OotP - Includes Spoilers - Evening and First read

[bettedavisgreen at aol.com]

Hello everybody!

Took a little over 12 hours to read the Bloomsbury edition.

Went to WH Smith in Paris (after walking what felt like the entire city, as 
my boyfriend told me it was just next to the train station, and I didn't need 
to take the subway, yeah right...), got there at around 8 pm, and sort of 
stormed out after midnight, withouth the book (sold in France at 1:01), as I felt 
the queing was sooooooooooooo unorganized, and a bit of claustrophoibia kicked 
in. Did get a wand. Bit boring otherwise. After all that walking, I had a 
blister, and very much welcomed the mismatched socks in my bag. Put them on in the 
street, people looking at me funny... Didn't sleep all night, too excited 
with outing, and had bought another book. My boyfriend kept ordering me to bed, 
so I finally went. At 8 am.

To be woken by Chronopost express at 10!!!! The guy actually apologised for 
waking me up!  I couldn't get my eyes off the package! Now, I'd done a couple 
of calls the day before to both Amazon and Chronopost (like UPS, but belonging 
to the national post service), and neither managed to confirm date of 
delivery. So, after storming out of WH Smith, I sort of had come to terms with only 
getting the book on Monday.


Is this enough for spiler and teaser space?...


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I did manage to put the book down, even to sleep a couple more hours, take a 
shower, go buy a baguette. I hadn't managed that with GoF. Angry!Harry sort of 
got on my nerves. Complete change in attitude. Had the feeling not enough was 
happening, but maybe it was lack of sleep (only first read...). Sirius also 
got on my nerves. And I don't get much out of the house myself... 

Had to admire Umbridge, or Jo in describing her all ways. Cats and flowery 
patterns... Hem hem...

Missed Dumbledore, and I think the book misses him too.

No Ron and Hermione??? Or any romantich stuff envolving these two and others? 
Doesn't feel right, especially with Harry's hormones being forced to sort of 
wake up.

Death of Sirius didn't bother me - lack of sleep? him being a bit of a 
nuisance? Funny though, people who spent years in Azkaban being able to duel. Sort 
of expected the Dementors to have gotten happy memories from them. But 
Bellatrix is amazing. The Black house is awesome!

Lost prophecy - boring. Maybe because I kept looking for the "It's time I 
told you everything" bit, and it took so long, and it didn't really rock the 
world. Well, that one of the two will eventually have to kill the other to 
survive, it is in the rules of all this bad character good character narrative thing, 
no? 

Neville. Wow. It's all in having confidence in yourself. Written in the 
stars, also... My favourite thing in the book. 

Ginny also. Myself being little sister of two big brothers, that thing of 
trying to do their stuff behind their backs, having big bro trying to protect 
from -bully boyfriends... Could it be possible I'm beginning to like her more 
than Hermione?

And don't you all feel, after years of reading four books in a row, it is 
soooooooooo weird to finish this one and not have the next one?...

Cristina (who really thinks she needs a second read, but whose brain is 
shutting down...)

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