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- **Spoilers for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows lie here. Read at your own risk***
I saw one woman walking down the sidewalk reading, another carrying it, a man bringing it onto BART, and an elderly woman reading it on BART.
I loved the opening of The Colbert Report on Monday, which had the dramatic music and captions, but instead of Stephen doing his usual opening-show schtick, he was avidly reading DH, as was the audience, and only when they came back to him for his usual "This...is the Colbert Report!" did he look up distractedly from the book and say in the quietest mumble I've ever heard from him, "Huh? What? Oh, yeah, this is the Colbert Report..." and then return to his book.
The JK Rowling interview by Meredith Vieira will be shown on a special Dateline on Sunday night.
My patronus is a bear!
I got a bear!
Undo it! Undo it!
I'm pretty sure my patronus would be a bear. Not a grizzly; maybe a black bear. Sort of lumbering, but with the potential to FUCK YOU UP.
"Huh? What? Oh, yeah, this is the Colbert Report..." and then return to his book.
Also, when he cut to his guest, the guest was reading DH. The whole thing was hysterical.
My patronus is a bear!
Your patronus is Tom Colicchio?
BWHAHAHAHA! LOVE for Victor.
Sort of lumbering, but with the potential to FUCK YOU UP.
Oh come on. Black bears are forever wandering down into suburban New Jersey, looking around in terror and hightailing it up the nearest tree when approached by a cat.
Black bears are the nerds of the ursine world.
The end page essay perfectly articulated why I loved the epilogue.
I'm not a big fan of King's column, but I did like that one.
Black bears are the nerds of the ursine world.
Oh, that makes them even MORE appropriate for me!
What *should* my patronus be, if not a black bear?
What *should* my patronus be, if not a black bear?
I picked bear, and I still got wolf.
What *should* my patronus be, if not a black bear?
A buckeye.
It's already a mascot that cracks me up by doing absolutely nothing. As a Patronus it could sit there useless in a whole new capacity!
Dementor show up
Teppy fires off Patronus
Dementors confounded:
What is it?
It's a buck eye
What's a buck eye?
Its sort of a nut.
So, you eat it?
No, you can't eat it
Feed it to livestock or something?
I don't think so. I think its poisonous.... there's these candies though, chocolate and peanutbutter, they're REALLY GOOD.
