In case you haven't yet heard (though as expected, there are several posts about it just in the top page of my flist):

Dumbledore is gay. For reals.

written_in_blue does make a good point that it's either unrequited or a really bad case of Fatal Attraction (hello, next week's discussion sections on love stories), but still. Dumbledore is gay!

Okay, so the newly announced title of the seventh and final Harry Potter tome makes no sense.

( cut for spoilers, although frankly I think not wanting to know the title is a little crazed, but you know, I respect your lifestyle choices )

A non-spoiling note about HPHBP: I haven't even started it yet. I just don't have much time, and my feeling of wasting time is exacerbated by doing things in long stretches more so than wasting time in short bursts, regardless of the total amount of "real time" wasted (i.e. not spent reading for my prelim). Also, I'd hate to be reading it and ( Read more... )

My preordered copy of HPHBP came from Amazon at about 2 pm. Next time I should probably just reserve a copy with a local bookstore; I think I could get a comparable discount (and no s&h costs), and I'd be able to get it at midnight instead of having to wait around for it to arrive. I missed the farmers' market because I couldn't leave my ( Read more... )

I have decided that the #2 bus is the Harry Potter bus, because after two sightings of a man who looks eerily like Peter Pettigrew, today I spotted Seventh Year!Ron Weasley, which kind of made me see the appeal of Ron Weasley for the first time. I have a special spot in my heart for Percy (it's the spot I retain for nerds gone wild in general), ( Read more... )