This rather highlighted in my mind exactly how rarely this happens in the media. Teenage girls as experts in their own experience?
harry potter
Pottermore!
J K Rowling has announced on YouTube more details about her plans for the Pottermore website – “a unique online reading experience”
ObFanSquee: New Harry Potter trailer
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2” Trailer 2 – No description/transcript yet. Apologies. The best I can do is the Warner Bros blurb, because I have to get back to work.
Discombobulation: How to Stop a Geek in their Tracks
After viewing that image, your geek will be frozen in place, trying to explain all that is wrong with it, while you make a clean getaway.
UPDATE: Apologies to all folks using reader software, I only just realised that I bollixed the image alt tags earlier in the full post.
Friday Hoyden: Luna Lovegood
AKA The Harry Potter #7 movie review
Just a short one, and I’m aiming to be spoiler-aware here for those few who haven’t actually read the book of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
(Belated) BADD: Fictional Heroes with Disabilities
(My apologies for the lateness of this post — still, I’m sure it’s still May 1 in one or two timezones. :)) While it’s true that people with disabilities are under-represented and misrepresented in popular culture, I wanted to spend… Read More ›
Marry, Shag or Cliff? Hogwarts villains edition
It’s been a while, hasn’t it? Remember the rules: you have to choose one of each of the three below to match each fate. No skipping any.
The latest Harry Potter flick (HP6)
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince is the must-see film for the school holidays around our nick o’ the woods, what about yours? And if you’ve seen it, what did you think? And what did you think of the… Read More ›
The Queensland Police say I’d be a crim…
…. if I so much as watched the baby-swinging video. (Please don’t post any direct links to the material here.) In a statement, Queensland Police said the term “child-abuse material” even extended to clips in which a child “appears” to… Read More ›
Kidlit report: Never Tease a Weasel, and Danny the Champion of the World
Among the giant pile of books we currently have checked out of the library are these two, both of which are skating close to five stars for me. This is a terrific picture book. Never Tease a Weasel, by Jean… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 