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izmeinaIsn't it just wonderful??? This stuff is darker than a Lindt 99% chocolate bar. And those choccies certainly come in handy with all those Dementors lurking. Unfortunately the goblins are too and they have grabbed Izzie's Precioussssssss and will not let her have it again until Tuesday afternoon after an exciting morning at Salazar's Sanatorium for Superannuated Sorcerors. (That's where Izzie works as a house elf)
It is so so strange. It reminds me very very much of book 2, with the missing friends, the obligatory episode of Dudley baiting, the great escape from Privet Drive and even the House elves in a mansion strangely reminiscent of Borgin and Burkes. But most of all... after observing various rituals before beginning to read the Preciousssss... really did feel like I had been sucked into the first pages and was really there. Just like the Secret Diary of T M Riddle. Most spooky and uncanny. There are very very few books that can do that.
Izzie soon expects to start experiencing strange dreams of endless corridors and darkened rooms.
All those silly creatures racing through to see what happens next...like throwing pearls to pigs or gulping gallons of Chateau Latour. One is supposed to swirl, sniff and sip slowly, savouring the exquisite revelations in each mouthful.
(With a bit of luck she will have scared the kids away. I wonder if any of them will be suing her for causing emotional traumas?)
Izzie is already suffering the most horrendous withdrawal symptoms. Tuesday seems like yearssss away.
Time to take off those emerald tinted glasses and get back to mundane Muggle land and those nasty exams.
It is so so strange. It reminds me very very much of book 2, with the missing friends, the obligatory episode of Dudley baiting, the great escape from Privet Drive and even the House elves in a mansion strangely reminiscent of Borgin and Burkes. But most of all... after observing various rituals before beginning to read the Preciousssss... really did feel like I had been sucked into the first pages and was really there. Just like the Secret Diary of T M Riddle. Most spooky and uncanny. There are very very few books that can do that.
Izzie soon expects to start experiencing strange dreams of endless corridors and darkened rooms.
All those silly creatures racing through to see what happens next...like throwing pearls to pigs or gulping gallons of Chateau Latour. One is supposed to swirl, sniff and sip slowly, savouring the exquisite revelations in each mouthful.
(With a bit of luck she will have scared the kids away. I wonder if any of them will be suing her for causing emotional traumas?)
Izzie is already suffering the most horrendous withdrawal symptoms. Tuesday seems like yearssss away.
Time to take off those emerald tinted glasses and get back to mundane Muggle land and those nasty exams.
Lunch time for the Lawyers
Date: 2003-06-25 07:22 pm (UTC)And book 5 is certainly the 99% chocolate bar of the series. Iz still hasn't finished...only 1/3 of the way through and keep thinking... well where is all this STUFF? How can she possibly fit it ALL in?
But the emotional trauma.....all those kids who are going to need counselling when bad things happen to their favorite characters. But honestly.. the characters and just about everything about the books is so REAL that it is like having it happen in your own inner circle. In fact it was Harry who introduced me to all the folks in my 'inner circle'
But the worst trauma of all will be FINISHING the book, putting away the Precioussssss and counting the days till the next one.