[the_old_crowd] I met the famous people! plus a spoiler at the end

[JoAnna Wahlund]

Yes, we met Ginger, and she's terrific!!

I have finished the book, and loved it. Will comment more once my brain has 
stopped reeling from shock. 

On 7/16/05, quigonginger <quigonginger at ...> wrote:
> 
>  Knowing that JoAnna was headed to Barnes and Noble, I secured a 
> nametag-like patch in which I listed groups of which I was a member 
> in hopes of attracting her attention.
> 
> It worked. I think we can excuse them for sitting and talking in the 
> parking lot until 2 am the night they met. I talked to them until 
> almost 1 am and found them to be delightful and extremely funny 
> company. And I'm not even in love with them.
> 
> The funniest part was after they bought the book. They were a couple 
> hundred in line ahead of me, and after they had bought their copy, 
> they came back and talked to me. JoAnna kept opening the book to 
> random spots and yelling out things like "Wow! Who would have 
> thought that Snape and Trelawney were married!" 
> 
> Then they were recognized as the people in the paper and were the 
> coolest thing there aside from the book. Several of us had to be 
> herded by the staff as we had forgotten to move up in line.
> 
> And a good time was had by all.
> 
> SPOILER
> 
> SPOILER
> 
> SPOILER
> 
> YOU'VE READ THE BOOK, RIGHT?
> 
> LAST CHANCE
> 
> DON'T READ ON IF YOU HAVEN'T FINISHED
> 
> YOU HAVEN'T? 
> 
> WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE- GET READING!
> 
> OK, ENOUGH SPOILER SPACE
> 
> I honestly don't know what to think of Snape. As a Snape-fan, I want 
> to believe that he is on the good side for the reasons Shaun 
> mentioned. Allowing Draco to remain innocent of murder increases his 
> chances at redemption. 
> 
> I figured when Snape made that vow, and then was DADA teacher that he 
> would break the vow and die from that.
> 
> On another toplc: misprints.
> In the US edition, I found what I believe to be 3 typos or errors. 
> Am I wrong?
> 
> Chapter 1, Page 10: ...the Prime Minister could not help but fear 
> that the next time Fudge appeared it would be with graver news 
> still. The *site*, therefore of Fudge stepping out of the fire once 
> more, looking disheveled and fretful... 
> 
> Shouldn't that have been "sight"? 
> 
> Chapter 3, Page 38: The misty *fug* his breath had left on the 
> window sparkled...
> 
> Shouldn't that have been *fog*?
> 
> Chapter 23, Page 502: ...Horcruxes in the plural, Harry, which I do 
> not believe any other wizard has ever had. Yet it *fitted*: Lord 
> Voldemort has seemed to grow less human with the passing years...
> 
> Shouldn't it be "fit"?
> 
> If someone with better English skills could tell me I'm wrong on 
> these, I'll be able to read better in the future. It will bug me 
> until then.
> 
> Ginger, hoping everyone had a nice Harry Potter Day
> 
> 
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~JoAnna~


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