our magical friendship

i mentioned that this has been my favorite semester ever. i learned so much about myself, the world, art, people, and of course films and media in general. i loved going to every single class and looked forward to doing my homework. i grew so much and had amazing professors and watched and read cool things and made cool movies and great friends and never fell asleep in class.. guys, film school is awesome.

i have to attribute some of the awesome-ness to those two guys, hunter and kelyn. unfortunately, we didn't take any pictures together, which is weird because we spent hours and hours and hours and hours together. in class, outside class, on set, etc. we are harry, ron, and hermione in my own universe.

these guys are hilarious and nice and geniuses and they really made my semester neat.  hunter is leaving us for a semester for a fancy pants internship in L.A. (like a REALLY fancy pants internship) and we're going to miss him like crazy. but i'm so happy i'll still get to spend every day next semester hanging out with kelyn. these guys, these guys. they're the best. film school is the best.

harry potter re-make

this is what i have been doing for the past 3 hours or so:

3 hours of work for a 9 second product.

that's just how it goes when it comes to making graphics, i guess.

it's far far far from perfect. far from adequate, really.

but it's my very first attempt at creating something from scratch in After Effects! so cut me some slack.

excellent, really excellent

Of course it's happening inside your head, Harry.

But why on earth should that mean it's not real?

the harry potter marathon is on abc today.

this is a great day.

more than just a wizard

i like this. he is awesome.

also, woman in black? freaky. but i want to see it.

this is funny and true

from reddit via pinterest

ah, muggle weapons

these "how it should have ended" videos are genius. take a gander at my favorite one, if you like.

i liked the inception one a lot, too.

life as we know it.

1. we went to ikea and a concert. he claims to be allergic to cameras. ha.

2. sammy's. before getting caught in a crazy downpour.

3. we made a cake today. happy birthday mr. potter.

i'm seeing harry potter again tonight.

couldn't have said it better myself.

one year ago

exactly one year ago i was here.

at harry potter world.

the epic conclusion.

Last night. So fun.

Also, this is what happens when your camera flash is broken. Pretend you like blurry pics.

i'm so excited. and sirius black is standing behind me.

want a dark mark? me and danny are professional dark mark-ers.

waiting waiting waiting.

Neville and our Mimbulus Mimbletonia.

Me and the most legit Lupin ever. I thought it was really him.

I could probably write a really long post about the movie.

I'll just say it in as few words as possible:

I loved it. It was perfect.

I thought I would be more sad right now, now that it's all over...

But I'm completely at peace inside.

It was the perfect ending.

Harry Potter is my greatest joy.

it's today!

i just tried to take a nap.

but let's be real. i'm waaaaaaay too excited to sleep!

insane butterflies right now.

ahhhhhh!

yay yay yay yay yay yay yay yay!

saw it here first.

no words

i can't even talk about it.

i don't think you guys understand how much i love harry potter.

"love" is an understatement actually.

this is going to be the best/hardest thing ever.

blimey, 'arry

"Could Snape possibly know they'd found out about the Sorcerer's Stone? Harry didn't see how he could - yet he sometimes had the horrible feeling that Snape could read minds."

-Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, page 221.

Ha! Guess what, Harry. Snape can read minds. It's called Occlumency, and he is a pro.

Oh... dramatic irony.

Hey. One month from midnight tonight.

Ah my gash.

thou shalt not covet thy sister's birthday presents...

she got a life-size ron.

i. love. him.

for keetch

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i saw this and most definitely fell in love all over again.

theme of my life.

"If we are feeling lousy, and the news is bad, and people are bad, what to we do? We go to the movies. We escape."

-Oprah Winfrey

That right there is one reason why I love movies so much. Just one reason.

gryffindor

Snog, Date, Dump:

Gryffindor Edition.

Oliver Wood

Cormac McLaggen

Dean Thomas

It's a hard one.

Cormac is kind of a jerk, but there is no denying that he's an extremely handsome guy.

Dean is just awesome, and looks like a young english Denzel.

It's hard to resist Oliver's accent, charm, and quidditch skills.

For me? I can't be sure, but I think I would say

Snog Cormac

Date Oliver

Dump Dean

Who would you snog, date, and dump?

weasley is my king

tiger?

In my Popular Literature class, we had an assignment about our "inner animal."
Inner animal? That is basically a patronus, right? Yes.
So, for the assignment, we had to take the "animal in you" test.

Remember how I thought my patronus was a tiger?
Well the result I got from the test was

a prairie dog.

That is kind of a lame patronus if you ask me. So I'll be sticking with a tiger.
Harry could choose to be in Gryffindor, so I'm choosing my own patronus.

But you can take the test here, if you like. Knock yourself out. It's kind of cool, and maybe you'll actually like the animal you get.