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geebs Holy crap, I was not expecting any of that! Cedric dying? Moody (well, Barty Couch Jr) being the bad guy? Voldemort back to full strength? That was an awesome climax/ending. And a nice set up for the next book as well. OotP should be quite egg-citing! I guess I'll start reading that soon. Then I can be done and you people can be all, finally, he'll stop talking about that damn Potter boy and go back to talking to something he saw on the telly or where he went to dinner. But getting back to GoF, a thoroughly enjoyable read, and my favorite of the books so far. But maybe that's because it was longer and had more stuff to like.
Owel, at least I can get to bed at a decent hour tonight. Just get through this weekend, start my drops, and look forward to a week of vacation and barring any complications from the surgery, proper vision in both my eyes. I can't wait to get my depth perception back! I mean, I've been managing without it, but tooling it at work a few weeks ago was getting annoying because it was hard to get a good read on distances and lining things up and wot-not.
Owel, at least I can get to bed at a decent hour tonight. Just get through this weekend, start my drops, and look forward to a week of vacation and barring any complications from the surgery, proper vision in both my eyes. I can't wait to get my depth perception back! I mean, I've been managing without it, but tooling it at work a few weeks ago was getting annoying because it was hard to get a good read on distances and lining things up and wot-not.
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Date: 2004-07-15 08:18 pm (UTC)The fifth book is even more so, I think. Yelling and drama and madness all the way through! It's kind of exhausting, actually.
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Date: 2004-07-16 05:04 am (UTC)Yeah, I can see it as being a huge and cool surprise had I not known it was coming. I mean, I already knew Sirius wasn't the bad guy and that Scabbers was really Wormtail who was the real bad guy. So it wasn't as shocking a revelation as it should have been.
Normally, I'm one to say, spoilers don't bother me, but these stories, the ending is always out of the blue, and there's rarely any clues to it either. I mean, who woulda expected Prof. Quirrell was the bad guy in tSS, when she did a good job of having you think it was Snape? Or in tCoS, that it was Ginny responsible for all that chaos and that Tom Riddle was Lord Voldemort? Which is why GoF was so exciting to me because I went into it totally fresh. I mean, I heard a couple of things beforehand about the dance, and that Neville's father was an Auror who was tortured and turned insane along with his wife, but those weren't vital plot points for GoF. Alas, I already heard about some of the big shockers in OotP though.
The fifth book is even more so, I think. Yelling and drama and madness all the way through! It's kind of exhausting, actually.
Awesome. I liked GoF because it did have so much. Lots of action what with the trials and facing off with Voldemort. More mind-blowing revelations, big plot happenings with Voldemort coming back to power and his Death-Eaters hooking back up with him and that stupid guy in the ministry not wanting to do anything so Dumbledore has to start gathering his own allies and making plots to save the day. And all the teeny-bopper drama shit, you know how much I love that- Harry's crush on Cho, all that Ron/Hermione stuff. So hopefully OotP will indeed turn out to be as an exciting read.
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Date: 2004-07-16 11:45 am (UTC)Well, I don't think there's too much of a grand revelatory surprise in the end of OotP, so you can't be too spoiled. Plus there's lots of little stuff that is new and exciting. There is even a whole new student character, and I LOVE HER!
I want to tell you more, but I should stop. Besides, thinking of all the stuff that happens in OotP gets me all worked up, and then depressed. It's kinda awful. :(
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Date: 2004-07-16 12:02 pm (UTC)Yeah, the big thing I heard was Sirius dying. But I guess the story's bound to be dark, what with Voldemort being back and his Death Eaters returning to his side. They're not very nice people afert all, so there's bound to be casualties. I'm only a few chapters in, and big things are already happening! He's already been attacked by Dementors and Lupin, Moody, Tonks and those other peeps have just spirited him away from Privet Drive. Though with all the turnabouts in these past few books, I can't see how Harry isn't as paranoid as Moody. I wouldn't be surprised if one of their number ended up being a bad guy!
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Date: 2004-07-17 03:59 pm (UTC)Geez, I get what you mean. I'm only about a third away through, and its been nothing but glum. The scene with Moody showing the photo of the old Order, followed up by that thing with Mrs. Weasley and the Boggart was pretty sad. And from the trial through to the first day at Hogwarts, its so damn frustrating. While I think Harry might be going slightly overboard with his temper, venting out his frustrations on his friends and wot-not, I can see why he's so mad. I mean, I can't even put into words how pissed I'd be getting if it were me. Especially those damn beauracrats at the Ministry. I'd like to say, I can't wait to see them proven wrong, but that means people will have to start getting tortured and killed.