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Argh, sorry, I don't mean to spam, but I've been going through this Tumblr account of Pottermore.

Anyway, Draco's wand has been described as:

The wand of Draco Malfoy is 10" precisely, Hawthorn wood and with a unicorn hair core. It was described by Mr. Ollivander as "reasonably springy".

( HP!Wandlore spoilers inside )

And now for some math:

Assuming the lengths of a wand are from 9 inches, moving up a quarter of an inch in gradation until it reaches 14 inches, we have 24 potential lengths for a wand.

3 wand cores x 38 woods x 24 lengths = 2,736 wand combinations

The actual wand selection process for Pottermore, however:

( insert more spoilers here )

Behold, my new favorite macro:

So watching the HP movies start to finish beginning with the Christopher Columbus (was that actually his name?) ones yesterday (Side Note: I am so annoyed all over again at the way SS/PS ended--the Slytherins had won the House Cup and were CELEBRATING, the banners ALL OVER THE GREAT HALL, and then their ex-Gryffindor Headmaster starts awarding an INSANE AMOUNT OF POINTS TO GRYFFINDORS TO MAKE THEM WIN. Sorry, that is NO WAY to teach an entire school of impressionable young minds ANYTHING, except that yes, no one likes you if you're in Slytherin and no matter what you do the entire year to earn points, you don't get rewarded if three students decide to go on a rule-breaking lark and defeat evil one of seven times--who decided defeating evil was worth those points anyway? When Harry and Ron did the troll in they got what, five points apiece? That's ridiculous, that is.), and I just started wondering:

How does Platform 9 3/4 work?

We know you basically have to run into a wall and you emerge on the other side on a completely different platform, but the one thing that's always been a hallmark of JKR's world was how so many of the things that Harry experienced at the beginning of the story were later explained in greater detail, to show that they were part of the bigger picture and not just a one-time thing.

The Leaky Cauldron was hidden in the same way Grimmauld Place sort of was (I think)--normal people saw both buildings on either side of it, but those who knew what to look for could see it too. The Floo is obviously one of the more common means of transportation, and the Portkeys were useful as plot device as well. Even Dumbledore's Deluminator made its appearance as early as the first chapter, and the Vanishing Cabinets were another form of magical transportation that we saw on two separate occasions.

Is Platform 9 3/4 a version of the Vanishing Cabinets or is it its own kind of magic? It doesn't seem to be like the Cabinets in that it doesn't exactly pop up in another place altogether--when Harry and Ron took the Ford Anglia to go to Hogwarts, somehow they managed to pick up from King's Cross and onto the Hogwarts Express tracks and caught it in no time. So... how does this magic work? Does it lead to a different location in the same area, like underground, maybe, where wizards can go?

More importantly, is this magic only applicable to Platform 9 3/4? Where else did we see this in HP? What other ways could wizards use it? Getting into the Ministry of Magic involved a variety of clever ways that wizards could cross over from the Muggle world into the magical, but do any of those include whatever was used for Platform 9 3/4?

Also, is that the only way anyone could access the Hogwarts Express? Gotta admit, it's easy enough to believe that Muggles could very easily ignore it when a boy runs straight into the wall and seemingly disappears, but. Can you imagine September 1? How many students at Hogwarts must be at King's Cross that day doing the same thing within a concentrated period of time and not be noticed?

I don't know. What do you think?

I wrote How I Married Your Mother for hp_canon_fest and the reveals went up yesterday so I can now post it in my writing journal and link you to it because I'm a shameless pimper like that. (Although if for some reason this is the third time you saw this post today then I apologize--I don't expect much crossover between this journal, creativeslumber, and draco_asteria. :|

The prompt I signed up for was: "Asteria is a criminal mastermind, Draco is her reluctant sidekick. The crime in question could be the heist of the century or something as simple as stealing an apple. Means, motivation, success up to the author."

carlyinrome and todaythesamesky helped cut out stuff and kept track of my tenses/POV, basically rock star beta work, so ♥♥♥ your way, ladies. :)

Read it (if you want) here, plskthx.

( Beneath this cut you'll find writing-related musings, more for my benefit than yours )

UNF.

This above made it to this week's PostSecret blog post. I looked at it and the first thought I had was, "How is this a secret?"

And... I have no further thoughts beyond that.

Oh, god, LOLing so hard.

So Leaky reports that Tom Felton is, indeed, Tweeting. Here, actually.

So his last tweet he posts this picture: El. Oh. El. (Though it looks like it's from that Sectumsempra scene??)

And he tweets things like:

writing songs in my pyjamas!

and

trying to get in to twitter...its my first day...bare with me! i'm deliberating what film to watch...legends of the fall or the notebook?

d;fkajjf;akjfdafsd. Self-existentialism...

In bed watching The Truman show, freaked me out a bit,starting questioning everything!? Early morning tomorrow, night world x

and regular emo stuff:

Who knows what worries tomorrow could bring, so I shall not dwell in the ones I know.. But revel in the ones I dont.....x

LOLing so hard, you guys.

Meanwhile, I picked up the Red Eye today and apparently Emma Watson got accepted to Yale.

I'm sorry, but all I'm getting out of that is Serena van der Woodsen. :\




afkjg;jafdfjkadsf GUYS. I AM SERIOUSLY CONSIDERING BAILING ON AZKATRAZ FOR A BLACKHAWKS CONVENTION. JLF:KJSL"FKA":DLKA":LSDKA":SDLA":SLK

Ahahahahahahaaaaaaaa look. Writing. I forgot to post it here, whoops, but god, it's been a while. :| The last fic I wrote was, what, 2007? It wasn't even for Harry Potter. I have failed so much in fandom. D:

Title: Never the Straight and Narrow
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Draco/Astoria, Draco/Pansy
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: ~1000
Summary: The problem with Slytherins was that they never did anything in a straightforward manner.
Additional Notes: Muchos gracias to ccharlotte for the beta. Written for the hp_unfaithful's Fabulous No-Pressure Laissez-Faire Challenge. Prompt: "Why didn't you just ask her to marry you instead?"

( If they wanted to win a Quidditch game, they had to take out the other team's Seeker. )


Concrit would be so welcome, as I am rusty. ♥

PS. Is there, like, an LJ comm for Slytherin-based fics? Because I know one for Ravenclaws, but there are no Ravenclaws in this fic. :|

OH MY GOD
OH MY GOD YOU GUYS.
LOOKS LIKE JO'S GONNA WIN THE PRIZE
IF THERE EVER WAS AN AWESOME AUTHOR SHE WOULD QUALIFY
OH MY GOD YOU GUYS

OH MY GOD THIS IS ACTUAL
OUR OWN ESTABLISHED CANON HOMOSEXUAL
FINALLY I CAN FORGIVE HER FOR THE LAST TWO BOOKS' DISASTER-UAL
OH MY GOD
OH MY GOD YOU GUYS!



thethirdbar, so. You're gonna have to ship yourself? :|

So, did you hear? Apparently they have THE LAST SEVEN PAGES OF DEATHLY HALLOWS photographed and on Flickr like, right now. (Oh hey. Seven pages. Seven again. :P)

You can click that link if you want, the photos are too small for you to read anything spoilery now (unless you're really, really, REALLY weird with spoilers), but as soon as you click on any of those photos individually and start reading then I've no responsibility over that.

It's the epilogue-type thing that JKR mentioned. Looks real enough, I think, but yeah, I don't really want to read it right now. :| Spoilers really do spoil me, in the end. :| But oh, the curiosity! :\ (On the upside, I'm pretty sure someone here can verify the authenticity of these photos. :P)

ETA: I was going to post something about how the first link above no longer works, so hurrah for all and temptation's no longer present, but just as SOON as I saw that...

These links showed up. :|