Just for some perspective here, I'm not really a big fan of the HP movies. I don't have anything against them, and I've taken the time to see every one in the theatre so far... but I just don't get all excited about them, or normally feel any great desire to watch them more than once ( Read more... )

kerravonsen, multifandom fic reader and critic extraordinaire, who has just got sucked into HP in spite of her best efforts and was kind enough to rec D&L on her recs site and associated mailing list. She also wrote some loverly reviews of my Whofics and X-Fics way back when, so we've known each other for a while and I'm very happy to see her on LJ ( Read more... )

I've given up (for the moment) on reading OotP aloud to my husband, since we are both rather busy, and started re-reading the book alone. I'm doing this primarily with an eye to catching any inconsistencies or considerations that relate to the revision of D&L, but it's interesting to see how many other little details I hadn't noticed before. I'm ( Read more... )

In the comments to my post of last month about the first chapter of OotP, in which I suggested that Harry was under the influence of Voldemort to varying degrees right from the first page of the story, my dauntless Brit-beta (and fine HP author in his own right) Alec Dossetor said this and really blew my mind. Follow-ups are here and hereI think ( Read more... )

Not too many deep thoughts tonight, as I'm tired and my arm aches and I'd really like to go to bed, but --

( Thoughts on Chapter 2 )

I read Books 1-4 aloud to my husband just a couple months after GoF came out -- he enjoys the stories but doesn't read for pleasure -- and tonight we finally started on OotP. I have great fun doing this, because it appeals to the buried actress in me: I try to do as professional-sounding and nuanced a reading as possible, including all the voices ( Read more... )

drmm has a cool theory about OotP.

Even though I am still trying to sort out my feelings about OotP, I am finding it very fic-inspirational. But in a different way from the previous books. The earlier ones made me want to write romance. This book makes me want to write genfic.

Next up: a conversation between Snape and Lupin.

I have finished OotP. It is... well, I don't want to give anything away outside a cut-tag, but it's... different. Some of the differences I knew about from JKR's interviews, but some of them were... unexpected ( Read more... )

Thanks to lining up in front of our local children's bookstore at 11:30 last night (since I'd gone to bed at 9:40 and by 11:20 I still hadn't got to sleep), I ended up being only the third person to buy a copy of OotP in town. I would have been the second, except that I let a twelve-year-old girl dressed up as Hermione go ahead of me, because... ( Read more... )