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I really felt like JKR copped out in book 7. She'd been setting up the Wizarding World—especially the Ministry—as having some serious problems that just get swept under the table: Sirius's lack of a trial, the laws against werewolves, the marginalization of Muggle rights, the lack of a responsible/reliable source of information that wasn't outright propaganda. None of these problems were Voldemort's fault, but JKR seems to want us to believe that simply by having Harry defeat the Dark Lord everything's coming up roses. The ultimate example was Umbridge: in book 5, she's a petty bureaucrat who is evil, but it's a human evil based on stupidity, small malice, and a very large sense of self-importance. (She seems to be fairly typical of the wizarding government.) When Umbridge shows up again in Deathly Hollows, she's made the transition from a human evil to the Death Eaters' style of evil (the kind of outright mustache-twirling tie-me-to-the-train-tracks evil that Voldemort represents), and therefore, there's no need for the Wizarding World to change itself. Because, see, Umbridge wasn't really an ordinary little human evil taking advantage of a poorly designed system, she was a great evil black magic Death Eater evil just waiting for her chance to show her true colors. |
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| Tom Felton |
I really tried out for the part of Harry Potter, but they ended up picking me for the part of the enemy of Harry. Actually it is really fun playing the bad kid because it just has so many interesting qualities to it. And Daniel Radcliffe and I get along really well off set so it's really fun filming. |
| Noah Feldman |
The world is littered with constitutions that have written guarantees of rights but that don't actually deliver rights. What differentiates the ones where rights are real from where rights are fake is that it's in the initial interests of the majority to actually deliver these rights. |
| Alan Ball |
I certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg. I don't necessarily believe in vampires or werewolves or that kind of thing, but I believe there is definitely a realm we don't necessarily have access to. |
| Homaro Cantu |
I was just taught very early that if I didn't solve problems, I was headed for a very dark path. Problems were everywhere. Now, even if there are no problems, I look for problems. I'm like, 'You know what? I don't like the way this spoon works. I want to design a new spoon.' |
| Billy Graham |
Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength. |
| Marcus Aurelius |
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away. |
| Shepard Fairey |
Propaganda has a negative connotation, which it partially deserves, but I think there is some propaganda that is very positive. I feel that if you can do something that gets people's attention, then maybe they'll go and find out more about the person. |
| Niger Innis |
After the Civil War, when blacks fought along whites to secure freedom for all, southern states enacted Black Codes, laws that restricted the civil rights and liberties of blacks. Central to the enforcement of these laws were the stiff penalties for blacks possessing firearms. |
| Maya Angelou |
It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it. |
| Audrey Hepburn |
I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles. |
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Look at the cover of Philosopher/Sorcerer's Stone. Look at the cover of Deathly Hallows. Stone has a sunset in the background. DH has a sunrise in the background. Symbolically, you'd think it should be the other way around, until you realize every end is a beginning and vice-versa. The end of the Marauders is the beginning of Harry Potter. The end of his story is a new beginning for the wizarding world. Another way to take this bit of symbolism is that the series, metaphorically, is a descent into the dark of night (Voldemort's second reign). Harry going to school in the first book means that the prophecies (etc.) about Voldemort and Harry are going to come true, soon, and so the 'day' that happened after Voldemort's first reign of terror was ending. As others have mentioned, the artwork gets progressively darker, until things are "darkest before the dawn", like in the sixth book when Death Eaters have killed Dumbledore and are actively taking over the Ministry. Finally, in DH, the lo...
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So I just had a dream that my extended family and Charlie were camping at this haunted house. Voldemort lived in it as a spirit and we had to combat it the whole time. On that note here is someone else's dream: it was really weird.......
i was laying on my bed and then i hear a car by the window
Bellatrix was in it and she said the dark lord wants to see me.
I said 'not again' (i don't know why) then as we flew i saw peter petigrew in the car and he was winking at me and i tried to focus outside.
So we got into a tall the 'malfoy mansion' it said it on a sign and it was so weird
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President Schlissel at the University of Michigan refuses tests to people and then when they can get tests has them escorted by cops to quarantine dorms with roaches, no food, no microwaves, no bed sheets, and then when students don't want to get tested at UoM or tell UoM they tested positive he says:
"A lack of cooperation is a potential violation of our Statement of Student Rights and Responsibilities."
Fuck that guy.
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In addition to the psychological literature there is some information about the psychology of money
available in the financial literature. Close to the beginning of her best selling book, The 9 Steps To
Financial Freedom, financial planner Suze Orman states ? most of my clients biggest problems in life
today - even those that appear on the surface not to be money related - are connected with their early
formative experiences with money.? She recommends to her readers, as the first step toward financial
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I had a dream that something was wrong with my brain and I went to the doctor and they said they had to drill into my skull. They drugged me and I wasn't on the operating table yet so I was stumbling around the room and then I felt myself become paralyzed and slowly lost the ability to hear what they were saying, which was worrisome because it sounded like they were giving me instructions. The drugs kept me from feeling pain but it was still disturbing because I could still feel everything they were doing.
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I've discovered that through diligence and a lack of other options a man can destroy even the part of his soul that hungers to be loved and understood. Make of yourself an emotionless soldier and your peace of mind cannot be disturbed. Sheer willpower can replace friendship or any other need of the spirit. Sometimes when one's feelings are deemed inferior to another's selfish fancy, the message hits home and the feeler has no choice but to eliminate his weakness at the source. I don't need help anymore.
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When Petunia reveals that she knows what Dementors are (in the 5th book), she blushes and says "I heard that...awful boy telling her years ago" and Harry angrily says "If you mean my dad, just say his name". But after you read the 7th book, you discover that she didn't mean James at all. She was referring to Snape. It's a brilliant reference that frames the relationship between Lily, Snape, and Petunia, seeming like a useless remark from both characters until you read the last book.
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I am concerned by your lack of concern at said prospect.
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People's predictions aren't as far-fetched as they seem. At every opportunity starting with Harry's first divination class in Prisoner of Azkaban, Trelawny has insisted that Harry will die a premature death (with one exception in Order of the Phoenix). Guess what? He does. She also references the Grim, which is supposed to herald death, and he even sees it a few times, but it turns out to be Sirius — whom Harry sees before he dies. Also, in Half Blood Prince, Dumbledore says that Slughorn has a knack for predicting who will go on to become famous. Slughorn then invites Ginny to his elite club after witnessing her Bat-Bogey hex. Fast forward to the epilogue, Ginny's become the senior Quidditch correspondent for the Daily Prophet after a successful career with the Holyhead Harpies team and is the wife of the most famous wizard of all time: Harry Potter. Not only that, but Harry and Ron's predictions for each other also come true: Ron predicts Harry will have a 'windfall of unexpected go...
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I just bought a vaporizer, but I'm unsure of how to pack my problems into it and make them go away.
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