No 21st July like yesterday's will ever come again
OH, WHAT A FANGIRL I HAVE BECOME!!
THE LAST BOOK..............I AM SO EMOTIONAL RIGHT NOW.
When Friday came, I was actually pretty tense, I had only slept 2 hours because I was up studying for Chem. I could have done so much better. I understood the topic - but the practice and the memeorising was just not there. Ms Leong is expecting me to do better and so am I.
Though the minute I came home, I was SOO tired. I JUST SLEPT. Then I did as much work as I could because I was completely dedicating my weekend to reading and I knew that I would be SO NECESSARILY ESTATIC AND INTERNET DEPRIVED that I wouldn't be able to do any afterwards.
Later in the night, I was freaking out. My bro's lack of sleep worried me since HE was the one driving me the next morning and if he didn't wake up for me I could have possibly missed everything that happened the next day. I was so worried that M'sians were as eccentric about Harry Potter as I was and that I'd be at the back of some HUGE ASS LINE, full of people that have been there for 2 days or something. Though to my HAPPY and RELIEVED surprise, there was only around 50 there. I can kick 50 dudes out of the way no problem :D
THE WAITING SUCKED THE MOST. The bro went off to the mamaks and I was there standing amidst other Potter fanatics by myself and no one to fangirl to about how much I WAS FREAKING OUT. There were these girls in front of me being so 'little ppl' that I was dying for Ron and Jo to be beside me.
THEN THE WAITING ENDED. MOMEMTARILY. The shutters to The Curve opened and everyone (twice as many people were there since I had come) was just crawling through what little space there was and the guards were yelling and all that but no one seemed to care. I was rushing through as fast as I could and was SO GLAD for my powers in crowd surfing and beat quite a few people to Borders' line. Quite a few people tripped. Yes, I laughed...it was pretty funny, especially since they were at the front. Then the waiting started again. Finally the bro joined me and said that I was the 38th person! I didn't know how he counted since there wasn't even a proper line - everyone was just bunched up together.
THEN THE WAITING ENDED AGAIN. MOMENTARILY. This time Borders' shutters were opening and everyone was doing the crawling again and then some CRAZY ASS parent was yelling and being a dick to the Borders staff, saying how they were disorganised and couldn't believe they were operating in a way that made all kids crawl under shutters. He wanted to report to their management or something...WHATEVER.
THEN THE BEST THING HAPPENED. I TURNED OUT TO BE THE 15TH PERSON IN THE LINE TO GET THE BOOK. THE WAITING FINALLY ENDED. Apparently the rest were there for The Sun's competition, where the first 7 would get the book free with the right answer for this qeustion. I AM SO GLAD, because after that I found out that the first 20 people would get a RM30 gift card (which was straightaway deducted from my final price) and the first 50 would get a free Starbucks breakfast. YAY FOR STARBUCKS. Too bad I didn't get to finish their big ass doughnut, but it was over sugary and I wanted to get home and read already. The coffee (I forgot the long name) was lovelyyyy!
Plus, Kak Sabrina is LUCKY. My copy was reserved, though she was hoping I could buy it as well and it turned out I could and even better, I got 20% off of it (haha, good thing you bought it at Tesco's Ron, still much cheaper). I thought I was doing a service for a still young at heart adult, but it turns out it was for her boss' daughter. I feel used. I hope she gets perks for this!
THEN ANOTHER MAGICAL THING HAPPENED. MY LONG AWAITED SUPERMAN/BATMAN: ENEMIES AMONG US GRAPHIC NOVEL HAD ARRIVED. AND I HAD ENOUGH CASH TO BUY IT. YAAAAAAYYYYYY~~!!! TWO BOOKS IN ONE DAY. I WAS SO HAPPY.
AND I LOVE MY TY BEANIE BABY HEDWIG. THIS THING IS PRICELESS TO ME. I tried to convince myself that if I didn't get the soft toy, it shouldn't matter (since the lady told me that it was based on a while stocks last/first come first served thing). THOUGH I GOT IT. AND I AM SO HAPPY.
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The one thing I had been looking forward to in this book was mainly
HARRY GINNY HARRY GINNY HARRY GINNY HARRY GINNY HARRY GINNY HARRY GINNY!!!!!!!
SHARON YOU KNOW HOW MUCH SO. I constantly relayed it to Ron, as we were smsing while reading together since Saturday. We finished the book only a few minutes apart from each other (I finished first, though she had smsed me when I was almost done, and I didn't wanna look at it, in case she had finished before me and thought I did too!). I AM CURRENTLY GRINNING AND IN AN ELEVATED SENSE OF HAPPINESS! AFTER ALL HIS SUFFERING I AM SO HAPPY THAT J.K. ROWLING GAVE HIM A HAPPY ENDING. HAPPY ENDING'S KICK ASS SIAN!!!
Though the one thing I wanted (THOUGH I AM ALREADY SO PLEASED =DDDDDDDDDDDDDD) but didn't happen was Draco's change in sides. I was yearning for the bad guy turned good cliche (though of course he'd still be rude boi towards him), but noooooooooo, he had to stay a wuss till the very end. Though I must add that Draco's 'dark coat buttoned up to his throat' and his 'curtly' nod WAS PARTYTIME!EXCELLENT.
Though I had cried three times! Once when he visited their grave, then when he saw his house (with the grafiti with people cheering him on T.T), and finally (the worst of all) when he was holding the Resurrection Stone and looking at his parents, Sirius and Lupin T_____________T
IT WAS SO BEAUTIFUL AND SO TOUCHING.
I only stopped crying when he got hit by Voldermort - though I am actually a little glad that I accidentally spoiled the nature of the ending for myself (wanted to see if the last last word was actually scar - but instead I acidentally read the last sentence and was giddy that it was a pleasant ending), because I didn't feel have to feel depressed at all!
It was a hard blow, Lupin's and Tonk's death. My thoughts went straight to his kid - but I'm so glad he'd been snoggin' at the end of the book!
BUT WHY HEDWIG. HE DID NOT HAVE TO DIE. WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY~~!!!!!!!!
OMGAAAD!! What else did I love!? I LOVE epilogues, so I am so happy there was one! Despite all the negativity there has been towards it, AND ALBUS SEVERUS IS A HORRIBLE NAME, but I genenrally have no complaints. Also loved the moment Harry and Ginny had on his 17th birthday~! Stupid harrypotterRON! And how she was his last thought before he thought he was going to die! Then the whole 180 with Snape!! IT TOUCHED ME SO MUCH!! THE PAINED HERO!! He's like...he's like...SATOSHI HIKARI!! BUT NOT AS GOOD LOOKING! AND NEITHER ARE GAY, THANKS!
Though MRS WEASLEY RUUUDE GAL!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA~~!! YES WITH THE CAPSLOCK ROWLING!!!
But my favourite line, which began beautifully with 'OI!' and followed by 'There's a war going on here!' HAS TO BE ONE OF THE BEST PARTS OF THE BOOK. YEY!
Haha, I am so happy I got into Harry Potter, but regrets that I didn't get into it sooner. Hehe, I partly blame Miriam, cuz he tried to force it on me - though thanks that she rammed the first three at me anyway (which I only started reading months later cuz it reminded me of London - my year 5 teacher Mr Pollen had read it to the class). This also led to a small hole in me. I don't have first editions of the first 5 of the books...it makes me feel really really sad. I hope that I never get swayed by what other people around me think ever again. Never ever.
Though I am hopeful in getting some "collector's box set" and having the rest as the ones I can carry around with me and read whenever I want to, instead of becoming overly careful of whether or not I make the slightest crease (and of course the first editions will remain in as mint a condition as they are now).
Thanks Sharon, Jo, Soo Bin, Deep, Sumira, Eliza, Pooja, Bonnie, Raghav & Nalin. Really, thanks a lot.