Hogwarts hints!

 Harry Potter didn't read his HINTS!

We don’t know who wrote this, but I stole it from Dr. Mike: here are 50 things not to do at Hogwarts. Or rather, here are just the ones I like the very most bestest:

50 Things NOT to do at Hogwarts

1. I will not poke Hufflepuffs with spoons, nor will I insist that their House colors indicate that they are “covered in bees”.

2. No matter how good a fake Australian accent I can do, I will not imitate Steve Irwin during Care of Magical Creatures class.

4. “I’ve heard every possible joke about Oliver Wood’s name” is not a challenge.

5. I am not allowed to attempt to breed a liger.

6. I will not go to class skyclad.

7.The Giant Squid is not an appropriate date to the Yule Ball. [ed. note: Goddammit! Now I need to line up another date!]

10. Polishing my wand in the common room is acceptable. “Polishing my wand” in the common room is not.

11. If a classmate falls asleep, I will not take advantage of that fact and draw a Dark Mark on their arm.

14. I will not start every Potions class by asking Professor Snape if today’s project is suitable for use as a sexual lubricant.

17. Seamus Finnegan is not “after me Lucky Charms”.

21. It is exceptionally tasteless to tell Professor Lupin that “Once you go Black, you never go back.”

24. I am not to refer to the Potions classroom as “Kitchen Stadium”.

28. I am allowed to have a toad, rat, cat, or owl. I am not allowed to have a reticulated python, snow leopard, Tasmanian devil, or piranha.

37. There is no such thing as an Invisibility Thong.

38. I am not a Pinball Wizard.

47. I will not ask Dumbledore to show me the pointy hat trick.

48. I will not greet Professor McGonagall with “What’s new, pussycat?”

Go read the rest!

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Regis Raw

The Reej lays it down righteously, slammin’ celebs and keepin’ it real, yo, with a little help from DCLugi.

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Harry Potter coverup

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and the busy cover art 

Just to prime the pump (and possibly to silence legions of annoying, yammering, l33tspkg fans) Bloomsbury has released the cover designs for the last book in JK Rowling‘s series: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc is delighted to release the book jacket images for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K.Rowling, to be published on 21st July 2007. The cover illustration for the children’s edition is by Jason Cockcroft, who drew the cover illustrations for the previous two Harry Potter books… The cover design for the adult edition is from a photograph by Michael Wildsmith, who has photographed all the adult edition jackets…These covers will be used throughout the world on the English language editions excluding the USA. Scholastic US have also released their cover images of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

and look, here it is:

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows US

Better than the British one (you have to view the full wraparound version on their crappy Flash page), if more individualistic. What does that say about the relative values of each nation? That Daniel Radcliffe has a better US agent than Rupert Grint and Emma Watson, that’s what.

Actually, the best one is the British adult version(warning: is pig-dog to load and has a tendency to crash my computer. Funny, you’d think Slytherin would be raincoaster-positive), with Slytherin‘s locket. Although who would have imagined that Slytherin would be caught dead wearing anything as femme-y as a locket?

Also, why are publishers so enamoured of Flash? These pages are a bitch to load, and that cutsie owl hooting that Scholastic features during the load just about makes me want to go out and strangle the next owl I see.

Or publisher.

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quiz: will the Giant Squid of Hogwarts go out with you?

Come on, admit it: you’ve been dying to find out but too shy to ask. Well, we at the ol’ raincoaster blog have stepped up and found you the one definitive and world-beatingly authoritative quiz that will answer this heart-pounding question once and for all.

Cuz we’re all about the service journalism here, as you know.

  Harry Potter Quiz: Will The Giant Squid Go OuT wiTh U ?!  

Yes, Squiddy and u will spend your time water Skiing and diving and looking at the Cute Fishes .. but you’ll probably end up being best Friends, after all u cant love a squid who eats Fish !
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Hmmm, on the other hand I begin to suspect that the author of this quiz needs to learn more about birds and bees before she goes writing quizzes purporting to answer questions about squids and fish-eating and suchlike activities.

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Harry Potter and the treasure trail of statutory doom

Daniel Radcliffe nekkid

Yes, it’s Daniel Radcliffe, nekkid as a jaybird.

Now we know why Sirius had to die. In isolated parts of Nunavut, they could simply have gotten married…

Thanks to the intrepid and ever-vigilant Perez, we now know that the “and two veg” vastly outshines the “meat”, meaning wee Mr. Radcliffe is not only low in calories, but he’s a good source of cancer-fighting phytochemicals. Serve lomi-lomi-style.

Thank me later. Like, when he’s legal.

For more nekkid Radcliffe, check the ol’ raincoaster blog for the play’s poster; for his Match.com profile, and to watch him put the moves on Diana Rigg (also, apparently this photo here is fake, so don’t even think of saving it to your hard drive, posting it in your blog, setting it as your wallpaper, or printing it out poster-sized for hanging in multiples all around your bathroom or boudoir. Don’t even think about it)

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