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Not much time for an update. They escaped from the Death Eaters at Xeno's place. Ron's line about how he didn't know how they were going to get out of that was odd to me, just disapperate what's the big deal? Hermione was smart enough to know that they needed to let the Death Eaters see Harry first. Luna is adorable even when she isn't there. Pity that she is in Azkaban, but she is tough like Harry says and isn't going to lose her mind there.
Then lots of excited Hallows talk. I'm sure Harry is right about everything, it all just fits together too neatly. However, I'm not sure what he is supposed to do with the information they've learned. Like Hermione said, Dumbledore left specific instructions and information about destroying the Horcruxes. I can't see Dumbledore misleading Harry to that extent, so the Horcruxes must be destroyed. However, there seems to be something to the Hallows. Maybe they will help destroy the Horcruxes or something. I'm pretty sure the way it is written, that Tom is really only after the wand and not the other Hallows.
isn't going to lose her mind there.
Possibly because she wouldn't notice the difference.
Possibly because she wouldn't notice the difference.
My thought exactly.
Listening to Chamber of Secrets again...Dobby is so, very, sweet and misguided. Such a heartbreaker.
I giggled to hear an offhand reference to Celestina Warbeck even this early on.
The one detail I've heard so far that I desperately WISH had been fleshed out, is a stack of comics in Ron's room at the Burrow about a "Mad Muggle".
I'm rereading Goblet of Fire, and just noticed a very weird American edit:
Dean had tacked up a poster of Viktor Krum over his bedside table. His old poster of the West Ham football team was pinned right next to it. "Mental," Ron sighed, shaking his head at the completely stationary soccer players.
I'm guessing the bit that talks about soccer players.
Trivia note: I think that's the only reference to a futbol/soccer team in the Potterverse and it was a shoutout to JKR's best friend, who is a West Ham fan.
Harry is obssessing over the Hallows and Ron takes charge. They do a lot of futile wandering around. The intractable problem of how to find the remaining two missing non-snake horcruxes still has not be tracted. Then comes Potterwatch. I suspect both the Horcruxes and the Hallows are important somehow.
The Potterwatch bit is great. Hearing from the supporting cast is a bright light in the murky horcrux search although it comes at the cost of learning that Ted Tonks is dead. I found out that Lupin (who has the most transparent code name ever) is back with Tonks which probably means that Harry's words had some effect. I like Fred's (I'm sure it was Fred) contributions as well, the twins seem unfazed by anything. I sat in the car until Potterwatch finished, so that's where I'm at.
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...the line's the same in my Bloomsbury edition. I think perhaps it's just JKR's dodgy prose, rather than an edit.
random yet cool,
JKR is doing a thing with the Title 1 middle schools in my school district. Some small number of kids per selected school were chosen to go hear her speak and get a book signed, which I think is very cool. One school did an excellent job getting a good cross section of kids, even those who struggle with reading and the book to go (in other words, included the special education students, as well as the english language learners).
