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Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.

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."

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Amy - Jul 11, 2007 5:01:01 pm PDT #3092 of 28195

Because books.

I started out by loaning her a copy of Libba Bray's A Great and Terrible Beauty because someone recommended it here once upon a time, way upstream. Maybe it was AmyLiz?

Possibly! I adored it, but Teppy read it, too. I'm panting to get the last one in the trilogy, but she's been revising it, apparently, for almost longer than it took her to write the first draft.

Hil R. - Jul 11, 2007 9:53:47 pm PDT #3093 of 28195

Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Harry Potter timeline question: how long ago was Voldemort supposed to have been at Hogwarts? I thought I remembered that it was supposed to be 50 years ago, but that leaves a whole lot of time between him graduating and him become The Dark Lord that we really know nothing about, doesn't it?

Emily - Jul 11, 2007 9:58:10 pm PDT #3094 of 28195

"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

It sure does! He was contemporaneous with Hagrid, we know that much.

Aims - Jul 12, 2007 3:08:58 am PDT #3095 of 28195

Shit's all sorts of different now.

In HPB, Dumbeldore posited that Voldemort was wandering to places hither and tither, learning more of the Dark Arts, making Horcruxes, finding artifacts that belonged to the Hogwart's founders, and gathering followers. He spent a small amount of time at ... that store in Knockturn Alley before taking off with Hufflepuff's cup and the locket from that one witch's house.

Kind of like Jesus' missing years, but without the John Prine song about him becoming a mechanic.

Dana - Jul 12, 2007 3:39:16 am PDT #3096 of 28195

I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

50 years is correct, I think. In Chamber of Secrets, we learn that it's been 50 years since the chamber was opened and Hagrid was expelled.

Toddson - Jul 12, 2007 3:40:02 am PDT #3097 of 28195

Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

Although I'm liking the idea of Voldemort as a mechanic ... I think he may have worked on my parents' car when I was a kid.

Hil R. - Jul 12, 2007 4:20:08 am PDT #3098 of 28195

Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Thanks. I reread a bit further in HBP last night after I posted that.

So that would make Voldemort somewhere around 70 years old, and Hagrid a few years younger? Which would make Dumbledore and Slughorn probably somewhere around 100?

Aims - Jul 12, 2007 4:23:43 am PDT #3099 of 28195

Shit's all sorts of different now.

Something like that.

Steph L. - Jul 12, 2007 5:28:24 am PDT #3100 of 28195

I look more rad than Lutheranism

I started out by loaning her a copy of Libba Bray's A Great and Terrible Beauty because someone recommended it here once upon a time, way upstream. Maybe it was AmyLiz?

Possibly! I adored it, but Teppy read it, too.

LOVE. I'm dying for the third one to be released, but I just got a delivery from B&N yesterday with 2 books that should keep me happy. All y'all may have heard of the books -- a romance called Room Service and a book about vampire people.... t /dork

Amy - Jul 12, 2007 6:17:51 am PDT #3101 of 28195

Because books.

I just got a delivery from B&N yesterday with 2 books that should keep me happy. All y'all may have heard of the books -- a romance called Room Service and a book about vampire people....

::blushes at pimpage::

I just picked up my Vampire People copy yesterday! Had to restrain myself from gushing at the girl who cashed me out about knowing the author.

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