harry potter and the deathly hallows breakdown

Ok, here is the breakdown:

Chapter 1: Remus Lupin and Nymphadora Tonks are already married and Voldemort kills Professor Charity Burbage (History of Muggle Studies).

Chapter 4: Hedwig, Harry’s owl, is killed by cross-fire during battle.

Chapter 5: We find out that Alastor Mad-Eye Moody was killed by Voldemort in battle.

Chapter 8: Bill and Fleur get married and Scrimgeour (the Minister of Magic) gets killed.

Chapter 12: An unidentified woman and her 2 children are killed by Voldemort when he is looking for Gregorovitch.

Chapter 14: Voldemort kills Gregorovitch.

Chapter 15: Ron abandons Harry and Hermione after an argument.

Chapter 17: Nagini appears out of the body of Bathilda Bagshot, confirming that she is dead, Hermione saves Harry’s life and Harry’s wand gets broken during the escape from Voldemort.

Chapter 19: Harry find the Sword of Gryffindor, Ron saves Harry’s life and destroys the locket.

Chapter 21: The trio learn what the Deathly Hallows really are and that Harry already has one of them, and maybe two but he doesn’t know how to get to it.

Chapter 22: Ted Tonks (Tonks’ father), Dirk Cresswell, Gornuk the goblin, and a family of 5 muggles have all been killed by Death Eaters.

Chapter 23: Harry, Ron, Hermione, Dean Thomas, and Griphook the goblin all get captured and taken to the Malfoy’s home to wait for Voldemort. Voldemort kills Gellert Grindewald, Bellatrix Lestrange kills Dobby the house-elf and Wormtail strangles himself with his metal hand in a fit of ?grief/fear? after helping Ron and Harry escape.

Chapter 25: Lupin and Tonks have a baby boy that they name Teddy Remus Lupin and they ask Harry to be his Godfather.

Chapter 26: The trio break into Gringotts bank with the goblin Griphook to find the cup of Helga Hufflepuff, but loose the sword of Gryffindor and they escape on a dragon that they free.

Chapter 27: When Voldemort hears of the break in and the loss of his horcrux, he kills the unnamed goblin that gave him the news and everyone (Death Eaters) in the room.

Chapter 31: Ron and Hermione go in to the Chamber of Secrets and return with Basilisk fangs after destroying the cup. Vincent Crabbe set a fire curse on Harry, but it backfires and kills him while destroying the Ravenclaw horcrux. Harry saves Draco Malfoy’s life and Fred Weasley dies in the battle.

Chapter 32: Harry saves Draco Malfoy’s life, again, Nagini kills Snape and Hagrid is carried away by Aragog’s offspring. After the battle ceases the first time, among the dead are: Remus Lupin, Nyphadora Tonks and Colin Creevy. This leaves Tonks & Lupin’s son, Teddy, an orphan, just like Harry had been in the beginning of the series.

Chapter 33: Here you will learn the truth about Severus Snape, but don’t skip ahead to just read it because there are certain things you need to understand before you get there.

Chapter34: This is where people think Harry dies and comes back to life. Not true, this is where the horcrux inside Harry is destroyed by Voldemort, but when he aims the killing curse at Harry they both pass out.

Chapter 35: Albus Dumbledore will explain his past, his pain and himself, including why he just never explains anything in full or fully answers a question when asked. But again, you need to lead up to that part too because too many things have to happen before you get there to just skip ahead.

Chapter 36: Neville Longbottom kills Nagini, the final horcrux. Molly Weasley kills Bellatrix Lestrange. Harry kills Voldemort/Tom Riddle on page 744. Additionally 50 unnamed people died in battle that day.

Epilogue: 19 years later Harry and Ginny are married and have 3 kids; James, Albus Severus, and Lily. Ron and Hermione are married and have 2 kids; Rose and Hugo. They are on the platform sending their kids to Hogwarts, and it is Albus’ and Rose’s first time to go. Also there is Draco Malfoy with his wife with their son, Scorpius and Teddy Lupin (although it doesn’t say who he lives with, it does say he frequents the Potter house and that he is dating Victoire Weasley, whom I presume is the daughter of Bill and Fleur). Neville Longbottom is also mentioned and it says that he is now the Herbology Professor at the school.

QUEER as FOLK, nice show... and for everybody!

Among other things, Queer as Folk is revolutionary for its nudity and graphic depiction of same gender sex. Mercifully, the Queer characters are not the sexless wonders depicted on other series featuring gay men. Let’s face it: we’re never going to see frontal nudity or gay sex on Will & Grace. The series is very funny, but it asks us to believe the incredible: a handsome, well-built, youthful attorney (Will Truman) can’t find a suitable boyfriend on the Island Manhattan.On the other hand, naked, same gender bodies have been slapping together unabashedly, joyfully, since Queer as Folk’s first no-holds-barred episode.But the series is much more than soft-core fodder for homosexuals and lesbians: over five seasons, Queer as Folk’s bar-hopping, largely carefree boys and girls have grown and developed into men and women of substance, living authentic, full lives. Some of them are partnered; others are parents. Still others nurture skills and talents just hinted at when the series began. That’s as it should be.Then there’s Brian Kinney (Gale Harold). As Evelyn Waugh puts it in Brideshead Revisited, “Change is the only evidence we have of life.” If that’s true, then QAF kingpin Kinney is stone cold dead. Rather than on Queer as Folk, this guy belongs on Arrested Development. Apparently change is the only four-letter word in Mr. Kinney’s vocabulary.The character is Queer’s nod to the much-chronicled Peter Pan syndrome in which a man makes a commitment to non-commitment, unaccountability, and emotional detachment. Sufferers of the Peter Pan Syndrome age, they just don’t mature.In late 2000, when we met him, Brian Kinney was the hottest homo in Pittsburgh, the uncontested King of Babylon, the characters’ gay club of choice. Egomaniacal and self-absorbed, Brian Kinney was a rogue advertising account executive. Physically perfect, he was a dream lover, but a lousy boyfriend. At best, Brian was a difficult friend. At worst, he was impossible. More contemptuous of middle class morality than Eva Peron, he was an estranged son, and a kicking and screaming father to his newborn son.Flash forward to Season Five. Brian Kinney owns two successful businesses, but he’s now the Avis, or Number 2, hottie in gay Pittsburgh. Pushing 35, he’s still a lousy boyfriend, a dubious friend, a less-than-devoted son and father.Brian Kinney’s mantra is: “I Won’t Grow Up!” That incantation was endearing in its original context, sung by the prepubescent lost boys in the Broadway musical Peter Pan. When the mantra belongs to an adult pushing middle age, it is sad, tragic. We may not scorn Brian Kinney, but we do pity him. Even in Neverland, you must eventually mature; consciousness must develop and ripen. Its natural impetus is toward growth.Brian’s Queer Peter Pan Syndrome is even more limiting because it’s coupled with a relentless compulsion to put down the characters who have opted for balanced, full lives. And that’s everyone else on the series.
Inherently, quietly, the series’ characters understand that Brian, like a dinosaur stuck in tar, is trapped in perpetual adolescence. His power over the lad and lassies of Liberty Avenue has diminished significantly over the years. At first, they adored him; his chutzpah left them awestruck. Now he’s somewhat of a joke, a kind of black hole of feeling and responsibility. At one time, the other series characters wanted to be like him, or, at least, to be with him. Not anymore.
Clearly, Brian’s once co-dependent best friend Michael (Hal Sparks) has moved forward in his life with a vengence. While Kinney is still obsessing over his latest conquest, or gnashing his pearly whites over the cock that got away, Michael is enjoying business success, as well as personal fulfillment with a loving spouse, children, true friends, and a savvy, tart-tongued mother.
Two seasons ago, I gave up trying to understand why Justin Taylor (Randy Harrison), Brian’s impossibly cute, extravagantly talented, live-in fuck buddy, puts up with him. Justin could have any gay man in town, including the blonde bombshell that recently rebuffed Brian.Brian’s love for Justin is “the love that dare not speak its name” for the new millenium. And it hasn’t uttered its name even once since they meet in 2000, when Justin was barely legal. In denial about his feelings for Justin, Brian treats him disgracefully, cruelly, rubbing his nose in his extra-relationship sex-capades. Apparently Justin’s love for this queer Peter Pan is deaf, dumb, and blind.
During Season Three, Justin left Brian Kinney for a musical prodigy, Ethan Gold, played by the incredibly sexy Fabrizio Filippo. If I’d been a Queer as Folk producer, I’d have opted for letting Justin overlook Ethan’s sole sexual indiscretion, staying with this basically amazing, young guy, and creating a life with him. It would have been fun to see Brian lose permanently something of value. As it stands, the only something of value that Brian Kinney has lost permanently is a testicle. The real producers opted to have Ethan Gold’s indiscretion send Justin fleeing back into Brian Kinney’s emotionally abusive arms.
To his credit, Brian comes to the aid of his Queer cohorts in a pinch, but the pinch has to be bloodletting, cataclysmic, before he’s moved to action.
By and large, I still love Queer as Folk, but I’m bored with Brian Kinney. He’s one note--all sizzle, no steak. We’re 76 episodes into this series, and I’ve longed for Brian Kinney to show me something new for at least the past 34 installments. He’s the guy at your reunion who states truthfully, “High school was the best time of my life!” And this is your 20-Year Reunion.If for Brian, life is still “all about the sex,” then, clearly, sex is not enough to sustain interest in a lead character for five seasons.
Having said my piece, I admit readily, regrettably, that the character of Brian Kinney is true to life. Television characters, both gay and straight, resist change, and, in the real world, people of every sexual orientation, battle against development and growth.
In real life, I’ve met scores of Brian Kinneys. I emphasize met, because I try not to spend much time with them. The Brian Kinneys of the real gay world are do-or-die determined to drag adolescent beliefs and behavior into adulthood, middle age, even into their golden years. The real-life Brian Kinneys are the oldsters who spend more time on a barstool than Cheers’ character Norm Peterson. Speak to a real Brian Kinney, and you learn that he’s at the bar because it’s lonely to be home alone, and, at 52, he still hasn’t anything better to do.
If your brains are in your crotch at 16, then your personal development is probably healthy and normal. Fifteen years later, if your raison d’être is still headquartered between your legs, then, chances are you’re in the Express Lane to Patheticville.
Brian Kinney thinks he lives in Pittsburgh. In truth, his address has been Patheticville for some time now. Pity, he’s the last one on the series to know.

quips to reflect on

• The worst part of life is waiting. The best part of life is having someone worth waiting for.

• When somebody gives you a sexy look, you know they're trying. But when they smile, it's so much sexier!

• Dreams are like stars, you may never touch them, but if you follow them they will lead you to your destiny.

• Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.

• Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation will lean on the doorbell.

• Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

• If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in a library?

• Real love stories never have endings.

• Your eyes are the mirror in which my dreams are reflected.

• Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

• It's beauty that captures your attention and personality which captures your heart.

• A dog is the only thing on earth that will love you more than you love yourself.

• Love is not blind - it sees more and not less, but because it sees more - it is willing to see less.

• I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

• Tell a man there are 400 billion stars in the sky and he'll believe you, but tell him a bench is covered in wet paint and he has to touch it first to believe.

• If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

• Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, "What! You too? I thought I was the only one!

• Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

• The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

• The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.

• You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.

• Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.

• The story of love is not important. What is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

• There are two types of people - those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'

• There's this place in me where your fingerprints still rest, your kisses still linger, and your whispers softly echo. It's the place where a part of you will forever be a part of me.

• If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.
  
  

read me... (tease)

have u been to a great place lately?
well... ive been to Ilocos last summer and i'm tellin you... its been the niciest and memorable summer for me.
the beaches, old churches and convents, lakes, mansions and museums, a preserved cadaver of a former ruler that looks like wax (i can still felt the goosebumps i had), the food with seaweeds, the special bibingka, the famous resort and casino, the malacañang of the north, an old lighthouse, an animal farm, 15 enormous and magnificent windmills, the kalesa ride and pottery...
and many more...
would you want me to tell you the whole experience blow by blow?
don't worry... this is just a teaser!!!
i'll narrate my stories on my next post.
see yah and hear me out...
let's follow the traces...
as we comes out...
then you'll find out... that no one is alone! i'm with you!

KUMUSTA NA ANG BUHOK MO?

musta na ang buhok mo?
nakalugay, sumusunod sa galaw
mahaba at mukhang mabango sagana sa alaga
walang hirap, walang pagkabigo.

musta na ang buhok mo?
bakit kamot ka ng kamot
ulo'y malapit ng dumugo
kuko'y pudpod na, parang walang asenso
pinabayaan bang matatawag?

musta na ang buhok mo?
bakit ka nagpakalbo?
malinis bang tingnan, malayo sa bigat
ng pakikipagsapalaran na ang lula'y
kawalan at panghihinayang?

musta na ang buhok mo?
bakit kaya 'di mo itali,
ipusod mo... basta nakataas.
baka sakali umaliwalas
luminaw, dumiretso,
walang pag-aalinlangan.

musta na ang buhok mo?
ang kulot daw salot... ito ba'y totoo?
ayusin mo naman.
bakit liko-liko, magsumikap ka
huwag puro na lang pagsuko.

naaalala mo pa ba ang buhok ko noon?
mahirap din ayusin, magulo
kumplikado, walang patutunguhan
'di nasusuklay... walang direksyon.
pero ngayon... namamasdan mo ba?
may pagbabago, gumaganda
bumabagay sa hitsura, sa pagkatao.
halata ang pagsisikap na mapabuti.

ikaw? kumusta na ang buhok mo?
huwag sana ipagwalang bahala...
mahalaga ang bawat hibla ng buhok mo.
ayusin mo hangga't may panahon pa,
at sa muling pagkikita...
maaari mong ipagmalaking...
ang buhok mo'y may patutunguhan na!

by:
Ryann T. Cabangon
26-Jun-07