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[NOTE: This blog post contains SPOILERS for the Avengers movie. If you haven't seen the film, be warned!]

“The Avengers” is everywhere these days. With a record-setting opening weekend of $200.3 million dollars, chances are a lot of us Harry Potter Alliance folks were among those who saw it. Which is why I thought I’d share something with you all. I’ve been reading a lot of articles about the movie recently and was struck by two in…

Just a quick rant on this whole House "debate."



OK, so we've read the books, watched the movies, and came to the conclusion: this House is the best, that one sucks, the other one has all the cool kids, etc. And, don't get me wrong, it's great that we've been so riled up by the Harry Potter series. But I think that a LOT of people have got it wrong…

Hello, my name is Amber Lucas and I am writing this because my college, Chester College of New England is in danger of being shut down. 

Beginning in 2010, my wizard rock band Slytherin Soundtrack has sponsored several wizard rock charity albums. The proceeds from most of them have gone to HPA (with half of one going to Reading is Fundamental). We have created a new website and Bandcamp page for this project. 

Our latest project is Wrock Against Cancer, with proceeds going to…

Thought you would be interested in what i did for my film studies coursework. i think its pretty sick but im bias. also its better with the screen shots on it but i cant get them on here.  

How do Sound and Mise en Scene contribute to the expression of Snape’s emotions in his memory sequence in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part two?

The sequence I will be analysing is Snape’s memory sequence from Harry Potter…

One of my favorite directors / screenwriters in the whole world is Hayao Miyazaki. His characters are just beyond amazing, and the scenery is always beautiful. I know some people may push his work aside as any other anime; but I advise you; even if you usually don't watch anime, to watch movies by Hayao Miyazaki. My favorite two are Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke. I actually like Princess Mononoke a bit more; but the character that inspires me most in that movie is a man named Ashitaka;…

It's been seen on the HPA facebook page and all over the internet. KONY 2012 has been viewed over 2.6 million times so far. What is KONEY 2012? This is exactly what this campaign is aiming for. Ask the questions, find the information, share it and talk about it so every single person that you know finds out who Kony is and what he does.

KONY 2012 is a film and campaign by Invisible Children that aims to make Joseph Kony famous, not to celebrate him, but to raise…

We know so many powerful women through the Harry Potter series- Hermione, Luna, Bellatrix, Tonks, Molly, Madam Pomfrey, and Professor McGonagall- and so many other series have great rolemodels with modern day women in them. Which is your favorite? What's your favorite quote from a powerful woman?

Who said these quotes:

"Books! And cleverness! There are more important things -- friendship and bravery."

'The whole point of keeping the school open at this…

This is my first blog post, so please don't be drink in' all your hater-ade! :)

I am a bit vexed by the fact that the store is still not open. I want fair-trade chocolate frogs! Wah! So if anyone can tell me when the store will be open, that would be great. 

Peace out, fellow potterheads!

Hey guys!

I have just started up my chapter and am looking for people to chat to about it all!

I am running an online worldwide chapter for home schooled students and travelers, as I am currently traveling Australia and doing Distance Education (very similar to home schooling)

I LOVE talking to people, and love the internet. So if you have Twitter or Tumblr you should let me know!

I'm always looking for followers and for others to follow myself (: 



Anyways,…

this is an article I wrote, published on a regional newspaper in the Philippines. 

What’s wrong with being Gay?

[Maria Reylan M. Garcia]

Wala ko ya agi nga bata. Kahuluya sa imo.

About 33% of homosexual teens suffered physical violence in the hands of a family member because of their sexual orientation.

Nga-a agi ka ya man? Wala ka pulos. Naubra mo lang…

An article I wrote about my battle with a chronic skin disorder called Psoriasis. This was published two times: first in a regional newspaper and second on a national newspaper in the Philippines. I was very glad I was able to get my story that far, even to LeAnn Rimes who suffer the same condition. 

I want to wear shorts: My Struggle with Psoriasis

Maria Reylan M. Garcia

I wanted to wear shorts. I really do, especially…

So for my English Language Coursework we had to create two pieces of text, one of them I decided to do is the comedy script i uploaded a few weeks ago, for my second piece I wrote my own cease and desist letter to Warner Bros inspired by the one from the HP Alliance. we also had to get style models to show where we have picked writing techniques from and obviously I chose the ones to and from Warner Bros.

As I was printing them off in class I got some funny looks a few laughs which I…

the world as it is today sickens me, the big corporations and powerful people with cushy lifestyles, meanwhile the earth is ill, and needs repair, while we feed off of the destruction of the habitat that was created for us and alongside us.

with the fossil fuel's remaining to be our main (only!) power source, but is it the best?

we are all looking for... green energy, while this term means a variety of renewable energy sources, to me, it only suggests one source, Biofuels,…

A very late resolution since it's almost the end of January but my 2012 resolution is to be more involved in the fandom. I haven’t been actively involved for about a year and a half now and it's really catching up with me how much I miss interacting with other Potterhead’s. Over this past year I have been merely creeping around watching the fandom evolve without getting involved and you know what I'm so over sitting back and…

MERLINS BEARD. My first ever blog post!!

I think that this post will be my tool to explain why, in my opinion Harry Potter is not just a book but a lifestyle. A lifestyle that includes trips to Londen and Orlando, discovering your inner bookworm and trips to the movies for midnight screenings. 

There is a Character in Harry Potter to represent each of us.…

I resolve this year to take more chances as opportunities come up.  There have been too many times when I didn't take an opportunity because I was too afraid or because I wanted things to be just so.  I waited so long without making a decision that the opportunity was lost.  I have missed out on the kind of opportunities that I'd been waiting for for a long time, chances to make a difference in the world, relationships that would have made me happy, choices that would have saved me…

Written by me for my English Language coursework. 

Extract  form a comedy script.

Ian and Paul are Two twenty year old men, in a failing band. Both men have long messy hair, Paul has a perfect moustache. Both men always wear all black. They live together in a run down flat in Hexthorpe, Ian is an overdramatic compulsive liar and Paul gives the feel of being constantly stoned. Before the script is set they have played a…

First Blog post on the HP Alliance, definitely exciting! Well it would be if i had anyone on here to share it with. haha. I'm just going to go on a big adding spree.

Anyway, first thought on this blog is that after seeing all the wonderful work you people do, I'm inspired to do something selfless and really change someone's life for the better. Seeing as I'm not Bono i thought I'd start on quite a small scale. for a while now I have been a slave to my dreadful habit of buying old and…