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Did some re reading of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince for my lecture 📚☕️

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Reading on the balcony with the kitter.
What are you all doing this lovely Sunday morning?

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Bibliophile Tetris: walking around your room with a yardstick, trying to find a spot to put yet another bookshelf you’re looking at online.

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• You won’t know that the Elder Wand was also called the Deathstick
  
• Ron was actually a Prefect
• Harry, Fred and George got a “life-long ban” from Umbridge after they attacked Malfoy on the pitch
• Dumbledore hired a centaur named Firenze to teach Divination
  
• Neville Longbotton could’ve been “The Chosen One” but Voldemort chose Harry
• Fenrir Greyback was the werewolf who bit Remus Lupin as a child
  
• Harry attended Bill and Fleur’s wedding disguised as Barny Weasley, a red-headed Weasley cousin
  
• Lily was actually a few months older than James
• While still alive, the Bloody Baron, who became the ghost of Slytherin House, was sent by Rowena Ravenclaw to retrieve her daughter, Helena, whom he was in love with. When Helena, who became the ghost of Ravenclaw House, refused to go with him, he became angry and stabbed her. Then, distraught with having killed her, he killed himself
  
• Harry mended his own wand with the Elder Wand before he got rid of it
• Harry, Ron and Hermione met Neville in St Mungos, who was visiting his parents and his Gran told them what happened to Alice and Frank 
• The Potters’ had a cat
• Harry got  miniature broom from Sirius for his first Birthday
• Bathilda Bagshot was a friend of the Potters’

• Peeves was a poltergeist who haunted Hogwarts and frequently harassed students
• A house elf named Winky was an integral part of the plot of Goblet of Fire, she was Barty Crouch’s elf
• Dobby worked in the Hogwarts kitchens, Dumbledore paid him a wage and he gave Harry the gillyweed
• Harry and Ginny’s first kiss wasn’t creepy or in the Room of Requirement, it was in the Common Room after winning a Quidditch game
• Snape had his own challenge on the quest for the Philosopher’s Stone that was a test of intellect and included drinking potions
• McGonagal protects Hagrid and takes FIVE spells to the chest in order to let him escape when Umbridge tries to get him incarcerated
• Sir Cadogan! Fantastic painted Knight
• That random piece of glass that Harry looks through and sees Alberforth in, was actually a mirror given to him by Sirius who wanted to keep in contact with him while he was at Hogwarts, it was also what he used to keep in contact with James over the summer and during classes
• Harry has a complete break down after the Sirius’ death and trashes Dumbledore’s office - it’s super cathartic and heartbreaking

• RON WAS ACTUALLY A REALLY GOOD FRIEND.
• Harry and Dumbledore seeing Voldemort’s mother and the abuse she went through.

ooooo boy okay

• the triwizard tournament maze was actually WAY more interesting than the movie version: Harry straight up ran through some fog which turned the whole world upside down, he answered a riddle for a sphinx in order to get past her and actually encountered a blast-ended skrewt
• blast-ended skrewts were hybrids of a manticore and fire crab, bred by hagrid which he introduced to the students during classes. they had sparks flying out of their rear ends which would explode. females had suckers and males had stingers.
• not all of hagrid’s lessons were disasters!!! he once buried leprechaun treasure in his back garden and gave each student a niffler and set them loose to see whose would catch the most gold (the winner won a bar of honeydukes chocolate)
• fred and george’s pranks against umbridge didn’t only involve the massive fireworks display: they placed nifflers in her office on more than one occasion and it nearly bit her fingers off trying to get at her gold rings and they even created a portable swamp which sealed off a whole corridor and didn’t give anyone instructions on how to remove it
• they left Peeves with a command to ‘give them hell’ and the poltergeist, who never listened to students ever, took the words to heart and started pretty much wrecking the entire castle
• the teachers kept coming to umbridge with all of their problems because they didn’t have the ‘authority’ to deal with it themselves (even though they could totally fix it) which resulted in umbridge running herself ragged trying to keep up with each new disaster. 
• at one point harry witnessed peeves trying to undo the fastenings for a chandelier and saw mcgonagall say out of the corner of her mouth as she walked past ‘it unscrews the other way’
• when snape demanded to see harry’s potion book after he injured draco in the bathroom, he went and retrieved ron’s book instead, who he didn’t realise had signed it with a spell checking quill. The magic had worn off and read ‘roonil wazlib’ instead and when snape asked who that was harry lied and told snape that was his nickname.
• in the second book, during valentine’s day, lockhart hired dwarves to carry harps, wear gold wings and pretend to be cupids while they read out love letters. Harry received one from Ginny in front of a crowd of people and was so embarrassed he tried to run, but the dwarf caught him around the legs and then sat on him so he could recite the rest of the love poem. 
• percy weasley moved out of the house after the fourth book when harry said voldemort was back, choosing to side with the ministry and his ambition over his own family whom he stopped talking to for several books. he arrived back just in time to fight in the battle of hogwarts, reuniting with his family and apologising for his behaviour right before fred was killed.
• cho never sold out dumbledore’s army to umbridge. it was her friend marietta edgecombe.
• in the sixth book when harry was obsessed with finding out what malfoy was up to, he sent kreacher and dobby to spy on his whereabouts
• ginny actually had a personality??? her and harry’s relationship didn’t feel weird or forced (and there was definitely no strange shoe tying incident)
• it was actually tonks who found harry on the train in the sixth book after malfoy broke his nose and left him there. her patronus had changed so much (to resemble the shape of a huge hulking creature) that for a while harry thought she was in love with sirius and was mourning his death
• pettigrew hesitated when harry and ron tried to overpower him so that they and the rest of the prisoners could escape the cellar at the malfoys. the silver hand voldemort crafted then turned on him for this small act of humanity and strangled him to death, even with ron and harry attempting to save him.
  

• That Hermione did NOT know what a mudblood was, and was very confused why Fred, George, Ron and everybody in the Quidditch team got so angy when Draco called her that. And why should she know? All she knew about the wizarding world, she had read in text books.
• Fricking Garden Gnomes.
• Sirius feeling so bad for robbing Ron of his only pet (when revealing that Scabbers was really Peter Pettigrew) that he granted Ron is very own owl. A tiny one, but still…
  
• Ginny named it Pigwidgeon, and it won’t answer to anything else, despite Ron’s attempts to rename it. Ron calls it “Pig” for short.
  

Oh man those Garden gnomes….

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Baby Raccoon by © Dee Carpenter

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Being productive!
Yay!

torbooks:

The Magician’s Library by Erin McGuire

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I am really liking the new quote font on the app.
Like it reminds me of the fonts used in some of my favourite books I read growing up.
Lots of nostalgia!