Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Here, I believe, the books take a turn for the more mysterious. There are layers of innuendo and hints of plot that aren’t expressed as well in the movie. I think this is where the movies take on a bit more of an ‘eye-candy’ roll. Fluffy and enjoyable, but without the books you really don’t get the underlying story. After re-reading the book I find myself wondering about a great deal more. Picking apart careless phrases and wondering if there’s hidden meaning.

I’m turning into… a fan.

It won’t last, though. I have not the attention span to be a true fan – any world will eventually bore me, and I move on to new and exciting ‘fandoms’. But for now, I find myself fascinated by the Harry Potter world, and sincerely hope a lot of the questions are answered on Saturday (I have a feeling by Saturday, if I’ve made it through all the books, I’ll have even more questions!

Remaining:

GoF - 734 pages
OotP – 896 pages
HBP – 672 pages

Total – 2302 pages / 4 days = 575.5 pages per day.

Honestly, I’m not sure I’m going to make it! I know, I should have started sooner, or at least gotten through GoF this weekend. Stupid Jewel Quest. *grump* And heaven forbid I want to make any icons this week. I think it’ll have to be another week I skip most of them.

More Harry Potter stuff

I've been working on the Harry Potter spell magnets on and off for a few days, and let me tell you - it's tough! I also tried out the wand made from paper and hot glue, only to find it's way harder than it looks. For me, at least. Everyone else seems to think it's really easy. :/

Also, I went through the Leaky Cauldron website and culled the spells they have there... and came up with over 60! That's a lot of spells.

So if you were going to get spell magnets in your package, it may not be a whole set now. You may request certain spells, and I will try to accommodate.

Also, if you were meeting me at Borders on Friday, drop me a line and let me know when you're going to be there! You can e-mail me at smeddley at livejournal dot com and it'll get to me, or if you know my work e-mail that'll get me faster.

And, finally, I read that 'spoiler' that's been going around. Actually, there are two. One purports to be the entire book, and that was shown as flase. So if you saw a .pdf of the 'book', it was a piece of fanfiction called 'Harry Potter and the Seven Horicruxes' written by, according to all accounts, a pretty good fanfiction writer. If you like fanfiction, it may be worth checking out. But it's not real. The second purports to be from someone who hacked into the publisher's computer, and 'Gabriel' is trying to spoil the book so no one will read it and all the Neo-Paganism will blah blah blah... To sum up, I think he's a nutjob. But I did copy the 'spoiler' down so I can laugh about it after I read the book. Because I'd bet my favorite quilt top (I love making the tops, hate the quilting...) he's wrong.

In a way I'm going to be sad that it's all over in a week. Sure, there will be more movies, but that's not the same. It's times like these I really do understand fanfiction - people don't want to give up their favorite characters just because the author is done. So they continue on. Fortunately, my aforementioned short attention span will mean I'm on to something else in no time at all...

On a final note, there are bugs dropping from the ceiling in my office. So far, none have hit me, but... ugh. Not pleasant.