Some general thoughts on HBP, not spoiling at all.

[silversolitaire]

You know... for the future I think it would be nice when people who are posting HP spoilers (and are very nice to cut them) would also include up to which chapter they're spoiling. Not that anyone will, but sometimes I really wish it was so. I read at a moderate speed. I have no interest in rushing through a book I waited for for two years, so I'm reading a speed that's comfortable for me and where I can already put things in my long-term memory. I've got a very good memory for books that I've read that way. I will admit right here and now that I've only read some HP books once and I still remember every single detail of them (of course that also makes it boring to reread something). So, no rush for me. At the same time I'm dying to read all the comments people are posting right now but I don't dare to click them because I don't know up to which point they're spoiling. Very annoying. Of course I could just save the links to these entries and read them later, but that's always a bit lame. LJ entries are best when fresh.

Other than that, what can I say about HBP. Somehow I don't like the mood of it at all. This is the trouble I've been having with the books since GoF. I liked about the HP series the magical mood, the cute details... just feeling nice and at home and being able to relax, knowing it's a pleasant series. But ever since GoF I can't relax anymore. I turn the pages, anxious about what else J.K. Rowling is going to do to the world I've grown to love for so many years. Which characters she's going to kill of. Which places she's going to destroy. It makes me sick in the stomach. I don't like the mood anymore. It's constantly threatened and angsty and dangerous. There's no more lighthearted niceness about this and I don't like it. I feel like Rowling is trying to be more adult, write more serious, but this is not what I want about HP. So yeah, I'm enjoying it, it's very thrilling so far, not nearly as boring as OotP was at the beginning, but still kinda meh. It's not what I felt about PoA and so on. It bascially stifled all urges for me to write fanfiction because I no longer dare to have my own thoughts about it because eventually J.K. will do something horrible and destroy it all and I will be left depressed and upset over it.

Oh well, but I started it, many years ago, and I will stick through it until it's over. And hopefully I won't feel like the love and devotion I felt for so many years was wasted.

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[silversolitaire.livejournal.com]

Tom is staying six weeks, roughly. Yay.

Nah I wouldn't want to hassle Nick's parents with it. I'll send it eventually! ^^;

Okay, I did a bit of thinking (sorry about the delay, I was really busy).

Well, I like stationary, paperstuff, notebooks etc. Stuff that looks old but isn't. Kinda heart to explain... (examples: http://www.kandcompany.com/) I like it when it has the old days' look. I like comic books, action heroes. I like manga and anime. I like romantic stuff, I like m/m stuff, I like Harry Potter. I like rainbow colors. I like bright and colorful stuff. I like things that glitter and are shiney. I like art supplies. I like scrapbooking, stamps that look pretty, like watercolor drawings (example: http://www.heroarts.com/), I like books, chocolate, coffee, movie merchandise, music, old movies, Barbie dolls, animals, bugs, cats, turtles...

Okay I think that covers a good deal. ^^; I hope that helps.