Hey Everyone,

Not long ago, I posted a very important note in the story thread, stating that I am going to re-do the beginning sequence of chapter three. Just to let you all know, that the outline for this chapter has not changed at all except for the first scene of the chapter which is the Care for Magical Creatures class. Believe me when I say that the small change will sound a heck of a lot better than the slightly crappy start that I got on it earlier.

Later,

Sodapop Allerdyce

SPOILER #1: Receiving Bits of Inspiration from "National Treasure"

Sometime after I saw "National Treasure" over the Thanksgiving weekend last year, it gave me some brilliant and wonderfully wicked ideas for certain events and elements in my story. For those of you who have seen the movie, remember the part where the Declaration of Independence had secret location numbers on the back and later on, one of the main characters had a kid run into the place with this document and had to count letters to form words? Well, I'm going to use that in a way that it will fit in my story. But, don't worry, it won't happen until way, way later in the plot. Also, another event from the movie that I'm going to fit in is the part where the main characters went to the place where the Liberty Bell was kept and used the bell tower's shadow to find a certain location and object. There was another event, I believe, that I was going to use for my story, but can't remember what it was now...Oh well, when I do, I'll be sure to post it! Anyways, all of these moments from "National Treasure" won't pop up until sometime around the middle of the entire story and/or towards the end. That's if I ever make it to the end...this century! LOL

Inspiration for "Dead Man Walking"

Dead Man Walking was inspired by this Harry Potter Carry On fanfic that I used to have going here at KMC nearly two years ago and has failed, never to be revived again. It was the fourth one to come out. As for what inspired that story, the carry on, was a particular scene from Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. For those of you who have read the book, will know that there's a scene where Harry has a strange dream where he's a serpent slithering through some place (that is in the Ministry of Magic) and bites Mr. Weasley somewhere on the leg. Sometime after Harry woke up from that dream and during it also, he thought about how real it felt and all. That sort of vision is what inspired Harry's visions in my fanfic. As for the title of my story, I got that from a movie of the same title. The movie was about some convict played by Sean Penn that was to be executed and received comfort and closure from this nun played by Susan Sarandon. If you would like to find out more about that movie, look it up at IMDB.Com sometime.

Tagline for "Dead Man Walking"

You know how movies have taglines? Well, sometime last month of last year, I came up with a cool one that kicks arse like the one for the third Harry Potter movie ("Some Wicked This Way Comes"). And here it is...: