Back on the Wagon?
Jun. 30th, 2007 10:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bowtrunckleI've fallen behind with the HP mania surrounding the release of OotP and Book 7. However, I didn't know just how much canon knowledge my brain had dumped until the other day when I had to stop writing and buzz at least two people to ask a relatively simple question regarding Grimmauld Place and Kreature. I decided that I should really get back on the wagon otherwise I imagine going to the movie and having no clue what's happening (Harry who?). So this morning I surfed Mugglenet and was amused by quirky HP news I've missed the past months. Now I remember why I love this fandom so much!
Apparently, Rupert Grint bought an ice-cream truck that he's taken to driving around Hertfordshire!
"I don't know why I bought it, but it's really cool," he says. "I've always had an interest in the ice cream industry. It's really cool; it's got a freezer in the back and a big kitchen with sinks. It's got a bell that plays a tune. It's really cool."
Oh, that is so in-character it kills me. You think Rupert likes method acting? *snortlaughs* Imagine a ginger-haired, 18-year old sitting behind the wheel of an ice-cream truck with tinkling bells ambling up and down the street. If that doesn't scream quirky child-actor with expendable cash I don't know what does. :) How appropriate that he repeatedly uses the word "cool" being that he's into frosty ice-cream treats and all. Seems like he's got himself a new vocation if the acting thing doesn't work out. I shall take this opportunity to reiterate my love for Ron/Rupert and his food enthusiam. (Hmm, I seem to have a thing for fictional character side-kicks who eat with gusto: Ron, Dean, and Samwise the hobbit and preparer of the food. Maybe this is a new, yet-to-be defined fetish XD.)
Apparently, the attorney who handles Harry Potter-related things, Mark Seidenfeld, was entrusted to bring the completed manuscript for Book 7 to the States. And in order to keep it "secure" for the duration of the ~eight hour flight, he sat on it.
*cracks up* Somehow it seems so wrong and so right that the first copy of Book 7 anyone besides JKR laid eyes on had festered under some lawyer's bum for 1/4 of a day. Just imagine sitting next to a man who, between the safety video and the serving of the no-nut snack mix, reaches down and shoves an 800+ page manuscript under himself. And when asked about it he says, "It's top secret. I'm keeping it safe from the world until it's to be released."
Apparently, Scholastic Headquarters in Manhattan has assembled a group of executives to oversee "every aspect of Book 7". They call themselves the "Harry Potter Brain Trust".
Who can't love the fact that grown adults have essentially formed a "secret" club that meets in a locked room on a weekly basis? It undoes me that they've gone so far as to name themselves - how wonderfully dorky is that? *grins* It just makes me smile to no end that the acronym, hpbt, so resembles phbt (as in *sticks tongue out* phhhbbttt!). Too bad the name isn't something more colorful like: "The Harry Potter Super-Secret Sect of Spoiler Supressors". You think they have a secret handshake or a secret knock? ;)
Well, here's to an exciting month of July with much child-like behavoir and book devouring. Cheers to all you fellow kids-at-heart Potterphiles. :)
"I don't know why I bought it, but it's really cool," he says. "I've always had an interest in the ice cream industry. It's really cool; it's got a freezer in the back and a big kitchen with sinks. It's got a bell that plays a tune. It's really cool."
Oh, that is so in-character it kills me. You think Rupert likes method acting? *snortlaughs* Imagine a ginger-haired, 18-year old sitting behind the wheel of an ice-cream truck with tinkling bells ambling up and down the street. If that doesn't scream quirky child-actor with expendable cash I don't know what does. :) How appropriate that he repeatedly uses the word "cool" being that he's into frosty ice-cream treats and all. Seems like he's got himself a new vocation if the acting thing doesn't work out. I shall take this opportunity to reiterate my love for Ron/Rupert and his food enthusiam. (Hmm, I seem to have a thing for fictional character side-kicks who eat with gusto: Ron, Dean, and Samwise the hobbit and preparer of the food. Maybe this is a new, yet-to-be defined fetish XD.)
Apparently, the attorney who handles Harry Potter-related things, Mark Seidenfeld, was entrusted to bring the completed manuscript for Book 7 to the States. And in order to keep it "secure" for the duration of the ~eight hour flight, he sat on it.
*cracks up* Somehow it seems so wrong and so right that the first copy of Book 7 anyone besides JKR laid eyes on had festered under some lawyer's bum for 1/4 of a day. Just imagine sitting next to a man who, between the safety video and the serving of the no-nut snack mix, reaches down and shoves an 800+ page manuscript under himself. And when asked about it he says, "It's top secret. I'm keeping it safe from the world until it's to be released."
Apparently, Scholastic Headquarters in Manhattan has assembled a group of executives to oversee "every aspect of Book 7". They call themselves the "Harry Potter Brain Trust".
Who can't love the fact that grown adults have essentially formed a "secret" club that meets in a locked room on a weekly basis? It undoes me that they've gone so far as to name themselves - how wonderfully dorky is that? *grins* It just makes me smile to no end that the acronym, hpbt, so resembles phbt (as in *sticks tongue out* phhhbbttt!). Too bad the name isn't something more colorful like: "The Harry Potter Super-Secret Sect of Spoiler Supressors". You think they have a secret handshake or a secret knock? ;)
Well, here's to an exciting month of July with much child-like behavoir and book devouring. Cheers to all you fellow kids-at-heart Potterphiles. :)
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Date: 2007-07-01 07:43 am (UTC)To help your canon: it's Kreacher ;)
*sings* I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream! Dude, really, buying an ice cream truck and driving it around for fun is dangerous behavior and could land you on some sexual predator list.
Foodful sidekicks: *takes notes* It is a great character trait. LOL
This lawyer who belongs to a secrect sect with a secret knock that sounds like Hedwig's theme...can't afford a locked briefcase with attaching wristcuff??? COME ON! Go all CIA/NSA on us!
And did he eat airline food with that thing under him? Think he passed gas on the title page?
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Date: 2007-07-01 05:59 pm (UTC)buying an ice cream truck and driving it around for fun is dangerous behavior and could land you on some sexual predator list
Note to self: never buy an ice cream truck and drive it around selling sweets to little kids.
This lawyer who belongs to a secrect sect with a secret knock that sounds like Hedwig's theme...can't afford a locked briefcase with attaching wristcuff???
I personally think he wanted to sit on it if you know what I mean. ;) Lawyers are strange people.
Think he passed gas on the title page?
*gasp* Sacrilege! And eewwww. *snortlaughgroans* Well, it was an eight hour flight.