Hey now, there was some surly and pissiness in there.
Oooh yeah. That was the "I want to punch Harry" book.
Time for some thrilling heroics.
Jayne ,'The Train Job'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
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."
Polter-Cow - Jun 07, 2004 3:11:13 pm PDT #3155 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
erikaj - Jun 07, 2004 3:11:42 pm PDT #3156 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
You know, that's true, ita. I just thought it was me. And I read them all in a big chunk...so it sort of seemed like stuff happened. But in retrospect, nsm.
Jessica - Jun 07, 2004 3:12:10 pm PDT #3157 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
And Sirius dying, after being turned into a complete asshead who we weren't at all sorry to see go.
But mostly there was TEEN! ANGST!
Polter-Cow - Jun 07, 2004 3:13:32 pm PDT #3158 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Jessica: Yeah. Christ, he was one of my favorite characters, until that book.
Connie Neil - Jun 07, 2004 3:15:32 pm PDT #3159 of 10002
brillig
Lots of genealogy.
Connie Neil - Jun 07, 2004 3:18:33 pm PDT #3160 of 10002
brillig
popcorn.
I don't remember where I saw it, but Rowling's put some FAQs up on her website--oh, People magazine, I think. No particular order and paraphrased.
She'd like people to stop calling Voldemort Voldie, it's disturbing.
No, Voldemort is not Harry's real father, please stop confusing the Potterverse with Star Wars, which people are obviously watching too much of.
No, she won't be writing the adventures of Harry's parents when she's done with the series. See above re: Star Wars.
Polter-Cow - Jun 07, 2004 3:19:43 pm PDT #3161 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
No, Voldemort is not Harry's real father, please stop confusing the Potterverse with Star Wars, which people are obviously watching too much of.
He he he. Yesterday, I had the passing fancy of Snape being Harry's real father.
Aims - Jun 07, 2004 3:20:41 pm PDT #3162 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
So help me gawd in the rerelease of the DVD's, if they go back and A) put Michael Gambon's face on Richard Harris' body or B) Have Draco hit first, I'll go apeshit.
Katerina Bee - Jun 07, 2004 3:24:50 pm PDT #3163 of 10002
Herding cats for fun
Calling You Know Who "Voldie" is disturbing The Author? OK, then can we threaten JKR into editing and pruning #6 by saying we'll refer to Lord Voldemort as Oldie Van Voldie if she pulls an Anne Rice on us. I was so impatient with OotP. Nothing much happened for pages on end, except that Harry was angry. Fume, Harry, fume. It was like having an actual self pitying annoying teenager spewing angst in my living room.
§ ita § - Jun 07, 2004 3:24:59 pm PDT #3164 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I bobbed over to her site.
Is every book going to be bigger than the previous one?
No, definitely not, or book seven would be around the weight of a baby hippopotamus. According to the plan for book six, it will be quite a bit shorter than 'Order of the Phoenix'. I am not going to swear on my children's lives that that is going to be the case, but I am 99% certain of it.
...
JKR is deadly serious when she forbids people to call Voldemort 'Voldy'
Erm... I was joking. I thought it was very amusing when I found a chat room full of people calling him 'Voldy'. Maybe I should develop a secret symbol that means 'this is a joke', a kind of anti-Dark Mark? And incidentally... I wasn't really Squidward that day in the MuggleNet chat room, either. That's a SpongeBob SquarePants in-joke. I used a different name. So you can all stop logging on as Squidward now ;)