Comments on: processing Harry Potter

By: Rukia13

Rukia13 — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 21:58:22 +0000

Aw c’mon – use spoiler tags for the sake of those who haven’t read to the end yet!

I raced through my HP7 in nine hours. I bawled for half an hour over the first death. I was numb by the last five.

I agree that Rowling’s writing has improved. I did, however, find that the middle dragged a bit – when they were going around and around and around.

By: someone

someone — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 16:32:15 +0000

VOLDEMORT KILLS SNAPE

HARRY AND GINNY GET MARRIED AND HAVE 3 KIDS

By: josh

josh — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:58:23 +0000

I also avoided spoliers like crazy and still managed not to rush through the book. Now that I’m finished (after staying up all night last night), I don’t know if the ending itself really could have been spoiled. It’s almost exactly what I knew it would have to be, but I’m glad that it took reading the whole thing to have it confirmed.

Did you manage to catch Harry and the Potters in Harvard Square? I would have loved to have been there for their party.

By: Deirdre Straughan

Deirdre Straughan — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 01:33:44 +0000

Here in Italy, there were spoilers in a newspaper (“Metro” – one of those freebies) a few days early. I managed to skate over it and not read, but a friend is furious. I was offline Friday noon to Sunday noon. Got my copy from a friend Saturday evening (not so easy to come by in Italy), finished reading Sunday afternoon so that I could give it to friends who wanted to read it as much as I did.

I cried at the end over something that struck me particularly at this time in my life, probably no one else in the world cried at it!

By: frank kramer

frank kramer — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:44:18 +0000

Thanks for your support of Harvard Book Store and independents in general. I was out there with my daughter on Friday night, and we had a fantastic time. Hope you did too.

Will it ever happen for a book again?

All best,

frank (harvard book store)

By: frank kramer

frank kramer — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:42:06 +0000

Thanks for your support of Harvard Book Store and independents in general. I was out there with my daughter on Friday night, and we had a fantastic time. Hope you did too.

Will it ever happen for a book again?

All best,

By: Ben Donley

Ben Donley — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:08:19 +0000

As a non-fan, I have enjoyed supplying out of date spoilers to my HP fan friends. They get these adorable pitying expressions.

By: Michael Clarke

Michael Clarke — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 07:39:25 +0000

Much to my surprise, I found myself getting really quite choked up. Certainly much better than previous two. But, of course, I really can’t say any more as I’d have hunted down with dogs anyone who gave anything away before I’d finished it.

By: EthanZ

EthanZ — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 06:19:59 +0000

Book six came out the day of my mentor’s memorial service. I put off a trip to South Africa to be with his family in Williamstown and left the next morning, putting the book by my bedside to read when I returned.

I got food poisoning in Cape Town and asked R. to download the scan of the book from the Interwebs and email it to me so I could read in bed. It was extremely difficult to make it through the final chapters – I wasn’t ready to deal with Dick’s death in reality, and encountering it metaphorically was something I was totally unprepared for. Cathartic, but very surprising – I hadn’t expected to be sobbing as I finished a “children’s” book.

Love and strength, my friend.

By: Sam Jackson

Sam Jackson — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 22:47:43 +0000

Ahhhh clearly you should just twitter everything in your life, and I should subscribe to it since I was in Harvard Square that night! But not on official HP7 business, just went in to get milkshakes at Bartley’s with a friend and we ended up staying till 1030 or so. Tried to find some people we knew in the fray at the concert but especially once it got dark it was just too impossible and they had terrible cell phone call quality and couldn’t follow directions (turn… around… walk… to Widener… giant… Columns…). We met lots of random people we knew just by accident, though, it was neat.

I didn’t much like 7, but at least JK’s writing had improved more and she had better editors. Oh well. I was still quite depressed once I finished it.