Running late. A BIT

[cleolinda]

I spent yesterday gleefully researching, and today, I... crashed a bit. Mood is high, though. I'm just kind of sleepy and scattered.

So, instead, I went and read through Mark Reads Harry Potter--the Prisoner of Azkaban and Goblet of Fire blogs, at least. I'd kind of vaguely heard of it back when he was doing Mark Reads Twilight, and--God bless,

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[cupcakery]

I want him to be destroyed by the next three books the way the rest of us were: properly.

FUCKING YEARS BETWEEN BOOKS.

Not that I'm still bitter or anything.

[cleolinda]

Well, he's having to read it a chapter a day, which might even it out in terms of suffering. A bit.

[cupcakery]

Three. Years. After the whole cemetery bit. Three. Years.

[nicolars]

Yeah.

I started reading the HP series right when Goblet of Fire was released, so I read all four books in about a week or so and then had to wait three years for the next book.

[cleolinda]

You know, I think I did too. But I had no concept of how much time there was or was not between the previous books, so I just assumed that that was how long it took. Also, the movies were coming out (I think that's why I started reading when GOF came out), so that was something.

[crowsilike]

Imagine the people who had to wait for the translations!

Not that I did. I got the English version first, then the Swedish one because I was nerdy like that :D

[ceebeegee]

I was sent the whole series last summer by my brother. I read a book a day.

(Well, for the first three books :P )

But everyone on my friends' list got to re-experience the HP books in real time. I was DEVASTATED by the end of Goblet of Fire. My brother had texted me "this is where it gets really dark" and I'm all "what is he talking about about? Just more of the same, contest, Harry figures things out, tasks, etc., yadda yadda, maze, OH MY GOD." He texted back "where are you?" and I replied "Cedric--murdered. Voldemort--alive. Lucious Malfoy--Deatheater. HOLY SHIT." The end of the chapter that ends with Cedric's death devastated me. The writing was just incredible. "Kill the spare." Like--he didn't even matter, he was just a spare.

[hazakaza]

Totally agreed. The "spare" thing, that is. Holy crap.

[t4_flirt]

I remember PUTTING THE BOOK DOWN when I read that line for the first time. "Kill the spare."

I was like, oh holy hell no. He didn't.

And then picked it up and had my mind blown.

[sevenmarie]

i tend to agree with you

yes waiting 3 years is a pain but can you imagine having to wait a WHOLE DAY between Voldemort returns and finding out WTF is going on back at Hogwarts?! how can you NOT stay up all night reading to find out what happens? oh that's right because you said you wouldn't OMG soooo hard!