On my way home from a very enjoyable evening with the TV Cream gang, I saw what I thought were a lot of homeless people in row along Piccadilly. I realised almost immediately that this was not a bunch of raggle-taggles but fans queueing for the final Harry Potter bookhttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif. And in this weather! (It could have been homeless people though. I once saw one reading Danielle Steele's Message From Nam in Vauxhall tube station like they were tucked up in their own bedroom. All that was missing was a steaming mug of Bournvita).
Now, unlike some pals, Red Sharlach, for example, I can take or leave Harry Potter. I've never read one of the books but I do like the films. I think the world created by JK Rowling is fantastically inventive and I only wish I'd thought of it myself. Mrs F-C and I resisted it for ages, and I poured generous amounts of scorn on adult readers of the novels, and even more people who might want to go and see a children's film. Until I saw the first one, Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone.
It was the day before I started the job I'm in now. It was a Sunday afternoon and we settled down to watch it. There was a huge thunderstorm, with heavy rain that lasted nearly the entirety of the film. It was perfect. And Hogwarts is rather like my old school too, in the winter when it's darker in the right light. So I was converted. I shall be seeing the new film asap. But I still won't be reading the books though.
Anyhoo, back to those fans. What are they going to do now it's all over? Sharlach has her head in her hands. From Sunday her life is a barren wasteland with nothing to look forward too until Doctor Who returns (next year). What is she to do now? All suggestions welcome. PS, she doesn't do retro.
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I have read all the Harry Potter books, but went off them once I started to read the Philip Pullman trilogy. Getting a bit sick about all the 'hoo-ha' surrounding the publication of the last Harry Potter so on principle probably won't read it.
Desperate to discuss last night's 'True Dare Kiss' so can we change the subject?
No, because I've not seen it yet. Don't you think Hurtwood was a bit Hogwartsy, though Hels?
What, you mean the dining hall had flaming torches that defied gravity and they employed a talking hat that sounded like Leslie Phillips?
I did find Hurtwood rather Hogwartsy although on a much smaller scale. Did you ever rove the grounds late at night? I remember being petrified (although not in the Potter sense of the word) by the sight of a procession of Druids on Midsummer's Eve.
The statues used to freak me out and there were lots of noises that couldnt' be explained. Never saw druids though. Brrr.
Yeah, it was weird but i never found it that spooky. Lots of good vibes, man! Anyway, did you watch TDC yet?
that should have read TDK ...
Greetings from the barren cultural wasteland that is now my life. It comes to something when one is looking forward to the end of Jekyll and then nothing until Hell's Kitchen USA arrives on ITV2...
We've got to find you something, Kitten.
Are you sure you don't want to go retro?
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