Archive for July, 2007

Frustrated reading final Harry Potter


I so want to discuss the first four chapters of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. One thing that has happened in the story so far grieves me enormously—I was really upset and couldn’t believe it—no, no, no!–but I can’t turn round to my beloved and say a word about it, because he hasn’t even read Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince yet.

If any of you have been reading the new book since it came on sale at midnight, and have an inkling as to what I’m upset about, please tell me you share my pain… That’s all I need to know, that you know…

Don’t say… We don’t want to spoil things for the latecomers… Just agree or disagree that it’s awful, just terrible… That is, the happening to which I refer…

JK Rowling, I want to ask you, why? There really was no need! I could handle the first chapter, strangely enough. But the fourth…

Saturday, July 21st, 2007