Read somewhere that LJ will be clearing up non-active accounts, so here's a journal entry to keep me going.

My goodness, it's been a whole year since I last made a post on LJ! So it's therefore not surprising this post is for the same reason.

Best wishes to ken_schneyer for a very happy birthday!

How did Arisia go, and did you take my advice and shoehorn some Rowling criticism into the 'Unreliable Narrator' discussion? ;-)

Since J. Rowling hasn't revealed in an interview recently (of which I know) that she recants writing Harry/Ginny and should have paired him with Hermione I guess this must be a birthday message. :-)

And so it is. Best wishes for a very happy birthday to ken_schneyer! We don't see each other much on LJ nowadays, Ken, but I do enjoy reading of your continuing success with your original fiction.

I hope you have a great day!

Best wishes for a very happy birthday to ap_aelfwine!

I hope you have a great day!

It's like this at this time every year ... I have to work out all over again how to insert images in my posts. :-)

Anyway, as part reciprocation for all of the (animated!) animals she's shown us over the past year, here are two creatures wishing girlspell a Happy Birthday:



They're not cute kittens, rolling sharks or killer whales ... in fact, I don't know what they are ... but I hope they'll suffice. :-)

I hope you have a good day girlspell!

Well, the transcript of the full interview is out; my thanks to shantari and avidbeader for the link:

J.K. Rowling and Emma Watson discuss Ron, Hermione, and Harry: The full interview

I'll put my discussion underneath the cut, but you would have caught the primary gist of it from my subject heading ...

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Usually it takes me a while to take the covers off my blog, blow off the dust and clear the cobwebs, but for some reason I find that my online activity has had a rush of activity the last few days, my livejournal engine already warmed up and purring. Hmmm. I wonder why? :-)

Anyway, best wishes for a happy birthday to ken_schneyer! I hope you have/had a great birthday.

Well, I guess today wasn't a good day to try and get any work done ... :-)

Around mid-morning my IN box started showing unusual activity. J.K. Rowling regrets Ron and Hermione’s relationship!! and other headlines start appearing. Oodles of HP H/Hr fans come out of their 'retirement' to post the news (great to see them again! There's nothing like a page of colourful H/Hr icons; I think I imprinted on them back when I first got involved with the fandom. :-)). My LJ Friends page full of posts glorying in the news that Rowling has decided that her prized Ron/Hermione pairing was not 'credible' and wouldn't work; that "Hermione should have wed Harry".

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Well, right now I imagine Steve Kloves is in a hidden cellar brushing the dust off a box labelled "SECRET HARRY/HERMIONE FILM FOOTAGE". The movie folk went absolutely as far as they could with H/Hr - given that they had to stick to the canon - short of stashing the redheads in a rocket and shooting them into the sun. Now that Rowling has (hopefully - pending that H/G thing) given them the green light, can a new DH ending and epilogue be very far away? :-)

Hoping you have a very happy birthday ap_aelfwine!

Okay, my PC's fan is running hot, because my browser is rendering lots of animated GIFs ...

That's because I've got a few pages up of (free) birthday images, all blinking madly ...

I'm making an LJ post, which doesn't happen very often these days ...

And I'm looking at the LJ FAQs trying to work out how to upload images.

IT MUST BE RACHEL'S BIRTHDAY!!!



Best wishes to you Girlspell for a very Happy Birthday.