To steal a bit from Comic Book Guy...
Best. Book. In. Series.
When I awoke this "morning" at 11am-ish, I had a nasty headache. No, my scar was not burning, but it might as well have been. I began reading and only took breaks to make and eat meals and sneak in a quick cat nap for about 30 min. And now that I'm done all I can say is...
WOW!
I won't tell you what happens since I don't want to ruin it for those still reading the book. Or those waiting till the final movie comes out in about 3 years I suppose. I will say this though. I think she really put a great deal of care and thought into the final installment. It moves really quickly. It is funny in parts and sad in others. All the pieces seem to fit, though I think I need to re-read the last couple of chapters. I was moving through them so quickly because of my excitement that I missed a certain bit and was surprised when it was referenced a few pages later. Duh to me.
As far as my predictions go, I won't say which ones I got right and which ones I got wrong but I'll give you a rough idea of how I did.
8 of my guesses were spot on. (Oh, before continuing, I will mention that under each heading I had multiple guesses in reference to the heading don't forget.)
For 3 of my guesses, my theory was right, but a slight variation kept me from being fully correct. Which I guess makes those particular ideas half-assed...hee,hee.
4 of them were just plain wrong, or wrong enough that I didn't even want to count them as half assed.
There was sort of a 5th wrong answer, but I don't know that this one should be counted since my logic for arguing why it wouldn't happen wasn't bad and the event itself happend on accident and without anyone's knowledge (or without being truely known, though someone had guessed it had happend).
Confused yet? Basically, I'm saying I didn't completely suck at this guessing thing, but I didn't pour over the books enough to be a hard core expert. And, I'm okay with that fact.
A couple more things to add. There were more deaths than I thought. For some reason I had it in my head that there would be just the 2 or 3 deaths ever since Rowling made the comment about re-writing one of them. Pretty silly on my part, this was going to be a war after all. Still, given the people who died, I'm unsure of who she was most sad about. I have a guess, but it's probably a bit off. I can also say this---I can't wait for this to be made into a movie. It is seriously going to rock.
Finally (I do realize I say this and then follow with four more paragraphs of rambling), a quick wrap up of the festivities. Fully enjoyed my evening at the table with Jackie and Jillian. We all got snarky at about the same time which was fun. The most annoying bit was when (repeatedly) a person would approach the table to get their wristband and we would ask if they had a reservation. They would look at us dumbstruck. "Reservation for what?" they would ask. "For Harry Potter" we would answer. "No." they'd say. "But I ordered the book ________ (insert time period here)." Our response. "That would be a reservation." Man, people are stupid.
One kid took our picture while sitting at the table because he wanted to have a record of every bit of the evening. We also got a group picture taken that actually turned out pretty well considering we were getting towards the end of the night. Not sure where that went though, hopefully Jillian snagged it off the table. Got home at around 3am, watched Psych to unwind and went to bed. Probably should go to bed now actually. Think I will. Night.
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