Maybe we'll find out Voldemort has a brother. The title is a little goofy (Phantom Menace, anyone??).
Edit: Just thought of Dumbledore- maybe it's him.
River: You gave up everything you had. Simon: [Chinese] Everything I have is right here.
'Safe'
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."
hun_e - Jun 29, 2004 1:05:33 pm PDT #3670 of 10002
Meanwhile, back at the Hall of Justice...
Volans - Jun 29, 2004 1:35:36 pm PDT #3671 of 10002
move out and draw fire
I'm pretty sure it's Hagrid, as he's the known half-blood, but yawn. Not what I want a whole book 6 about. I'd prefer it to be Remus.
Of course, it was immediately mutated into "Harry Potter Gets a Half-and-Half."
Steph L. - Jun 29, 2004 2:04:24 pm PDT #3672 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
"Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince."
Harry Potter and the Really Lame Title. Meh.
I just hope the prince referred to in the title isn't a heretofore never-mentioned character.
Connie Neil - Jun 29, 2004 2:06:24 pm PDT #3673 of 10002
brillig
isn't a heretofore never-mentioned character.
wrod
§ ita § - Jun 29, 2004 2:06:52 pm PDT #3674 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I just hope the prince referred to in the title isn't a heretofore never-mentioned character.
Heh. I prefer that to the heretofore never-mentioned characteristic of an existing character.
I realise, in retrospect, that I don't really care for any of her titles. They're just ... there.
§ ita § - Jun 29, 2004 2:45:06 pm PDT #3675 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
meara - Jun 29, 2004 3:25:30 pm PDT #3676 of 10002
OK, wow. I just read that, ita and...it's both convincing, and truly makes me believe that some people have wayyyyyy too much time on their hands.
Java cat - Jun 29, 2004 7:28:52 pm PDT #3677 of 10002
Not javachik
Her next book, though, is one I'm looking forward to, because she has a personal stake in it. Her grandmother was a worker at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in NY, and left a week before the fire that killed 150-plus women workers (and changed the face of American unions).
This sounds fascinating. I wonder if she was afflicted with survivor guilt.
I finished Jennifer Government on books on tape. It was okay. The characters were charicatures, one was annoyingly stupid (Hack Nike), the plot either needed to be tighter or more over the top a la Christopher Moore, the pieces come together at the end just the way you can see they were going, but I was entertained. I like the bar code tatoo.
Soderberg/Clooney's Section 8 has optioned it? Huh.
hun_e - Jun 29, 2004 9:08:12 pm PDT #3678 of 10002
Meanwhile, back at the Hall of Justice...
it's both convincing, and truly makes me believe that some people have wayyyyyy too much time on their hands
I agree on both counts... but verrrry interesting.
Atropa - Jun 30, 2004 12:00:22 am PDT #3679 of 10002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
But Harry's mom is like Hermione -- from a non-wizarding family, but with strong magical talent.
Waitaminute, I thought that it never has been specifically spelled out that Lily's family was non-wizarding. Petunia goes on about how pleased the parents were when Lily got her letter from Hogwarts, but that's it.
(Yes, I'm still clinging to the notion that Petunia is a Squib. Also, that Lily and Snape were involved, and that her eventually rejection of him caused him to join the Death Eaters. What? Stop looking at me like that ...)