brinshannara | All this Harry Potter stuff.

I like the Harry Potter books. Really, I do. I devoured the first four in under a week, then waited interminably long for the fifth book to come out, and I've ordered with amazon.ca to get my book delivered to me on Saturday.

That said... I cannot possibly understand the fuss.

I understand not wanting to be spoiled, which is cool -- any thoughts I have on HPatHBP will be cut under a non-spoilery cut-tag.

But people are seriously overreacting (again!) when it comes to HP. So 15 books were sold ahead of time. So The Leaky Cauldron guy was sent the first and last chapters, along with all the first pages of each chapter. So it's already being swapped through BitTorrent.

For half a second, I thought "ooh, through BT? Maybe I should..."

And then I was like, no. I'm going to get my book like most of the universe on Saturday and I will curl up with it and read it, because I not only enjoy the story, but I enjoy the act of reading a book.

If we've waited, what, two years since OotP, surely we can all wait another four days. Seriously.

Also, I am more than a little annoyed with myself that I am apparently unable to not chime in with my two cents about HP. Pretty much everyone on my friends list is talking about it, to some extent, and I'm in danger of being saturated to the point that I'll just ignore everything HP-related for the next, oh, THREE MONTHS. (My HP tolerence level is surprisingly low, despite my enjoyment of the books and the films.)

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I'm cranky. Could you tell? ;)

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YES YES EXACTLY

Hee! :)

I enjoy the books, I will even go at midnight Friday to get mine, but I must agree, the fuss is insane. Yes, I believe in street dates (having worked around video stores and the such) as it allows all the stores a fair chance, but if one slips up, oh well, it happens.

The fact that the Canadian Supreme Court in anyway was invovled in issuing an order to protect this *1* book is just INSANE! They don't have anything better to do? That little Johnny possessing the book fefore July 16th is a punishable offense? That he can't talk about the content of the book before July 16th? Let me spell it out again I-N-S-A-N-E.

I love the books, I do, but the circus that surrounds each release now is enough to make me not care anymore. And don't even get me started on the drooling Snape fangirls...dear lord, they creep me out.

Just to nitpick, it was not the CANADIAN Supreme Court, because, yes, they have better things to do. :) It was the British Columbia Supreme Court, and I suspect that's probably because only they would have the jurisdiction over the entire province in order to bring forth the injunction, lest the province be left open to legal action by Rowling, Scholastic or the other publishers.

Although dude, I am scared of ALL the fangirls, not just Snape. Draco, Lucius, Harry... and the PAIRINGS they put out there? Just terrifying. :) I try to forget that I've ever read any HP fic (it's rare when I read any fic at all, and even rarer that I read HP fic) when I read the books. Otherwise, I get scared.

Just to nitpick, it was not the CANADIAN Supreme Court, because, yes, they have better things to do. :) It was the British Columbia Supreme Court

Ah...the article I saw said it was the Canadian Supreme Court. Still, how many books get this sort of protection? Um...zero?

I am scared of ALL the fangirls, not just Snape. Draco, Lucius, Harry... and the PAIRINGS they put out there? Just terrifying. :) I try to forget that I've ever read any HP fic (it's rare when I read any fic at all, and even rarer that I read HP fic) when I read the books. Otherwise, I get scared.

I know. I can't bring myself to read ANY HP fic, it all makes my skin crawl. If someone wanted to do fics of other parts of the Wizarding World, I might get interested, deal with a normal wizard's every day life or something like that, ok, I might read that. The pairings though? EWWWWWWWWWW There is no *real* indication in the books of pairings beyond the Ron/Hermoine, Harry/Cho/Luna/Ginny type stuff. The Draco/Harry, Snape/Harry, Lupin/Sirius stuff just makes me want to run screaming into the night.

How are people swapping a *book* throuhg bittorrent? Did someone scan all the pages? Retype the whole thing? So confused.

And how many pages *is* the new one? I don't want to read it 'til it's, you know, out, but I am curious as to how long it is, if you know.

I would suspect scanning. The book is 672 pages, according to a search on Google.

Just to chime in with my two cents: I read the first four one after the other. Went to a midnight party for the fifth book, started it, managed to misplace it (though I still don't know how I managed to misplace a book that's over 700 pages long), then once I found it, never picked it up again. No particular reason. Just other stuff to read/do/worry about. When I first got into the books, I was REALLY into them - visited HP websites daily, got sorted (Hufflepuff, natch), played virtual Quidditch (okay, I'm lying about the last one) - but after a while, I pretty much got over it. I do plan to reas OotP eventually, and I will buy HBP eventually. But no, you are NOT the only one whose interest has waned. So there.

The thing is, my interest hasn't exactly waned. I mean, it's always been "yay new book!". I think it's my tolerence of other people's interest in it that has waned.

I've visited the Leaky Cauldron a few times, I like the door puzzles at jkrowling.com, and every sorting test I've ever done online has sorted me into Gryffindor, except one, which put me in Ravenclaw. And still, I'm not so excited. It's weird, because usually, when I'm into something, I'm into it hardcore. <shrug> I just can't do it with HP and I'm not sure why not. More to the point, I don't want to do it with the HP fandom. Hm.

the problem is the internets. ;) bt, global news, you think what a fuss people are making now, if spoilers weren't somehow curtailed (and i'm not saying it should be the courts doing it), think of how much more fuss there would be if it became more common knownledge who gets killed and who's gay and who's having a sex change operation? ;)

Oh, God, I couldn't stand it. ;)

Just thought I'd restate that, if you want any non-HP stuff, just stick to reading my journal.

I have never read nor will ever read any of the books.

I slept through the last half of the first movie. That's all I've seen or will see.

Yeah, I guess I'm an old bitch ;)

But I have to say -- I got rather pissed off when someone told me once, "Why haven't you read these books? What's wrong with you?" Some people -- and apparently the British Columbia Supreme Court -- tend to forget that there are scads of people out here that don't give a flip about Harry Potter.

[waves "No HP 'Round Me!" flag proudly]

[goes back to lunchy goodness]

See, I don't understand not giving the books a shot, either. ;) But I can respect your decision without understanding it. :) There is nothing "wrong" with you for not getting caught up with the hype surrounding a fictional teenage wizard's life story. :)

(And I tend to think that the BC Supreme Court is just covering the ass of the retailer in the province who sold the books off early, rather than anything else. Despite anything else, JK Rowling and Scholastic are pretty formidable opponents at this height of Harry Potter insanity, and I suspect lawsuits would be going on if the BC court hadn't stepped in. So I think it's more about protecting the BC store than about keeping the book's secrets.)

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