30-day Harry Potter Writing Challenge - Day 9: Your favourite thing about Hogwarts.

My favourite thing about Hogwarts?.. It's magical.

“Help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it.”

― Albus Dumbledore (J.K. Rowling), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Hogwarts is where I spent most of my childhood summer... I always dreamed to walk on its grounds... To discover all the rooms.. To eat in the Great Hall that is magically filled with foods, can you just imagine how heaven-like it would smell inside during meal time? I want to hangout in all of the common rooms and sleep in each house's dormitories. I want to be able to experience climbing the moving staircases, meet the ghosts and the portraits and of course play on the Quidditch pitch, or just watch... Because I'm not actually a sporty person. Anyways, that's basically everything I like about Hogwarts.

“Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.” 

― J.K. Rowling

30-day Harry Potter Writing Challenge - Day 8: Your least favourite movie.

Alright... I know you'll think that my least favourite HP movie is the same as my least favourite HP book... But no. Sorry, wrong guess.

My least favourite HP movie is the 6th one: Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince. The movie just didn't do the book any justice. The explanation of who the half-blood Prince was the worst part. Too much scenes in the book was omitted.

30-day Harry Potter Writing Challenge - Day 6: List down your top 3mostpainful/unacceptable deaths in the movie adaptations.

WARNING!!!

THIS POST CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERS!!!

READ AT YOUR OWN RISK.

Yes.. It's a different list... Well, the two might be the same... But... Books are different from the movies...

There is an unacceptable one here... Mainly because... It has been changed drastically by the movie...

3. Sirius Black

I don't know about you guys but it was really painful to watch Harry rush over and reach for him through the veil. Harry almost went with him if it wasn't for Lupin.

*I always considered the books different from the movies, thus the switching places of Fred and Sirius... It's just different. Deal with it.*

2. Fred Weasley

George's other half. It was just heartbreaking.

1. Dobby

Oh dear Dobby... He has own ways of protecting Harry... He had defied his master for Harry. It was painful to see him die after saving Harry's ass.. But it was so nice of Harry to provide him a proper burial.

And the most unacceptable death in the movies for me... Is Hedwig. My sweet, pure, snowy owl.. I cried as well when she died in the book; but in the book.. She was helpless in her cage and Harry was too, helpless I mean. It was painful to read through.. In the movies however, they made her the reason of why all of the 7 Harrys, the death eaters and Voldemort eventually find the real Harry. That was just unacceptable. It wasn't her fault, the worst part? Harry (Dan) is the one who suggested that Hedwig gave him away. Justice for Hedwig!!!

Soar high dear Hedwig.

[Sirius Black]. (n.d.). Retrieved August 6, 2016, from http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Walburga_Black 

[Fred Weasley]. (n.d.). Retrieved August 6, 2016, from http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Fred_Weasley 

Dobby. (n.d.). Retrieved August 7, 2016, from http://www.popsugar.com/tech/Harry-Potter-Fans-Leave-Socks-Dobby-38617090 

Hedwig. (n.d.). Retrieved August 7, 2016, from https://www.pinterest.com/pin/460774605595263077/

30-day Harry Potter Writing Challenge - Day 4: Is there anything in the film adaptations that annoyed you?

I think this is a major one.. So please, if you're new to the fandom and haven't watched all of the films... Kindly leave now.

I hate this part right here....

This one is the biggest thing that annoyed me in the film adaptation... All the others I can look pass through... The exciting parts omitted and all that... But this one?.. Until now, I still can't comprehend why they need to do this.

For me though, it symbolizes that a new Potter movies is impossible to sprang. It ends here. And it hurts... Too much.

Http://rebloggy.com/post/gif-harry-potter-daniel-radcliffe-gifs-mine-mean-girls-dh-hp-harry-potter-and-th/84192613638. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://37.media.tumblr.com/14147452f557ea26ff6321c7ead0611b/tumblr_n4rwfcUckh1qjqy8to1_500.gif 

30-day Harry Potter Writing Challenge - Day 3: What is your mostfavourite movie?

Harry Potter movies are the only movie franchise that I had supported with my whole being. I've watched all of it in the movie house.. I've re-watched it countless of times... These things, I don't do this to any other films/stories.

I don't like re-watching series/films that I already watched, I think it is a waste of time. Unless it's Harry Potter, of course!

I'm both a lover and a hater of surprises. Weird?.. I know! I hate being spoiled... But I also hate it when I don't know what's gonna happen in the story.. I love guessing games (not that much) that I can decipher, I love the feeling of excitement to know what will happen next. I guess these are things that keeps me plastered in the Wizarding World. The way Jo crafted these stories were so brilliant that I don't even know if the term "brilliant" gives it justice.

All of these magic came to life in the big screen, much thanks to Warner Bros... Ah, the feeling of seeing each film for the first time!

If I'll have to chose, I'd still chose Prisoner of Azkaban. I don't know. That's my most favourite, both for the book and the movies.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. (n.d.). Retrieved August 04, 2016, from http://www.warnerbros.com/harry-potter-and-prisoner-azkaban

30-day Harry Potter Writing Challenge - Day 1: Discuss the start ofyour journey to the Wizarding World.

Ah! I love this. I can't believe I'm actually doing this... And I have to start before I ran out of words...

We'll go down memory lane... Ready? Here goes...

Year 2001, when I fell in love with an 11-year-old Daniel Radcliffe on the big screen. Boy, I was smitten to say the least! Well, this should be a different topic; but that's when my journey to the Wizarding World started, at the end of the first movie adaptation, I was in awe... It's like a whole new world! Magical, enchanting and promising.

I've loved the Sorcerer's Stone not just because of the story and young Dan, but also because it's the best movie (that sticks) that I've watched with my mama, my papa and little brother. I can still remember how my mama was so amazed with the moving staircases at Hogwarts! It was priceless. At the end credits of the movie, I can still remember how my papa was pulling me out of the cinema already and yet my eyes are still glued on the screen. I knew I found the boy I want to marry (yes, it's Dan.. Just my Dan). Anyways, when I got home that day, I've found myself agitatedly wishing for next year to pass by quickly so that I can watch the 2nd film!

Waiting... Was not my thing.. So, I busied myself with the Harry Potter books that my Ninong sent me. It has been in my grandmother's house years before I see the Sorcerer's Stone in the movie house. I'm not a keen reader as a child, little did my young mind knows that it can take me to different places, dimensions even, a different world, sometimes my own and introduce me to different people and creatures. If only I've known, I would've start early on. Although, I don't think I'm late... I did grew up with Harry; and I think it was just the right timing.

See, I was NEVER a fan of reading. Harry Potter made me read, and life has never been the same. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone is the first ever book that I read from pages to pages; and then, the rest followed suit. Of course, every Potterhead in the world would agree with me on this, once is never enough; I've read it countless of times already. And I'm planning to read it again. It used to be a yearly tradition but... Adult life interferes. SMH.

Yay! So that's it. That's the start of my journey to the Wizarding World. It continues until now of course, and I won't end it. If Harry Potter made me read as a child, it made me write as an adult. I've been battling with writer's block for almost two years now; but the Cursed Child was released and here I am... Doing my passion (writing), for the love of all that's Harry Potter-ey.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. (n.d.). Retrieved August 02, 2016, from http://www.warnerbros.com/harry-potter-and-sorcerers-stone