OoP: Finished in 12 hrs!

[Trina]

The following apparant ramble from nowhere A) has a point & B) serves 
as spoiler space

My fave episode of "Friends" is the one where Joey and Rachel read 
each others favorite books, a deal struck after Rachel finds a copy 
of Joey's much re-read copy of "The Shining" in the freezer when she 
comes over to borrow some ice.  He tells her it's there because he 
got scared reading the night before.  When she makes some snarky 
comment about re-reading a book, he asks if she's ever done so, she 
says "maybe Little Women" and they then switch books.  Later, after 
Joey accidently ruins the ending of "The Shining" for Rachel, a 
Spoilage Skirmish erupts and Ross, noticing Joey's deep distress at 
the ulitimate LW spoiler (Beth dies!), asks Rachel if she really 
wants to ruin the first book Joey has liked that wasn't The Shining.  
Rachel then recants.  But at the end, Joey comes over to the girls' 
place upset over Beth being ill and Jo not being able to do much.  
Rachel hugs him and asks, "Honey, do you want to put the book in the 
freezer?"

A feeling I had many times during my massive read this morning, 
although I didn't actually do it.

1) Oh, Percy.  I have always loved him despite (or perhaps because 
of) his pompousness.  I agonized over his split with the family and 
can only hope that now that Fudge finally got his head out of his 
bum, Percy will reconcile with them

2) The Death.  I got the feeling that it was not the AK curse that 
was used, but that he died only because he fell through the curtain, 
which is in itself, Death.  I had an AHA! LMM moment then.  In "Emily 
of New Moon" by LM Montgomery (my other fave author) Emily decides to 
think of death not as a door as her dying father describes it but as 
as a curtain.  "Father was going through the door--no, he ws going to 
lift a curtain--she liked *that* thought because a curtain wasn't as 
hard and fast as a door--and he would slip into that world..."

I didn't cry at the Death, but afterwards when Harry was so angry.  
(and the book almost wound up in the freezer)

3) New Characters:  Umbridge  Oh I Could Kill Her!  She was utterly 
foul!  There are no words!

Luna:  I like her!  Weird, yes, but the whole thing with her 
belongings going missing during the year made me ache for her.

I'm sure there are other things, but I need to have a slower reading. 

Trina, hoping fervently that Percy does not become Evil