The World of Harry Potter

četvrtak, 29.09.2005.

Oprez, blagi "spoiler"...

Ovih dana drugi put čitam Half Blood Princea i čini mi se da sam naletila na jednu pogrešku. Nije sad bitan kontekst (da ne pokvarim doživljaj onima koji čekaju hrvatski prijevod), ali...

U jednom dijelu knjige Dumbledore kaže Harryju da Ministarstvo magije može otkriti da se u nekoj kući nedozvoljeno čaralo... Ali pošto ja nisam baš dobra u prevađanju, evo tog malog ulomka:

(...) "He was under age at the time, wasn't he? I thought they could detect under-age magic!"
"You are quite right - they can detect magic, but not the perpetrator: you will remember that you were blamed by the Ministry for the Hover Charm that was, in fact, cast by - "
"Dobby", growled Harry; this injustice still rankled. "So if you're under age and you do magic inside an adult witch or wizard's house, the Ministry won't know?"
"They will certanly be unable to tell who performed the magic, "said Dumbledore (...)


E, sad... Koliko se ja sjećam, u Plamenom peharu Amos Diggory se služi jednom čarolijicom koja se zove Prior Incantato, da bi se pokazalo je li Harryjev čarobni štapić korišten da bi se načini tamni znamen na Svjetskom prvenstvu u metloboju.

Ako ništa drugo, barem se može znati čiji je štapić bio "umiješan" u čaroliju. Naravno, štapićem se može koristiti netko drugi, no da se u potpunosti odbaci mogućnost da se sazna krivac za neku nedopuštenu čaroliju mi baš nema smisla...

Je li ovo zaista greška, ili se to meni samo čini? Slobodno prokomentirajte... :)

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utorak, 13.09.2005.

Top 11 reasons Harry Potter would make a lousy IT pro

11) Pet owl would attack computer mice and leave deposits on keyboards

10) Wand might misfire at annual meeting, killing shareholders

9) Invisibility cloak would hide him from users, management

8) He'd keep slapping servers and yelling, "Repairum Serviosa!"

7) He'd replace data-center door with portrait of password-hungry fat lady

6) Flame under cauldron would set off fire-suppression system

5) He'd behave too much like a manager, waving wand and expecting results

4) He'd write all his command-line interfaces in Latin

3) He'd keep trying to link PCs via floo network

2) Server-room Quidditch. 'Nuff said

1) Would you leave a whiny teenager with identity issues alone in your data center?

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četvrtak, 08.09.2005.

Uskoro Harry Potter na iPodu

Omiljeni književni junak tinejdžera, ali i odraslih, Harry Potter bit će uskoro dostupan i u digitalnom obliku i bit će ga moguće downlodirati na iPode, objavili su autorica J.K.Rowling i izdavač Random House Trade Group.

Audio knjige o Harryju Potteru moći će se nabaviti po cijeni od 32,95 dolara pojedinačno ili za 249 dolara za paket od svih šest knjiga. Na njima će se naći "kompletna knjižica u boji" kao i ranije "neobjavljena čitanja J.K.Rowling", kazao je izdavač Random House Trade Group.

Zahvaljujući pojavi iPoda digitalne knjige postale u najzanimljivije područje izdavaštva i njihova se prodaja učetverostručila u razdoblju do 2001. do 2003. godine.

J.K.Rowling je izjavila kako jedino strahuje od mogućeg online piratstva.

Više informacija...

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srijeda, 07.09.2005.

Portret JK Rowling

This picture, depicting Jo during her years before the Potter series, will be hung at the National Portrait Gallery today in London. Artist Stuart Pearson Wright painted the artwork and had this to say about his interest in the author:

I was drawn to Jo principally because of my admiration for a woman who can successfully combine motherhood and a creative career.

Jo told me that she had been drawn to my work because of the tiny paintings that I had done of a family of people with red hair.

She confessed to sharing a fascination for people with red hair, which any readers familiar with the Weasley family in the Harry Potter books should not be surprised about.

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