'Smile Time'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
OoTP is the book where absolutely no one makes a good decision.
Oh my God, this is so true. Seriously, this whole last chapter or penultimate chapter or whatever I'm in is basically about how EVERYONE FUCKED UP SO HARD.
You know who pretty much made all the good decisions, though? HERMIONE. She is particularly awesome in this book, I swear.
You know who pretty much made all the good decisions, though? HERMIONE. She is particularly awesome in this book, I swear.
Except that she didn't think that maybe Snape was faking when he said that he had no idea what Harry was talking about when he tried to tell him about Sirius.
Also, it's the book where Neville and Ginny and Luna are awesome, so that helps.
Except that she didn't think that maybe Snape was faking when he said that he had no idea what Harry was talking about when he tried to tell him about Sirius.
True, but I'm not sure whether that would have changed anything. They still would have gone to the Department of Mysteries, in case he wasn't.
Also, it's the book where Neville and Ginny and Luna are awesome, so that helps.
It does. Ginny is pretty great in this book too. She's all wisecracking and being good at spells and flying and shit.
Which would be more meaningful in retrospect if he didn't just continue on with the information-withholding and failure to trust Harry with his plans and ideas for the next year.
I did like the fact that JKR addressed this in DH, when she has Aberforth state that secrets and lies were the way that the Dumbledore boys were raised, and that Albus embraced it.
I did like the fact that JKR addressed this in DH, when she has Aberforth state that secrets and lies were the way that the Dumbledore boys were raised, and that Albus embraced it.
Right. I always thought a lot of the dynamics in that family looked like a family where one of the parents is an alcoholic. Which isn't how it maps to the story, but those sibling relationships that are involved with concealing family stories and resentment about leaving vs. caretaking has a Children of Alcoholics vibe to me.
GRRM is going to read a selection from Winds of Winter at Worldcon.
Is it wrong that I want to sneak into his house and chain him to his computer?
Well, he's still doing the ADWD publicity tour. (And at least he has selections to read.)
Is it wrong that I'm kind of tempted to go to Reno? I'm not much of a con-goer, though.