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 ;)
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.
Waitaminnit.
The most popular boy in school was an ass??
That's unheard of!!
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.
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.
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.
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?
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?
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.
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.
Betsy, it only gets worse. I liked the ideas well enough in the first one, but by the third one, it's just ridiculous. Plus I'm not all that impressed by Thursday Next as a character or as a detective. Meh. I'll stick this one out, I guess, but I doubt I'll be reading any more.
I made it through the first class with Umbridge and then started reading fanfic. Which is much more enjoyable, incidentally.
Yay HP fanfic! Everyone here has read Fay's excellent Invisible to See (Harry/Draco), right? My second favorite HP author is Helenish; I especially love her Harry/Ron story Close Enough.
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