure, and several things I’ve forgotten whether I heard or imagined. I thought it might be interesting to compile a list to come back to and see how the truth stacks up.
Assuming my list is correct, I’ll give you something I never had: a SPOILER alert.
Things I Know
Snape dies.
Snape’s not really bad. (Thanks for ruining it. You know who you are.)
Harry kills Voldemort. Duh, I know, but I mean he’s totally dead and not coming back.
Harry gets to meet Dumbledore one more time.
Ron and Hermione finally get serious. And they get married eventually.
Things I Think I Know
Harry uses the cruciatus curse
Neville dies in some kind of sacrifice
Draco and Lucius both die
Things I Suspect
Hagrid lives. He had better.
One of the Weasley twins dies
Harry gets to see his parents for a second
Lots of appearances by lesser characters I don’t care about, like that goblin from Gringotts and Buckbeak
One of my New Years resolutions is to say yes. Yes to love, yes to life, yes to staying in more!
Bread is the paper of the food industry. You write your sandwich on it.
It means your future hasn’t been written yet. No one’s has. Your future is whatever you make it. So make it a good one, both of you.
Have you heard of No Right Brain Left Behind? It’s an initiative to stimulate creativity in the minds of US youth, delivered to them in the environment that bores them most: school. Some former associates of mine are competing with top advertising agencies and portfolio schools to have an idea adopted which will help young people think, feel, and solve in a way that has been strangely absent from our educational system for too long. Please view the short slideshow presentation for The Better Project and click “like” today to help them share their solution with the world.
Lots of Halo Reach fails. I’m sad to say I’ve done a few of these myself…
