I was gonna write a absolutely glowing tribute to JKR and this series, but some of the posts here have made me rethink it. But there are some parts in this seventh book that I absolutely love, no matter how clumsily the ending is executed. First, the little tidbits that JKR gives away detailing her ...

OK, I loved it. I'll post a fuller review a little later. But I have one very real problem: How the hell did Neville get a hold of Gryffindor's sword? The last we heard, Griphook had taken it, right? Unless it's not Gryffindor's sword, just another blade with rubies in the hilt? I'm going to check i...

In about 5 hours I'll be in the parking lot of Barnes and Noble barbecuing with my friends, waiting for midnight.

Can't effiin wait.

Lurker reporting for duty. You guys may remember me as Alai1 (a LONG time ago, before the Great Crash of Pweb 1.0). When the second incarnation of Pweb appeared, I changed my name to Hawkblaze. Then for a while I stopped posting anything, and when I checked again, we had yet another new board. In th...

OK guys. I need the vote of everyone who saw the movie. Last night, I was driving back with my friend after seeing the movie. We talked about what we liked, what we didn't, etc., etc. Then he comments about how great the "CGI for Voldemort's nose was." I looked incredulously at him because...

To take the simple statement that people should be able to own and carry guns and extrapolate that statement to include nuclear weapons is really mind blowing. Interpreting the Constitution in a textualist or originalist fashion does not imply that you simply look up the definition of a word and use...

Again, the right doesn't even read the constitution they bloviate about. The constitution doesn't say "any idiot who wants a gun can have one", it says "“ A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall n...

I think the cover art for the US version is the best of GrandPre's illustrations so far. At the Mugglenet site, there's been a lot of speculation that the final battle will take place beyond the veil in the Death Room at the Department of Mysteries. The curtain in the cover art seems to support this...

This whole thread is really indicative of how Western civilization has gone in the wrong direction since the 1930s. It has become the reigning paradigm that government should provide the citizen with things. You don't just expect the basics, like order, stability, and security, you want stuff like m...