The end is nigh.

[tenlittlebullets]

2.5 hours to Potterdämmerung. Sitting here making "wtf" faces at myself, since by all measurable standards I should be in a fever of excitement, but I'm just not. I'll probably have a burst of enthusiasm once I actually start reading the book, but I can't really bring myself to get psyched up for the release.

...which is odd, because two years ago I was in the queue outside Waterstones in London doing the midnight countdown. I mean, Harry Potter practically was my early adolescence. Seems a little odd that I'll go to bed tonight and sleep through the release of the Holy Grail of the HP Fandom, then wake up and walk into a bookstore and pay my 23 euros and leave with the book. No pre-ordering, no midnight party, no costumes, no fanfare.

Also, I've only read HBP twice, and I've forgotten half the plot--and what I do remember keeps getting mixed up in my head with OotP. I think that since the psyching up for the next book phenomenon mostly started with GoF, only the first three books are solidly fixed in my head as canon--the rest is there, but it keeps rattling around alarmingly. I remember the vast majority of the events of HBP, but god damn if I can tell you what the plot was.

I'm such a bad fan.

Comments

[lovemoony4ever.livejournal.com]

I never read HBP more than a couple of times either, it was the first Harry Potter book I actually disliked. Now I can't brag about knowing everything there is to know about HP any more, as I didn't read it thirty times as the other books (the exception being PS and GoF).

Strangely enough I'm not terrible exited about DS, and HP was my life from I was 9 'til 14. I had actually forgotten all about DH until wednesday last week, so I'm a bad fan too;)

[toi-marguerite.livejournal.com]

Dude, I feel the exact same way! I think it's because in OotP Harry was a whiny teenager trapped in a CAPS LOCK OF ANGER and HBP was rather 'meh'-ish.

HP was/is a part of childhood. Perhaps we are moving on?

[srevans.livejournal.com]

Yes, I like how it consumed my adolescence as well. (Eleven to nineteen! How literarily nice.)

I'm getting in costume, but I just... don't feel it. I mean I have crazy Bellatrix shit on and I soaped THIS CAR IS A HORCRUX on my back windshield, but it's mostly out of habit by now.

Good luck not getting spoiled. :D