Fifth book anniversary
Jun. 20th, 2005 10:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
laviviToday 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![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
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*
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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Date: 2005-06-21 11:01 pm (UTC)1. Fred and George leaving in such style. The way JKR wrote it was brilliant- especially with Peeves giving some amount of respect.
2. Seeing how the magical community disguise the MoM and St. Mungo's.
3. McGonagall encouraging Peeves's reign of terror.- she has an amusing side. I adore the quick fire talking between her and Harry. 'Have a biscuit.'
4. Seeing James's teenage self. And Lily.- it was good to see that Harry now knows what his father was like his own age.
5. 'Who do you know who's lost a buttock?'
6. The fountain coming to life- also relates back to the examiner talking about how she examined Dumbledore herself: 'did things with a wand I've never seen before'.
7. When Harry is experiencing Voldemort's manical laughter, when the DE's escape- scariest part of the book, in my opinion.
8. Fawkes in general- especially when he swallows one of Voldemort's spells whole.
9. The 'Weasley is our King' song.
10. The length of it- not only is it a book, but a weapon, propper-upper-of-things, cushion...
:D