Having stalwartly resisted reading the 'Carpet Book' (if by resisted, one means seeing how difficult the images were and thinking 'fuck that noise') I got my greedy little hands on a copy of the new Harry Potter at 12.30 last night...

The Good

1. Molly Weasley does Ripley from Aliens.  No words.  Easily one of the best moments of the book for me.
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Wow.  If anyone ever wanted to see me completely lose my shit, tonight was the night.  I came home from Order of the Phoenix to find my room...infested by ant/flies/insect type thingies.  When I say infested, I'm not being euphemistic - I mean infested.  I mean that scene from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (okay there weren't any centipedes ( Read more... )

Abandon hope all ye who enter here.

I had kind of a strange week.  Between my thesis, and the next draft of my play (which isn't going particularly well, I have to say) and various other things, I've been feeling a bit 'drownded' as they used to say.  Finishing A Lost Generation helped in one way and made things more difficult in another.  To be ( Read more... )

Order of the Phoenix and the Surprise of Gender

As a committed and proud feminist and Harry Potter fan, I noticed something of a change after the publication of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. This change came in the area of gender roles and the treatment of the female characters. J.K. Rowling does not explicitly address the issues of ( Read more... )