Hermione's Bookshelf

harrypotterconfessions:

I remember being 9 or 10 years old, the only kid in my Year 5 class with The Goblet of Fire on my table. Reading it every chance I got. They made fun of me, they were confused by me. But I was in a world of my own. I was in Harry’s World.

J. K. Trolling.

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Reblogging (a) because it’s funny and (b) for people like me who see this and wonder “OH MY GODS WHERE WAS THAT FROM?”

Ahem.

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Sirius’s head was sitting in the fire. If Harry hadn’t seen Mr. Diggory do exactly this back in the Weasley’s kitchen, it would have scared him out of his wits. Instead, his face breaking into the first smile he had worn in days, he scrambled out of his chair, crouched down by the hearth, and said, “Sirius —- how’re you doing?”

Sirius looked different from Harry’s memory of him. When they had said good-bye, Sirius’ face had been gaunt and sunken, surrounded by a quantity of long, black, matted hair —- but the hair was short and clean now, Sirius’s face was fuller, and he looked younger, much more like the only photograph Harry had of him, which had been taken at the Potters’ wedding.

“Never mind me, how are you?” said Sirius seriously.

(Source: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Ch 19, p. 331, US edition paperback)

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“The egg was in your office, Professor?”

“Of course not,” Snape snapped. “I heard banging and wailing —-“

“Yes, professor, that was the egg —-“

“—- I was coming to investigate —-“

“—- Peeves thew it, Professor —-“

“—- and when I passed my office, I saw that the torches were lit and a cupboard door was ajar! Somebody has been searching it!”

“But Peeves couldn’t —-“

“I know he couldn’t, Filch!” Snape snapped again. “I seal my office with a spell none but a wizard could break.”

(Source: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Ch 25, p. 469-70, US edition paperback)

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harrypotterconfessions:

It really isn’t about the fact that Hermione has to be ugly. Because whenever I say this people bitch at me that I just want Hermione to be ugly and tell me that she wasn’t and no one ever let’s me tell them that I don’t want Hermione to be ugly. It’s just not true. I think she was always beautiful in her own way but well with her messy big hair and all that. Because that’s how she is described and that is what I liked about Hermione, how after the yuleball she was her old self again and everyone was like “But you looked so gorgeous why don’t you always do that?” and she was like “I don’t see why it takes a lot of time and I don’t think it’s worth it.”

And Emma is gorgeous and takes just that effect that I loved about book Hermione away. It’s really the only thing I don’t like about Emma being Hermione and I know it’s not her fault but the stylists who were too lazy to do her hair properly for the later movies.

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I’m reblogging this because that line from Goblet of Fire when Hermione says (I’m paraphrasing here) that fixing her hair like she did for the Yule Ball would be too much trouble to do every day meant a lot to me. I know it’s just a little thing, but I could relate to that. I like dressing up sometimes, but it would be way too much trouble to do it every day. My hair usually looks the same every day, unless there is a party or if I occasionally feel like doing something different.

None of the actors or actresses are exactly how I pictured the characters (though some are close). I suppose the disparity between how Hermione’s described and the way she looks in the movies is due to the professional make-up, etc. that the actors and actresses have when they are going to be in a movie.

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harrypotterconfessions:

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That lesson was quite disturbing, especially the bit with Neville being upset about the Cruciatus Curse.

I think the two purposes of the lesson were: (1) to give important information about the wizarding world to Harry and the reader and (2) to start showing the character of this new teacher, who would then be revealed to be an impostor.

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