ugachaka :: Jacob was here

Shockingly enough, Scholastic is doing everything in their power to go after whoever leaked the Harry Potter page images onto the Internet days before the actual book’s release.

In their thirst for blood, they have discovered that the serial number and camera model was embedded in the image files. If the leaker happened to register their camera with Canon, they are screwed. Time to ebay that camera, buddy.

Maybe you could even get rid of it by promoting the fame aspect of having a camera that committed the greatest literary crime of the decade.

Book companies might be smart to listen to Internet marketing guru Seth Godin. He posted recently about how he feels books have become too slow of a medium but still retain a great keepsake value for their owners.

I can’t bring myself to tell it–being a lacking Potter fan who only watches the movies–but if you want to read the book to find out how it all ends, you probably shouldn’t click here.

If you don’t care to wait, go right after it. You will be the only person to know details of the plot, and you can scream them in buses and subways for weeks while everyone else looks at you with shame and hatred.

I have been writing so much about Harry Potter lately, why not throw in another one?

A clever column over at Wired rates that spells available in the Harry Potter universe–some on effectiveness during battle but mostly just on cool factor.

For the record, I definitely agree with his D+ on the killing curse. Lame.

FilmThreat just posted a review of the new Harry Potter film also expressing their disappointment in the movie.

I didn’t realize that this latest film acually had a new screenwriter. That script adaptation really seemed choppy and did nothing to close plot holes left from omitted segments of the book. Maybe fans can hope that they do a better job on the next movie OR get a new writer…

I feel ya, Harry.

Okay, I understand that the Harry Potter series isn’t exactly centered in reality, but the new movie totally opened up a MASSIVE plot hole for me.

SPOILER ALERT! Don’t read past this if you haven’t seen the movie yet.
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When Sirius Black, Harry’s only remaining semi-relative, the bad witch–forgot her name–does the death curse on him. Death curse? When did a death curse become possible? I don’t understand that at all.

It would make sense if it took a lot of time or effort or if only one or two wizards in the world could pull it off like the big baddie Voldemort and all-knowing Dumbledore, but the witch that does it to Sirius pulls it out in about one second flat. That’s it. Sirius goes out like a light.

I thought Sirius was supposed to be some super badass of the Order of the Phoenix? He wasn’t watching out for a death curse in a room full of bad wizards? Crazy.

If there was death curse, why didn’t Voldemort just jump out on Harry and Dumbledore and death curse them right at the very start of this series? Even if it took a lot of power, you would think that Dumbledore could have gotten the axe from the nutty professor in the first movie with Voldemort in his head.

That is ridiculous. That is all I have to say. It seems like if there was a death curse, people would use it more often, and it doesn’t make sense that the wizard hit by it can’t be saved by anyone else or get any chance to recover. I know he could have blocked it, but it is so quick to do, it would be hard to block.

I think the book might have done a better job explaining but I am pretty confused about the introduction of something like this in this latest movie.