Harry Potter Drinkalong the Fifth

I’m such a failure.  I haven’t re-read this book recently, and I try not to watch the movie AT ALL, so these rules are based on a vague perception I have of what I hated the first time I saw it (I’ve only seen it twice).  I hope it doesn’t make life too difficult for us.  :/

• Countdown Timer
• Remember that TweetChat isn’t working but a lot of us used SmartStream last week and it worked just fine.  You can sign up for that here.  I know you’re all aware that the hashtag is #DrunkHP but there might be MORE NEW PEOPLE so I feel it bears repeating.
• Rules:
  

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That’s really all I have.  Hope to see as many of you as possible there (and that I can manage to stay out of twitter jail this time).

Harry Potter Drinkalong the Fourth

Goblet of Fire!  GOBLET OF FIRE!  My least favourite book in the series (which is why my re-reading has slowed to a crawl) and the first movie that made me swear when I saw it with my dad.  What?  I may not always be classy, but I’m usually respectful.

Anyway.

• Countdown Timer
• TweetChat is down, you guys.  Sadly, we won’t be able to use it anymore, but THERE IS this awesome new twitter chat service called SmartStream that will work just as well.  You can sign up for that here.  YES, you will need to create an account and then search for the hashtag #DrunkHP, but if you take these things seriously and can’t be bothered remembering to add the hashtag yourself, this will work just fine.
• Rules:
  

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Hope to see you all there in less than 24 hours!

Drinkalong Announcement!

Thanks to everyone who voted for when to hold the Goblet of Fire drinkalong.  The majority of you chose THIS FRIDAY, May 10th.  There were also a surprising number of you that wrote in, asking that we just do these weekly til we’re done.

I’d originally thought no one would want to do these every week, but it looks like I was wrong.

PLUS, if we do it weekly we can wrap everything up the first week in June, which will leave us free to watch Blues Brothers for my birthday weekend instead of DH2 (best news ever).

SO!  The new schedule is:

Goblet of Fire May 10

Order of the Phoenix May 17

Half-Blood Prince May 24

Deathly Hallows pt 1 May 31

Deathly Hallows pt 2 June 7

(links lead to countdown timers for each)

Tweetchat appears to be down for good, which gives me a sad.  Does anyone else know of another twitter app that automatically enters the hashtag?  Last week I had to follow the conversation on TweetDeck and paste the tag in (which was doable, but only just – especially at the end).

See you all this Friday at 10:15 EDT!

MERLIN’S PANTS, YOU GUYS!

WE WERE TRENDING!!!!

Siriusly, this is way more exciting than it should have been, I think.

If you’re interested in checking out the storify action, you can click here, but the biggest question…

[POLL COMPLETED]

So, um…let me know.  I’m cool with whatever.

Harry Potter Drinkalong the Third

Yay, it’s time for the Prisoner of Azkaban drinkalong!  I only just remembered to storify the last drinkalong, and you can find that here.

Here’s the stuff you need for this week:

• #DrunkHP tweetchat room
• Countdown Timer
• Rules:

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Guys.  Guys.  DID YOU KNOW that Alfonso Cuarón told David Thewlis to play Lupin like a “gay junkie”????  Now I’m totally going to be on the lookout for that ish while we watch.

As always, since you’re playing at home by yourself, no one is holding a wand to your head with an Unforgivable on their lips to make you drink for each rule.  Pick which rules work for you and even add your own.

If this is your FIRST drinkalong [waves] – just click on that countdown timer, hit play on the movie when it gets to zero and meet us at the #DrunkHP hashtag.

Can’t wait to see you all there!