I really suspect that one won't be answered until book 7.

Apparently, a lot of lawyers and bookmakers and politicians are pumped too.

This is a terrifying example of activist courts. In this situation, I could have legally purchased this book, and then been in contempt of court and at peril of all it's associated punishments, if I don't surrender the book, or if I talk about it, or if I do anything but give it up.
They're saying it's money but it smells like bullshit.

Except for the bookmaking part, of which I was unaware (damn, people really WILL bet on anything), the same thing has happened with other HP books.

I am too lazy to go to a bookstore on Friday night. Fedex will be bringing me my copy on Saturday Morning.

On the subject of Sirius... JK Rowling herself said that when she first was thinking up the series she decided what magic could and could not do. She decided that the dead could not come back to life... Sirius is not coming back. His death is too important to the develpoment of Harry to just come back later. His parents are also not coming back, and for all we know Harry might die at the end of the series or at least be irrevocably scarred, we don't know. That is for the author to decide.

Can you tell I am a Harry Potter fan? I am so pumped!!! I just have to keep myself from thinking about it so that I don't get too excited!

My girlfriend's sister and and mom are going to some midnight book sale tomorrow night, decked out in costume. I knew the sister was a big Harry Potter fan, but I saw tonight just how big a fan she is...it's ridiculous. :)

"...when I started writing the books, the first thing I had to decide was not what magic can do, but what it can’t do. I had to set limits on it immediately and decide what the perimeters are. One of the most important things I decided was that magic cannot bring dead people back to life. That’s one of the most profound things. The natural laws of death applies to wizards as it applies to Muggles and there is no returning once you’re properly dead..."

Okay here is the quote. :blush: I just had to find it to show you where I got it from. Here is the link:
http://www.quick-quote-quill.org/art...iontransc.html
It is the 14th paragraph from the bottom. :D

You realize this just cries out for a picture, don't you?

We got a copy of the British version of book 1 so we could have the "philosopher's stone" rather than the "sorceror's stone." Since then we've just continued the tradition, so I'm pre-ordered from Amazon UK.

Yeah...I'll have to see if they'll allow me to post one. Otherwise, I'll send you one via e-mail.

My friend's son went to some event dressed as Harry ... looks like it was the movie opening.

http://scribe.fork.org/cellar/RickHarry.jpg

awww, he looks so cute - and so much like Harry Potter :).

It's been mentioned in other threads, but I will say it again since I am such a big fan. Jim Dale does a wonderful job reading the Harry Potter tales for the audiobooks. He doesn't just read the books, he acts them.

The dar family has been known to sit around the stereo listening to the stories like some '30s "Good Housekeeping" family sitting around the floor model radio.

I am sad to say that I gave up my right to be the first in the house to read the book...

I've had all summer to get this paper done... I've known about it since the end of may and it's due 7/22... I just really got started on it this week. So I figured, since HP6 will be a huge distraction for me, I'm going to let Micahel read it first. He reads slow... so he'll probably have it done by next Friday.

In the meantime, back to discussing why cultural property displaced by war should remain in other countries until its home country is stable enough to take it... now that's a thread topic. :haha:

The kids and I stayed up last night for the HP feeding frenzy at the local Border's. They did a good job of it. Everything was well ordered and they had enough for the kids to do.

Just finished chapter four. An excellent start. It bodes well for the rest of the book.

I'm at Chapter 10. I would have been further, but I decided that I should take a break and go to the supermarket to get some Jelly Bellies to put in my Bertie Botts All-Flavored Beans sack.

I am going to have to pursue the monumental task of wading through the big pile o' books to find the other 4 to reread them ... I can see OOTP, it's kind of near the front. POA, COS and SS are in there somewhere. They have to be. But I'm fearful that they are on the bottom, near the back. I might have to put the fire company on standby for an extrication, in case the piles collapse on me.

Are you sure you're the one with the keys? ;)
Why pay $18 for a 632 page book just to see how fast you can finish it?
That's like Nathan's substituting NY strip steaks for hot dogs in their pig out contest.
If it's worth reading it's worth savoring.....they won't recall it will they? :mg: