Fifth book anniversary

[lavivi]

Today is the second-year anniversary of the fifth book's birth into bookstores all over the world.  (Or it will be in less than an hour - give me some slack.)  I'll always remember it because eight hours after we picked it up at midnight, my parents were married.  Or actually, that's a lie - five days ago, I just remembered their anniversary because the fifth book's anniversary was coming up, and I had a Yahoo!reminder sent to me.

Anyway.  I am a faithful reader of daily_snitch, and I've read a lot of essays and rants and discussions and things on...a lot of things about the books.  Not necessarily just the fifth book.

But on this anniversary of the fifth book, and as we pass into the final month before the sixth book, I would like to conduct a little survey.  Especially relying on how many of us are re-reading the fifth book, in preparation for New Canon.

What are your favorite passages, quotes, scenes, etc. from the fifth book?  What you liked the best, thought were the most profound, thought were the best written.

*bows out, and goes to put the finishing touches on a certain anniversary gift*

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Weasley is our King!

[jazzypom.livejournal.com]

That song was inspired. I mean, in high school we'd have songs over every crazy little thing.

I also liked the pensieve scene because it showed that James and Sirius were sixteen year old little shits. I like them both, but they were tosspots of the highest order, and reminded me of the boys I used to teach back in the day.

I thought that the pensieve scene was brilliant, because there comes a time in a child's life when he finds out that his parents are human, and when that time comes, it's rather sobering and headspinning, and things aren't the same. Especially when Harry has been told nothing but good stuff about his parents only to discover that they were human after all.

At the start of the book Harry is a snarky assed sixteen year old, with a lot of lip. There's a part in the passage (page 23 UK edition, I think) when he's getting smartassed with his Aunt Petunia. When she asks him why he's listening to the news today, he's like 'because it changes everyday, y'know?'

There's a line in the OoTP I like when Harry sees his father for the first time in the pensieve scene, and Ms. Rowling describes James looking like Harry but 'with deliberate mistakes'. I thought that was a nice line. Then when Lupin is actually quizzed on the werewolf question and he's like 'well...' and he ends with 'I know this because I'm a werewolf'. So smart, so high school. Young Mr Lupin has the sense to laugh at himself.

Wow. It seems that I don't totally hate the book after all?

Re: Weasley is our King!

[forluck-yousaid.livejournal.com]

when he's getting smartassed with his Aunt Petunia. When she asks him why he's listening to the news today, he's like 'because it changes everyday, y'know?'

*smirks* i know i loved that too. Smart ass Harry rocks