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15 Entertainment Final installm ent brings seventh heaven Oh! That's good teriyaki S arah C hicoine Forum Editor A fter w aiting nearly four years for the fifth, The Order o f the Phoenix, and tw o years for the sixth Harry Potter book, The Half-Blood Prince, fans w ere not certain w hen the seventh book w ould surface. However, on Feb. 1, author J.K. Row ling announced the final installm ent release date: July 21. W ith the title's release on Dec. 21, Deathly Hallows, rum ors have been flying. The sixth novel sold over 7.2 m illion copies ju st in 2005. To put that in perspective, The Half-Blood Prince sold more copies in a day than Da Vinci Code sold in one year. The final book is expected to sell even more. W H Sm ith, a United Kingdom based bookstore, is said to have sold 13 copies a second on the Saturday that Half-Blood Prince was released. This beat the previous record of eight copies a second, held by The Order o f the Phoenix. Deathly Hallows is expected to sm ash previous H arry Potter records. Spoiler Warning: A lthough the title w as released a m ere two m onths ago, plot rum ors have been taking over the web since th ^ ir s t person finished t l R i x t h novel. From M ugglenet to H arry Potter Lexicon, from hook-ups to death speculations, there is no stopping the crazed fans from deciphering the m ost m eager aspects of each novel, frantically trying to find a hint to the conclusion of this w orldw ide phenom enon. Before w e even get started, let's debunk the untrue rum ors about the final installm ent. First of all, D um bledore is dead. The beloved character has physically left the novel and is not in hiding or com ing back nor is D um bledore related to Harry. H arry is also not related to Salazar Slytherin O R Voldemort and N eville IS N O T the son of Peter Pettigrew. Petunia is not a Squib, Crookshanks is not an A nim agus, and the Sorting H at is not a H orcrux. Lastly, the prophecy does not in any w ay refer to N eville nor does H arry have to kill Neville. Luckily, there’s also a long list of facts about the seventh book that Row ling has revealed. The last w ord in the seventh book is scar. In fact, the last chapter has already been w ritten. It w raps up the life of all of the characters that are still alive. Also, two people w ho Row ling did not previously plan to die do in the seventh book. We w ill also be told w ho R.A .B., the initials found in the locket that w as supposed to be a H orcrux is. She w ill also tell us som ething im portant about Petunia D ursley as w ell as Lily Potter. Dolores U m bridge and Viktor Krum return and w e’ll find out w here Snape’s loyalties lie. In the final installm ent, H arry w ill visit G odric’s Hollow, w here his parents w ere m urdered. The two- w ay m irrors that Sirius gave him w ill also com e into play again. However, there w ill not be any more Q udditch matches! N ow that the truth and lies have been verified, w hat about the real rum ors? A lthough the rum ors fly from the practically im possible to the utterly absurd, there seem to be three theories that persist. The first theory is w hether Snape is really good or evil. A lthough the first assum ption is that Snape is evil, different possibilities have been discussed. In order to look at this from all sides you have to keep in m ind that w e know from The Order o f the Phoenix that both D um bledore and Snape are highly skilled in legim ens, the act of reading som eone's mind. The theory is that D um bledore w as able to tell Snape to m urder him in order to save Malfoy. A nother piece of evidence supporting this theory is D um bledore's attitude toward Snape at that m om ent. D um bledore begged Snape to save his life, a very uncharacteristic action for D um bledore w hich could have been done to m ake Snape realize D um bledore had m ore to say. A nother popular theory is that R.A.B. is Regulus Black. Row ling has said that R.A.B. is not a new character and he is the only character m any people can think of w ith those initials is Black. It is also very peculiar that Voldem ort murdered Regulus him self. It is a possibility that because Black tried to stop splitting his soul, Voldemort found it w orthw hile to m urder Black him self. Black's m otives, however, are not known. The m ost controversial theory is w hether Harry is the seventh horcrux. However, the evidence against this theory is substantial. One piece of evidence is the prophecy w hich clearly states that either "m ust die at the hand of the other." But if Harry m ust die in order to kill Voldemort, it is im possible for the prophecy to be fulfilled. A nother piece of evidence is that D um bledore speculates that Voldemort w as going to Godric's H ollow to kill Harry, the person w ho is supposed to be able to kill Voldemort, and then m ake his final prophecy. However, w hen Voldemort attem pts to kill Harry, Voldemort is basically dim inished to nothing. That is w hy Dum bledore speculates that Frank Bryce w as murdered in order to turn N agini into a horcrux. W ith theories overtaking the internet, these are only a few of the possible ones. With this fam ous series com ing to a close, frenzied fan's speculations w on't stop until July 21. "W hile each of the previous Potter books has strong claim s on m y affections, Deathly Hallows is m y favorite, and that is the m ost w onderful w ay to finish the series," Row ling said. M ike G orgone Entertainment Editor Despite the overabun-dance of tanning salons, Starbucks and self defense training cen ters in West Linn; we haven't managed to get a good teriyaki restaurant until recently. Oh Teriyaki opened its doors ear lier this year in the strip mall on Willamette Falls Drive, between Walling Way and Fairview Way; right next door to the Starbucks, the tanning salon and the self- defense training center. The restaurant is owned lo cally by the Oh family which includes Halas, a senior, and Irena, a junior. "This place is like the Senior Taco of teriyaki," Josh Halde- man, patron and senior said. "It's fairly cheap in comparison to some of the other restaurant's in town and I really like the serving sizes." As can be assumed by the name, Oh Teriyaki serves a fare heavily based on a theme of, you guessed it, teriyaki. This includes pork, chicken, beef, vegetables and mixes of all four. The chicken, in particular, is of higher quality than some of the lesser teriyaki joints around the area and is, dare I say, scrumptious. Each dish is served with a selection of sauces and rice. The price ranges on meals run between $5 and $10 with most falling around the $7 mark. For the amount and quality of food though, it is well worth the gouge to the wallet. Unlike traditional places that tend to serve Asian fare which generally have closed booths with low hanging lights, Oh Teriyaki is set up with a dozen or so high tables that let you survey the entire restau rant. It's very spacey with high ceilings and wide windows that let in a lot of natural light —if its sunny out. With fair prices, good quan tities and excellent quality, Oh Teriyaki is worth the trip, no matter what part of West Linn you hail from. Of course, if you have no love for teriyaki, this may be a place you want to avoid, but after tasting the quality of their fare, maybe Oh Teriyaki can tempt your taste buds. Pointlessness haunts American moviegoers mm W ill l i i culture!________ ■ continued from page 14 Though retaining most of the original cast, this clunker used many sub-par plot devices to progress its redundant story. Have you ever been walking under a bridge and seen an filthy man wrapped in a burlap sack smelling of fetid, rotten meat. That's closest analogy we can come up to describe the painfully unfunny "Lion King 1 (1/2)." The main plot was the exploits of beloved secondary characters Timon and Pumba as they careen haphazardly through the events of "The Lion King." Again Disney managed to wrangle in the original film's stars Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, and Cheech Marin (god knows how). Speaking of animated abominations, "The Land Before Time" series has spiraled out of control within the last decade. First released in 1988, the first "The Land Before Time" was a heartwarming tale about one little dinosaurs journey to a safe haven. Then in 1994 the first of many sequels was released straight-to-video and the nightmare began. Within the last twelve years there have been eleven movies belonging to the series, this is not counting the newest release last month, the musical rendition and the forthcoming television series. The children who originally watched this movie back in '88 now have chijj^ren who are watching these movies while the parents ask how on earth has this series hasn’t gone extinct yet? Like a bad case of herpes, "The Land Before Time" just keeps coming back, no matter how hard you try to stop it. The horror of awful sequels continues to this day. No one has been able to destroy this soul-consuming beast. Maybe someday a brave soul will stand up and say, "Hey! This is exactly the same as the last three 'House Party' Movies!" Until that day we will be forced to endure such travesties as "Speed 3" or a "White Chicks 2" (aaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!), One day Hollywood must learn that their evil deeds will not go unpunished and we will rise up and we will destroy them. 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