Quote of the Week

"Why spiders? Why couldn't it be "follow the butterflies?" -Ron, CS

This quote makes me laugh everytime I see it. I, too, am very afraid of spiders, and as a matter of fact, I chose it because I just had my sister kill a huge one in my room for me, and so I felt it was a perfect QOTW moment because it popped into my head. I've also almost wrecked twice when there were some in my car. Spiders stalk me, not kidding; they're everywhere. Anyway, back to what's important- As we've mentioned before, Ron is one of the best characters for humerous quotes. His character has the kind of bluntly sarcastic remarks that I use, so it makes them more enjoyable. I love his remarks on serious things like this. Awesome Ron moments.
Everyone have a safe, spider-free week, and vote on the poll! Calie and I should be coming out with some new posts shortly.

Paige Cyrus

NEW POLL!!!!!

So, Paige and I decided that it was time to try another poll. Last time we didn't get many votes, so we are counting on your participation this time. We are really excited to hear from you guys! You have been reading the posts we put out for so long, we want to hear some of your opinions. So VOTE!!!!! Please, please, please.

Another Update

So just an update...
As you all should know, early registration for Pottermore was completed yesterday after seven days of clues to gain access. Throughout the seven days, one million lucky people around the world got invitiations to 'beta' the site, gaining access about a month before it opens to the public. After staying up until 4 AM for the second clue, and 5 AM the next for the third, we both were able to get invitations; I got the clue the second night, and Calie the third. We are some of the lucky few that will be able to participate in this upcoming experience in October. We are very anxious and excited.
Another thing we would like to let you know is that we will begin working on another Department of Queries question over the next few days, this topic being Magical Portraits. We will begin working on it tomorrow, and it should be out sometime this week.
As always, we encourage you to explore the site and leave us comments. We could really use them so that we can improve the site and incorporate more things that you would like to see. It would help tremendously! Thanks.

Paige Cyrus

We Have Been Working, Honestly.

So you may have noticed that Paige and I have been a bit silent since last week's flood of posts. That is for two reasons: one, we have been relaxing a bit since most of our summer has been filled with deadlines and analyses; for Paige, relaxing has meant rereading the entire series and doing a little project with that, and for me, it has been doing some non-Potter related reading.

Second, we have been working on all the stuff that we are going to be doing for the next few months. We will include more of our independent (not part of a series) posts, as well as a new series. What is this new series you ask? Well in fact it is all about asking. It is a series based off of the questions we put at the bottom of each of our read throughs. This new series is similar to Pottercast's Cannon-Conundrums. Paige and I will discuss a question, and then write a post based on our discussion and revelations. This new series is, as of now, being called The Department of Queries. We have begun our first question, and it should be posted in the next few days. We, as always, welcome any questions, suggestions, or feedback you would like to add to this new venture.

A Slightly Late Quote of the Week

"We did it, we bashed them wee Potter's the one, and Voldy's gone moldy, so now let's have fun!" 

-Peeves, Deathly Hallows

      What a great quote, eh? So I choose this quote because as Ron says "Really gives a feeling for the scope and tragedy of the thing, doesn't it?" This quote is not only humorous, but a great way to sum up the end of Deathly Hallows. Unfortunately it wasn't in the movie, but I guess we can't have everything. So, this quote is another prime example of JKR's comic relief. After a terrible battle, a death and resurrection, as well as a battle to the death; this laugh was nice. Well have a great week, I hope you are coping well with the grief of the end of the movie series, Paige and I are working on some new things which should come out soon..   

Final Days of Poll

Our poll has been posted for a couple of weeks now and, we have had only one vote. We want to discuss this when it has closed but we need your help! As Paige and I are working on our read throughs we have been curious which book(s) you enjoy the most out of the series. There are only a few days left, PLEASE take the time to help us out and vote. It takes just a few seconds, we would love to hear your opinion on this matter.

Mischief Managed,

Calie

Poll

I have added a poll to the right. It concerns your favorite book of the series. This poll will run through June so you have some time to vote, but don't put it off too long. Have fun and let the voting begin.

Mischief Managed,

Calie

A Few Updates

So over the past week, I have been very busy writing my commentary over CoS. I have finally completed it and it is in the final processing stages, which means it will be posted as soon as Calie edits it. I'm not sure on the exact posting day, but it will definitely be out by Wednesday. I have been procrastinating a lot recently, and therefore used my time to add some more to both of the fun lists, which I just reposted. Calie is making me look like a total slacker. On a side note, Calie and I might be starting a new project for the blog... more details on that later. I guess that is all for now.
Mischief Managed.
Paige Cyrus

Alas! Plans!

I am happy to tell you that Calie and I have officially began rereading the series to start our analysis type thing that we are doing with the books. 'Analysis' probably isn't the right word; opinion, maybe, but for lack of a better term, I'm sticking to it. Calie will kick this off with the Sorcerer's Stone, and probably about a week later, I will submit my Chamber of Secrets bit. We will be alternating books, if you haven't already guessed. Calie gets the odd years and I will get the evens, but we will do a collaboration on the Deathly Hallows. We don't have exact plans as to what we will be writing about in the posts for the books, nor will they cover all of the same things or possibly even be similar. We have attempted to make a list, but it didn't work out so well because we were undecided. Calie's first post should be around the first week of June, and we aren't exactly when we will be finished with all seven, hopefully my vacation won't throw us off. (Sorry, Calie.) We hope to be done by August, or at least before Calie goes off to college. We'll try not to procrastinate too much.
Well, we hope to do a good job of presenting our opinions of certain things in the books, as well as analyzing certain events and dwelling on characters and their development. Hopefully we don't get too far off and mess it up. Just kidding, we've both been in IB English classes, we know how to analyze. :)
I guess from here, we will leave it up to you to view and probably judge our opinions of the books. Good luck, I hope they're not too terrible.

Mischief Managed.

Paige Cyrus

An Informal Introduction...

In this blog, we will attempt to analyze the books, while touching on characters, events, plot holes, as well as other random things that are semi-related to Harry Potter, and also just how amazing they are in general. But first, maybe we should attempt to distinguish the roles between myself and my fellow blogger (and twin), Calie. One other fact that you might want to know is that we're not really twins, well, at least we don't have the DNA evidence results yet. We are like real life versions of Fred and George Weasley; I being more like Fred and Calie being like George (according to her). I am more of the leader, and by far the cooler and funnier one as well. Calie is the smarter, more focused one who will probably stay more on topic than I will. Sorry.
The name 'Siriusly Riddikulus' implies two things that will probably be featured in this blog: the serious side to cannon, which Calie think will be her point of view, and the ridiculous one, which I apparently will be focusing on. Calie likes the more indepth view of the series, and has a more analytical approach in discussions. I'm not very good at analyzing things, especially since I am a fast reader and don't easily pick up on hints. Though i enjoy discussing the analytical points, I prefer the more simple view of the series, how it is exactly presented. I think that the whole blog will be our conjointed ridiculousness that we show in real life. Don't expect this to be entirely serious, or entirely ridiculous, but it will probably be more ridiculous and sarcastic than anything. Enjoy!

Mischief Managed.

Paige