seeing that i havent written in here for the longest time, i think i'll just give this old doll a rest.  if you'd like to know whatsup in my life through pictures or current interests, myspace.com and facebook are great candidates to receive that information.

have a great day, everyone!

okay, so i THOUGHT i'd look at those harry potter websites for a couple minutes and get over it... unfortunately and interestingly, i've found some pretty wonderful facts about Harry and 'JO', aka, JKRowling that i've never discovered nor knew about before...and i'm pretty addicted as of right now.

besides looking at endless question and answers from fans to JKR, reading up on 'did you miss that in the book?' facts, i found an essay on generations in the wizarding world and how they are parallel to the muggle generations..ok, poke fun, but if you read Harry and you were devastated after learning who dies in JKR's latest book, you'd have done the same thing...

excerpts from the harry potter lexicon:

Generations in the Wizarding World
by Ebony AKA AngieJ

The year during with Voldemort began his rise to power is given as circa 1970. Since JKR in an interview has given Snape an age of 34/35 during GF, this means that, by the only method of dating we have thus far, Harry's parents and their cohorts were born sometime in the late 1950s/early 1960s.

We know that the dark wizard Grindelwald was defeated in 1945. We currently know of no other major Dark movement in this milieu between 1945 and 1970.

From this, the following could be true:

1. James, Sirius, Peter, Remus, Severus, Lily, etc. spent their early childhood up in a relatively peaceful and optimistic time, whether in the Muggle or wizarding world. Both Hitler and Grindelwald had been long defeated by the year of their births.

2. During this time of peace, one of the finest schools in their world was run by the person who helped create this peace in the first place, Albus Dumbledore.

3. Around the time that they received their letters for Hogwarts (1970), Voldemort began his rise to power.

4. The majority of their adolescence (early to mid-1970s) was spent in a time of growing uncertainty. The majority of their young adulthood (middle to late 1970s/early 1980s) was spent during a time of terror. The Animagus transformations were performed during this period, as was the (unusually?) early marriage of James and Lily.

By the early 1980s, dire tragedy had either ended or marred the lives of all six of the individuals above. And this is just one sociogram of friends/rivals/loves. At least one of two things is true:

1. That this group was unusually cursed or singled out for persecution, or

2. We, as readers of a book for young people, may think that Voldemort is simply a comic hero, but the denizens of the world he exists in know from bitter experience that he is not. (I think they'd know better than we would.)

Thus, you have a generation whose childhood was spent in a peaceful time, whose adolescence was spent during a time of unease and unrest, and whose young adulthood was nightmarish (perhaps paralleled by the young adult experiences of the Greatest Generation).

..."I'm not so sure that the post-1981 "peace" in this world was anything like the post-1945 "peace.” It seems that as the centuries march on here on the Muggle side of things, with each war and each atrocity we lose a bit more of our innocence, expectation, and optimism...for some reason, I think that perhaps this could hold true in the Wizarding world as well".

..and it goes on...

yes, this is what i did today..and..it's ok.  if you feel that you want to join in on all the fun facts, here are some sites recommended by JKR herself!!
http://www.jkrowling.com/ <JKR's own website
http://www.mugglenet.com/ <lots of Harry fanstuff..like what kind of wand would you have gotten if you were a wizard..
http://www.hp-lexicon.org/ <where many anal and scrutinizing fans point out all the errors in the book and where i found the generation essay..

goodnight all. <3 josephine