Deathly Hallows, L-o-o-o-o-o-ong Swim Meets, My Heros, etc.

WARNING: I may inadvertantly give away HUGE bits of Hary Potter, so if you haven't read it yet, don't read this until you're done. I apologize if I ruin it for you, but YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

Ok, so essentially I got the new Harry Potter at about 2:30 pm on Saturday, and I definately locked myself in my room for about 7 hours and read the entire book. It was amazing!She killed off all my favorite characters, though. Honestly, lest's list all the characters I love that she's killed off. In OOTP, she killed Sirius, who was awesome. In HBP, it was Dumbledore. And she also mauled Bill, and he was my favorite non-main Weasley. In DH, she killed off Moody, Headwig, Tonks, Lupin, Snape, and FRED! She killed Fred. MY FRED!!!!! My favorite Weasley, my beloved twin, my future husband, for the love of pete! I cried like a baby when he died. I'm not kidding, I was sitting in my bed sobbing. c

I don't know what any one else thought of the epilog, but I was a little disappointed with it. It only talked about Ron, Hermione, Ginny, and Harry. And of course, their kids. Oh, yeah, and Neville, who's now the Herbology Professor at Hogwarts. I really wish they had talked more about Teddy Tonks. They did have Fleur and Bill's kid, if you picked that up. It was Victoire. I really wish, though, that they had talked about George and Hogwarts, and the rest of the Order and maybe more about Malfoy. He's really not as much of a smarmy...twit, yeah, twit.. as I'd like to think. In fact, I almost like him now. Almost. I love how his kid is named Scorpius. I wonder if he married Pansy Parkinson? All in all, though, the book was amazing.

Haha, so any way, Saturday was also Champoinships. I swam pretty well, especially seeing as it was an aweful pool. 7th in the 100 breast, 10th in the 100 fly, and 12th in the 200 free. But some of the people I was swiming against were freakishly fast. So I did well. Anyway, there were 2 heats of everything, and it was an 8-lane pool. It was all fast kids, too. Somehow, though, the meet took 6 and a half hours. Six and a half hours I tell you! How ludicrous is that?!? So essentially I was at the pool for over 7 hours on Saturday. Not fun, not fun at all. I was really mad at the Castle Rock people.

Tee hee hee, Muscles is my hero. For those of you who don't know, Kris, AKA Muscles, is this kid on my swim team who is pretty much my best friend. He's 13, about 4'8" and 60 pounds, and he's got huge muscles, hence the name. He's an amazing swimmer, and I am so jealous. Plus, he's just about the coolest kid I know. So if you ever meet a kid named Kris Thomson, he's amazing and you should be his friend. Hmm, who else is my hero. That's right; ANDY! Andy Farner, my swim coach. He's "retireing" this year. You can't really call it retiring since he's 22, but he';s not coaching any more. He's amazing. He's 6'4"-ish, skinny as heck, has awesome tatoos, red hair, and he's the freaking best swimmer ever. Seriously, if he had wanted, he could have made it to the Olympics. If you ever meet him, you'll love him.

Has anyone (other than Julia) ever heard the song "You Body is a Wonderland"? If you haven't; don't. It's really a dreadful song. Just read these lyrics! It about makes me sick, as I can only picture this as his current GF, Jessica Simpson. Gag me!

We got the afternoon
You got this room for 2
One thing I've left to do
Discover me
Discovering you
1 mile to every inch
Your skin like porcelain
one pair of candy lips
And your bubblegum tongue

Cuz if you want love
We'll make it
Swim in a deep sea
Of blankets
Take all your big plans
And break 'em
This is bound to be a while

Your body is a wonderland
Your body is a wonder I'll use my hands
Allright, that's about enough of that! No more, no more, make it stop!

Ok, thats all I have to say today. I love you all. Oh, for those of you who care, Packy is back from China!
~the supreme ruler of the universe

Championships, Harry Potter, and The Wedding

Ok, well, here's basically what's on my mind currently.

First and foremost, the impending release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Yeah, I know, I ranted for a fair bit about it in my last post, but honestly, I'm now counting milliseconds until I can get my grubby hands on a copy of the book. I cannot wait! I just saw a video on Yahoo! about people somehow getting copies or claiming to have gotten them and posting parts or the whole of the book on the internet. I suppose if you really wanted to find out what happened and didn't want to bother with the book, that would be something to to, but really, if you wanted to know what happened that badly, it would just be worth it to wait for the book. According to my desk-top widget, it is exactly 2 days, 4 hours, 15 minutes, and 20 seconds...19...18 and counting until the book comes out. I pre-ordered mine ages ago, so I'll be getting it on Saturday. My only fear is that I'll get it late. I'm getting it shipped, so I don't know what time it'll show up at my house. THat leads me to my next topic, because if the book doesn't show up at about 6 am, i'll be at

Championships! I did really well in prelims, so I'm seeded as follows: I officially got 13th in my 200 freestyle (but I didn't swim all that well- I should have a good shot at moving up in that one) 10th (out of 10, haha, but only by about .03 seconds, soooo.....)in my 100 fly, and 8th in my 100 breast, which I didn't swim all that well either, so I'm pretty excited as I actually have a shot at getting points in that one. I'm certainly not getting first - the girl who won is baout 15 seconds faster than I am. Sad, really. But she's sort of psychotically good, and I'm really really jealous of her. But I'm pretty proud of myself. I've made it to championships in the breaststroke since I was 9, so it's nice to know I can still do it. As far as fly goes, I'm in the same position I was last year -10th out of 10. Bust last year, I managed to beat the other girl in my heat, and I actually beat a few girls in the other heat. Unfortunately, the way championships works, only the people in the first heat actually get points, so I could only get 9th even though technically I got 7th or something. And I'm in about the same place in the 200 free. That's pretty funny. Now my goal is to finally make All-Stars in the 100 breast. I didn't make it last year, and I really really want to make it this year.

So today we had a rehearsal for Angela's wedding. I'm so excited. "When I'm 64" sounds absolutely fantastic! Gil's friend listened to us and helped us out, and she thought we were teriffic, and she should know, so I'm pretty confident. Alas, we had to kick out "My Girl" because Father Bob decided that we needed a religious song at the wedding. So now we're singing "In the Garden". It's not terribly difficult, and the harmonies fall into place easily, but it's kind of a drag having to learn a new song when the wedding is about 2 weeks away. Oh well. We've never yet failed to sound amazing. I still feel guilty about wearing white to Angela's wedding - I feel like we're stealing her spotlight - but she insists she wants it. It's going to be so much fun! I only wish Rives was going to be there. Guess you can't have everything.

That's all for now, folks!

~the supreme ruler of the universe

Harry Potter! OMFG!

Hey hey!

So essentially, last night I saw the new HP movie, Order of the Phoenix (Ootp). Being a totally Harry Potter freak, I was SUPER spyched for the movie. I didn't love the other 4, but hey, they were pretty good. The cast was great, they stuck to the books for the most part, and some of the little add-ins were abso-bloody-lutely hilarious! So that was what I was expecting in Ootp. Sadly, I didn't get that. The cast was decent, although I didn't much like Mrs. Figg, but Luna Lovegood was perfect for the role. That girl is my hero. The worst part by far was how much the movie and the book differentiated. I really really liked the 5th book in the HP saga, but I have to say the movie pretty well butchered it. From the very beginning, you knew something was wrong. There were no cryptic notes from Ron and Hermione, there was no lurking under the windows in hopes of hearing about He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named's return. More importantly, there was no Mundungus Fletcher, a rather crucial character, if you remember. The dementors were poorly portrayed in the film, and Dudly was an absolute moron! He's always been a bit thick, but he was beyond that in this one.

I was really disappointed with the Grimauld Place scenes, especially as they're my favorite parts of the book. The scenes there were surprisingly brief, and many things, including the boggart, Sirius's mum's portrait, and the talking photo frame in Harry's room. The conflict between Percy (the world's biggest prat!) and the rest of the Weasleys didn't occur, although you did see him working with the Minister. I really wouldn't care if that twit dropped off the face of the earth. But anyway.

Ron hardly seemed to have a role in this film. Most of the time was spent in Harry's nightmares and Daily Prophet headlines. Honestly, Ron had about 3 spoken lines. Seamus didn't show up much in the movie, which was unfortunate due to his huge row with Harry. Hermione, Ron, and Malfoy's prefect-ness wasn't in the movie, nor was Cho's friend Marietta, who untimately ratted out the D.A. Hogsmede had no part in the film either, though I can't say I'm too depressed for not seeing Harry and Cho in Madam Puddifoot's shop. I really don't much like that girl. Ginny's relationships with Micheal Corner and Dean didn't really happen, but oh well. I'm not too upset. Quidditch didn't even happen in the book, which was rather sad, as I wanted to see Ron fly, and I really wanted to see Harry and Fred beat the heck out of Malfoy. (It was Fred, right? I can't remember...)

Over all, I'd say they spent too much time on Harry's stupid nightmares, and not enough time on the rest of the story. Especially the D.A. And Sirius. I have to say I didn't have much emotional attatchment to my favorite character, and that's saying something, seeing as I came in madly in love with Sirius.

Ok, I'm done whining about the movie. I was just really excited for this, and I was let down. Oh well.

On a lighter, WAAAAAAAY more exciting note, only 8 days til Deathly Hallows! I can't wait!
Here are my theories on the book. I don't think Harry is going to die, but somehow I don't see Voldy dying either. I think somehow they screw the prophesy, but all the Horcruxes are destroyed so Voldemort is mortal and decided to give up his quest for world domintation or something like that. Hagrid and maybe Neville are going to die. Hermione is going to kick some serious butt, and Fred and George are going to join the Order. Tonks and Lupin will get married! Snape isn't really evil, and the Malfoys get killed.
Here's my theory on Snape. He's still a double agent, still on the good side. An arguement between Dumbledore and Snape was overheard, and Snape was saying he was tired of doing something, but Dumbledore said he had to. (Hmm, support Malfoy? Be a double agent?) Another thing - He was under an Unbreakable Vow that he would carry out Voldemort's orders if dear old Draco failed, and honestly, who was expecting him to succeed? So really he had no choice. Kill Dumbledore and keep his ploy as a Death Eater, or break the Unbreakable Vow and die a very painful death and hereby stop all inside info about Voldemort from getting to the Order? Both choises suck, but seeing as Harry has all the necessary knowlege to destroy the Horcruxes, it's ok for Dumbledore to die. That's my take.

Ok, I'm obsessed. Nothing else to say there.

Oh, by the way, for those of you who care (AKA Olivia), only 25 days untill Spofford! I can't wait!!!!!!

~the supreme ruler of the universe