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 11:29 pm (UTC)Out of the corner of his eye, Harry distinctly saw Malfoy throw a scathing look over at him; the wine glass Malfoy had been levitating fell to the floor and smashed.
<3 Love that scene. Snotty little evil-wannabe brat...
- The entire 'Career Advice' chapter. 'May I offer you a cough drop, Dolores?' was priceless. McGonagall is so my favorite Professor.
- Umbridge's detentions. One of the most chilling things in the books yet. Pure genius for JKR (she did have her moments).
- God Rest Ye Merry Hippogriffs. Oh and, 'Of course, he might have crawled into the airing cupboard and died...But I mustn't get my hopes up'. Seems like such a thing for Gary's Sirius to say actually...
- Phineas Nigellus, 'Stay where you are.' 'I haven't moved! So what's the message?' 'I have just given it to you, dolt'
-'But the unsightly blemishes upon your visage, young master!' 'They're freckles!'
So...those are a few :D