HARRY FREAKIN POTTER and Notre Dame

okay commenting on this post DOES NOT justify not commenting on the last one.


but, i thought i'd give you all an update of my *joyful* (twitch) weekend.

so on saturday i went to the notre dame/michigan football game, which was at notre dame. it was fun to be on campus again and i SAW emerson (i'm pretty sure) and i physically bumped into his younger brother on accident.

here's the story

i was walking out of 'the huddle' the place where all the hot college kids hang out and i'm behind my dad because its pretty packed and there's these college kids behind me. so i bump into this kid going the other way only to look up into his face and realize that he looks EXACTLY like emerson. which means basically i nearly fell onto him. but, deciding that there was every possibility that it WASN'T him, i decided not to jump onto him. sooooooo i say sorry, (so does he) and walk on and not five feet later one of the college kids BEHIND me says to the other
"that's emerson's little brother"
"[says the name of some other guy]?"
"No, the guy with him"


and so i was EXTREMELY HAPPY! until i saw the game. gawd, it was painful. i had REALLY good seats, i'm talking TENTH ROW IN AN ENDZONE. i could SEEEEEEE charlie weis and all the players' faces from where i was sitting! it was pretty dang SWEEET!

but, omg within the first MINUTE. no lie SECOND GODDAMN PLAY OF THE GAME MICHIGAN SCORES!

just to give a little background michigan and notre dame is widely known as the OLDEST college football rivalry of all time. and michigan hasn't won AT notre dame since 1994

sooooooo a little later notre dame scores so we're tied again.

but i'm not going to go on and on about every play so here are some highlights;

michigan qb threw THREE td passes to ONE guy and michigan intercepted THREE FUCKING TIMES!

NOT TO GODDAMN MENTION THAT OUR OH SO AMAZING (ive not been impressed since the first game of the season) QB 'BRADY QUINN' CAN'T DO HIS FUCKING JOB

okay so here he is trying to throw the ball, right? so he cocks his arm back to throw AND LETS GO! the ball goes FLYING behind him and he spins on the spot liek 'OH FUCK WHERE'D IT GO?!' and he falls on it (thank god) so we think we have it, well all these other guys topple onto him and he tries to pull himself out and you see his head and arms and HE LETS GO OF THE FOOTBALL! it slips from his butterfingers AGAIN! and some OHTER guy picks it up and runs in 54 yards for a touchdown. i nearly cried.

honestly. I COULD QB BETTER THAN THAT!

there was one pass that was thrown DIRECTLY THROUGH THE HANDS OF A DUDE and a michigan guy RUNNING BEHIND HIM catches it, as though it was intended for him adn runs in 31 yds for a td

anohter guy was left WIDE OPEN like honestly, i'll never knwo....for a 69 yd tdp

THEN a guy FUMBLES A KICKOFF RETURN AND MICHIGAN SET UP FOR A TWO YD TDR!!!!!!!

oh and ANOTHER thing brady fucking quinn did was ONLY GET 3 OF HIS 13 PASSES TO THE INTENDED PEOPLE! twas a very very sad day for the irish

we DID however have a decent defense...its just that they were playing CONSTANTLY because we couldn't hold fucking possession of the ball too long or anything! but, we did intercept the ball for a 51 yd run where we were tackled at the four but which set us up for our first td.

brady quinn was this big ol' hot shot coming out of high school and he just had a shitting line his first two years and last year when charlie weis got him a decent line he had a phenomenal season! but, (personally, i think it got to his head) this year, being a favorite for the Heisman, he SUCKS! i REEEEALLLY don't think he's a favorite any more! he just had a SHITTY game!

honestly. i was ready to insult his momma!

so yeah, it was bad. real bad.

the game ended with 47-21 the most michigan has scored at notre dame....in 46 years

~!@edit!!!@!~ 47 points is the most notre dame has let in at home since NINETEEN SIXTY! my father was one year old. holy fucking shit.

HARRY FREAKIN POTTA!

well, jo said;

SEPTEMBER 13th

Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. I know it's been a very long time since I was last in touch. I've been writing a novel, you see.

My readings in New York with Stephen King and John Irving were so much fun. It's not often that I do something like that and wish I could do it all over again, but I would have happily done a third night. If you were there, and yelling, thank you: the crowds, both nights, could not have been more wonderful.

I did mess up one answer, though. I was asked, 'what question have you never been asked that you ought to have been asked?' - or something very similar – and my mind went blank. Blame long years of trying not to give away the plot. But it occurred to me almost as soon as I got off stage that there IS a question I've always been surprised nobody's put to me, and that I really should have said it while I was still on-stage. I can't make amends to the girl who asked, but it is in tribute to her that I give the answer, belatedly, under 'Miscellaneous', Extras section.


and in the extra's section under miscellaneous it says

NAQ

... which means, 'never asked question'.

Why did Dumbledore have James' invisibility cloak at the time of James' death, given that Dumbledore could make himself invisible without a cloak?

Prior to posting this I had a quick look on-line, and realised that some fans have been speculating about this question. However, nobody has ever asked me about it, and they really should have done. Just to allay the fears of the justifiably suspicious, this isn't what we in the know call 'a Mark Evans situation.'* There IS a significant - even crucial - answer.

* Note to newcomers: my attempt to put to rest certain wild theories about the unimportant character of 'Mark Evans' backfired when I inadvertently built up even more excitement by promising to explain his significance.


any thoughts/beliefs/theroies?
lemme know-love to hear 'em


OHKAY one last thing. i was reading through the emerson (who i SAW!) and melissa vs. jkrowling interview and the last question melissa askes jkr is

MA: Was there anyone else present in Godric's Hollow the night Harry's parents were killed?

and jo responds

JKR: No comment.

sooooooo there's another thing to make your brain hurt.
mantha, we might have to re-start up our millions of hp related emails!