• A Harry Potter Float - consisting of four giant floats to represent each of the houses. Then Daniel, Emma and Rupert will come out on plastic brooms suspended above the stadium (safely harnessed of course). For added effect, they may even attempt to project a Dark Mark onto one of the screens.
• A Doctor Who Parade - complete with Daleks, Weeping Angels and Oods. OMG, they should also wheel in a TARDIS and set it in the middle of the stadium. And guess who steps out of the TARDIS?
• The Queen of England! Now wouldn't that be dramatic? I can already picture it happening. Fog machines will turn on and the lights will be dimmed. It will be a glorious moment.
• Susan Boyle. They should get her to sing "I Dreamed a Dream" but if that's not possible, she could always do the National Anthem.
• Charlieissocoollike. I'm not sure what he could do but it would be nice if YouTube had a representative. Perhaps he would be willing to paint himself purple again.
• A performance from The Spice Girls. They could put them on one of those stages that seem to rise out of the centre of the stadium. I'm sorry but I can't really think of any other British bands at the moment. Oh right, One Direction! They could pair each of them up since each band has 5 members each. Maybe we would get a One Thing/ Wannabe mashup?
• A Shakespeare performance. Oh come on, it wouldn't be an opening ceremony if you didn't feel like falling asleep at least once.
• Performances from Ed Sheeran and Adele. Whooooo!!!! British music represent!!!

So like, I'm going to go watch Harry Potter with my parents and sister today. This will be fun (l0l). Okay, who am I kidding. My parents are the most EMBARASSING PEOPLE ON THE PLANET. The only reason I agreed to this was because its Harry Potter (oh, the things you do for love). I'll just think of it as sacrificing my pride for the sake of one last viewing of the ending of my favourite series. And it's not like I've got any tutoring tomorrow anyway.

Speaking of Harry Potter, I finally got into Pottermore :) I had my laptop on last night whilst watching Angels and Demons and was continuously refreshing the Pottermore website every half hour. I was desperate to get in LOL. I'm not even sure what it is, only that millions of fans around the world are desperate to be one of the early few to register. Basically, for about a week now, a clue has been appearing on the Pottermore website at unknown times every day. If you somehow answer the question correctly, you get directed to the "magic quill" which, according to the Pottermore website, can sense if a person has any magic in them. YAYAYAYAY, THAT MEANS I'M MAGICAL :D.

But yeh, I got last night's question and was able to register. Unfortunately, they don't allow you to pick your name cause they want to keep it kid-friendly. So I got stuck with something like "PhoenixFang182". You can choose it from a list of five though. The other ones available to me were "DragonBludger", "NightWizard" and some other funny ones.

There's only one more day left for the promotion. And then you'll have to wait till October to get in. For those who're interested, go to: http://www.pottermore.com/

EDIT: Oh wait, Pottermore just opened. LOL I don't think anyone's gonna get in by this point.

Went downstairs to look for my Harry Potter book and came back up with cookies instead - forgetting said HP book. Does that ever happen to you? You go somewhere to get something and then come back with something else. Maybe I'm one of those people who get distracted by the "Oooh, shiny". That would explain why I'm such a bad driver. WAIT A MINUTE. What am I talking about? I'm not a bad driver. It's just that my driving instructor is a dickweed.

I seem to have missed out Number 14 down there on my list. So I'll just include it here.

After a while, exhausted and drained, Harry found himself sitting on a bench beside Luna.
"I'd want some peace and quiet, if it were me," she said.
"I'd love some," he replied.
"I'll distract them all," she said. "Use your cloak."
And before he could say a word she had cried. "Ooooh, look, a Blibbering Humdinger!" and pointed out of the window. Everyone who heard looked around, and Harry slide the Cloak up over himself, and got to his feet.

Luna is the embodiment of epic-tuosity, no?

Also known as, Eighteen Instances in which the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 Movie has Failed the Book By Not Including a Much Loved Fact or Line. (I do like the movie though. I just wish they would include those little details that make the books so epic.)

1. "...with a bright white flash and a crack, a crystal ball fell on the top of Greyback's head and he crumpled to the ground and did not move. "I have more!" shrieked Professor Trelawney from over the banisters... and with a movement like a tennis serve, she heaved another enormous crystal sphere from her bag, waved her want througth the air, and caused the ball to speed across the hall and smash through a window..."

Hehe, I would've loved to see the quirky Professor Trelawney start smashing crystal balls into the baddies. Especially since she always seems so out of it.

2. "He did not recognise the room at all. It was enormous, and looked rather like the interior of a particularly sumptuous tree house...multicoloured hammocks were strung from the ceiling... and windowless walls were covered in bright tapestry hangings. Harry saw the gold Griffindor lion, emblazoned on scarlet, the black badger of Hufflepuff, set against the yellow, and the bronze eagle of Ravenclaw, on blue. The silver and green of Slytherin alone were absent."

Colour!!! T_T The movies are so colourless and drab. Sometimes I wish the director would just stop making the whole thing so utterly depressing. Hogwarts should be colourful!!!

3. "Cho spoke again, "If you'd like to see what the diadem's supposed to look like, I could take you up to the common room and show you, Harry?" Cho had got to her feet, but Ginny said rather fiercely, "No, Luna will take Harry, won't you, Luna?" "Ooooh, yes, I'd like to," said Luna happily, and Cho sat down again, looking dissapointed."

LOLs.

4. "The deserted Ravenclaw common room was a wide, circular room, airier than any Harry had ever seen at Hogwarts. Graceful arched windows punctuated the walls, which were hung with blue and bronze silks: by day, the Ravenclaws would have a spectacular view of trhe surrounding mountains. The ceiling was domed and painted with stars, which were echoed in the midnight-blue carpet. There were tables, chairs and bookcases, and in a niche opposite the door stood a tall statue of white marble."

I was so looking forward to seeing the Ravenclaw common room :'( If I went to Hogwarts, I would have liked to be in Ravenclaw. You know how Griffindor has the fat lady to guard their common room? For Ravenclaw, they have to answer a riddle. ISN'T THAT SO AWESOME?

5. "Hermione sat panting on the floor beside Goyle, who was still unconscious. "C - Crabbe," choked Malfoy, as soon as he could speak. "C- Crabbe..." "He's dead," said Ron harshly.

I know Crabbe died suddenly in the movie but couldn't they have shown Malfoy suffering about it? Crabbe got one quick glance and that's all. Keep in mind that Crabbe and Goyle have been with Malfoy since the FIRST movie.

6. "Hello Minister!" bellowed Percy, sending a neat jinx straight at Thicknesse, who dropped his wand and clawed at the front of his robes, apparently in awful discomfort. "Did I mention I'm resigning?"

7. "No - no - no!" someone was shouting. "No! Fred! No!" And Percy was shaking his brother, and Ron was kneeling beside them, and Fred's eyes stared without seeing, the ghost of his last laugh still etched upon his face."

They never showed how Fred died in battle. Or how Lupin and Tonks died too. That's not fair. Those characters deserved some sort of last glory shot of them fighting Death Eaters before they died or something.

8. "Even as they stood braced, looking for the opportunity to act, there came a great "wheeeeeeeeee!" and, looking up, Harry saw Peeves zooming over them, dropping Snargaluff pods down on to the Death Eaters, whose heads were suddenly engulfed in wriggling, green tubers like fat worms."

LOL that would've been cool to see.

9. "I'm Draco Malfoy, I'm Draco, I'm on your side!" Draco was on the upper landing, pleading with another masked Death Eater. Harry stunned the Death Eater as they passed: Malfoy looked around, beaming, for his saviour, and Ron punched him from under the Cloak. Malfoy fell backwards on top of the Death Eater, his mouth bleeding, utterly bemused. "And that's the second time we've saved your life tonight, you two-faced bastard!" Ron yelled."

I repeat. That would've been cool to see.

10. "Somewhere in the distance they could hear Peeves zooming through the corridors singing a victory song of his own composition: "We did it, we bashed them, wee Potter's the One, And Voldy's gone mouldy, so now let's have fun!" "Really gives a feeling for the scope and tragedy of the thing, doesn't it?" said Ron, pushing open a door to let Harry and Hermione through."

11. "Any moment, the people for whom he had tried to die would see him, lying apparently dead, in Hagrid's arms. "NO!!" The scream was the more terrible because he had never expected or dreamed that Professor McGonagall could make such a sound. He heard another woman laughing nearby, and knew that Bellatrix gloried in McGonagall's despair."

No one really reacted to Harry's death (with the exception of Ginny). In the book, it was way more traumatic as all of Harry's friends and the people of Hogwarts saw his "dead" body in Hagrid's arms. I don't think they did that really well in the movie.

IMPORTANT SIDE NOTE: For those who are interested, we need to organise a Harry Potter midnight screening trip ASAP. Tickets are probably gonna sell out soon and if we don't hurry, we're not gonna be able to go :( And we must go because it is the last Harry Potter.

• The Harry Potter Series (rediscovered): I actually spent the whole holidays rereading the series - in the right order this time. It's funny the things you notice after a reread. For example, the vanishing cabinet that Malfoy uses in BOOK SIX to help death eaters into Hogwarts actually appears briefly in BOOK TWO when Harry floo powders himself to Borgin and Burkes by accident. HOW DOES JK ROWLING DO IT? I know she planned the WHOLE series before writing it but honestly, how do you even fit those little details in and then go back to them 4 books later?



• markreads.net : He is too awesome for words. Part of why I enjoyed Harry Potter so much was because I read his chapter-by-chapter synopsis'.


• A VERY POTTER MUSICAL: WORDS CANNOT DESCRIBE THIS. YOU HAVE TO SEE IT TO BELEIVE IT. Go youtube "A Very Potter Musical" - it shall blow your mind.... or not. Depends on the person, you see. You don't have to be a HP fan but it helps. Basically it's a musical made by some college kids that's kind of a parody of Harry Potter. But it's so well done. Most of the songs were written by Darren Criss (who plays Harry Potter). If he sounds familiar it's because he plays Blaine in Glee. AVPM was made before he actually became famous though.

• Gifs: Enough said.



• The Australian Open: Despite everyone I rooted for getting eliminated, I actually spent a large portion of my time in the last two weeks watching tennis. I laughed every time Nadal took off his shirt and middle aged women wolf-whistled or took photos on their phone..... good times.


• Movieworld in Queensland: This would've been my third time at Movieworld but for some reason it was better than the other times. Maybe because my sis and I went on Superman Escape five times. No kidding. The line wasn't too bad either so that helped.


• Maplestory (rediscovered): Maybe I liked it because the Big Bang took place and finally I could travel everywhere easily. I dunno. Whatever, Maplestory did keep me occupied.


• Sims 3 Late Night: I dunno what it is about creating Sims and then controlling everything they do (including going to the toilet ) that makes it so addictive. I've always been a Sims fan but the new expansion pack made it so much more awesome. I COULD TURN MY SIMS INTO VAMPIRES. Like who doesn't want to do that? Siriusly. I was also bored enough to create a Harry Potter band in Sims 3 (click to enlarge). Luna's on bass, Harry's on drums, Ron's on guitar and Hermione's on piano. I know what you're all thinking and no I'm not mad. I was just really bored in the holidays :(



• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: pretty awesome book but is it really worth all the hype?


• Eliza Doolittle.

Why don't people ever blog anymore? :( I know you guys still read blogs but why don't you write anything??? Is it cuz you've all got facebook and twitter? Blogspot not good enough for you now huh? LOL. I wouldn't be able to write any of this stuff on facebook. There's just something about the sheer number of people on facebook that turns me off from writing anything that I want on there. DON'T JUDGE ME OKAY? On blogspot I can ramble all I want and nobody cares.

P.S. I wonder if Jessica's having fun over there in Vietnam...

Alright everybody, remember to party hard today!

Today we are featuring Hermione Granger because she is totally the most awesome Harry Potter character there is, besides Ron and Luna Lovegood. Oh and Dobby.

Bear with me people as I go through this Harry Potter phase.

& also because I am rereading the whole series again and have just finished Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.

You know what that means?

PICSPAM PARTY!! Complete with Mean Girls and Twilight mash-ups :)

Nancy said that Stephanie said that a mole in the middle of your neck/throat means you'll commit suicide and a mole near your eyes means you cry a lot. I have moles on those two places, which means that I'm going to cry a lot and commit suicide...

Whoopee for me.

It's so bloody hot today. I felt like I was underwater when walking outside, the air was that heavy. Since my sister stole my old room, I'm left with the crappy one that doesn't have air con or anything. How am I supposed to survive summer? F5

My dad made me borrow his weird Vietnamese karaoke videos at Cabra Library again (cuz he ran out of space on his card). If you don't know them, they're the ones with asian ladies posing on the front and tacky coloured font all over it. They also look really cheap and ugly. You can imagine the looks that the librarian gave me when I borrowed them.

Off to dinner now and then Harry Potter later :)

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"Mistletoe...is often infested with Nargles..." - Luna Lovegood

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P.S Thank you Othilia, for pointing out that Albus Dumbledore is gay. I seriously never would've noticed.