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.
Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.
Buffy ,'Sleeper'
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Katerina Bee - Jun 07, 2004 3:24:50 pm PDT #3163 of 10002
Herding cats for fun
§ 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.
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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 ;)
§ ita § - Jun 07, 2004 3:25:51 pm PDT #3165 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Nothing much happened for pages on end, except that Harry was angry.
Wait -- did we also find out that his father had been an ass? I think we're up to three pages, tops, and that's only if we stop by to see how Hagrid is.
Aims - Jun 07, 2004 3:27:08 pm PDT #3166 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Waitaminnit.
The most popular boy in school was an ass??
That's unheard of!!
Polter-Cow - Jun 07, 2004 3:27:38 pm PDT #3167 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Wait -- did we also find out that his father had been an ass?
Yeah, and there was one of those wacky prophecies that told us what we already knew.
Katerina Bee - Jun 07, 2004 3:29:00 pm PDT #3168 of 10002
Herding cats for fun
That's right, it came to light that Harry's father wasn't consistently the nicest kid on his corridor. I could re-read it, I suppose, but it seems so daunting when I have so many other books in queue.
Polgara - Jun 07, 2004 3:32:56 pm PDT #3169 of 10002
Karma is a cat, sleeping in my lap cuz it loves me. ~TS
I started rereading OotP two nights ago, mostly because I forgot what happened. After the first three chapters, I was all oh, shoot, this is the one where Harry pisses and moans for a gazillion pages, hangs out at the Ministry for his trial, and Dumbledore ignores him for the whole book and then it was oh no, Hagrid goes to the giants in this one, mebbe I can skip that chapter and finally dammit, that stupid headmistress is in this one, why am I rereading this?? I'm going to persevere, but I'm not quite sure why I'm bothering.
Edited 'cause I hate typos.
Polter-Cow - Jun 07, 2004 3:35:57 pm PDT #3170 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Dumbledore ignores him for the whole book
Oh, hey, isn't this the one where they do that sweet-ass escape from Dumbledore's office or whatever?
Hil R. - Jun 07, 2004 3:41:13 pm PDT #3171 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
But WOLP takes place almost entirely within the BookWorld, and it seems like it's just one wacky idea after another without much attempt to put them together coherently .
Huh. That would have been my description of the first.
I liked the first, and thought it held together reasonably well, but then the logic fell apart in the second. What did you think didn't hold together in the first?
Volans - Jun 07, 2004 4:44:11 pm PDT #3172 of 10002
move out and draw fire
Polgara explained my reaction to OotP much better than I would've. I made it through the first class with Umbridge and then started reading fanfic. Which is much more enjoyable, incidentally.