Pottermore

Sorry for the lack of blog posts./updates. I recently got back into Pottermore. If you don't know what it is, it is a website J.K. Rowling created for Harry Potter fans to re-experience the wizarding world in a whole new way. Visitors become wizards and witches themselves. They become Hogwarts students and get sorted into a house. The set-up is pages with back and forth arrows. It is kind of like going through a book, re-reading the story of Harry Potter. Right now only the first book is out and a couple chapters of the second though. On each page on searches for items to collect which lead to extra readings that allow fans to find out more about the wizarding world than the books and movies let on.

I was lucky enough to be on of the first groups of beta testers and joined on August 1st of 2011. I heard from other people online that it was very quick to go through and they quickly ran out of things to do, so I decided to take it slowly. Before my muggle school started, I stopped at chapter 8. Muggle school kept me busy and I had (sadly) forgotten about Pottermore until recently. I have finally finished the first book! I totally stopped at chapter 8 because I couldn't brew a potion correctly at all! Now, that I have learned, I'm excited to brew more potions. I haven't dueled yet, but I am very much nervous to do so!

I understand why people were bored after finishing the first book. The only things left after finishing the reading were brewing potions and dueling (or re-reading). I can see how it gets repetitive after a while. I am currently re-reading everything and haven't started Chamber of Secrets yet. It's still very exciting to me, since there's so much more to do. There are tons of potions I haven't brewed (although they can be very frustrating) and I am still so afraid of dueling!

If you play on Pottermore or soon will, let me know your username and we can be friends!
I am Thornspell77 and I am a Hufflepuff!!!! I always knew! (I'm super duper happy about it!)
*All the places I wrote "Pottermore" are links to the site!

**Also, I have been all sad recently because I couldn't meet Hello Kitty at Yougurtland this past Tuesday. (I had a dentist appointment.) See here if you'd like to see photos from the Official Hello Kitty Blog.

Rest of August Nails

Week of August 22

I visited a friend who recently moved to San Francisco and I got to see her nail polish collection, which she let me try! I was so excited to see that she had glitter polishes! I decided to use red so that we would match! Since school was just starting, I didn't want to overload on the glitter, so I only put it on the ring finger. I've been really liking glitter, especially black glitter! 

(Yet again I cannot tell you the names of the polishes, but I'm pretty sure the brand for both was called Nabi)

 

Week of August 29

I call these my Incredible Hulk nails! I actually painted them for Harry Potter purposes. I knew I was going to dress up as a Slytherin Student for September first, so I wanted to do matching nails. I was actually going to do plain green, but it didn't feel like enough. I wanted to do something quick because school was so busy, so I decided to do crackle. It would have been much more Slytherin had my crackle polish been silver, but alas, I had none. 

(claire's - green, Sally Hansen Crackle Overcoat - Ink Splatter)

Can anybody guess why I dressed up on September 1st? :]

Pottermore

YES! I JUST GOT MY WELCOME E-MAIL!

For those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about, check out http://insider.pottermore.com/.

If anyone's curious, I registered on Day 2.

I was so upset this morning when my boyfriend received his Welcome e-mail. We registered at the same time and he's the one who told me to check my e-mail. I wasn't so much upset because he had it and I didn't. I was mostly upset at the fact that we didn't get to explore it at the same time, together. I just really got my hopes up. I couldn't tell him wait until I got my Welcome e-mail. He's been waiting too and I would definitely say that he's the bigger Harry Potter Fan. Without a doubt. Plus, he's going on vacation soon and won't be able to explore while he's away. I'm not upset at all anymore! Tee Hee! XD

So I leave you with this:

My trusty Harry Potter 3D Glasses! I will never stop using these.

I watched the Glee 3D Movie today(15th) with these.
**HINT** Stay until the VERY END

Even More Harry Potter Love

First off, here's a clearer picture of my outfit from that Wednesday along with my movie pass for that wonderful week.

Now, for the big day! This is us before leaving the house. Nice normal picture.

Now us trying to pose? Haha.

My friend with a Professor McGonagall Cosplayer.

Here is my friend and I with a Luna Cosplayer.

Now here's another Professor McGonagall Cosplayer. She was so sweet. She let us borrow some wands for the picture. I know it doesn't make sense, but I wanted to be in the picture too XD
So now, I just want to let you know how sorry I am for my inability to pose. I must work on my confidence. Also, Bellatrix and I are NOTHING alike. I am not an actress... Oh well. I just love dressing up!

More Harry Potter Love

So, I never got to finish my recap of my Harry Potter movie week. I must say, it was wonderful to see all the movies in theaters after they have already gone. Especially consecutively that way.
I must say though, that it was very different to walk around the theater that Thursday. There were so many people waiting in line to see the midnight showings of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II. There were even people waiting for the 3 a.m. showing. It was crazy.

So just to recap my outfits that week:

• Day 1: Unfinished Bellatrix Costume

(Deathly Hallows Part 2 & Chamber of Secrets)

• Day 2: Kind of Gryffindor, but mostly looked like Hufflepuff

I wore yellow tights, a black skirt, a white bodyline blouse, and a black ribbon around the collar. The ribbon was pinned together with a Gryffindor pin. If only I had a Hufflepuff one!

(Prisoner of Azkaban & Goblet of Fire

• Day 3: Slytherin School Girl
  
  (Order of the Phoenix & Half-Blood Prince)
  

• Day 4: Full Bellatrix Costume
  
  (Deathly Hallows Part 1 & 2)
  
  I'm the one in the middle. Can you guess what everyone's dresses like?
  Sorry the pictures are not clear and pretty dark.

Sadly I didn't get to watch the Sorcerer's Stone, but what can I do now. Oh well. I wish I could show you all pictures for every day. Stay tuned for the next post. I'll be posting the rest of my pictures from the week.

Harry Potter Love

Sorry I have not posted in a long while! I went camping with my family for vacation. Before and after I left, I was also busy with school work! I had to do it early and then I was so lazy when I got back that I had to catch up!

Anyways, I have bought tickets to watch the Harry Potter Marathon in Theatres!

It started yesterday with the Sorcerer's Stone and the Chamber of Secrets.

Today is The Prisoner of Azkaban and The Goblet of Fire.

Wednesday is The Order of the Phoenix and The Half-Blood Prince.

Thursday is The Deathly Hallows Part 1 and then Part 2 at midnight!

Yesterday was so Hectic! I originally planned to get my homework done before leaving to the theatres in my Slytherin Outfit. I woke up really late to a text from 43KixNorCal stating that I won adavanced screening tickets to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 that same night. I had to e-mail them with my information in order to accept it and be on the guest list. I felt like the wait for a response e-mail took forever and I could not concentrate on my homework! I was worried I would not be able to go because of my unfinished homework and that everything would go wrong. Because I officialy won, I whipped out my Bellatrix costume early. I was saving it for Thurday and sadly it was not finished and I did not have time to do my hair because I found out I won so unexpectedly! It went alright though and I will dress up completely on Thursday!

I wish I could show you my outfit yesterday, but I did not take my camera. I thought they would take it away because it is an advanced screening, so they are even stricter about bringing cameras into the theatre. I will try to get pictures on Thursday though! I hope to see tons of other people dressed up too!!!

I have to go soon so I can get ready for tonight! How will I dress up for tonight...