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exhausted I FINISHED HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE!!!!
It took five hours, two bottles of diet Coke with lime, and the better part of a box of tomato-basil Wheat Thins, and I'm definitely going to have to give it a second read-through before the weekend is out, but I finished it.
There are spoilers behind the cut. Really. They won't be coherent spoilers or anything, but I don't want anyone to click and say I didn't warn them that there are SPOILERS in the link.
Clear? Good.
As far as I'm concerned, the entire series was leading up to this: Luna Lovegood as the new quidditch announcer.
Um, Albus? Honey? Come over here for a moment. If you're going to ask Harry to advise you on whether or not you've come to the right conclusion about something, you deserved to die.
Um, Harry? Honey? Come over here for a moment. Go read Remus's little speech on page 333. You know, the one about how you shouldn't be so damn sure that you know what's going on with Snape? *WHAP* Now go read it again, or I'll get Umbridge to make you to etch that paragraph in your skin.
Happy couples: Bill and Fleur are engaged. Ron and Hermione finally get hit with the clue-by-four. And Harry and Ginny, which I think we all saw coming, though he decides to go all noble and "I can't put you in danger" at the end. And... Remus and Tonks? Tonks. Honey. Come over here for a moment. Maybe you weren't pining for Sirius, but if you want the real reason why Remus was so reluctant to hook up with you... well, I remain convinced that someone was pining for Sirius.
Good heavens. I actually felt sorry for Draco by the end.
And I was right: Snape is the half-blood prince!
Whew. ...my eyes hurt. Why do my eyes hurt?
So I rushed through lunch so I could start cataloguing the library's copies, and I smuggled a copy down to the Young Adult librarian (wrapped in a plastic bag so the milling children wouldn't see what I was handing off -- when she realized what I'd given her, her eyes got huge and she said, "Oh, you rule.) and I checked out my copy and I realized that I now had to do another three hours of cataloguing before I could start reading it. And that hurt.
Still: Finished! What do I win?
July 16 2005, 03:52:05 UTC 6 years ago
Allow me to sweetly say...
Bitch! ::seethes with jealousy::Mine should be delivered tomorrow at which time I shall commence the reading. Contemplating seeing if I can check the others out and have a massive readathon over the weekend.
If only I was working, I probably could have snitched a copy overnight!
July 16 2005, 03:59:22 UTC 6 years ago
Re: Allow me to sweetly say...
::basks in the warm glow of seething jealousy::This is probably going to be the one time in my life I'm the first in any fannish endeavor, and I aim to enjoy it.
July 16 2005, 07:33:38 UTC 6 years ago
Thank you!!!
July 16 2005, 18:01:29 UTC 6 years ago
Seems obvious to me that Snape didn't 'kill' Dumbers as much as delivered the coup de grace. Before, when Harry has seen things with his own eyes, what he's seen has not been what actually happened, merely what it looked like. I think the same thing here. But time well tell.
Great that Snape was the HBP though!
July 16 2005, 18:32:24 UTC 6 years ago
Ron and Lavender was cringe-makingly realistic.
I admit that I started skimming that plotline toward the end, but... did someone 'help' Lavender pick out the ugly Christmas gift? Then again, anyone who'd come up with "Won-Won" probably didn't need much help in that area.
And I agree with the coup de grace theory. Harry's greatest weakness is when he thinks he knows what's going on -- "Sirius! You killed my parents!" -- so yes, I think Snape is still acting on Dumbledore's orders. Then again, if Harry didn't always jump to conclusions, the series would have been a pamphlet and what would we talk about then?