Interesting article on Salon that is not so much about Dumbledore as about JKR's choice to keep doling out information about backstory and what happened after the books were over.

Also some thought-provoking letters, particularly this one.

No time for analysis now; I just wanted to throw this out there. Maybe after work.

Picked up the book at around 9:30 this morning and just now finished.

( Massive, massive spoilers behind this cut. )

( So I saw Order of the Phoenix today... )

Take equal parts T.S. Eliot and J.K. Rowling, add a dash of parody and a splash of homage, and you get this.

Warning: contains spoilers for Half-Blood Prince. Via The Laughing Librarian.

Mary Sue Pembroke releases a "corrected" version of Harry Potter 6.

Can't post; reading.

Actually it was just a really busy weekend. I'm about 3/4s of the way through and wow! Yesterday morning, I was on a bus with a bunch of Mawrters and mentioned that I was about halfway done (which I was at the time), and many people turned to me with instant jealousy and demands to know what happened. "Do you really want to ( Read more... )

467 books in 2-1/2 hours...

Well, this is one way to avoid Harry Potter spoilers...

I also like the throwaway line at the end.