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Cicadas heading underground until 2021.

And like any other sane person, my instant reaction to that headline was, "They totally need to do a Sealab episode about that! Where the cicadas come out and everybody goes fuckin' apeshit! Screaming and Muppet arms, I'm telling you!"

EDIT: Also, with the PoA computer game, there's a challenge where you're an itty bitty bunny rabbit for a third of it. I think I love that challenge more than life itself.

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[http://users.livejournal.com/_audrey/]

I never knew what true, blinding hatred was until I ran across those damn skeletons. Not only is the whole 'cast a spell together for more power' bit just plain dodgy (half the time, bloody Hermione doesn't even bother aiming), but they keep throwing stuff at me, nonstop. This is why I'm still stuck in the tunnel underneath the Whomping Willow. >:O If I ever meet the person who came up with those bloody things, I fear I may have to hurt them.

(I have had dreams where all I can hear is "Carpe Retractum!" *whoosh!* "Carpe Retractum!" Ron only says it two different ways, and after the first five minutes it makes me want to clobber him senseless. Speaking of voices, how weird is it to see McGonagall and not hear Maggie Smith? And the guy who does Lupin sounds just plain creepy to me.)

Of course, the fact that I haven't played a PC game in about five years really doesn't help matters much.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Ooo, you know what I did under the Whomping Willow that finally worked? I ran Harry and Hermione into the room to activate the skeletons, then ran backward into the turn of the tunnel until the other skeleton couldn't hit us. Then I defeated the skeleton (of course, not without getting hit a few times first) then quickly ran past to get to the gold trunk at the end of the tunnell, which has Chocolate Frogs. You can't get through the door without defeating both skeletons, but at least that way you can make it through.

The bad part is that I think it's right after that room that you get to the staircase room, which is just chock full of skeletons. I took one look at all the little piles of bones and said, "Aw, shit."

Lupin is just generally screwed up. I know he didn't exactly have the nicest teeth in the world, but he looks like he's still waiting for his permanent teeth to grow in. (And I really wish I'd gotten more of a chance to go and buy stuff between lessons and challenges and whatnot. As it is, I'm in final exams and I've got about 1500 beans, over 100 Pumpkin Pasties, and God knows how many Cauldron Cakes and haven't gotten to do a damn thing with them.)

The HP games are really the only PC games I play anymore. They're addictive. :)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_audrey/]

I can manage the first lot, but I keep dying in the second room (the Salamaders - which look like FLAMING KOMODO DRAGONS, for crap's sake - keep hitting me and then the skeletons just show up and finish me off).

I keep getting distracted by his hands - they look like he had a rampant case of Gigantism as a child.

(I noticed that too - every time you try to get back upstairs they spring a cut scene or something at you. Maybe you'll get a chance after the exams to have a look about. 0_o)