Random notes

[oyceter]

1. My Harry Potter has been shipped. Alas, it is shipping from the UK because I am insane, and thus, it won't get here for another few days or so. Alas. See, all my other Harry Potters are the UK edition (I got 3 and 4 in Japan and 5 in Taiwan and found 1 and 2 in the used bookstore here), and it irritates me if everything doesn't match. Of course, 5 is the hardcover while 1-4 are paperback, but I shall ignore that. I am strangely not that excited about the new Harry Potter, but I am happy for those of you who are gleefully reading your own copies ;).



2. I just started rereading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. I am rather astonished to find that I only read it once, when it came out, and I hardly remember what happened at all! Also, Harry talks in many capital letters.



3. Cockamamie predictions for book 6: Dumbledore dies. Neville gets a bigger role (please? I like Neville!). Someone betrays Harry to Voldemort. More girls in the plot! The war against Voldemort gets started. I have no idea about any of these, but I think they'd be fun to read about. Oh, more Snape backstory?



4. yhlee is here! So far we have watched many, many vids, and she is going to show me Veronica Mars now! Joy! More later.



5. Starbucks has green tea frappucinos now!!!! I am so excited! This was my favorite thing ever a couple of years ago when I was working in Hong Kong, and they have them in Taiwan, and they taste just like green tea ice cream, which I love, and I have been waiting and waiting and waiting for them to finally come here! Go support so they get put on the menu permanently so I can have them all the time! ;) Alas, I got a coffee frappucino this morning because I need my dose of caffeine, but I am getting one later today. Mmmmmmmmmmmm, green tea frappucino!



6. My rats are fuzzy! Er, not that this is news or anything. But I would just like to point out that they are still cute.

Comments

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

I prefered the American covers for the first 3 books or so (and then i kinda stopped paying attention) which i think a lot of people do -- i read an article about a couple who bought the British editions for the text and the American editions for the covers, and i remember an interview with JKR maybe after Book 3 in which she said the American covers were her favorites; she said she also really liked i think the Spanish and Dutch covers too.

When i reread Books 1-5 last week (http://www.livejournal.com/users/hermionesviolin/534573.html), a friend commented, "I, too, find that I like fanon Hermione and my personal Hermione a lot more than I like the actual character. Then again, I think JKR's real strength is in the world creation and background, not the actual storytelling, so that's probably why. The IDEA of Hermione is so much more interesting than Hermione actually turns out to be."