Dumbledore dies.

I enter as a character, and play in a band with Jonny Greenwood.

I hate you both. OK I'm totally lying.

I hear that Harry Potter has something to do with magic.

and let this be the last time anything i'm involved in is connected, even tangentially, to harry potter. i still maintain the premise is a hacky ripoff of neal gaiman.

seriously, i'll get cracking on the calendar updates; much email to wade through.

Serotonein, I have to firmly disagree with you on that one -- especially if you haven't read the series. Like the books or not, the woman has created an entire world -- and has excited an entire generation of readers. No small feats.

I'm actually really nervous to read the last book. Is that weird??

I'm nervous too! Not only cause I'm afraid my favorite characters will die, but its like, after this book what is there really to look forward to?

haha maybe thats a little dramatic :]

Does anyone have directions to where Casiotone is playing tomorrow? because I mapquested this "barn" and got nothing

J K Rowling is getting pissed!

wait SIX characters die? I thought only two were gonna go? aw man!

DO NOT GIVE AWAY ANY SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!!! *gulp!*

Eek! Sorry dana!

Tis okay. I might have to not read this post any longer until I read the book. :P

have you read "books of magic"?

young english boy with shaggy brown hair & glasses? check
bad family problems & then suddenly told he's supposed to be the greatest wizard ever? check
pet owl? check

she may have created a separate world (it's why i specified premise), but she couldn't even be bothered to come up with a different companion animal. the stories may be for two different audiences, but i find her thematic plagiarism blatant & reason enough to slag her at every opportunity. there's enough bad writing in the world; i'd despise her less if she'd made her bad writing original.

ok, wasted far too much time discussing pre-teen "literature".

Ha, the other night at pub trivia (which I emcee), one of the questions was in the category "Children's Literature" and it was about Harry Potter. When I read it I got all kinds of uproar.

Yeah, I missed the Harry Potter express too. I think I am both too much and not enough of a nerd to like Senor Potter and the Wizards. And after being bored to tears by the first movie, it didn't really make me feel like sitting down to read War & Spells. Sorry! I'll stick to my Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy for my multi-book nerdfest. Or possibly the White Mountain trilogy for young adult sci-fi ... now that was a good series.