Comics, Video Games, Movies and More
9/30/13
9/18/13
New Harry Potter content?
It has recently been announced that JK Rowling will be writing the sceenplay for a "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" movie. It will start in New York, 70 years before the first Harry Potter book. Frankly, I'm very excited about this for a number of reasons.
1. It's in the Harry Potter universe but isn't dragging out the original story.
2. It's a look at global wizard culture, not just the UK's.
3. The 1920s is a unique time period for a fantasy story.
Now, all that said, we know next to nothing about this movie, so really there's little I can comment on besides general excitement. Instead, I'm going to show you something that you've probably never noticed about the Harry Potter books.
Ready to have your collective mind blown, internet?
The numbers 7, 3 and 1 are central to the entire story.
Yes there's the obvious points: there are seven books, seven is said to be the most powerfully magical number, and all that, but here are some more examples.
Harry is born on July 31, aka 7-31.
The philosophers stone is in vault 713.
When Sirius Black is captured in the third book, where do the keep him locked up? Why on the seventh story, 13th room of course.
The third floor corridor houses seven trials to get to the philosophers stone (Fluffy, Devil's Snare, the winged keys, the chess board, the troll, the potions riddle and the mirror).
Seven Weasely children.
Seven players on a quidditch team, three goals on each end, and one ball that can win the game.
The books seem to like putting characters in trios: Harry, Ron and Hermione obviously, but also Fred, George and Lee, Ginny, Luna and Neville and Draco, Crabbe and Goyle. When there was a group of four (the Marauders) one ended up betraying the other three.
Where does this lead up?
It leads up to Harry, the chosen one gaining possession of three Deathly Hallows to overcome Voldermort's seven horcruxes.
I'm sure there are other instances of 7, 3 and 1 showing significance in the books, so feel free to point them out in the comments.
1. It's in the Harry Potter universe but isn't dragging out the original story.
2. It's a look at global wizard culture, not just the UK's.
3. The 1920s is a unique time period for a fantasy story.
Now, all that said, we know next to nothing about this movie, so really there's little I can comment on besides general excitement. Instead, I'm going to show you something that you've probably never noticed about the Harry Potter books.
Ready to have your collective mind blown, internet?
The numbers 7, 3 and 1 are central to the entire story.
Yes there's the obvious points: there are seven books, seven is said to be the most powerfully magical number, and all that, but here are some more examples.
Harry is born on July 31, aka 7-31.
The philosophers stone is in vault 713.
When Sirius Black is captured in the third book, where do the keep him locked up? Why on the seventh story, 13th room of course.
The third floor corridor houses seven trials to get to the philosophers stone (Fluffy, Devil's Snare, the winged keys, the chess board, the troll, the potions riddle and the mirror).
Seven Weasely children.
Seven players on a quidditch team, three goals on each end, and one ball that can win the game.
The books seem to like putting characters in trios: Harry, Ron and Hermione obviously, but also Fred, George and Lee, Ginny, Luna and Neville and Draco, Crabbe and Goyle. When there was a group of four (the Marauders) one ended up betraying the other three.
Where does this lead up?
It leads up to Harry, the chosen one gaining possession of three Deathly Hallows to overcome Voldermort's seven horcruxes.
I'm sure there are other instances of 7, 3 and 1 showing significance in the books, so feel free to point them out in the comments.
9/13/13
9/12/13
Aweful Comic Thursday
1: The human face does not have that many lines.
2: Iron Man's mask should not look like he just smelled the bathroom after a taco bell run.
9/10/13
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)