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If there is one thing that I hate about J.K. Rowling's writing style, it's how she sticks parentheses into quotes. What does it sound like when someone is talking in parentheses? Is it quieter? More rushed? If you were writing down what someone was saying, and you were the sort to put in parentheses, how would you know where to put them? It really distracts me!! Anyway.

The fact that she used the phrase "take the mickey out of" three times in the same book would have probably escaped my notice had I ever heard that phrase before. ^^;;;

Cho was 超 annoying. (Look at me, I made a funny!) I liked when Hermione was pretending to be crying. Oh man, fake pain is what humour is all about. You know the first episode of Malcolm in the Middle, where at the end the bully barely touches Stevie's chin but he falls over and starts bawling anyway? That amuses me so much. Haha~ I'm an idiot, basically.

I love how they're these great and powerful wizards and yet most of their communication is done by way of stomping on other people's feet. Yeah!!

That they called their DA club thing "Dumbledore's Army," that made me smile. And also, I like Dobby. Why wasn't there more Dobby?

One of my friends was quite annoyed with the way Harry was acting at the beginning, all frustrated and moody and everything, but I dunno. I find something in there that I can relate to, though obviously I have never been in a situation like Harry's. :P Just feeling like that and not wanting to talk to people and stuff, it was realistic, though a little sudden. I liked the way Harry's reaction in Dumbledore's office was written. And the end of that chapter, though Sam didn't like it, I was just all "wow."

But, uhm, Sirius's death? Uhm. It would have affected me a lot more, I think, if it had not been stuck in the middle of a big long fight scene. Sirius and Lupin (and even James) are pretty well my favourite of the Harry Potter characters; I didn't care about the series at all (though I vaguely remember thinking the climax of Chamber of Secrets was pretty good -- I love how I can't remember anything else about reading that book) until I read Prisoner of Azkaban. The whole past storyline thing, with the friendship and the betrayal and all? I love it, it's so fascinating. I was glad when Lupin and Sirius showed up almost right away in Order of the Phoenix, and you'd think I'd care when Sirius was killed off, right? Oh man was I the only one who thought it was obvious that it was going to be him, when he started going all lonely and moody and annoyed at the beginning? I loved the scene where he and Mrs. Weasley were fighting over how much Harry should know and who should tell him. So good! But by that time she'd done so many fake-outs that it was just like "ENOUGH ALREADY." And then she put it in the middle of a big battle . . .

I am probably one of the few people in the world who can honestly say that fight scenes, in books and movies and such, bore me to death. That scene in The Matrix Reloaded, after the Oracle scene, that fight on the roof with all the agents and clones? I very nearly fell asleep. While reading OotP, I had already wondered when this stupid scene was going to end, after it took them so long to find the room and then they'd already been fighting for ages. And then it didn't even end after Sirius died, it kept going! That whole big chunk just frustrates me so much, why did it take so long?? ARGH.

It does frustrate me that it was he who died. I just don't care as much as I thought I would. Mostly I'm completely annoyed that Harry didn't even look at what Sirius had given him until it was too late -- he could have used that to see if Sirius was there instead of Umbridge's fire, what a dolt! ARGH.

Hmm. I dunno. It's kind of weird that I cry at commercials that beg people not to smoke, and at commercials for Tim Horton's doughnuts, and even at one little line in an episode of Blossom, but few books or movies actually get me teary. Hmmm. I dunno. I have no way to end this. Oh well. Journal entries don't need fantastic endings, says I.

By the way, I am with those who say the veil is going to mean something very important soon. :X

Edit: I think there's more to learn about the Maurauders. I definitely don't think that's the last of Sirius, even if he's dead. I recall J.K. Rowling mentioning in an interview something about Sirius's motorbike appearing in book six? So we'll see.

Also, Dumbledore's crying reminded me of that Escaflowne scene in which Folken is flying away from the wreckage of the Vione, and though he's quite silent there is a tear to be seen running down his cheek (overtop the tatoo tear, haha). I don't know why. Because they're both characters you wouldn't expect to see crying? Because they both know they're at least partly to blame for the deaths of their friend(s)? Maybe it's just because everything I see or hear reminds me of something else, and that something else is quite often Escaflowne. ;)

I'm going to write more SFF. I wrote over six hundred words yesterday, which isn't fantastic, but it's something, so go me! :)

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The only thing that annoyed me about the style was all those ellipses. I mean, ...!

And yeah, I saw Sirius's death coming a mile away, but I was seriously (haha, no pun intended, honestly) hoping I would turn out to be wrong. My probable-death runners-up: Mrs. Weasley and Neville. Dunno why. I bet, though, that Neville dies before of the end of the series, now that we've heard all this about he and Harry both having been posibilities for the Voldemort-destroyer...