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Harry Potter and the language of Weasley

February 13, 2010

I’m enjoying rewatching all the Harry Potter films on Blu-ray. Getting towards the climax of HP and the Order of the Phoenix I noticed Ron Weasley’s language. The Inquisatorial Squad had told him “to bugger off” and then nicked his puking pastilles.
In the first few films Ron was inclined to the odd “bloody hell”. By [...]

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The Harry Potter prophecy game

July 22, 2009

I want to invite your predictions. Given that Warner Bros are going to make two films out of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, where will they cut the book in two? My vote goes for Ron’s return and the destruction of the Horcrux that is Slytherin’s locket.

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Half-Blood Prince: full-blooded entertainment

July 19, 2009
Quidditch team at breakfast

Reviews of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince seem quite mixed, although judging by last night’s crowd leaving the cinema, most ordinary Potter watchers seemed quite entranced. I have to say I find myself in two minds. On the one hand I felt engaged throughout and thoroughly entertained, on the other there were some things [...]

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Harry Potter & swine flu: media madness and mundane reality

July 7, 2009

The media seem unable to give up their obsession with swine flu, and the idea that this is somehow a constant diaster about to happen, despite copious evidence now that so-called swine flu is actually a mild form of summer flu, whose only noteworthy character is that it seems to have begun in a crossover [...]

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I am excited

July 2, 2009

Only two weeks to go for the release of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince . It seems like we’ve been waiting ever. Of course, sod’s law means I’m too busy then to see it before the weekend.

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