In case anyone wasn't sure...

[teaberryblue]

liret just called to inform me that she saw a copy of DH that was accidentally put out early in a bookstore.

It is in the New Haven Train Station, if anyone wants one.

And in case anyone wants to know for sure whether the carpet copy is real,

It is.



PS: MAJOR SPOILERS IN COMMENTS.

Comments

[ariesathena.livejournal.com]

The other thing that I noticed in a lot of comments in the spoiler communities is that I think quite a few people only read the epilogue and then the spoilers for the rest of the book. They hate it but they haven't actually read the whole thing - moreso at the its_a_fake community, but I've seen several comments along the lines of "Well I've just read the epilogue, and what a pile of crap, there's no way this is real." Well yeah, the epilogue sucked. But in the context of the book as a whole it's hardly that big of a deal.

Plus its the HP fandom. People are insane. Completely fucking batshit insane.

[teaberryblue.livejournal.com]

Plus its the HP fandom. People are insane. Completely fucking batshit insane.

Wait, insane people in our fandom? Why was I not informed?

And yeah, I have seen a ton of this, and I think if I hadn't read the book from the beginning, I would have thought the epilogue was lame. I'm still not a huge fan, but I think it's much more fitting after reading the book, especially Harry's little talk to Albus Severus. I hope he decides to just let the hat sort him where he goes and goes to Slytherin.

[ariesathena.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha oh man, okay that is one of the inconsistencies that is just amusing the crap out of me though.

Erm... didn't Voldemort burn the sorting hat?

[teaberryblue.livejournal.com]

OKAY SO I WASN'T INSANE.

I thought so, too, I was like, hey, how did they get it back?!

But I just trust that now that Neville can DO FUCKING EVERYTHING, he just made a new one.

[ariesathena.livejournal.com]

Hahahahaha I know! I was sitting here this morning ranting with Bubs about how the sorting was clearly all irrelevant anyway since no one actually typifies their supposed house traits and then had a "wait a minute...hat burned up?" light bulb moment.

But that's one of those laughable things to me, not something that's book ruining or anything like that. Maybe the sorting hat melded into Neville's head and Neville does the sorting himself, just laying his hands on the children to sort them!

Oooh, I definitely see some porn coming from this idea...

[teaberryblue.livejournal.com]

I was sort of hoping that when the Sorting Hat burned up that they'd stop sorting completely and end all of the inter-house rivalries, which would have been effing awesome, so I was like, bwuh?! when they start talking about it later. but I figured there must have been a way to mend it. Maybe it's someone else's Horcrux so Voldy didn't destroy it.

And I am so looking forward to the H_E apps being all "WELL HARRY SAYS WE GET TO PICK WHICH HOWSE WE WANT!"

AND OMG NEVILLE IS MY HERO NOW.

[ariesathena.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I so don't want to deal with the sorting nonsense that's going to come from this book. NO YOU STILL DON'T GET TO PICK YOUR HOUSE YOU IDIOT! Really though, haven't we established by now that Harry doesn't know what he's talking about at least half the time?

That and Dumbledore implying that Snape should have been in Gryffindor just pisses me off. Especially since after this book? I'm thinking Dumbledore is so damn Slytherin he might as well be Salazar's descendant himself. Maybe Neville and his groping hands will do a better job than the old sorting hat!

[teaberryblue.livejournal.com]

MAYBE NEVILLE WAS GROPING SNAPE THAT WHOLE LAST YEAR AND THAT IS WHY THEY ARE BOTH SO BADASS.

And yeah. I think that's just Dumbledore being a prejudiced twit like usual. This was the first book where I really liked Dumbledore because Rowling finally embraced the fact that he's an asshole.