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Selasa, 25 Maret 2008
Buku ketujuh diawali dengan Voldemort dan para Pelahap Mautnya di rumah Lucius Malfoy, yang merencanakan untuk membunuh Harry Potter sebelum ia dapat bersembunyi kembali. Meminjam tongkat sihir Lucius, Voldemort membunuh tawanannya, Profesor Charity Burbage, guru Telaah Muggle di Hogwarts, atas alasan telah mengajarkan subyek tersebut dan telah menganjurkan agar paradigma kemurnian darah penyihir diakhiri.
Biography of
J.K Rowling
 | Birth Name |
Jo
Sometimes Credited As
J.K Rowling
Spouse
Jorge Arantes (16 October 1992 - 1993) (divorced) 1 child
Neil Murray (26 December 2001 - present) 1 child
Biography
Joanne Rowling was born in Yate, near Bristol, a few miles south of a town called Dursley (Harry Potter´s muggle-family). Her father Peter Rowling was an engineer for Rolls Royce in Bristol at this time and her mother Anne Rowling was half-French and half-Scottish. They met on a train as it left King's Cross Station in London. Her sister Diana is about 2 years younger than Joanne. In 1971, Peter Rowling moved his family to the nearby town of Winterbourne (still in the Bristol vicinity).
During the family's residence in Winterbourne, Jo and Di Rowling were friends with neighborhood children, Ian and Vikki Potter. In 1974, the Rowling family moved yet again, this time to Tutshill, near the Welsh border town of Chepstow (in the Forest of Dean) and across the Severn River from the greater Bristol area. Rowling admits to having been a bit of a daydreamer as a child and began writing stories at the age of six. After leaving Exeter University, where she read French and Classics, she started work as a teacher but daydreamed about becoming a writer. One day, stuck on a delayed train for four hours between Manchester and London, she dreamt up a boy called Harry Potter. That was in 1990.
It took her six years to write the book. In the meantime she went to teach in Portugal, married a Portuguese TV journalist, had her daughter, Jessica, divorced her husband and returned to Britain when Jessica was just three months old. She went to live in Edinburgh to be near her sister, Di. Her sudden penury made her realise that it was "back-against-the-wall time" and she decided to finish her Harry Potter book. She sent the manuscript to two agents and one publisher, looking up likely prospects in the library.
One of these agents that she picked at random based on the fact that she liked his name, Christopher Little, was immediately captivated by the manuscript and signed her on as his client within three days. During the 1995-1996 timeframe, while hoping to get the manuscript for Philosopher's Stone published, Rowling worked as a French teacher in Edinburgh. Several publishers turned down the manuscript before Bloomsbury agreed to purchase it in 1996.
Trivia
Graduated from Exeter University Is a former English teacher She writes all of her books in longhand, rather than with a computer. Daughter, Jessica, born 1993 Her book, 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire', was the top-selling book of 2000, with 7 million hardcovers sold.
When the first Harry Potter novel was published, the publisher asked her to use initials rather than her first name because boys would be biased against a book written a woman. Since she only had one given name, they then asked her to make up another initial; she took K. from her favorite grandmother, Kathleen. She was awarded the O.B.E. (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) and received it from one of her fans, Charles, the Prince of Wales. Son, David, born 24 March 2003.
In 2002, J K Rowling was sued for plagiarism in the District Court of the Southern District of New York by Pennsylvania-based author Nancy Stouffer who claimed that J K Rowling had lifted ideas from her 1984 book The Legend of Rah and Muggles, which includes a character called Larry Potter. However the case against J K Rowling was dismissed on 19 September 2002 when the judged ruled that Ms Stouffer had lied to the court and doctored evidence to support her claims.
Is one of only two contemporary authors to have a novel spend more than a year on both the New York Times hardcover and paperback best-seller lists (the other author being Nicholas Sparks) As of November 2002 (the year and month of the second Harry Potter movie being released) her franchise of books have currently sold over 175,000,000 copies and printed in over 200 languages to become the biggest and fastest selling novels ever. On 3 April 2003 J K Rowling and Time Warner successfully sued Dutch publishing company Byblos in the Amsterdam High Court. This prevents Byblos publishing Russian author Dmitry Yemets' novel "The Magic Double Bass" which features a girl wizard Tanya Grotter. It was deemed to plagiarise Rowling's novel "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" and to infringe her copyright.
Her latest book, titled "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," was published on June 21, 2003. It was approximately 896 pages long, containing 38 chapters and over 255,000 words (her longest Harry Potter book yet). The first U.S. printing was 8.5 million copies, an American publishing record. In 2003, unauthorized Chinese-language "sequels" to the Harry Potter series appeared for sale in the People's Republic of China. These poorly written books (written by Chinese ghost writers) contain characters from the works of other authors, including Gandalf from J.R.R. Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings", and the title character from L. Frank Baum's "The Wizard of Oz".
Rowling's lawyers successfully took legal action against the publishers which the latter was forced to pay damages. She is a big fan of the rock band The Smiths and in 2003 she appeared on the Channel Four documentary "The Importance of Being Morrissey". Two apparent references to the Monty Python sketch "Crunchy Frog" can be found in her Harry Potter books: two of the sweets are a chocolate frog, and a cockroach cluster. Monty Python member John Cleese appears in the films.
Personal quotes
Asked by an interviewer about the next Harry Potter book: "Well, it will be a papery object with pages inside."
Where are they now
(2004) Working on the last two books of her popular worldwide masterpiece, Harry Potter.
Biography of
Rupert Grint
 | Birth name Rupert Michael Grint Date of birth (location) 24 August 1988 Hertfordshire, England, UK |
Harry Potter Movie character He has only acted in one school play before being cast in the popular wizard series, "Harry Potter", Rupert has already proved himself one of the most recognized actors on the big screen. When he heard that there was going to be auditions for "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone", he decided to go for it. Unlike the other children who were auditioning, Rupert came in with a rap that promoted the character he was auditioning for, Ronald Weasley, and was chosen soon afterwards. 'Sorcerer's Stone' was a big hit, as was the follow-up, 'Chamber of Secrets', and he has already filmed episode three, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004). Currently in Post Production, POA is set to hit theatres on June 4th, 2004. IMDb mini-biography by BarbieWelsh Has one brother and three sisters. On his audition tape for Harry Potter, he performed a rap he wrote promoting himself for the role of Ron Weasley. Loving the Harry Potter series, Rupert Grint found out that there were auditions for the feature film, so he got the part although he had previously only acted in one school play. Siblings are: James, age 11; Georgina, age 8; Samantha, age 6; and Charlotte, age 3. Says he would like to be invisible so he could sneak out of detention at school, he is arachnophobic & plays the guitar. He attends an all boys-school in his hometown. He likes all kinds of music, but his favourite is rap. Favorite school subject is Chemistry. His favorite actor is Jim Carrey. He likes movies like Shrek, Ace Ventura, How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Dumb and Dumber. His favourite sport is football (soccer) [answering to "Is Emma Watson actually bossy like Hermione?"] I'd tell you, but she'd hurt me. "To bad brooms can't really fly. Now if you miss the bus you can't just go in your room and fly to school with a nimbus two thousand!" "Being famous is wicked, but it's better to be normal." "Oh, they're scary. To think that people are going to be playing with you!" [About Harry Potter action figures] "All my brothers and sisters and friends have really helped me. They make my life normal. I still have arguments with my brother. And the little ones don't really understand. They just treat me like Rupert. Which is brilliant, really." "Fans asking for my autograph is really weird. It's hard to get used to." "I've tried several disguises and stuff but that doesn't work. I do get recognised sometimes but it's cool," "Things at home didn't change much. I still have to clean my own room!" "When I read the books, I imagined that the family of Ron Weasley was my family. After reading the books, I knew the Weasleys inside out." [Rupert would also like to play Malfoy]. 'He's pretty nasty all times, and that would be quite fun. It would be cool to have the audience against me'. "It's really weird to get recognized and people call you 'Ron'." "I am the biggest Harry Potter fan, I even was before I knew there was going to be a film. I read all the books. The fourth one is amazing. It's scary. But I like all the books. You've got to read them all to get the complete Harry Potter experience. In the third book I like all the bits about scabbers being an Animagus. And I like that Ron gets an owl." |
Biography of
Emma Watson
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| Harry Potter Movie character Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson was born in Oxfordshire, England on April 15, 1990. At school, she took the lead role in several plays, including 'Arthur: The Young Years' and 'The Happy Prince'. Along with plays, Emma participated in many other school productions, including the Daisy Pratt Poetry Competition, in which she won first place for her year at age seven. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001), is Emma's debut into the world of professional acting. Competing against many other girls for the role of Hermione Granger, she didn't expect to get the part. Away from the cinematic world, Emma enjoys playing hockey most of all, and she also likes debating. Although her hair is brown in the movie, she's naturally a blonde. She once dressed up as a witch for She has a younger brother named Alex, who is three years younger (b. 1993). On other roles: "Now that I've played the snotty, bossy, posh Hermione Granger, I'd like to play some American high school girl. I want to play something totally different. I want to play every kind of character and every point of view, but I'm probably going to be playing Hermione for a while." Has two cats named Bubbles and Domino. Her favorite sports are hockey, tennis and rounders. Favorite Harry Potter book is "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban". Her parents, Chris and Jacqueline, are lawyers. She served on a jury to select the 2004 teenaged film-makers' "First Light Film Awards" ceremony held in London's Leicester Square. Other jurors included Pierce Brosnan, Kenneth Branagh, and Samantha Morton. At 13, after being a teenager for just ten months, she placed tenth in the hottest teen female stars, February 2004. She was named after her paternal grandmother, who, after marriage, became "Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson." Personal quotes "I never wear pigtails, I wear PLAITS" (in response to a reporter asking her whether she always wore pigtails) "Neville comes up to me with his toad, Trevor, and says,"Do you want to kiss Trevor goodnight?" Every time he did this I burst into laughter. I was supposed to give him an "I hate you" look, but I couldn't help myself. It took me about eight takes to get it." "It was unbelievable seeing me as an action figure! In a few months, toddlers all around the country will be biting my head off!" "Oh my God, no, no chance, no chance. That's not in my contract!" "My friends are all really nice about my fame, they're just curious really, they ask lots of questions..." |
Biography of
Daniel Radcliffe
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| Harry Potter Movie character Harry Potter Nickname Dan Height 5' 7" (1.70 m) Trivia Likes to play pranks. He took co-star 'Robbie Coltrane's (qv)cellular phone and changed it so all the messages were in Turkish. Has two dogs, border terriers: named Binka & Nugget. Tried reading the first Harry Potter book when he was 8 years old, but was unable to finish it. Finally read the entire book when he was cast in the lead role of the film has never actually seen the film Tailor of Panama, The (2001) in which he appeared. Attends an all-boys private school his favorite book from the Harry Potter series so far is number three, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Although he loves to play Playstation, listen to music (some of his faves are Stereophonics, R.E.M. and U2), and write, he's also very active and energetic. He loves to run and enjoys football (soccer) and other sports. On February 2002, Daniel was nominated for and won Best Newcomer at the Variety Club Awards Received the Sir James Carreras Award For Outstanding New Talent for his role in Harry Potter at The Variety Club Showbusiness Awards 2002. Voted Person of the Year 2002 by Time Kids. Has stated that 12 Angry Men (1957) is the first black & white film he ever saw and is also his favorite film. He also named Jane's Addiction, the Libertines, Rage Against the Machine and the Darkness among his favourite bands. The casting agent for the Harry Potter films was one of his father's friends and when he saw Daniel he thought he looked perfect for the part after almost giving up. Daniel auditioned for, and got the part, that he is now most recognized for, Harry Potter. He enjoys listening to the music of Blur, Muse, 'The Music', Zwan and Brendan Benson. A February 23, 2004 article in English newspaper The Sun listed Daniel Radcliffe as Britain's third richest teenager, worth 5 million pounds, after Prince Harry and Charlotte. After being cast as Harry Potter: "I think I'm a tiny bit like Harry 'cos I'd like to have an owl. Yeah, that's the tiny bit, actually." "I don't know. People tell me I look mournful. They say, "Cheer up, Dan, it's not that bad!" Sometimes I just look into space, which freaks people out. If I was ever required to do anything other than look haunted, I could. I'm a happy person. Though I don't, like, dot my "I's" with hearts or anything - that would be too happy." "I'm not much of a cake person." "But I don't think it's going to happen. I don't think I'll do all of them - I'll probably get too spotty or too tall or I'll shrink or something." "Absolutely. 100 percent." [on believing in magic] "I was in the bath at the time, and my dad came running in and said, 'Guess who they want to play Harry Potter!?' and I started to cry. It was probably the best moment of my life." "I'm not clumsy, I'm just accident prone." Upon seeing the movie: "I'm a bit nervous about whether people will like it, but I've seen it, and I'm sure they will. It's really good - it's quite scary, it's quite emotional. Even I cried and I don't cry easily! I cried at the end credits when my name came up, and I was, like, Oh my God! I can't believe that's my name! I've met so many people since we started filming and it's been wonderful. I've progressed so far and changed so much since the beginning. It's been like a real journey." On considering himself as a heartthrob: "Personally I can't see it, but if other people can, fine. Cool!" "I would consider doing any part as long as the script is good and the film has an interesting director." |
Jumat, 14 Maret 2008
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Sifat Orang Berdasarkan Kentutnya
Ternyata sifat orang bisa kita nilai dari ketutnya, kurang lebih infonya seperti ini :
ORANG YANG TIDAK JUJUR, Orang yang kalau kentut nyalahin orang lain. Biasanya sebelum yang laen melakukan tindak penuduhan dia duluan yang menuduh sembarangan orang. (*note : jauhilah orang yang seperti ini dari sebuah kentut aja udah gak jujur apalagi soal duit!)
ORANG GOBLOK, Orang yang menahan kentutnya ber jam-jam (*note: sadarkanlah orang ini bahwa yang dia lakukan itu adalah hal yang sia2 dan buang2 waktu)
ORANG YANG BERWAWASAN LUAS, Orang yang tahu kapan harus kentut (*note: Belajarlah dari orang ini jika ingin jadi orang yang sukses dalam dunia perkentutan yang penuh dengan persaingan)
ORANG SENGSARA, Orang yang mau kentut tapi nggak bisa (*note: bantulah orang ini soalnya kasian kan dia kentut aja udah susah, apalagi cari makan. kita wajib menzakatkan 2 1/2% dari kentut kita untuk orang ini)
ORANG MISTERIUS, Orang yang kalo kentut, orang laen nggak tau (*note: kalo mau nyimpen barang berharga atau suatu rahasia percayakan lah pada orang ini, soalnya dari kentut aja dia bisa merahasiakannya apalagi hal laen)
ORANG GUGUP, Orang yang tiba tiba menahan kentut nya saat kentut (*note: bantulah orang ini dengan mengajarkan pada dia cara kentut yang benar, agar dia tidak selalu gugup waktu kentut)
ORANG PEDE, Orang yang ngira kalo kentutnya wangi (*note: Sadarkan lah orang ini karena dia narsis banget, selalu membangga banggakan kentutnya padahal diatas kentut masih ada ketut yang lebih baik)
ORANG SADIS, Orang yang kalo abis kentut, kentutnya dikibaskan ke orang laen. (*note: jauhi orang ini karena ia termasuk seorang yang psikopat atau senang melihat orang lain mederita karena terkena kentutnya)
ORANG PEMALU, Orangyang kalo kentut nggak bunyi, tapi malu sendiri (*note: bantulah orang ini untuk meningkatkan percaya dirinya katakan kalo kentut itu bukan perbuatan yang hina tapi suatu kebanggaan)
ORANG STRATEGIS, Orang yang menyembunyikan kentutnya dengan tertawa terbahak-bahak (*note: Kalo mau kentut yang sukses belajarlah dari orang ini karena dia tau tempat2 strategis untuk kentut)
ORANG BEGO, Orang yang habis kentut, menghirup nafas untuk mengganti kentutnya yang keluar (*note: jangan sekali2 mencontoh apa yang dilakukan orang ini karena itu butuh latihan yang keras untuk melakukannya "dont try this at home!!!")
ORANG PELIT, Orang yang kalo kentut dikit-dikit (*note: beritahu kepada orang ini bahwa sebagian kentut kita juga ada hak orang lain beritahu dia untuk menzakatkan 2 1/2% dari kentut nya untuk orang lain yang kurang mampu untuk kentut)
ORANG SOMBONG, Orang yang sering mencium kentutnya sendiri (*note: ajarkan lah pada orang ini akan kerendahan hati, supaya dia tidak selalu menyombongkan diri dan mau membagi kentutnya ke yang lain)
ORANG RAMAH, Orang yang senang mencium kentut orang lain (*note: belajarlah dari orang ini jika ingin banyak teman dan di sukai para tetangga, mulai lah untuk menciumi kentut orang dari sekarang)
ORANG TIDAK SENANG BERGAUL, Orang yang kalo kentut sembunyi (*note: ajaklah orang ini untuk bergaul dalam dunia perkentutan agar wawasan kentutnya terbuka sehingga dia gak sembunyi kalo kentut)
ORANG AKUATIK, Orang yang suka kentut di dalam air (*note: ajak lah orang ini jalan2 ke darat agar dia bisa merasakan kenikmatan kalo kentut di darat)
ORANG ATLETIS, Orang yang kalo kentut sambil mengeluarkan tenaga dalam (*note: hati2 sama orang ini usahakan jaga jarak jika dia sudah mau mengeluarkan kentutnya soalnya kalo gak kita bisa terpental dan luka dalam)
ORANG JUJUR, Orang yang ngaku kalo habis kentut (*note: contohlah orang ini karena dia merupakan orang yang jujur dalam segala hal, jarang orang yang mau mengakui kekentutannya)
ORANG PINTER, Orang yang bisa menandakan bau kentut orang lain (*note: kalo dapet ipk diatas 3.5 dalam mata pelajaran kentut, belajarlah sama orang ini karena dia adalah ahlinya dalam menandai kentut orang)
ORANG SIAL, Orang lain yang kentut tapi selalu dia yang kena (*note: bantulah orag ini dari penderitaannya atau sarankan orang ini untuk ruatan ke dukun melepas sial)
ORANG MUSIK, Orang yang kentutnya berirama dangdut (*note: kalo mau pandai bermusik maka belajarlah pada orang ini soalnya kentutnya saja bisa dia harmonisasikan menjadi sebuah irama)
ORANG INTERNET, Orang yang bunyi kentutnya seperti bunyi modem (*note: mau akses internet gratis tanpa bayar colok aja kabel data ke pantatnya orang ini)
ORANG JOROK, Orang yang kentutnya disertai ee' (*note: kasih nasihat sama dia kalo kentut jangan selalu bawa teman2nya karena jakarta ini sudah sangat penuh dengan kentut jadi gak cukup kalo kentut disertai ee')
ORANG TENGIL, Orang yang kentut sambil ngupil (*note: kasihlah saran kepada orang ini kalo mengerjakan suau pekerjaan itu harus satu2 jangan sekaligus soalnya hasilnya pasti tidak bagus)
ORANG PENDENDAM, Orang yang langsung membalas setelah di kentuti (*note: kasih nasehat ke orang ini agar bisa menjadi orang yang sabar dan mau memaafkan kentut orang lain)
ORANG AMIT, Orang yang sehabis kentut lalu memasang muka imut (*note: sadarkan orang ini kalo mukanya itu gak lebih bagus dari bol ayam kalo pas lagi kentut jadi bukannya imut)
ORANG GEDABLEK (BRENGSEK), Orang yang mengentuti orang lain tepat di mukanya (*note: hindari lah orang kayak gini kalo gak mau semua muka lo bau kentut)
Nah berdasarkan analisa sifat diatas kita bisa memilih dan memilah mana orang2 yang patut dijadikan teman untuk kentut dan mana yang tidak patut untuk dijadikan teman untuk kentut.
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