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*

Comments

[a-t-rain.livejournal.com]

For some reason the Quibbler headline, "SIRIUS -- Black as He's Painted? Notorious Mass Murderer OR Innocent Singing Sensation?" always cracks me up. I'm not sure whether it's the phrase "innocent singing sensation" OR the randomly capitalized OR.

And I love all the backstory, especially the Noble and Most Deliciously Gothic House of Black and the Pensieve scene, and Tonks and Luna, and Ginny turning out to have a personality, and McGonagall vs. Umbridge... (I'm so glad we got some decent female character development -- most of the women did feel rather underdeveloped and archetypical in the first four books.)

And the Veil -- I do think JKR's best magical inventions are the ones with an allegorical dimension, like the Mirror of Erised and the dementors, and I really like what she's done with death.

[marginaliana]

For some reason the Quibbler headline, "SIRIUS -- Black as He's Painted? Notorious Mass Murderer OR Innocent Singing Sensation?" always cracks me up. I'm not sure whether it's the phrase "innocent singing sensation" OR the randomly capitalized OR.

YESSSSSS! I laughed sooooo hard.