fajrdrako | Booking Through Thursday: Harry Potter... (Reply)

From Booking Through Thursday:
1. Okay, love him or loathe him, you’d have to live under a rock not to know that J.K. Rowling’s final Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, comes out on Saturday… Are you going to read it?
2. If so, right away? Or just, you know, eventually, when you get around to it? Are you attending any of the midnight parties?
3. If you’re not going to read it, why not?
4. And, for the record… what do you think? Will Harry survive the series? What are you most looking forward to?

My answers...

Yes, I will read it. I read and enjoyed all the other Harry Potter books, why stop now? Even if I enjoyed them less than I do, curiosity would compel me.

As soon as possible. I ordered the book at the library, but I may be able to borrow it from a friend before the library gets it for me - if she reads fast. (No, I really, really can't afford to buy it.) Either way, I will make time to read it as soon as it's in my hands, if only so I can then discuss it with my friends and my flist. As for the midnight party - the idea tickles me. I just might go to one.

There are in fact books on my 'to be read' pile that I'm a more eager to read, but Harry Potter is not just a book, it's a social phenomenon: this gives me a different impetus. Particularly within fandom. Can you see me passing up a chance to discuss a book? Any book?

I'll read it, honest, I will!

Of course Harry will survive the series. This isn't Hamlet. What I'm most looking forward to - and it's a massive jump of faith and hope and irrational expectation - is a dramatically noble act on the part of Severus Snape that proves once and for all how wonderful he really is.