OotP and shopping

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Went shopping with my sister! Yay! Bought a pair of pretty new jeans and a skirt that can potentially be worn to work (if I ever get a job that is). And I got extremely mad because I saw a copy of OotP sitting innocently in the middle of a bookstore somewhere, and I could have bought it! But I already paid for the copy I reserved and couldn't get today, so I didn't get that one. Argh! I swear, Murphy is god, and he hates me. Anyway, I stood in the middle of the bookstore and got a few pages in.

It looks good! I love how it feels as though no time at all has elapsed between the beginning of this and the end of Goblet. The end of Goblet is still extremely present in the background in Harry's twitchiness.

I realize how silly I must seem, writing my first impression of the first maybe 5 pages of the book! But I have to say, JK Rowling is impressing me more and more with how tight the stories are and how she doesn't seem to be afraid of really dealing with questions of evil and how to live under it. And in many ways, I feel it's much more effective than the high fantasy wars against evil (LotR, Robert Jordan, blah blah) because Harry's just a kid. He lives in my world. And Rowling's got a way of writing that really makes me feel what Harry's feeling.

That is all. Dying to get hands on book tomorrow.