Just Finished it

[pegkerr]

More later. Stunning decision by Harry at the end of the book. The next book will apparently go off in quite a different direction. Is that vague enough? I hope so. (This wasn't the speediest finish on my friends list, no doubt, but I did spend 9 1/2 hours at Valleyfair today, too.)

[Note: caution if you click on the comments here, they contain spoilers, too.

Comments

[erzebet.livejournal.com]

It's perfectly vague and thank you very much because I'm only on page 177. :)

[kokopoko.livejournal.com]

I was stunned by the who killed who thing. But if someone is no longer at the school then why stay there? It makes sense. But the last book will be very very different. I just don't see how it's possible for Harry to win at all.

[aitchellsee.livejournal.com]

I have to confess that what part of my Harry-Potter-loving heart hadn't already been captured by ajhalluk's LOPiverse fanfic was permanently hijacked last year by the good playerfolk of Nocturne Alley. I went willingly following after their Pied Piper when OotP happened and they voted to go AU instead of trying to incorporate those plot twists, and I'm terribly glad that NA wound to its own heartwrenching but fitting conclusion last summer and gave us a whole year for that set of emotions and attachments to dissipate somewhat before needing to come to terms with JKR's canonical overturning of so many expectations...

HLC in NYC

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Mhy guess is that it isn't vague enough. I'll bet I can guess what you're talking about: Harry leaves Hogwarts.

B

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

My question: was that spoiler page you pointed to a few days ago real, or was it a forgery?

B

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Okay, so I went back and LJ-cut him. But then you saw the spoiler page, too.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Since you asked (and I don't understand why you want to be spoiled).

Yeah. Damn them.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Sorry, but the spoiler page had nothing to do about that. I guessed it 100% from reading your spoiler. It was kind of obvious. What else could you have possibly meant by that comment?

It was smart for you to move it beyond a cut tag. It doesn't look good for someone who made such a big deal about spoilers to post one herself.

B

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

It's not that I want do be spoiled per se, it's that I just don't care one way or another.

It'll be months -- weeks, at least -- before I read this book, assuming I get around to it. (The fifth one was not all that good.) If I spend my effort running away from spoilers, I'll go positively bonkers. So I'm just not worried about it.

I'm more interested to hear that some had the spoiler page, presumably the big deal surprise of the book, in hand and was able to post it to the Internet.

B

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

That's me, too. I just don't care either way.

K. [I haven't read them all; I think I''ve read #1 and #3]

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

As a former NA player (I played Neville) I am proud to hear you say so.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

B., I think you might be interested in reading the book anyway, because it talks an awful lot about what you wrote about in your latest book. Among other things, its a book about terrorism and a book about fear during wartime. I'd say at least a quarter to a third of the book and plot points is about this, and you would appreciate the points she is making. She is perfectly aware of (and explicitly criticizes) government action which is taken NOT to make anyone safer but to make people feel better, and she is scornful of the way personal liberties are crushed in order to convince the scared that the government is "doing something" (even if it doesn't a damn thing to actually make people safer).

Coming out a week after the London bombings makes it very timely.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Yeah, well, somebody who hadn't read the spoilers page said it was appropriately vague.

Don't spank me, I'm bitchy today.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'll probably read it. But her attempts at making her books relevent to current events -- remember that idiotic tabloid reporter from the last book? -- are kind of lame.

Still, there are probably some interesting commentary that I can write about.

Thanks for the recommendation.

B

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, well, somebody who hadn't read the spoilers page said it was appropriately vague."

I thought that said more about her than your comment.

"Don't spank me, I'm bitchy today."

Not my intention; I'm sorry.

We're going out to see the penguin movie tonight, if you think watching a film about Antarctica in an air-conditioned movie theatre might make you feel better. Call my cellphone.

B

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Just tried calling and got no answer. I'd love to go. What time is the show? Could the girls go too?