Hey little train, wait for me, I was held in chains but now I'm free, I'm hanging in there, don't you see, in this process of elimination

"No story lives unless someone wants to listen. So thank you, all of you. Thank you for queuing for the books all those years. Thank you for camping out in a wet Trafalgar Square. And you know what...I know there are people all over the world right now, waiting in cinemas for the film to start, but Dan has already said it: the stories we love best do live in us forever. So, whether you come back by page, or by the big sceen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home." - JK Rowling

Lyrics: o children / nick cave and the bad seeds

Used to be one of the rotten ones, and I liked you for that. Now you're all gone, got your make up on and you're not coming back. Bleaching your teeth, smiling flash, talking trash, under your breath, bleaching your teeth, smiling flash, talking trash, under my window..Park that car, drop that phone, sleep on the floor, dream about me

also i'm rereading harry potter

ysee i couldn't sleep on saturday night i was just wide awake and i felt quite nervous but idk why so i got out harry potter and the philosopher's stone and just started to read it..i love rereading books but especially harry potter ones because it's like going back to childhood it's like putting on a comfy pair of shoes or drinking a cup of hot chocolate it's soothing and reassuring because i know the words inside out and i'm really enjoying it

i forgot how magic harry potter can be i know that sounds silly but it's like going to another world

Lyrics: anthems for a 17 year old girl / broken social scene

I've got a big fat fucking bone to pick with you my darling in case you haven't heard I'm sick and tired of trying I wish you would take my radio to bed with you plugged in and ready to fall

Lyrics: radio / alkaline trio

So at my show on Monday I was hoping someday you'd be on your way to better things it's not about your make up or how you try to shape up to these tiresome paper dreams

Lyrics: she moves in her own way / the kooks

The book of love is long and boring and written very long ago it's full of flowers and heart shaped boxes and things we're all too young to know but I I love it when you give me things and you you ought to give me wedding rings

Lyrics: book of love / peter gabriel

Stop making the eyes at me I'll stop making the eyes at you what it is that surprises me is that I don't really want you to

Lyrics: i bet that you look good on the dancefloor / arctic monkeys

Should I go or should I stay my flowers are dying and I'm sick and tired anyway this boy seems kind of cool his jeans are kind of low well I think I'll go

Lyrics: little red / kate nash

Oh I cut his hair myself one night a pair of dull scissors in the yellow light and he told me that I'd done all right and kissed me till the morning light the morning light and he kissed me till the morning light

oh and my copy of 'the two princesses of bamarre' came today i was so happy i just started reading it as soon as i opened the package it's so lovely and magical even the artwork on the front cover just makes me think of magic haha, i'm so going to read it to my children when i have them it's on my list up there with harry potter raspberries on the yangtze the enid blyton mysteries and nancy drew and stuff like that

i won't rest until my children are bookworms haha

Lyrics: samson / regina spektor

You poor sweet innocent thing dry your eyes and testify you know you live to break me don't deny sweet sacrifice

Lyrics: sweet sacrifice / evanescence

Floaters in my eyes wake up in a hotel room cigarettes and lies I am a child it's too soon I have dreams of orca whales and owls but I wake up in fear you will never be my you will never be my fool will never be my fool

naw isn't this one of the cutest things ever?

Lyrics: hotel song / regina spektor

Everybody's talking but they don't say a thing they look at me with sad eyes but I don't want their sympathy it's cool you didn't want me sometimes you can't go back but why'd you have to go and make a mess like that

neville grew up oo

Lyrics: low / kelly clarkson

It's not just what you say to people and it's not the way you look at me it's the way you present yourself for all your worst critics to see

Lyrics: head on collision / new found glory

It was the roar of the crowd that gave me heartache to sing it was a lie when they smiled and said you won't feel a thing and as we ran from the cops we laughed so hard it would sting

so yeah this weekend we went to the making of harry potter at leavesden studios..

we had to get up really early to drive down there in time and it was a really long boring journey and we got lost pretty fast even for us..then we reached watford and we saw signs for the studios and i thought my mum was going to die from excitement.

we got there and the people..right i thought i was a harry potter geek but i'm not even compared to some of those people lmao, not that there's anything wrong with it i thought it was pretty cool that some of them dressed up as characters or just in school uniform

we went in the shop first whilst we waited for our tour to begin the shop was amazing i wanted to look at absolutely everything it was a bit pricey but we expected it to be

then the tour started.

by the way i have bigger hands than emma watson and daniel radcliffe and the same sized hands as rupert grint and all of the actors in the films seem really small because their costumes looked tiny, i swear that the most normal sized people on set were the weasley twins

it starts off with an introductory video then they show you into the great hall which is the only bit that is guided, they quickly move you on to the next bit and then you can go round it at your own pace

the sets were amazing. there was so much detail and effort gone into each one and most of it you miss when you watch the films but i definitely won't know haha. in terms of sets the highlights for me were the boy's dormitory, the gryffindor common room, umbridge's office and the potion labs but all of them were amazing

outside they sell butterbeer which was all right but a bit sickly. the knight bus is outside and you can stand on it but you can't go in it but i didn't mind haha i had my picture taken on it anyway you can also see privet drive (squee), godric's hollow and the hogwarts bridge plus all of the wizard chess pieces i liked looking at all of these things, again the detail is really amazing but it started raining so we moved on pretty quickly

the next bit was all the animatronics and make up effects..some of this was actually quite morbid haha they had all the 'dead bodies' of the actors and dobby's dead body in a case, complete with bloodstain not to mention voldemort in foetal form. but they were amazing too they were all really lifelike it was also the section with the animals like buckbeak (so realistic), the dragons heads, the dementors (only a foot tall in real life haha) and the thestrals..again they were all really amazing pieces of work

then it was diagon alley.

right. one of the best bits of the day. it looks exactly like it does on the film. the shop windows are ridiculously detailed and they look like you can just wander inside and start shopping i think my favourite window was the ice cream parlour because it looked so sweet and the colours they used were really fitting for the shop

following this was the set design section and artist's concept, i'll admit i wasn't so interested in this bit but the paper models were pretty good and some of the paintings were beautiful

i thought that the tour was wrapping up then because it went all dark and there were signs for fire exits but it wasn't

i turned a corner and there was hogwarts

the paper model they used to film and it was literally a 'wow' moment because it looked like a real castle, it was fucking amazing and the effort that must have gone into it..it was one of those things you could look at all day from every angle. there were even little people in the grounds! it was brilliant and the way it was set up so you came around the corner and just saw it like they do in the first film just made it even better

the last bit was where all the wands were kept for all the people involved in the films. it was really fun looking for all the familiar names, by the end of it we found daniel radcliffe's, rupert grint's, emma watson's, kenneth branagh's, alan rickman's, timothy spall's, michael gambon's, ben shepherd's (TV presenter i love haha), bonnie wright's, tom felton's, and a few others i can't remember oh and we found jk rowling's too

i bought a ravenclaw scarf, some badges and some chocolate from the shop and i was really pleased and giddy as we left all i wanted to do was talk about it

all in all it was a brilliant fascinating day and i'm so glad i went i'd love to go again the only down side was the other people on the tour because some of them were so rude, they'd walk into pictures you were taking and stand in the way of the sets for ages but that aside it was still really really good one of the best weekends i've had in a long long time

Lyrics: disenchanted / my chemical romance

Now I've only ever offered you myself and you always say it's not enough

eeee i missed the first episode of towie but its all right because i've caught the second one on catch up and i've got last night's episode to watch tomorrow when i'm off

but tomorrow is also bleach time because the first series came on saturday while i was down south

which i'll discuss tomorrow because i've been to the harry potter studios this weekend and it was sososo good

Lyrics: bricks / jenny owen youngs

So maybe I do not have the time fair weather friends of mine a year's a long time to be doing nothing with your life

today was my day off

i didn't do anything all day but play around on pottermore, i forgot how much i lovelovelove harry potter tbh. i can't wait for this weekend now i just want to see it all

btw i'm a ravenclaw, my wand is alder with a unicorn hair core, 12 and 1/4 inches, springy and i'm shit at making potions but what can you do?

now i'm waiting to watch the great british menu before bed, i'm so tired because i worked extra hard at work today to make sure everything was in tip top shape for the inspection tomorrow that probably won't happen because our supervisor is terrible at her job and can't clean for shit

Lyrics: our bovine public / the cribs

Hey little train wait for me I once was blind but now I see have you left a seat for me is that such a stretch of the imagination

Lyrics: o children / nick cave and the bad seeds

All follow deep in trance lost in a catatonic dance know no future damn the past blind warm ecstatic safe at last

eeee i just signed up for pottermore, i'm such a geek lmao and this weekend i go to the harry potter studios, i'm getting all excited now i'm like going to stand on privet drive and see hippogriffs and look at wands, i'm going to be a giddy mess all over the place

Lyrics: thick as thieves / natalie merchant

You don't have to go home but you can't stay here I know who I want to take me home

Last Harry potter book aside, I have never read a book as emotionally draining as the hunger games..catching fire & mockingjay came today and that's it my life has been taken over once more

Lyrics: closing time / semisonic