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**possible Harry Potter spoilers to anyone that hasn’t read the third book**

Good eve to all.  I hope that you’re enjoying the story series so far.  I haven’t had much time to write, but hopefully that will change in the next few weeks.  Anyway…Marie recently made good on a deal we made.  I got her caught up on the Matrix series and the Lord of the Rings series and in return she got to get me on Harry Potter.  So I’ve been reading the books and we’ve rented the movies.  Now, as other Harry Potter fans probably know, the third movie in the series is coming out in June.  They’ve already cast and I’m not sure if they’ve finished production, but I believe so.  The person they cast as Sirius Black is Gary Oldman.  I’ve liked Oldman in many different roles he has played, but I feel that he’s wrong for the part of Sirius.  Honestly I think the person that would have been the best Sirius is Hugh Jackman.  I know he’s got alot on his plate with Broadway, X-Men, and Van Helsing, but he would have been a great addition to the cast.  In the third book where Sirius shows up, his hair is a mess, he’s dirty, and well, criminal looking.  As we’ve seen in X-Men, Jackman is up to the task of looking like that. *laughs* Then, in the fourth book Sirius cleans up some, cutting his hair and looking clean.  Well, Jackman is able to clean up well, as seen in Kate and Leopold and Someone Like You.  Plus, the aggressive, loner type he plays as Wolverine can be easily applied to play Sirius.  So, that’s my opinion there.  Now here’s something else I noticed…In the first book the first spoken spell Harry sees is Ron trying a color spell on his rat, Scabbers.  Hermoine also sees this unsuccessful spell.  As seen through out the books, Hermoine tends to be a bit stuck up and her first impression of Ron is not very good as it looked like he couldn’t do a simple spell.  But in reality, Ron’s spell actually would have worked…on a real rat.  As we find out later..Scabbers is not a rat but a human that has done an animagus spell.  So, if Scabbers had been a real rat, things might have been very different between him and Hermoine from the beginning.  Just something I noticed.  It’s late and time to call it quits.  Hopefully my next entry won’t be too far ahead.  Good night to all.

-Damien