Here are (extremely late, I know) the entries in my Pensieve that resulted from my hitherto last reading of OotP (in March and April 2007):

• De absentia sive praesentia deorum : // "What the - ?" / Harry // (p. 529)
  
  
• De absentia sive praesentia deorum : // "great heavens above" / Fudge // (p. 720)
  
  
• De absentia sive praesentia deorum : miracula ( Read more... )

Radio New Zeealand reports at url http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/latest/200703111756/best-sellers_go_unread that according to 4000 UK residents questioned GoF comes in second in a list of books said UK residents started to read but did not read to the end.

I admit that I'm surprised.

On several accounts:
First: When it comes to HP books I would ( Read more... )

It's been ages since I last reported about my second to last reading of CoS (cf. etiam the comments on that entry!) and it's been even longer ago that I made the last report about recent entries into my pensive.

Here now are new entries: fruits of rereading CoS:

• Quotation: Bless them
  Note(s) concerning this quotation: A. Weasley
  page number: 46
  " ( Read more... )

This morning I found in my inbox an email by amazon.de:
Their (maximum) price for "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" (DH) has been reduced from EUR 25 to EUR 19.80.

There are a lot of possible causes: Some of them are:

• DH is an UK publication, and the GBP is tied to galleons and sickles, and Amazon found out that the Euro will gain in value ( Read more... )

Yesterday evening (when I was really tired) I started what probably will be my second to last go for a long long time to come through the Harry Potter books: I started rereading PS. The rest of the series will come after that. I started already now, as I'm still hoping for a 2007 release of "Harry Potter and the Alchemist's Cell/Chariots of Light/ ( Read more... )

A press organ says at URL http://www.mirror.co.uk/tvandfilm/theticket/tm_objectid=17695764%26method=full%26siteid=94762%26headline=lessons%2din%2dlove-name_page.html that JKR said she's now halfway through writing volume 7, and that its size is estimated by her at 750p ( Read more... )