I briefly considered entering this journal for a Most Neglected Journal award, then realized I would lose.  Nevertheless, I feel really, really guilty.

It's not like I haven't had anything to update, either.  I've written and posted fic.  I have to, um, figure out what the last thing I posted here was - Mischief Managed?

Well, there's been two more ( Read more... )

...WTF.

A piercing, bloodcurdling shriek split the silence -- the book was screaming!

See note further down.

She was a very pretty woman. She had dark red hair and her eyes - her eyes are just like mine, Harry thought, edging a little closer to the glass. Bright green -- exactly the same shape, but then he noticed that she was crying; smiling, ( Read more... )

Single chapter, just a few quotes, so it won't go under a cut.

Chapter eleven (Quidditch)

First match ever, and exciting as Harry's broom is hexed during it.
She would never let them copy ("How will you learn?"), but by asking her to read it through, they got the right answers anyway.

Concerning the parenthetical note - I totally agree, Hermione, and ( Read more... )

Three chapters today.

Chapter eight (The Potions Master):
Whispers followed Harry from the moment he left his dormitory the next day. People lining up outside classrooms stood on tiptoe to get a look at him, or doubled back to pass him in the corridors again, staring.

The first of many times.

And I swear she must have intended for Seamus Finnigan to ( Read more... )

I missed yesterday, so I get to read two today, yay.

Chapter six:
Harry kept to his room, with his new owl for company.

Ohhh, I love these beginnings.

His school books were very interesting. He lay on his bed reading late into the night

Yaaaay, Harry is a natural reader!  It is only disturbed by his extreme angst and traumatic experiences later on.

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*looks v. guilty*

I didn't forget about this journal.  I recalled it intermittently, and the promises I had made to announce various things as they are released to the internet public, but...could not find the motivation to log out and back in to do so.

Here I am though, for an entirely different purpose.  Because I've begun re-reading Harry Potter ( Read more... )

Sigh.  I have been so lazy about this, like a lot of other things in my life.

( Cut for length in advance - it's seven chapters )

I finally picked the fifth book up again.  Had stopped in the middle of chapter twenty-nine, Career Advice, right when Harry decides to break into Umbridge's office to contact Sirius.  Read until the middle of chapter thirty-one, O.W.L.s, as Harry falls asleep over his History of Magic exam paper to dream his fateful dream.

( Here are some notes. )

( More notes. )

( More fifth-book thoughts - the quotes make it long )