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Jul. 25th, 2007 08:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragonlady7I have managed to last this entire decade without buying any Harry Potter books. My mom bought them, initially for my little sister, when they first came out, as she was the target demographic then. I would read them when at home visiting. I stayed up all night a couple times, as I'd often just be home for the weekend, but I am either proud or ashamed to admit that it's never taken me more than 36 hours to read a Harry Potter book.
In more recent years, of course, my mother just buys them for herself. She doesn't fuck around with pretending anymore. She was bitterly disappointed this time that she was busy taking care of Grandma during the local bookshop's Adult Harry Potter Launch Party, which featured a special microbrew by a local bar. (OK, I'd totally have gone to that too. In costume, no less. I'm not into HP cosplay so I'd have to pick a character, and I admit I'm a bit behind on the whole fandom concept so I might just randomly put a witch hat on and not even come up with a character I was being. Shut up, I am an incompetent geek.)
But I never get home, of late, so I can't rely on her for my HP fix either.
BUT! Ha ha ha. Z's mom, who lives two tenths of a mile away, is a fourth grade teacher. Of COURSE she gets the books when they come out.
But she is not a crazy person, and so sometimes it takes her some time to read them. No biggie. We house sit for her whenever she leaves town. I was figuring that I'll just read HP:DH while she's next in California.
Well...
She leaves Thursday.
What, do you think, are the odds that she'll have finished the book by then?
Or do you think she'll have saved it and be taking it with her to read on the plane?
(added next morning: oh, I laugh, I chuckle, at this whole thing. I'll tell you later. Now I'm working. Working, I tell you.)
In more recent years, of course, my mother just buys them for herself. She doesn't fuck around with pretending anymore. She was bitterly disappointed this time that she was busy taking care of Grandma during the local bookshop's Adult Harry Potter Launch Party, which featured a special microbrew by a local bar. (OK, I'd totally have gone to that too. In costume, no less. I'm not into HP cosplay so I'd have to pick a character, and I admit I'm a bit behind on the whole fandom concept so I might just randomly put a witch hat on and not even come up with a character I was being. Shut up, I am an incompetent geek.)
But I never get home, of late, so I can't rely on her for my HP fix either.
BUT! Ha ha ha. Z's mom, who lives two tenths of a mile away, is a fourth grade teacher. Of COURSE she gets the books when they come out.
But she is not a crazy person, and so sometimes it takes her some time to read them. No biggie. We house sit for her whenever she leaves town. I was figuring that I'll just read HP:DH while she's next in California.
Well...
She leaves Thursday.
What, do you think, are the odds that she'll have finished the book by then?
Or do you think she'll have saved it and be taking it with her to read on the plane?
(added next morning: oh, I laugh, I chuckle, at this whole thing. I'll tell you later. Now I'm working. Working, I tell you.)
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Date: 2007-07-25 12:59 pm (UTC)darius
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Date: 2007-07-25 01:08 pm (UTC)Tell me Mrs. Norris doesn't eat Lupin!!!!
*gnashes teeth, rends hair*
*etcetera*