Deathly Hallows Anyone?
July 23rd, 2007
True story. My seventeen-year-old daughter couldn’t wait for our pre-ordered copy from Amazon on Saturday. She bought one just after Midnight early Saturday morning, came home and had it ready by 8:17 a.m. She was possibly the first to finish in the Central Standard Time Zone. (This is the girl who, at age eight, read the first HP in 24 hours. It only took her that long because we made her go to bed for awhile.)
My wife and I had no idea. We were up drinking our morning coffee when she stumbled out of her room still dressed from the day before. “It is finished,” she said, her voice strained with emotion.
“Do you need a hug?” I said.
She immediately came for the hug (from her mother) and burst into tears. After things settled down, she claimed it was good, but the ending was “stupid.” STUPID is her word for anything that doesn’t quite fit her idea of the way things are supposed to be, so I’m not taking it as a negative endorsement.
Our Amazon copy was in the mail box by noon. I’m about 150 pages into it. I’m hooked, but alas, I must grade my Adolescent Lit essays and exams by Tuesday! Pronto graderamus!
Errr…I need to be back to Hogwarts.
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August 15th, 2007 at 5:14 pm
I like the classic Harry “Errr…”.
October 16th, 2007 at 1:50 pm
I ashamedly love Harry Potter. This causes riotous laughter from some of my friends and a few sideways glances, but I really don’t care. My sister thinks it’s evil witchcraft (which I find extremely uproarious.) Little does she know I dabbled in Wicca at one time. Lol. I was dying for the new movie to come out because I just can’t get enough of that underdog at Hogwarts.