Harry Potter 6 - WHO'S PUMPED?
 

I just did a reread of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix to prepare for the upcoming release of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.

I enjoyed the Order of the Phoenix the second time around and I am SOOO excited for the 6th book to be released.

Who's with me here? I am not entirely convinced of the fate Sirius Black met in the last book...

I didn't preorder the book... I figure stores will be ready for me :).

We have yet to have time to finish the last book on tape. I know, I'm a bad Harry Potter fan.

You have until July 16th :lol:. I can imagine that the book on tape version of that one is LONG, as the book was 700+ pages.

I got on a Potter kick for awhile. I'll have to reread the first ones to get back in that worldmood again.

I can't wait. I agree with you @ Sirius-if he was dead, J.K. would have made that clear. If he doesn't come back in this book, he'll make a grand appearance in the seventh. I can't wait to read it. :love:HP:love:

I still need to read The Order of the Phoenix! I haven't even bought it yet. Eh, I got side tracked. I'll read it eventually though!

We've reserved two copies of the book and the book on cd here at dar mansion.

We made the deal that I get to read it first because I am a faster reader, however I know exactly what will happen. I will read it and then put it down to go to the bathroom, get a drink, and my dear husband will pick it up and start reading it. Then I'll get mad and make him give it back to me.

When we got order of the phoenix, we took turns reading it, but mostly because I had jet lag and kept falling asleep while reading the book or sometimes we'd try to read it together and I would end up finishing the pages far before him.

We should follow your lead dar and get two books, but we won't.

That thingy at the end of OOTP ... I think that was a Gate, wasn't it? At least it seemed that way to me ...

I'm glad that I am not the only one who is suspicious about the fate of Sirius Black. I seem to be the only one in my group of friends that have read it and question it. Sirius Black is just way too cool.

Not the HP madman in the family, but I get enough by association.

Oh, welcome to the cellar, Kieran! Hope you have fun!

Luna and Sperlock... I'm glad I'm not the only serious Sirius questioner out there!!!

Sirius is dead. He passed "beyond the veil" which is a euphemism for death.

You tell small children that Santa Claus is dead, don't you?

I refuse to accept that. 5 more days 'til Book 6... I'm going crazy here!!! :rollanim: :rollhappy :bonk: Deep breaths... deep breaths...

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:

I'm not reading it extra fast. This is how I always read.

I already finished it... a very good book. I wasn't originally going to read the whole thing in one sitting, but I became addicted to it and could not set it down. I was also afraid that I would hear about all the information before I had a chance to read it. But don't worry, I won't post anything that would spoil the joy of finding out the details through the book.

Don't worry, Iggy. I know the butler did it. :biggrin:

holy crap--how did this phenom escape me? Anything this freakin' addictive is something I'd definitely be in for. Wonder if everybody is sold out yet? PS: Don't kick me out of your club just because I haven't read any HP yet. I can change.

From Fazed
 

***WARNING*** The following video contains spoilers for the new Harry Potter book. Don't watch this video or read the comments associated with this post if you don't want to know the ending.

People take this whole Harry Potter thing very seriously. If you're going to drive by the line of people waiting to buy the book (at 1:00 AM) and ruin the ending for them by yelling it out, you'd better have mommy's minivan to escape in!

http://www.fazed.org/video/view/?id=33

My god.......that clip is so stupid on so many levels. :smack:

The genius behind the camera was probably more retarded than the people buying the book.

I actually broke my reading into three sessions (had to eat and so on ...) finished at 0135 hrs 17-JUL-2005.

The idiot with the video camera just plain need killin'.

1. You're retarded on principle.
2. You're retarded because you read the damned book in just over a day.
3. You're retarded b/c you use military time, civie.

Everything at work happens in military time. Before the nuthouse, when I worked with computers everything was set in military time, and I wrote everything up that way because it annoyed my former employer.

I COULD just put everything in stardate format, you know ...

Target had a metric fuckton of copies left just after noon out here in Colorado Springs.

If I were standing in line with Little Sidhe, and she was still of the mind that stuff like that was important, the monkey in the van would be getting a visit.

It's funny how easy it is to get someone's address from a license plate number.

When can we start discussing spoiler stuff? :D

when I've had a chance to read it. SSHSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

seriously, please don't :worried:

at least put big bold warnings first.

Another board I'm on has a thread for folks who have finished reading and want to talk about the spoilers.

I had to take the rugrats out to buy a birthday present for one of their friends last night. The toy store we went to had a mini-display of 4 copies at the checkouts. I didn't bother asking if that was all they had left.

(BTW kudos to Amazon UK and the mails... my copy was shipped Friday and arrived in Monday's mail. I'm up to, umm, chapter 6 I think. So far I'm liking it much better than Order of the Phoenix.)

Pathmark has plenty, $18. ;)

I was very surprised not to find them in the Giant last Saturday.

They are also not being carried in the two major convenience store chains in the area. I suppose they really aren't that convenient.

Same story, same price at the local Targets, Bruce.

Our copy arrived about midafternoon on the sixteenth, in an Amazon carton prominently emblazoned with "Please Do Not Deliver Before July 16!" Didn't even have to sign for the parcel; reckon UPS had half a bazillion of them to deliver. I told the driver, "I dance the happy dance!" She smiled.