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It's time for another exciting segment of DID YOU KNOW?

Capybara meat is permitted to be eaten during the Catholic season of Lent. Why? Early missionaries gave a poor description (sources vary on whether that was intentional, due to hardship finding acceptable food during the holy season, or a miscommunication) to the Vatican, which then ruled to declare it a fish. Since then, the time progressing up to Holy Week is unofficially capybara hunting season, due to the increased demand for the meat that "isn't" meat.

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Harry Potter V VI movie trailer. (LOL, didn't think.)

No strong feelings yet, except to question their choice of font for the text-over bits. Maybe that's just me, but using the book's font (that's been used to death, subsequently, in every HP related thing) in that size made the text look kiddish and almost fanvid-esque. It has to do with the properties of the font itself--it's just not conducive to being used large.

Though, is it just me, or did the Harry putting his face into (presumably) the pensive bit differ dramatically from how it was presented in previous movies? I'll have to rewatch the old ones, but it definitely struck me as odd--if it's inconsistent from the previous movies, that's going to suck majorly. And with different directors, it's a possibility.

More, upon rewatching. This might be a characteristic stemming from it being edited for the trailer, but the Dumbledore + young!Tom scene was much more. . . dark than I would have made it. I would have preferred the suspense to be more subtle, and coming from the fact that we know that he's the darkest wizard of all time, so as to better justify Dumbledore's response in the negative when asked whether he knew. Now, it's like "Well, how could you not have, sir? There were dark and creepy shadows and menacing pauses and an ominous lack of music!"