My favorite Harry Potter songs (from the original scores)

1. Statues (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part II), composed by Alexandre Despalt

2. Lily's Theme (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part II), composed by Alexandre Despalt

3. A Window to the Past (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban), composed by John Williams

4. Hedwig's Theme (Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone), composed by John Williams

5. Dumbledore's Speech (Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince), composed by The Global Stage Orchestra

Pretty much all of them, because these scores are absolutely amazing. I do not understand why The Deathly Hallows part II wasn't Oscar nominated for best original score.

I'm just...

So, school started, obviously, and that hasn't been going well. I haven't cried during class yet, though, so it's better than I could hope for. Anyway, I haven't been reading much either, and am hoping that I'll finish a book before long, but long is relative. Random update over.

Favorite Quotes

I did a little bit of Harry Potter favorite quotes that I liked, but now I'm going to be more general.


These are ones I found all on my own, and am quite proud of finding:

"His scar burned, but he was the master of pain; he felt it, yet it was a part from it."
     -J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (pg. 478)

"For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice, but rather a spirit of power, and of love, and of self-discipline."
    -2 Timothy 1:7

"We don't actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence- that we will disappear without a trace."
    -"The Doctor in the Photo." Bones (I'm not doing an official citation, so I'm leaving the confusing stuff out)

"Silence is the ultimate weapon of power."
   -Charles de Gaulle


Ones that I acquired from Veronica Roth's brain:

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."
     -Frank Herbert, Dune

"My will is mine, I shall not make it soft for you."
    -Agamemnon, Aeschylus 

"I will show you fear in a handful of dust."
      -T. S. Eliot

"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better."
     -Samuel Beckett

Most Anticipated Books (for me) Fall 2015

I want them now.

1. Beastly Bones by William Ritter

As you know, I loved Jackaby, and come one, I needed the next book. I'm slowly getting through The Map, but I picked that up right before I started Harry Potter, so it might still be a while.



2. The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness

The cover glows in the dark, and I mean it sounds pretty awesome, but the cover. The cover. Also, I love anything British (almost).



3. Da Vinci's Tiger by L. M. Elliot

I just love the cover so much that I have to buy it. The cover changed, though, but I'm not going to allow that thought to penetrate my mind until it comes in the mail.




4. Vengeance Road by Erin Bowman

The cover. Also, a western.



5. Dreamland by Robert L. Anderson

IT SOUNDS SO COOL!!!

Books You Really Want to Read

I've realized that people not in the bookish community might not be aware of this fact, but it is still present: you don't always read the book you've been dying to read first. This can be for a number of reasons.

1. You don't want to be disappointed- who does?
2. School, Work, Writing Harry Potter fanfiction, ect.- this is why most people never read.
3. There are other books you're currently reading- it'll ruin both books reading experiences (probably)
4. You just can't bring yourself to do it- this is probably why I don't do it most often. It's not that I don't want to read the book, or that I haven't been waiting for months to get it, it's just that I get myself to open the pages and glue my eyes to them. This sounds like i'm not a reader, but I think if you are one, you'll understand.

Random thoughts of the day, over. 

Harry Potter, Trilogies, and the Splitting of Final Books/Movies

I watched The Deathly Hallows Part 2, and I didn't cry though the whole thing, which actually made me a little upset, but I cried enough that I wasn't mad at myself for not doing so. I kept keep telling myself that I should've watched The Half-Blood Prince, though, because now I don't think I'll be able to watch any of them for a long time. The last movie is just too perfect.

Harry Potter is the exception to the rule of "don't split up the final movie", because it's one of the few times where it really needed to be split up to achieve the full effect. Unless the whole movie was like four hours long, I don't think they could've had the same power to them. For instance, The Order of the Phoenix was amazingly well adapted considering how long the book is, but that doesn't mean it was the best adaptation. They left out key things that I wanted to see- Quidditch, the full Department of Mysteries scene, Cho and Harry- which I understand why they did, but was still a little disappointing (though I still love the movie).

Divergent and The Hunger Games' final movies don't need to be split up into two parts like Harry Potter, in fact, I'm not sure they even need to be trilogies. I love Divergent, Delirium, and The Hunger Games, but I don't think they need to be three books, and all for the same reason: if there were only two books, the final book wouldn't have to be so bloody boring. My reactions to the books: Mockingjay- ew. Allegiant- get on with it..., Requiem- too many words. This is true for a lot of trilogies, and I realized this, and now series are just ruined for me.

That was a short rant, so now I'm going to show random Harry Potter quotes I googled tonight.



"Don't let the Muggles get you down." -The Prisoner of Azkaban





There are more, but I'll limit it tonight.

Reading Breaks vs. Reading Slumps

I saw this Ariel Bissett Video on "Reading Breaks" not being bad, which I fully agree with, except, I disagree on the point that they are the same thing as "Reading Slumps." 

I take reading breaks all the time, and I've noticed this with reading logs in school. One quarter, I'll read 22 books without a school break, and the next I'll read 13 with multiple school breaks, and this isn't a bad thing. 

What is a bad thing, however, is a reading slump, because those are so different from a reading break. A reading slump that I had at the beginning of summer was terrible, because I was so sick of words. I didn't want to read, I didn't want to write, I just didn't want to do anything. It was the worst, and not a reading break. 

This was a quick thought that I felt like sharing.