Just Sayin'

So, the other day I was in class zoning out diligently paying attention when I started thinking about the Deathly Hallows symbol. Considering that it only appeared in the last Harry Potter book ( Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ), it's an incredibly popular symbol. For those that don't know, the Deathly Hallows symbol is a mark used in the Harry Potter books to refer to three items: The Elder Wand (the most powerful wand in the world), The Resurrection Stone, and The Invisibility Cloak. Taken together, these three items are supposed to make their possessor the master of death. Not surprisingly, these items are a major force in the books. Voldemort seeks the Elder Wand and even Dumbledore was at one time tempted to become the master of death. The symbol is also used to refer to the Tale of the Three Brothers, the supposed origin story of the Deathly Hallows. I see people walking around all the time with Deathly Hallows shirts and jewelry.  Like, I'm living Person

Out of all the characters in A Song of Ice and Fire , Sansa Stark particularly intrigues me. I know that a lot of fans of the books think that she's a bit of a wimp, totally naive, and a little slow, but I disagree. Sansa is one of the few characters in the books that develops and changes. Like, I'm not saying that the other characters aren't now in very different places than when the books started, but for the most part, they're all still the same people. Sansa is different; in the first book she was this annoying little brat with all these nonsense ideas about chivalry, but she's grown a lot since then. As the series goes on, she learns how the world works and how people behave and she puts that knowledge to good use. One thing that Starks tend to have a problem with is not learning from their past. I mean, the Stark family is constantly doing things that they should know better than to do. Trusting the Freys? Trusting the Lannisters? And what part of 'no