I’ve been racing my way through, you know, that seven-book series that was all the rage for almost a decade there. Late to the party as ever, but girl do I make up for lost time once I arrive! I’m halfway through book 7 (which is helladepressing, yowza!) and I expect to have my evenings free for blogging again soon. (sob)
Not that I don’t lurv y’all. Really. I just. can’t. stop. reading. My daughter is reading her way through too, and she’s halfway through book 2 and still trying to identify all the possible flavors of Bott’s Every Flavor Beans. So far her favorite line from the books she’s read is “Alas! Earwax!” Extra points for the commenter who identifies the person who said that.
Anyway. More real stuff later. Just wanted to let folks know I’m alive and well and so forth.
I usually insert a photo or video here, but I’m afraid that if I insert a photo or video of the relevant topic in this space my blog will get falsely elevated numbers. I’m already over the top with people trying to find Claudia Black and Denise Richards. Bwaha.
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April 18, 2012 at 5:49 pm
winningwithbipolar
Dumbledore said it.
April 18, 2012 at 5:52 pm
makingspace1
Right-o!! You rocketh.
April 18, 2012 at 5:54 pm
annekay
Rats! Beat me to it! Dumbledore. Give him a good lemon sherbert. I ordered the books from Canada (land of my birth) so I could read it with the original English words. Even made a lesson out of it for a student using the English words and employing context clues.
When you are done you need to read it again… you’ll find all sorts of foreshadowing from the beginning of the books. You can also catch some acknowledged boo-boos.
(Yes, I am a fan
April 18, 2012 at 6:00 pm
makingspace1
Yes I’m planning to re-read from the beginning once I’m done. I was thinking that exact thing about the foreshadowing. The seventh book is pretty deus-ex-machina-ish but I’m thinking the earlier books contain elements of the Inevitability of the Final Battle in them. But – hopefully I’ll still have time for blogging.
I now understand the fandom. I really want to speak of nothing else. Sadly, most people I know have moved on. LOL
So my daughter is not the only one who obsesses over who says stuff about Every Flavor Beans, eh?
April 18, 2012 at 6:08 pm
froggy not annekay
I was this close to ordering a case of chocolate frogs for my grad school education class…
April 18, 2012 at 6:19 pm
makingspace1
Are you your own Evil Twin Skippy now? Haha
Where do you order chocolate frogs????? My kids will go nuts for this!!!
Note: the kidlets compare themselves to Fred and George, or as they like to call them, Gred and Forge. So cute.
April 18, 2012 at 6:30 pm
Scarlett
Re: chocolate frogs… I suppose you could make your own. ew.
I still have a box of Bertie’s Bott’s Every Flavor Beans we picked up years ago when our kids were reading Potter! This one unopened. And yes, *earwax* was disgusting. But not near as much as *vomit*. We all five got headaches after trying them. The lengths one goes to, to be the fun parent!
I love the series, but unfortunately could never get through Book I. Keep telling myself I’ll read them some day. Of course, now I know how it ends. *g*
April 18, 2012 at 6:40 pm
makingspace1
See now instead of picturing a sweet confection I’m imagining dipping an actual frog in chocolate.
So you got through the series by watching the movies and not reading the books? And you can get Every Flavor Beans????
April 18, 2012 at 6:48 pm
Scarlett
Yes, I admit. I absolutely LOVED the movies! My husband read the first two or three books aloud to our three kids, when they were little and we still did that sort of thing. I generally listened while popping in and out from the laundry, the kitchen sink, the usual. By the time the first movie came out, our kids had begun reading the series themselves and I was behind. So, I just stuck to the movies, as the only loser who DIDN’T know what was coming next!
And YES! We bought our beans in a box from Borders bookstores way back when. Ours sits in a shadow box in our living room.
Umm, I also was imagining an actual frog. Not that I would do such a thing. But the visual is pretty funny… in a weird way.
April 18, 2012 at 6:55 pm
makingspace1
Love that. I taught those kids in college a few years ago, sigh… the generation that actually grew up with Mr. Forehead Scar. Yep, they’ve all grown up now… well, you know this….
April 18, 2012 at 6:59 pm
Scarlett
I don’t recall when Harry Potter was actually released. But, my kids are not quite college age yet. 18, 16 and 13. (:
April 18, 2012 at 7:06 pm
makingspace1
Ah, got it. Yeah the generation that was the same age as the kids in the book just finished college last year. That was the first HP generation. Yep.
April 18, 2012 at 6:35 pm
froggy not annekay
They are hideously expensive
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and
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and
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(price okay, shipping awful)
April 18, 2012 at 6:45 pm
makingspace1
OMG. The kids are going nuts. Running around screaming ALAS!! EARWAX!!!
April 18, 2012 at 6:50 pm
froggy not annekay
go to amazon. They have everything! The beans, the cheapest frogs, frog molds, wands, cookbooks
I made treacle tart for Thanksgiving. My daughter found golden syrup in a German themed tourist town.
April 18, 2012 at 6:56 pm
makingspace1
I did. I have a feeling my household is going to massively invaded by these products as birthdays and other gift-giving occasions roll around…
April 19, 2012 at 7:36 am
natasiarose
Haha! Have fun!
April 19, 2012 at 7:57 am
makingspace1
I stayed up until past 1:00 a.m. finishing book 7. Yawn!!! I couldn’t stop though, once I hit the middle of the book. Could. not. stop.
April 19, 2012 at 8:55 am
Mark
Good to hear that you’re still alive.
Happy Reading!
m.
April 19, 2012 at 9:40 am
makingspace1
I am alive and I want to be Neville Longbottom when I grow up!!!! Glad to see you out and about, dahlink. Hope the springtime is treating you and yours well. Soon it will be summer and time to send the kids to the beach with the grandparents again… wow time flies with these kids eh?
April 19, 2012 at 10:01 am
Star Fairy
Of course it was Dumbledore, and he said just before that he had lost his taste for them many years before because he had eaten a vomit flavored one.
Neville coming into his own is one of my favorite things about the 7th book… oops, was that a spoiler?
I love the books. I am seriously underwhelmed by the movies, though. Haven’t even seen the 8th one (2nd part of the 7th book… based on, that is). The casting is wonderful, but I only really enjoyed the first 2. Come to think of it, I didn’t see 5, either.
My nearly 8yo has listened to the first 4, has them on CD, too (well, #4 will be a birthday present next week. shhhhhh!) An older friend keeps giving him spoilers from later books, which irritates me. I really don’t think he’s ready for the later books, yet.
There was one summer where I was feeling very lonely and depressed and hot and so I spent hours on end lying on the couch re-reading all the books that were out then… 5, I think. It definitely cheered me up a good deal.
Another favorite moment was watching my step daughters face as she was reading toward the end of #6. When her jaw dropped and stayed that way, I knew exactly where she was.
Anyhow, enjoy the books! And obviously I’m willing to talk about them.
April 19, 2012 at 10:16 am
makingspace1
Yo SF!! You know the speaker and the context for the earwax line? Awesomeness!! Neville’s contribution to book 7 had me absolutely SOBBING. I wanna be that kid when I grow up!!!!!!
I’m thinking my daughters will be reading the books to themselves, at their own level of comprehension. That way they can pick whether or not they are ready to go on.
I’m also thinking I want to re-read the series like NOW. But first of all I’m catching up on some other parts of my life that I’ve neglected. Heh. Like some work on Ye Olde Blogge and other parts of my online world. I’ve been letting some weeds grow around my online world, and I want to do some behind-the-scenes tweaking so that I can have it all how I want it right now. THEN I’ll start Book 1 again…
Oh. How much do we love Hagrid????
April 19, 2012 at 3:25 pm
Star Fairy
We absolutely adore Hagrid! Studying magical creatures with Hagrid would be my boy’s favorite course at Hogwarts!
This is Zanna, btw… I forgot I was logged into wordpress when I posted here… I mostly use Star Fairy on a particular blog, MEM…
<3
April 19, 2012 at 4:53 pm
makingspace1
Yep Hagrid is pretty awesome, though I myself would not really want to study the care of magical creatures with him. Eek! Blast ended skrewts!!!
I knew who you were, no problem.
April 20, 2012 at 3:07 am
Star Fairy
Oh, I’d be off in the forest learning from Firenze, myself.
April 20, 2012 at 5:24 am
makingspace1
That makes sense. Heh.
April 20, 2012 at 6:27 am
Star Fairy
“Ruddy centaurs, not interested in anything closer than the Moon!”
April 20, 2012 at 6:28 am
makingspace1
snort