Note : added pictures :)

I still have trouble imagining that the story really is over. That there won’t be an eight book. I’m glad though that I was with friends reading it, even though I wish I could have the patience to wait for them at every chapter like I had previously planned but… I must say I was very much surprised when I realized that I was reading more than twice as fast as them. Bianca clocked me at 30something seconds a page near the end but that seems presposterous. She must have dozed off while counting and lost track.

We had such a blast waiting in line for the book. Debbie was a little disapointed I think that we didn’t end up the first in line, but I think we were something around 7th so I’m not complaining. Especially when we learned later that night that the bookstore had its doors closed because they had reached the maximum amount of people they were allowed. When we left the shop with our books at 12:10am, there were people waiting in line outside on the streets, going almost a complete block in both directions and I have no idea how many people inside but the line zig-zagged through every single alley. It was a really neat evening and being in costume I think made it that much more fun, I acted like a 8 years old and I’m pretty sure I will remember the evening better because of it. Unfortunatly I didn’t win the iPod prize for costumes, I blame Debbie who didn’t want to dance and look ridiculous in front of Voldy and Percy ;) But then I suppose when Bellatrix dances in front of Voldy, it isn’t something she does in public.

As for the book, without any spoilers, I really liked reading it but now that it’s over and I think back on it I’m not a hundred percent convinced that some of the storylines were really necessary, I felt some only weighted down the plot. Also there was a little too much Deus Ex Machina for my taste and I still don’t understand, even after having read it three times now, the big ending. It makes me feel retarded. I don’t think I am retarded. I think her explaination is simply not an explanation. It feels like “I tell you so, so it works” and that disapointed me. Yet no matter how harsh and criticizing I can sound right now, I still enjoyed it a lot. The atmosphere was wonderfull and I know I will read it again and again. I just have this really weird feeling that the real J.K. Rowling died without having finished the manuscript and someone else finished it off.

It feels alien to me.

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To start up my HPmania I thought I would also participate in the test Patrick did. It’s really weird how overwhelmed with everything Potter right now. I feel rather free to mention it because I’m pretty sure my friend Bianca doesn’t read this…

section deleted because judith called me to let me know I emailed bianca with a link on this site. Omg I hope she didn’t see anything

I really loved the movie… I think. I’ve seen it twice now, once in 3D IMAX and once normal, and although really like it I’m not completly convinced it was great. I think I’m just too disapointed with the way the death of Sirius was treated, it was really anti-climatic. On the other hand, I’m thrilled we have confirmation that Bellatrix killed Sirius with an AV and he then flew into the veil. That was how I had always interpreted the jet of green light that Bellatrix throws at Sirius in the book, but looking at the way people are discussing that online I seem to have been the only one to think so.

Now friday night I’m going to the bookstore at around 6pm with Debbie, dressed up, and more friends will come and join us along with my brother and a friend of his. I hope it will be a neat evening and that nothing untowards (aka spoiler demons) will happen. I’m also looking forward to seeing the local lizard association, if they come again like they did 2 years ago. I’m looking forward to it mainly because Judith is terrified of snakes and she will be there :) Hehehe. After we get our copies I’m going to spend the night with 3 friends and read a little before going to bed. I wish so much that I was back in Scotland like at the release of Order of the Phoenix and once again wage a speed reading war with Ulrica, it was really my favourite release so far. Because I read so much faster than my less bilingual friends I have set up a plan for the night : We’ll all read the first chapter, wait until everyone’s finished and then discuss it a little before starting the next chapter… lather, rinse, repeat… until they get sick of it and I am out of patience or until it gets to 3:30am. We have to sleep some because the next day we’re going to help to cord wood and that requires energy!

In the meantime… I am not listening to anything Debbie says since she msm me on my cell this morning that she had already read the whole book on the internet *sigh* and I just finished a “Trust Snape” armband while wondering if I will wear it with pride after having read the book or burn it in anger if he turns up to be a badass…

Only time will tell!

I’ve known for a while that I’ve been silent but I thought I would eventually finish the post I’ve been thinking for a while (on the subject of babies, creepy, I know) but it seems it’s really not going anywhere out of my head, or rather there are now so m any things I feel like I should be writing about that I find no way to make it all fit together. The only common denominator is that I thought about all of this, but really, that just confirms how different and spontaneous and ridiculous things I can think about at the same time. I’ve been trying to convince myself to just get to it and write and I will do it! I swear! but first, I just fell in love 45 seconds ago and had to share it. I can’t wait until I write 4 pages about babies and another 8 pages about the Harry Potter Insanity that is cripping my life. I must share the most beautiful Fair Isle Sweater Known To Humankind. and no I’m not exgerating more than usual !