My lord, it has happened...

[catherine at cator-manor.demon.co.uk]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:
> ...my dh has said he's going to read PS before the movie comes out.
> 
> Bwahahahaha!
> 
> The only downside is that I now have to wait 'til the Saturday 
night 
> to see the movie.
> 
> Amy Z

I don't know what is going on at the moment, but first, Amanda's 
husband decides to read the books, now yours has, and - get this, 
despite months of refusing to read them, and much despairing on my 
part, my husband has actually finished PS!  He reads on the train 
when he is commuting, so it took him a couple of weeks (he reads very 
slowly compared to me) and each night he came home to tell me what 
had happened in the book that day.  He thought it a great joke to 
creep up behind me and yell "Got your Conk!"  I should have known 
that he'd relate to Peeves more than anyone else.  He really made me 
laugh when he finished though - he came home and said, "I still don't 
trust that Snape!"

He has now started CoS...and they say miracles never happen...

Catherine
BTW: one of the things which spurred him on was wanting to be able to 
play the trivia game with his grandchildren.  Harry Potter is such a 
big part of their lives now that he was starting to feel excluded.  
But, my point - has anyone noticed how inaccurate some of the 
questions are?  Whenever we play now, I have to have a copy of PS by 
my side, as we have had to check several answers.  The one that 
springs immediately to mind is them saying that in the first 
transfiguration class, Professor McGonagall changes her desk into a 
dog, not a pig as it says in the book.