Below are the 14 most recent journal entries recorded in liriop's LiveJournal:

Monday, October 27th, 2008
1:38 pm	USA elections You Should Be Allowed to Vote You got 13/15 questions correct. Generally speaking, you're very well informed. If you vote this election, you'll know exactly who (and what) you'll be voting for. You're likely to have strong opinions, and you have the facts to back them up. Should You Be Allowed to Vote? (Comment on this)
Monday, October 20th, 2008
12:28 am	My Boy Jack Nunca mais postei nada porque esse blog era só sobre HP mesmo e detestei o último livro. Resolvi colocar aqui que hoje, dia 20 de outubro, passa o My Boy Jack na HBO, aqui no Brasil. É aquele filme para a tv britânica que o Dan Radcliffe fez no ano passado entre a première de Ordem da Fênix e as filmagens de Enigma do Príncipe. Provavelmente não teremos mais muitas chances de vê-lo. Assim ficam avisados meus amigos brasileiros que não tiverem percebido e quiserem dar uma conferida. O filme foi bem recebido pela crítica, que eu saiba, e até ganhou um prêmio europeu. (Comment on this)
Friday, April 13th, 2007
7:18 pm	Leaky's predictions Well, there were some questions whose answers were not exactly what I think. For instance I said Harry is not a horcrux, hoping that there will be a question if Harry's scar is a horcrux (it isn't exactly what I think, but it's better). If they don't make any more questions about that and my thoery is right, I don't know what they will consider to be right, the yes or the no. (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, March 8th, 2007
11:15 pm	I'm really alarmed about the Order of the Phoenix movie. I was expecting it would be great, because I loved the stills and the trailer. But each time I read what the people that saw the screenings say about it I become more and more upset. It seems it is a good film, but the characters are completely changed, particularly Luna and Ginny, but also Hermione and Ron. Luna wise? WTF? Luna is a bit insane, as Ron says in HBP and no one disagrees. That's what's good about her, she is funny. Harry doesn't believe her in HBP, why would he believe in her explanations in OotP movie? He likes her, but he knows she believes in anything and so her information can't be trusted. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, January 15th, 2007
4:33 am	The meme Everybody is answering about Deathly Hallows. I'll do that too. ( Meme ) (Comment on this)
Saturday, November 18th, 2006
1:07 am	Screencaps of the clip: I tried to make some screencaps of the clip WB gave us: Harry, Lucius, Voldemort, Bella, Ron, Snape, Harry and the twins. I didn't made a screencap of Hermione or of the moment Harry says he isn't weak because there are high resolution photos of that. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 15th, 2006
3:35 pm	Your Vocabulary Score: A Congratulations on your multifarious vocabulary! You must be quite an erudite person. How's Your Vocabulary? I shouldn't be so proud. After all many of the "difficult" words in English have the same roots in Portuguese. Omniscient, hedonistic and others just mean the same thing in both languages. But still..., it's good to get top grade in a foreign language test made for native speakers. (Comment on this)
Saturday, November 4th, 2006
4:08 am	You paid attention during 100% of high school! 85-100% You must be an autodidact, because American high schools don't get scores that high! Good show, old chap! Do you deserve your high school diploma? Create a Quiz I couldn't resist to post it and say, well,I wasn't in American High Schools, but in a Brazilian one. Should that explain it? (Comment on this)
Saturday, October 21st, 2006
2:23 am	What I don't want to see in book seven After seeing what some people thought about it I couldn't resist to post the 9 things I don't want to happen in book seven 1. Harry dead. As my daughter says, the whole series would be pointless if Harry died. Even if he took Voldemort with him. He deserves some happiness, that boy. 2. Ginny, Ron and Hermione dead. As I said above, Harry deserves some happiness. He already had too many significant losses. 3. Snape being loyal to Dumbledore. It is simply wrong. He is a murderer. Dumbledore forcing him to murder someone is simply wrong. And I'm a liberal person who even favors euthanasia. But I think it would be completely unacceptable in this case. I'd perfectly accept, though, if Snape wasn't loyal to Voldemort either. 4. Harry not going back to Hogwarts. Yes, I know that he intends to do so. But it would be so wrong if all the heroes (or almost all of them) didn't complete their education! I can't believe that JKR, a former teacher would do that. 5. The connection between Harry and Voldemort not being a Horcrux. It would be so strange if all those bits of Voldemort in Harry were not a Horcrux if a Horcrux is exactly a bit of soul. 6. It may seem contradictory with the answer #5, but I don't want Harry to be an accidental Horcrux either. Accidental Horcruxes are just not satisfying. If they existed there would be lots of immortal murderers. I can think of at least one way of #5 and #6 both (not) happening, but JKR will probably invent another one. 7. Resurrection. Jo Rowling has handled death superbly and resurrecting Sirius or Dumbledore would simply destroy it. Death would be like a cartoonish thing. 8. Harry and his friends really being able to use unforgivables. There must be a clear difference between goodies and baddies. 9. The power that Voldemort doesn't know being love, as in love x hate. And all Harry would have to do is focus in all the people he loves and Voldemort would die because he can't stand it. Yeah, I know the power is love, but I think it must be love as the opposite of power hunger. You know, like Dumbledore hinted, when he explained it to Harry and mentioned why Harry saw the philosopher's stone in the mirror of erised. Harry would reject power and prestige, would accept an enormous risk of dying, in a way Voldemort wouldn't anticipate, because he doesn't understand this kind of love. That's the way I can accept it. (12 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, August 26th, 2006
3:43 am	Why James and not Lily? I know Rowling debunked "Harry, the heir of Gryffindor" theory, but I think James was a probable descendant of Gryffindor and that, as Voldemort couldn't find any significant object of Gryffindor, he decided to make a Horcrux with the death of a descendant of Gryffindor. So he wanted to kill James, an important enemy of his, that had thrice defied him, and a descendant of Gryffindor. But he didn't want to make a Horcrux with the death of a "mudblood". And if he killed her he would have his soul splitted before killing Harry and he wouldn't be sure which bit soul was being used. But it wasn't that important and he finally killed her to be able to kill the boy. But how can I defend this opinion if Jo herself said the theory of Harry as the Heir of Gryffindor was shut down? Before the interview J.K.Rowling gave to Melissa and Emerson I used to think the idea that Harry was the Heir of Gryffindor was not compatible with the hints in the story that only bigots, slytherins and dark wizards were concerned about lineage. But hey, we're talking about Voldemort's choices, aren't we? What made me think of James as descendant of Gryffindor was: 1) The fact that James lives in Godric's Hollow and Jo seemed to admit the name being linked to Gryffindor in an interview in 2000. "Lizo Mzimba:The significance of the place where Harry and his parents lived - the first name... JKR: Godric Gryffindor. Very good, you're a bit good you are aren't you. I'm impressed. LM:You're not going to tell me but .... JKR: My editor didn't, I said to her - Haven't you noticed the connection between where Harry's parents lived and one of the Hogwarts houses? And she said no, no - I'm not being rude about Emma, she's a brilliant editor, the best ever. But no she didn't pick that up either, you're a bit good you are. " 2)The thing that really changed my mind, the way she acted when Melissa concluded that the theory of the Heir of Gryffindor was to be debunked: JKR:"[...] There's nothing serious or sinister about those deaths.[James' parents] I just needed them out of the way so I killed them. MA: That sort of shuts down Heir of Gryffindor [theories], as well. JKR: [Pause] Yeah. Well - yeah. " You see how she hesitates to say that the theory was shut down. First there is a pause, then a "Well". Both seem to imply she doesn't know exactly what to say. I think that means that there isn't really a Heir of Gryffindor, but that there is something related to it somehow. If James is a descendant of Gryffindor, but it doesn't give him any special power and perhaps there are even other descendants of Gryffindor, she can't say he is the Heir. Additionally, I'd bet she wouldn't want that the fans would be debating along the lines that ancestry is really an important thing. After all, she is always stressing in the books the point that it isn't. But she knows the fans can interpret the shut down of the Heir of Gryffindor meaning James has no relation with Gryffindor. So she hesitates. Other evidence. In World Book Day chat, Jo said: "Jami: Is Harry related to Godric Gryffindor? JK Rowling replies -> People are always wondering who Harry might be related to. Maybe he is ;)" Contrast it with the way she promptly debunked the ideas that Harry was related to Voldemort or Dumbledore in the rumours section of her site. (Comment on this)
2:31 am	Harry and the Horcrux inside him Well, you know English is not my first language, so it's difficult for me to explain all my arguments. But as I've been posting in recent debates in other people's threads (peachespig, major-dallas and amytoxic). I thought I could put everything in a post here. I think most of the people seem to miss a detail in this Horcrux debate. When Dumbledore tells Harry his Nagini theory, he says: "However, if my calculations are correct, Voldemort was still at least one Horcrux short of his goal of six when he entered your parents' house with the intention of killing you."(underlined by me) ( Read more... ) (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, June 28th, 2006
10:30 pm	The delusion goes on I pity some people at the ARGH thread of FAP who are delusional. Yes, I'm not afraid of saying the word. I believe in unconscious feelings and delusional here doesn't mean stupid or insane, but just that people build their beliefs in a totally unsound basis. There is no other way of describing their theories. There is no foundation whatsoever to their Love Potion theory. They have completely wrong suppositions about who is Ginny and how she feels and how Harry feels, with no canon evidence and from these suppositions they conclude Harry's feelings for her were too sudden. They missed all the clues in HBP itself (Why would Harry need to have loved Ginny for years to begin noticing her?) Now one of them is spreading the news that she is being threatened of physical harm because of a sarcastic comment that couldn't possibly seen as that. this same person is the one that is always saying that OCers lack logical reasoning. But she hated book 6 when she first read it and said it was bad writing and then, after her LPoD theory, the book turned to be very well written. Does that make sense at all? One thing JKR tries to do is to make each of her books readable by people that haven't read the others. How could a book be well written if it could only be understood when the next book is read? She and other fellow ARGHers feel offended when we think they're not understanding what's written in the books. But they are making fools of themselves with all those absurd theories that are surely going to be buried with book seven. And what will these people (I do not mean all the ARGHers, but the ones that like to create completely unfounded theories) do then? Will they once more blame the author and say that her writing is dreadful and that if she intended the readers to know that Ginny is Harry's ideal girl she should write it so that the readers could understand it? Well, sorry, fellows, but I know a lot of people that were not OCers that could read the way the author intended us to do. (I myself am not a rabid shipper, I'm much more invested in the theory that Snape isn't good or that Harry possibly has a Horcrux in his head than in any ship). And that includes a lot of children. If ARGHers can't understand what the author writes, when so many other people can, this says nothing about the author or the quality of the writing, but about their reading skills or perhaps about their delusional minds. Current Mood: tired (Comment on this)
Sunday, June 18th, 2006
1:07 pm	Fandom History Well, as English is not my first language, I prefer not to write too much. But I've seen this fandom history and just had to mention it. I forgot to mention in the previous entry that I'm also known as Lilyp aka lunagranger. Current Mood: surprised (Comment on this)
Sunday, May 21st, 2006
3:10 am	Who I am I am Brazilian and live in Rio de Janeiro. I have two daughters and I'm old enough to be a grandmother, although my 27 year daughter doesn't seem to agree. English is not my first language and I'm not really interested in keeping a journal. The reason I made this one is to have a nick here in LJ and be able to comment the essays about Potterverse. In Potter verse, I'm a H/G fan and love fanfics by Velvethope, St. Margarets, Elsielann, Gowdie, Lady Tonks, Magnolia Mama, Melindaleo, Margaret ?7 (what's rhe number?) and many others. I'm not a fan of Draco and don't think Snape is a good guy. I can't accept Dumbledore pleading for anyone to become a murderer. I don't think Snape is on Voldemort's side either, but it's easier to accept this idea. I really think Severus is on his own side and has his own plans that include helping Harry to kill Voldemort and getting rid of the boy who lived afterward. Snape has always known about the prophecy. (Comment on this)