“Harry Potter is about confronting fears, finding inner strength and doing what is right in the face of adversity. Twilight is about how important it is to have a boyfriend” –Stephen King

Ever since the Twilight exploded around 2007 and 2008, Harry Potter and the twilight series have constantly been compared and contrasted with each other before any other series. Maybe it was the fact that they both had to do with imaginary creatures such as vampires and werewolves, or maybe it had to do with how both of the series were very popular among the same demographic of people. But nonetheless, people who loved Harry Potter seemed to hate Twilight, and vice versa. Even worse, people who loved Harry Potter seemed to hate the people that loved Twilight. There was a lot of hate being passed around during that time. But, using the above Stephen Hawking quote as evidence,  I personally cannot stand Twilight. Not because of the people that like Twilight, but because of the messages that it puts across. And also due to the fact that it has been pounded into my head since the moment that it became popular.
When Ron left Hermione while they were looking for the rest of Voldemort's horcruxes, there was no way in hell that Hermione was going to sit around and mope in such a dire situation. When Bella was put in the same situation in Twilight, she was distraught, left in this great depression that swam inside her. The fact that she was so distraught over a guy is NOT a good message for girls, especially young girls, to have put in front of them. It teaches them that having a guy is the most important thing in the world, that without a guy you'll be shrunk down to nothing, without a guy, you will be sad all the time. That isn't true, and girls shouldn't think that that's true. They should have the message that losing a guy isn't a fantastic thing, and can make you sad, but that you are capable of getting back up and fighting. Just like Hermione did.
And can we just talk about how much Robert Pattinson, the actor who played Edward in the twilight series, absolutely hates the Twilight series with a burning passion. The following pictures kind of say it all.









More importantly however, Robert Pattinson played Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, and he still talks about how much he loved it. Even though it was almost ten freaking years ago. (How old does that make you feel?)
I feel like if anyone has the authority to officially decide which series is better, in any circumstances, it would be an actor who has portrayed in both series, just like Robert Pattinson has. And if he likes Harry Potter better, I suppose that means that Harry Potter is better than Twilight, but I'm not biased or anything.
Until next time, Potterheads!

"'Trevor!' cried Neville blissfully, holding out his hands," - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

One of the most severely underestimated characters in the Harry Potter series, in my opinion, is Neville Longbottom. He was constantly an awkward, passive, and victimized character, when in reality, I think that he was one of the best characters in the series. He grew into a very distinguished man throughout the series, and I love him for that.

Once I started being an active member of the Harry Potter fandom, I did a lot of research. One of the things that I found the most shocking (long before I read the seventh book) was that Neville could have been the chosen one. In the prophecy, the Chosen one was described as a boy born in the end of July, which described Harry, but could have described Neville as well. He did end up destroying Voldemort by killing the last Horcrux, so does that mean that Neville really was the Chosen One? It's something that I've been trying to figure out since I found out that Neville being the Chosen One was even an option. 

I have always thought that Neville could be such an inspiration to so many people. You were really awkward as a kid? You were bullied all throughout school? Well, Neville Longbottom survived all of that, and ended up saving the wizarding and Muggle worlds, so maybe you could do something very significant with your life too! I personally think that is a perfect end to Neville's story in the books. 

Until next time, Potterheads!

"J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, is a witch an in league with Lucifer himself." - Some Insane Lunatic Who I Believe to Be In League With Lucifer Himself

Let us just have a little discussion here about how absolutely insane and terrifying it as that people actually think that Harry Potter is a book about evil.
The title of this blog was a quote taken from the website www.godhatesgoths.com/godhatesharrypotter (the official site for parents against goths, in case you were wondering). The author goes on to say that J.K. Rowling is "straight from the pits of Hell," that the Harry Potter books are "Satanic," and that it encourages the readers to work with "actual demon spirits."
Take a step back and reevaluate your life, please.
Let's break this down really fast here. One of their arguments is that names such as Hedwig, Cliodna, Nicholas Flamel, and Agrippa are names of actual witches and wizards. Well, gee, I wonder why this book about witches and wizards uses that names of actual wizards and wizards. Oh, maybe it's because the books are about witches and wizards.
This next argument might just be my favorite, because it is so absurd that is makes me laugh until I cry. This article states, AND I QUOTE THAT "DUMBLEDORE WAS A FAGGOT PEDOPHILE, AND WAS GROOMING HARRY POTTER FOR HOMOSEXUAL SEX."
I, in the most literal sense of the phrase, can not even.
Just reading articles like this, and I assure you that there are many of them, makes my blood absolutely boil. Why would people accuse a simple book about love, friendship, family, and the defeat of evil as being evil itself. Yes, there is evil in the Harry Potter series. I can think of infinite things that Voldemort did that were unforgivable. But the only people that were following Voldemort were the people that Harry and his friends were working hard to defeat. Anyone's argument is invalid. Harry Potter is not a book about evil. It is a book about overcoming evil.
And also, I cannot think of one single time that Dumbledore was 'grooming' Harry for homosexual sex. "Hey, Harry, can you please help me defeat the most evil wizard of this time? Yeah, and also, while you're at it, take your pants off." No. That never one happened.
So I don't rant on and on for hours, I will end this post here. I promise that I will write more about this topic.
Until next time Potterheads!

UPDATE: If you click 'Enter this Site as a Goth' on the homepage of www.godhatesgoths.com, the welcome letter is started as "Dear Loser." So I think that all credibility if pretty much wiped off of this site's map.

UPDATE AGAIN: This site is also associated with 'God Hate Retards' and 'God Hates Women' and all four of the sites are run by a Reverend, so this is just fantastic.

"Ah, music ... a magic far beyond all we do here," - Albus Dumbledore ... again

Hello, fellow Potterheads! 

Today I would love to talk about the score in the Harry Potter movies. I know I have published a post about this topic before, but I can not stress enough to you all how much the score to Harry Potter is one of the most flawless things going on in my life right now.

For me, my Harry Potter obsession has always come in waves. Sometimes I'll think, 'wow, how was I so addicted to a series,' or, 'oh my god, I was one of those people." then the next day I' reading all the books and playing the music on repeat while watching the movies and drinking tea out of my /harry Potter mug. And the happiness that I get on those overly obsessed Potterhead days outweighs the day filled with the embarrassment that I get when I think about how obsessed I am. I am prous to be a Harry Potter fangirl, and there is nothing I can do about it.

I am going through one of my overobsessed fangirl waves at the moment (I read the first book last night within two hours) and I am currently listening to the soundtrack of the first movie on repeat. And, let's be honest here, when you are as obsessed with something as I am with Harry Potter, you can get pretty emotional. For instance, whenever I hear Leaving Hogwarts I bawl my little eyes out. But when I hear Hedwig's Theme, my sad tears suddenly turn into happy tears. The music from Harry Potter can flip my attitude upside down with one note. Props to you, John Williams. 

I can't be the only person on the planet that thinks this way about the Harry Potter scores. When you can envision a scene from the movies or books from just hearing the song that was played in the background, you know that your love (obsession) with that series is powerful. And that you've watched the movies, read the books, and listened to the music far to many times to still be considered a mentally healthy person. So I invite you all to, if you haven't done so recently or ever, grab one of the Harry Potter books, listen to one of the Harry Potter scores scores, and drink some really good tea out of your best Harry Potter mug, and wallow in all that is the happiness of our Harry Potter universe.

Until next time!

"Mummy, have you seen my jumper?" - Ginny Weasley

Here it is, as promised, more Ginny.
So what seems entirely too unrealistic to me is that fact that Ginny was completely in love with Harry when she was a young girl. She was obsessed with him. She was a fangirl. It was a celebrity crush. How likely is it, really, that she actually ends up marrying him and having three kids with him? It is completely unrealistic in every way shape and form. It would never happen in real life.
Let us take a journey back to the first time that Ginny actually gets to meet Harry: when he unexpectedly shows up at the Burrow when Fred, George, and Ron go to get him from the Dursley's. She is looking for her jumper, and doesn't know that Harry is there, and when she sees him, she does that exact same thing that I would do if Tom Felton was sitting in my living room and I didn't know about it. She freaked out, started majorly blushing, and ran away. She was so in love with him, that being faced with actually having to talk with him was too much for her to handle. It seems way too impossible for her to end up spending the rest of her life with him, am I wrong?
I really don't think that they should have ended up together, to be completely honest. It seems to perfect to fit the Harry Potter series. I think that they both should have ended up with someone that wasn't really known in the series. Someone that wasn't just a teen romance. Someone new that led to more of a plot. It just seems like a better option to me, but I am not JK Rowling, and the series is still perfect anyways.
Until next time, fellow Potterheads!

"There he is, Mom! There he is, look!" - Ginny Weasley

Hello, fellow Potterheads!
Today I am going to talk about Ginny, both in the books and in the movies.
As I'm sure you have realized by now, I am fully convinced that the book characters and the movie characters are completely different. I love Harry in the books, but hate him in the movies, while I hate Draco in the books, but absolutely adore him in the movies. And that isn't me being rude to either the directors of the movie, or to JK Rowling for writing the books. It's just me interpreting the plotline as I see it.
So when it comes to Ginny, I love her in the books. She seems like such a strong character, and such an amazing witch! She was one of the most powerful witches of her time, right up there with Hermione. She just seemed like she was a really chill girl, and her romance with Harry was amazing to read about.
But in the movies, all of that Ginny magic seemed to fall extremely flat. It was dull. It was boring. It is the part of the movie that I would most likely sleep through. There was so much potential in Ginny for a book to movie interpretation, but it wasn't shown, and I honestly do believe that it is partially because of how romanticized Cho and Harry were, and I think that it was partially because of how the directors wanted the films to be.
In the movies, Cho and Harry were so romanticized, it was almost ridiculous, while Ginny and Harry kind of appeared out of the blue. If someone hadn't read the books and just saw the movies, they would have probably seen Ginny and Harry as a complete shock. He doesn't end up with Cho? Or maybe Hermione? Nope, all of a sudden, Ginny is Harry's everything. It's like the directors completely swapped Harry and Cho's awkward relationship and made the awkward relationship happen with Harry and Ginny instead. Then made the most intimate relationship between Harry and Cho, when it was completely supposed to happen with Harry and Ginny. It is completely backwards.
I'll probably talk more about Ginny in my next post, because I have a lot of mixed feeling about her. Until next time, Potterheads!

"Draco Malfoy, The Amazing, Bouncing Ferret." - Ron Weasley

Hello, fellow Potterheads!
Something that has always bothered me about the Harry Potter fandom, is that Ron is commonly viewed as a comic relief character. I will never think that he is solely in the series to be a comic relief. He is so much more than that in my eyes. He killed a horcrux at the same time that he was watching his greatest fear: the girl he was head over heels in love with choosing his best friend instead of him. It was something that involved a great deal of bravery, and absolutely no comedy whatsoever. He didn't crack a joke while he was doing that, and I don't think anyone was laughing at that scene in the theater.
It also really bothers me that people don't think that Ron "deserved" Hermione.
...
No.
Remember, kids, women aren't objects that can be stolen or owned. I think that people forget that way too often. Most of the time, the people who claim that Ron wasn't "deserving" of Hermione are the same people that say that James wasn't "deserving" of Lily.
If these strong and independent women didn't want to marry who they did, they wouldn't have said yes to the marriage proposal. I don't think either Hermione or Lily would have been with someone they didn't think was good for them.
Unless it was in an over dramatic fanfiction.
Until next time, Potterheads!

"Mr. Moony presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people’s business. Mr. Prongs agrees with Mr. Moony, and would like to add that Professor Snape is an ugly git. Mr. Padfoot would like to register his astonishment that an idiot like that ever became a professor. Mr. Wormtail bids Professor Snape good day, and advises him to wash his hair, the slimeball." - The Marauders' Map

Sorry that the title of this one is so long, but you can't cut down a good bit of sass from a map.
In this post, I'm going to talk about how much I love the Marauders.
Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs.
Werewolf, rat, dog, and horse.
Lupin, Pettigrew, Black, and Potter.
Remus, Peter, Sirius, and James.
They truly were the best group in the entire series, in my opinion.
I know what you all are thinking. "I thought that you despised Peter Pettigrew!" Well, of course I do. I love the Marauders though. I expecially love them when they were in their prime: while they were in school at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. They were the biggest troublemakers, and I love that about them. they didn't care what anyone said, they were going to do what they wanted to. While I don't always like it when people act like, in this situation, I adore them for it.
I wish that we got to see a lot more of them in both the movies and the books. I think that their story would be the most magical to hear about. James and Lily's romance, and James and Remus' bromance. The nights that they went to the Shrieking Shack through the Whomping Willow. Year One all the way through Year Seven. It would be an amazing story.
Thanks for reading, fellow Potterheads!

"It is our choices, Harry, that show us who we truly are, far more than our abilities." - Albus Dumbledore

Hello fellow Potterheads!
Today I will be talking about yet another Albus Dumbledore quote. This one will turn out to be very similar to my last post, because I will be talking about following realistic and attainable dreams.
this is one of my favorite quotes from the entire series, mostly because it has been proven true in our Muggle lives, along with the Wizarding World.
It sort of goes along the same lines as "actions speak louder than words," and "it's the thought that counts." Sometimes what you try to do is more important that what you actually do. what if Harry hadn't found all the Horcruxes and destroyed Voldemort? Yes, that would royally suck, but you know what, he tried. He tried to defeat him, and he could have just shrugged his shoulders and walked away. Making an effort is better than doing nothing at all. Trying is all that anyone could really ask of Harry.
So, as I stated earlier, I see this quotes as a kind of "follow your dreams" thing. Say all you wanted to do in this world was be a musician. Would you rather try your hardest to be a good musician, or get a degree in business and spend the rest of your life in a cubicle, miserable? I know for sure that I would rather try. Who cares if you're a coffee shop musician? You would be happy and content because you are doing exactly what you love. Passions are really what matter in this world, and if you aren't doing what makes you happy, what are you really achieving?
Until next time, Potterheads!

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live." - Albus Dumbledore

Hello, Potterheads!
Sorry to disappoint you all, but yet again, I have to disagree with the almighty Dumbledore.
Sometimes it is better to focus more on dreams than your life. Sometimes.
Say you dream of being a musician. You need to hold on to the passion that that dream holds, otherwise you might fail. Your dreams won't come true, and you will be stuck in a small town in the Midwest with neighbors that raise roosters in their backyards. That isn't fun, and you might be unhappy for the rest of your life, dreaming of what could have been.
And in my opinion, you will be able to forgive yourself for things that you actually did, but you will never be able to forgive yourself for the things that you didn't do.
You can't go back in time and do things that you didn't, and you'll always be stuck wondering about the what ifs. But if you did do something that you regret, you know what would have happened.
So in some cases, it is better to concentrate so hard on your dreams, because they are your being. They are your life. And they are what keeps you holding on.
If your dreams are about unicorns and ponies, yes, I could see what Dumbledore means by this. Stop thinking about the ponies. Put the pony down. Focus on what is actually happening.
But if you dream of something substantial and different for your life, then you need to focus on that. You need to dwell on that so you don't lose that passion.
Until next time, Potterheads!