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brinshannara) wrote2005-07-12 01:00 pm
brinshannara) wrote2005-07-12 01:00 pm
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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? ;)
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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Ah...the article I saw said it was the Canadian Supreme Court. Still, how many books get this sort of protection? Um...zero?
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.