Severus Snape: Harry, I am your father.
Despite my small joke regarding Harry Potter, I’m bit of a fan of the series myself and will have the new book delivered on the day of it’s release.
While talking with friends about the forthcoming final Harry Potter book, I came up with a sentence we will most likely not read in it (it would, however, be a surprise equal to the one that inspired it).
Severus Snape: Harry, I am your father.
July 12th, 2007 10:09
May the potion be with you.
July 12th, 2007 12:59
I don’t really care what we will read and on which page, as long as I can read it RIGHT AWAY :) Meaning I will get the book at 1 AM at Thalia in Darmstadt… – Arne, you can still cancel your amazon order and join me ;-)
July 12th, 2007 13:40
I may be crazy, but not that crazy. ;-) (At least not about Harry Potter…)
Ilona, I can’t believe you really don’t care at all what you’ll read on which page.
Take this example (imagine it in the very beginning of the book):
“The summer holidays seemed to drag on and on forever for Ron since his friend Harry Potter had drowned while swimming and Lord Voldemort had retired from doing evil a few weeks ago.”
July 12th, 2007 14:29
HP deserves a more dramatic beginning ! (Or ending for that matter.)
“Seven days ago You-know-who had wrought evil darkness over the world, since The-boy-who-lived did not live though stirring an extremely delicate potion the wrong way around, blowing up half of Hogwarts in th process.”
July 12th, 2007 15:09
“Severus Snape, who, in Volume 6&3/4, was revealed to be Harry’s true father, is reported to have remarked upon this: ‘500 points from Griffindor.'”
July 13th, 2007 15:18
*rotfl*
You joke-cookies you!
Arne, I’m pretty sure it will be an exciting book with lots of revelations and tying up of loose ends, and therefore I don’t care whether it will be exciting this way or that way. But I guess you understood my comment the right way ;-)
And I AM THAT CRAZY right now at least… (and not ashamed to admit it)
July 13th, 2007 17:34
No worries… I am/was certainly at least as crazy, it is/was just about other things. Enthusiasm can be a great thing! :-)
July 24th, 2007 09:49
No longer able to cope with the anticipation (and not wanting to run across spoilers accidentally), I bought a copy of HP VII. After a looong session of nightly reading, I am now at halfways through the book.
And thar be no spoilers here. Period.
July 25th, 2007 16:33
Same here… I was rather afraid running into real spoilers now that the book was released and thus getting the fun of reading it.. well… spoiled. Due to that – and because it was quite a good read – I spent much of my recent free time reading it. And I can say today: After a looong night of reading I’m through. No worries there shall be no spoilers from me either. But I can say I was rather pleased with how J.K.Rowling worked it out.
July 27th, 2007 09:07
It. Is. Done.
Nox.
July 27th, 2007 09:42
And what do you think about? Liked the book?
July 27th, 2007 12:51
“This is magnicifent … and it’s true! It never happened, yet it is still true! What magic art is this?”
– Robin Goodfellow, in SANDMAN #19: “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”