Mag-commute na lang daw kami pauwi sa kanila, sabi ni Mhay. Safe naman daw. Sige ‘ika ko. Saka kung may masasamang loob, lagot sila sa akin. Isang kumpas lang ng wand ko, tigok sila!

Hindi rin ako masyadong adik sa Harry Potter, ano po?

Actually, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5) na ang binabasa ko ngayon. E-book pa rin ito. Palpak kasi ‘yung binilhan namin ng isang set ng limang aklat.
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Dalawa ang binabasa ko ngayon kapag nasa biyahe o bago matulog. Ang isa ay nasa Palm ni Mhay, ang e-book ng Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire ni J.K. Rowling, at ang isa naman ay totoong aklat, ang Immortality ni Milan Kundera.
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Napanood ko na rin sa wakas ang “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets nitong nakaraang Miyerkoles nang gabi. As expected, astig yung movie. Masaya pa kasi kokonti na lang ang mga taong nanonood so walng istorbo, unlike last year na sa aisle na lang ako nakaupo. After kong manood, nakatanggap ako ng text message galing kay Mong, at nagsulat ako ng article sa Bnext tungkol sa proposed house arrest for Erap:

Magic Tricks for Estrada’s House Arrest

“FYI: House just passd 2nyt a concurrent resolution expressing d sense that erap b given a xmas furlough. Madalian, tapos nagadjourn til Monday”

As this writer went out of the movie house Wednesday night after watching Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, he got this text message from National Union of Students of the Philippines President Mong Palatino.

Here comes another magic trick of a different kind: this time, it was done in the real world, at the country’s House of Representatives, to be exact.

Read the entire story here.

Funny how many netizens can be very gullible that they easily believe and take as truth even satirical jokes on the Internet. In one of the forums that I regularly visit, I was alarmed after reading a post quoting an e-mail supposedly from an American Christian organization that warns parents of Harry Potter’s effect to children. Part of the e-mail reads:

“And here is dear Ashley, a 9 year old, the typical average age reader of Harry Potter: “I used to believe in what they taught us at Sunday School,” said Ashley, conjuring up an ancient spell to summon Cerebus, the three-headed hound of hell. “But the Harry Potter books showed me that magic is real, something I can learn and use right now, and that the Bible is nothing but Boring lies.”

The e-mail also quoted J.K. Rowling as saying Jesus is “weak and idiotic”:

“I think it’s absolute rubbish to protest children’s books on the grounds that they are luring children to Satan,” Rowling told a London Times reporter in a July 17, 2000 interview. “People should be praising them for that! These books guide children to an understanding that the weak, idiotic Son Of God is a living hoax who will be humiliated when the rain of fire comes, while we, his faithful servants, laugh and cavort in victory.”

I searched Google using some of the exact phrases in the quotation and do you know what I found out? The e-mail used as a basis for its claims this article from The Onion, a satirical website. According The Onion site, it “uses invented names in all its stories, except in cases when public figures are being satirized. Any other use of real names is accidental and coincidental”.

For more “urban legends” like this Harry Potter thing, visit TruthOrFiction.com.

I have a new book!
This afternoon, I bought a copy of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Fellowship of the Ring”, the first book in The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Huli na ko sa balita, ano?