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HBP SPOILER WARNING!
HBP SPOILER WARNING!
HBP SPOILER WARNING!

DO NOT READ FURTHER UNLESS YOU WANT HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE SPOILED FOR YOU!

I just checked my comments from the previous entry, and Dumbledore was indeed murdered at the end of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Since I have not truly RP'ed in years, and the death of Dumbledore shocked and disturbed me, I decided to come here and just check up on things. I will not deny that the comment left amused me. Even though I was saddened by Dumbledore's death, the comment was just so.... blunt. Thanks Gary_Busey for giving me a laugh, in any case.

If anyone is curious, my real xanga can be found at www.xanga.com/throwing_ice_cream.

Obviously, because Dumbledore is dead, I will no longer RP his character. Instead, here's some parting sentiments I have to share with my favorite character in the Harry Potter series, Albus Dumbledore.

The man intrigued me the minute I read his name in the first chapter of Harry Potter and the Philisopher's Stone. I remember just feeling respect for the man who wore the watch with 12 hands, planets zooming around the edges. I loved the way he spoke with care for not only his colleagues, but for the baby before him, the child to whom he would care for until the very end.

Albus Dumbledore offered advice anyone could live on. He also offered quite a few laughs. He helped his students in every possible way, he showed Harry Potter how to defeat the Dark Wizard Lord Voldemort, and he did all he could to destroy the horcruxes so that he could make Harry's quest easier.

Dumbledore is a man who trusted, and trusted falsely. But he held good in his heart, and he knew of a magic that kept evil away from the only boy who can be the downfall of Voldemort. He knew a magic that made the most fearless wizard on the planet fear him.

Everyone that mattered respected Albus Dumbledore, and even the centaurs, who almost killed one of their number because of his service to the Headmaster, came to his funeral to pay their respects.

Dumbledore denied being the Minister for Magic for years running, because the only thing he wanted to do was to teach. "Help will always be offered at Hogwarts to those who ask for it." It was important to him to keep the minds and souls of children alive, and no one would ever go helpless under his command. Ever.

Harry: Is he a bit... mental?
Percy: He's a genius! But yes, he is a bit mental.

Such true words were hardly ever spoken of Albus Dumbledore, for where there is success, there is hatred, there is disgust, disagreement, fear, and jealousy. In book five, Dumbledore's dignity was stripped from him because he told the truth, but he held his head high and merely asked to not be removed from the Chocolate Frog Cards.

If anyone in fiction should be noted as the best role-model children should have, it is Dumbledore. There are things worse than death, and there are powers stronger than evil. Love. Dumbledore taught us that love is the most powerful magic, and not even Voldemort can break it.

Let's remember Dumbledore. Let's not forget what he did, what he said, who he loved. Rest in Peace, Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore.

"To the well organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."

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Haven't updated in nearly forever.

I bet you could have guessed that I won't be updating or RP'ing anymore. If Dumbledore was to die, I think maybe I should have been informed? Maybe...? Anyway, RP community--farewell.

Here's who I am: liberal teenager, trying to spread the word for this. If you support Bush, no  hard feelings, just ignore this post.

Object: Not one damn dime day! Inauguration day

A great idea from a friend in New York.  Spread the word.  Keep your wallet shut on January 20th!

On "Not One Damn Dime Day" those who oppose what is happening in our Name in Iraq can speak up with a 24-hour national boycott of all forms of consumer spending. During "Not One Damn Dime Day" please don't spend money. No one damn dime for gasoline. Not one damn dime for necessities or for impulse purchases.  Not one damn dime for nothing for 24 hours.

 
On "Not One Damn Dime Day," please boycott Wal-Mart, Kmart and Target.  Please don't go to the mall or the local convenience store. Please don't buy any fast food (or any groceries at all for that matter).  For 24 hours, please do what you can to shut the retail economy down.  The object is simple. Remind the people in power that the war in Iraq is immoral and
illegal; that they are responsible for starting it and that it is their responsibility to stop it.

"Not One Damn Dime Day" is to remind them, too, that they work for the people of the United States of America, not for the international corporations and K Street lobbyists who represent the corporations and funnel cash into American politics.

"Not One Damn Dime Day" is about supporting the troops. The politicians put the troops in harm's way.  Now 1,200 brave young Americans and (some estimate) 100,000 Iraqis have died. The politicians owe our troops a plan - a way to come home.  There's no rally to attend No marching to do.  No left or right wing agenda to rant about.  

On "Not One Damn Dime Day" you take action by doing nothing. You open your mouth by keeping your wallet closed.  For 24 hours, nothing gets spent, not one damn dime, to remind our religious leaders and our politicians of their moral responsibility to end the war in Iraq and give America back to the people.

I daresay I have no clue what is going on right now in xanga. Any kind student willing to fill me in?

Well, the new term is going fine from my chair, but I see things going on that need to stop.

Also, I've just realized I haven't updated since before the fifth book came out. Did I just say that out loud?

Quite sad I've been away for so long, but it is tough being headmaster, you know.

In other news, I think I found where Voldemort is hiding. I'll keep you posted.

I apologize for the prolonged absense of my xanga fun. I daresay I have been quite busy lately, and have been organizing the dance on the twenty fifth.

Many of you probably haven't even noticed that I have been gone for over a month, but I'm back again! The weather is quite lovely today, I'd take it as an oppertunity to go water skiing with my friend the giant squid!

Albus