Most people is pretty quiet right about now. Me, I see a stiff -- one I didn't have to kill myself -- I just get, the urge to, you know, do stuff. Like work out, run around, maybe get some trim if there's a willin' woman about... not that I get flush from corpses or anything. I ain't crazy.

Jayne ,'The Message'


The Buffista Book Club: the Harry Potter iteration  

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aurelia - Oct 11, 2007 12:56:28 pm PDT #2967 of 3301
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

I was told (by someone here) that she does pretty much exactly that.

She says so in an interview that is a DVD extra for one of the movies (prob. 2 or 3).


Gudanov - Oct 11, 2007 4:59:22 pm PDT #2968 of 3301
Coding and Sleeping

Normally, I wait for the full back and forth commute, but damn. Fred? That just isn't right, he's one of the twins. The Percy reunion was the setup, it wasn't supposed to be Fred. Some other stuff happened to, whatever.


DebetEsse - Oct 11, 2007 5:07:17 pm PDT #2969 of 3301
Woe to the fucking wicked.

....yeah... t sigh


Trudy Booth - Oct 11, 2007 5:18:37 pm PDT #2970 of 3301
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

t pats Gud


Frankenbuddha - Oct 12, 2007 2:37:27 am PDT #2971 of 3301
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Oh that's the thing Gud just got to. Not the other thing.


Aims - Oct 12, 2007 3:30:53 am PDT #2972 of 3301
Shit's all sorts of different now.

t sigh


Dana - Oct 12, 2007 3:42:24 am PDT #2973 of 3301
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

t sniffle


Frankenbuddha - Oct 12, 2007 4:09:17 am PDT #2974 of 3301
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

hands out virtual hankies


lisah - Oct 12, 2007 4:40:09 am PDT #2975 of 3301
Punishingly Intricate

I had to get out my book last night to read what was going to happen right after Gud left off yesterday and yeah...


Gudanov - Oct 12, 2007 5:19:35 am PDT #2976 of 3301
Coding and Sleeping

There's lots of fighting, charging desks, flying crystal balls, and good old stunning spells. The spiders charge in and retreat with Hagrid in their midst. I don't think that's the end of Hagrid, but then I never thought one of the twins would buy it either. There are giants, then dementors, and Luna saves the day. I like how calmly she gets Harry to be able to use his patronus again.

They take the tunnel to the shack after Ron is reminded to use magic by Hermione. A nice little allusion to book 1. At the end of the tunnel are Voldemort and Snape. I left off after Snape is killed and Voldemort leaves the shack. Snape being killed isn't much of a shock since I never expected him to make it. I was sort of expecting Snape to be kill after finally betraying Voldemort. I wonder if this could mean that we never really find out which side Snape was on. That would be kinda cool actually. There is some more wand stuff, killing the previous owner does seem to follow the legend of the elder wand. I could see that simply yanking it out of somebody's hand is too low a bar for the legendary wand. Maybe it's all legend though, it would be sort of ironic if the elder wand was just a regular wand after all.