The Exorcism of Emily Rose

nurses and nursing students out there, you definitely have to see this movie...this will somehow test your faith between religion and science...got me?...

this is a story about a girl named emily rose who was believed to have epileptic psychotic disorder after experiencing bizarre things in her school dormitory...as a college freshman, she was quite keen about things that happened to her...she then started seeing things, demonic things to be exact...she started seeing people as demons and then she also started to have frequent seizures after having those illusions...

doctors explained that emily was schizophrenic...she was having visual hallucinations and illusions followed by extreme epileptic episodes...

but her family as well as emily thought otherwise...being very religious, they all believed that emily was being possessed by a demon...so then, they called on father moore to check on emily and exorcise her as well...father moore suggested that emily should stop taking her anti-psychotic medications as this would alter her health and make the demonic possessions stronger...they abided, emily giving her full trust to father moore...

nothing happened, though...then emily got into a decision of stopping her medications and the exorcism because according to her, she already accepted her fate of letting the people know that demons really exist...later on, she became weak not to mention she often hurt herself...then she died...

the rose family of course didn't complain after witnessing all the effort of father moore to exorcise the demon out of emily...but the state decided to file a case against father moore...the case was negligence homicide...they believed that emily wasn't possessed but she was really psychotic and epileptic...

science can prove a lot of things...especially her hallucinations/illusions and seizures...during the trial, father moore played a recorded exorcism for the court to hear...in this tape, emily often scream and speak aramaic(ancient language apart from hebrew and latin)...her voice also changes showing that there are 6 demons who possessed her...facts proved that emily was able to speak aramaic because being an active catholic, she studied ancient languages and can speak well with it...they also explained that the changes in her voice can be done by a psychotic patient because they were able to manipulate their vocal chords...

i reckon it's really hard to say which to believe...being a catholic myself, i have reasons to say that i do think emily was really possessed...but on the other hand, being able to grow up in a medical world (i'm a nursing student), many facts proved that emily was just psychotic and sometimes having mood swings...

i'm not saying that i'm actually slipping off from catholicism...my friends even say that i'm near into being an atheist baing the only one who agreed with the atheist's arguement about having no God...well, i was just sticking to the facts because honestly, we can always doubt our beliefs, can't we?...

but according to father moore's lawyer, facts leave no room for possibilities and honestly, facts are more believable that those possibilities that are hard to prove...

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6)

This is the 6th book of the accounts of Harry Potter’s adventure in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry…Havoc and chaos overcame the Wizarding World but then, Harry still went back to Hogwarts for his 6th year with Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger and the other kids as well…

In this book, maturity and adolescence are clearly stated since the students’ stay at Hogwarts have developed love and jealousy…however, the rising of Lord Voldemort in power and the loyalty of his followers hindered Harry and the Order of the Phoenix from having a peaceful year at the school…

Harry’s still a bit haunted by Sirius’s death and some members of the Order and other innocent witches and wizards have been reported lost and dying…Professor Severus Snape’s loyalty has been tested since Narcissa Malfoy asked him to do the Unbreakable Vow with her saying that he should protect her son, Draco Malfoy and whatever it is that the Dark Lord asked Draco to do and he can’t do it, Snape should…

Nobody knows what was Draco Malfoy’s task…all Harry knows is that he has been planning this since before the start of term and he doubted that Draco had been the member of the Death Eaters…

This book will really leave you hanging and anticipating for the upcoming 7th sequel…this book is shorter than the Order and it was more precise…in every chapter, you’ll realize how every witch and wizard in the magical world lie in danger…you’ll keep on asking what would happen next even though it’s already quite obvious….

I can say that the title Half-Blood Prince is quite far-fetched if you really think about the theme of the story but somehow, you’ll realize that the Half-Blood Prince is on either way related to how the story ended…

Let me pick up some lines from the book…this was from chapter 27: The Lightning-Struck Tower:

“We’ve got a problem, Snape,” said the lumpy Amycus, whose eyes and wand were fixed alike upon Dumbledore, “the boy (Malfoy) doesn’t seem able—“
But somebody else had spoken Snape’s name, quite softly.
“Severus…”
The sound frightened Harry beyond anything he had experienced all evening. For the first time, Dumbledore was pleading.
Snape said nothing, but walked forward and pushed Malfoy roughly out of the way. The three Death Eaters fell back without a word. Even the werewolf seemed cowed.
Snape gazed for a moment at Dumbledore, and there was revulsion and hatred etched in the harsh lines of his face.
“Severus…please…”
Snape raised his wand and pointed it directly at Dumbledore.
“Avada Kedavra!”
A jet of green light shot from the end of Snape’s wand and hit Dumbledore squarely in the chest.

Okay, okay…for those who haven’t read the book yet, forgive me for being such a spoiler but honestly, Dumbledore’s death is all over the internet and it is not true that he will come back to life on the 7th book…as Dumbledore mentioned, no spell can bring the dead back to life…so definitely, Dumbledore can never be alive again…

The question is, does Snape really wanted to kill Dumbledore?...is he really back on the dark side?...

Well here is my theory …on the early chapter of the book , Hagrid has mentioned that he overheard Dumbledore and Snape arguing in the forest…I can’t really remember the exact argumemt but as I can remember, Hagrid said that Snape was asking about something and sort of doesn’t want to do what Dumbledore told him to do…Dumbledore got mad and those stuff…so, could it be that Snape has told Dumbledore about Malfoy’s plan of killing him?...and when he said, “Severus…please” did that actually mean that Dumbledore is begging Snape to kill him?...could it be that Dumbledore got angry with Snape because Snape does not want to do what Dumbledore wanted him to do and that is to kill him?...

Oh, this book left us many unanswered questions…mind you, there is no Dumbledore anymore who will do the explaining by the end of the last chapter…in addition, the half-blood prince also showed the life of Lord Voldemort and his parents even before he was born…what he was like before finding out that he was a wizard and what happened during and after his stay at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry…Dumbledore has been away from the castle most of the time and the Order of the Phoenix had been very busy guarding and protecting the whole Magical community…

I guess J.K. Rowling planned to kill Dumbledore because of the prophecy about Harry…this is what the prophecy said:

“The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches…Born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies…And the Dark Lord will mark him as equal, but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not…An either must die in the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives.”

Harry has always been dependent to Dumbledore ever since he has been accepted at Hogwarts…every year, Dumbledore has to make sure that Harry would end the term alive…but after Harry found out about the prophecy, “…the Dark Lord will mark him as equal…” maybe Dumbledore thought that the time has come for Harry to face the Dark Lord alone…Not that because Dumbledore doesn’t want to face Voldemort anymore but maybe because he knows that Harry Potter will have the power to vanquish Lord Voldemort on his own…Sirius Black and Professor Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore, two of Harry’s most trusted people have died because they just did…they are relly meant to die so that Harry will learn to stand on his own and that Sirius and Dumbledore have confidence in him that he can indeed defeat the Dark Lord without their help…

And by the way, did I mention who the Half-blood Prince is?...hmmm…never mind…I don’t wanna be much of a spoiler anymore…just read the book, you’ll love it…

Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince is truly a frustrating book to read yet, it’ll really make you rack your brains for conclusions and theories…plus, after reading this, you will really doubt whether you wanna read the next sequel or not…but honestly, you will really can’t wait for the coming of the 7th book because of the fact that you’re anxious with what’s coming next for Harry now that the only one Voldemort has feared was already gone and that the Hogwarts staff are planning to close the school…

Well, just go on and read the Half-Blood Prince and don’t forget to read the Order of the Phoenix yet before that book…lol!...

Hope you enjoyed reading!...

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

l've seen the movie last saturday at NCCC mall with elai, dhawell, karen, cj, donna, madel, erickson, joseph and matet...then, last sunday, i watched it again with my cousins...
i can say it's too much to watch again considering the amount of money you spend but i can prove that Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is worth watching over and over and over again!...

here are the probable reasons:

1. the Hungarian Horntail scene...that was so far the best scene in the movie for me...that is, the first task...i have never imagined that the horntail moment of harry would be that dangerous but as you watch it, it'll make you hold your breath for about more than 5 minutes, actually...the scene where harry flies above the castle, when he nearly fell, nearly burned his firebolt, damn!...

2. the arrival of beauxbatons academy and durmstrang institute...beauxbatons has been ecompassed with pretty french gurls with their headmistress madame maxime...their very feminine entrance to the great hall caught the attention of gurls and guys alike... now gurls even love imitating their swaying moves with all those butterflies...then comes the handsome durmstrang guys followed by viktor krum and their headmaster igor karkaroff...their macho entrance with that blazing staff and fire makes it even more enchanting...then the dramatic entrance of the bulgarian quidditch team seeker who also happens to be studying in he school made all the gurls scream and freeze in their seats...

3. lord voldemort rising..."bone of the father unwillingly given...flesh of the servant willingly sacrificed...and blood of the enemy forcibly taken...with this, the dark lord shall rise again..." these are the lines of wormtail when he did his ritual of making voldemort rise again...that scene is quite dramatic and the rising of the dark lord is so cool...the summon of the death eaters through the dark mark, it's so essential...plus, i like the scene when voldemort almost forgot about harry...lol!...that was quite funny...

4. cedric diggory's death...exactly as i imagined it on the book, cedric's death really pained the hearts of the viewers... the way i've cried in the book is nothing as the way i've cried in the movie...cedric digorry landing lifeless on the graveyard with his eyes open was so emotional...i could cry over and over again as i watch it...

5. the yule ball...who could forget it?...krum inviting hermione, cedric inviting cho and harry, being with parvati patil...the dancing part is so nice and who couldn't miss hagrid and maxime?...that sucks but was way funny!...then the heated row between ron and hermione clearly shows the adolescence stage of the characters...

finally, who couldn't miss the hottest guy in the movie?...STANISLAV IANEVSKI, the bulgarian actor who played viktor krum...every gurl who have seen the movie can't help saying that they admire the gym enthusiast bulgarian a lot...

whew!...i admit, i'm kinda frustrated with the movie because there are a lot of scenes that i expected to see which were not shown in the film...the second task is quite boring and the maze in the third task did not contain the creatures that i was dying to see such as the blast-ended skrewt and of course, the sphinx...only viktor krum was the catch but he looks so good we can't blame him...lol!...then there were fewer scenes with voldemort ...the imperius curse moment was not included...then the scene with mad-eye in his office after harry got back , there were also lesser explanations...all we found out there was that moody put harry's name in the goblet, he made sure that harry could pass through the 2 tasks until he could reach the third...he didn't even mention that he was the one who turned the triwizard cup into a portkey which transported harry and cedric to the graveyard at little hangleton...the veritaserum didn't do much work, and there was no dementor giving crouch the kiss...even dumbledore didn't explain further why as voldemort got drops of harry's bllod, he could already touch him and why he cannot before...

well, that was kinda frustrating but if you'll think of the possibilities of making it worth a watch and if you're just a naturally harry potter fanatic, definitely you will love this fourth sequel the way you loved the other prequels!...

HARRY POTTER & THE GOBLET OF FIRE definitely owns!...

the real me in a fantasy world...

er, not much of a blog, though...
i'm just who i am...i'm just who you wanted me to be...i live in a world of fairy tales where i try to pretend to be what i'm not but then i just end up snapping back to reality being who i really am...
i just can't figure out why tough girls like me get weak and hurt a lot by the people we love...
oh well, i guess it's just as fair as saying, "can i have the side of your donut?"
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