Eh, why not?

[jackofallgeeks]

You scored as Harry Potter. You can be a little reckless and hot-headed at times, but a more brave and courageous friend would be hard to find. </td> Harry Potter 75% Hermione Granger 70% Albus Dumbledore 60% Draco Malfoy 60% Ron Weasley 55% Remus Lupin 55% Sirius Black 55% Severus Snape 50% Lord Voldemort 45% Ginny Weasley 40% Your Harry Potter Alter Ego Is...? created with QuizFarm.com

And apparently, I'm going to see HP4 tomorrow. I'm a little torn by it. See, I've been meaning to read the HP books for, well, at least a couple years now, I guess. I think I got through (most of) the first book. And I choked past (a good deal of) the second book. And I started the third book. I think. But I haven't really read any of them, so I'd basically have to start from the beginning again (which I may, after I finish Dune... and maybe 1984...). And it wasn't that they weren't good, I'm just pretty bad at taking time to read books (even though I love them) and even worse at reading series (I forget what happened in book 1 before I even start book 3).

Anyways, I've seen Sorceror's Stone and Chamber of Secrets and Prisoner of Azkabhan, and that's all well and good, but... I'm told that books 4 and 5 are probably going to be my favorites, and Book Four is the one When Someone Dies, isn't it? So I don't know if I'm going to be ruining things for me or not... But then, odds are I'd ruin the movie by reading the book easier than I'd ruin the book by watching the movie... so...

Regardless, I'm set on reading the books (someday >.< ), both because I think there's a lot of potential, and I feel it only just if I'm to insist (as I am) that they don't *really* qualify as 'modern fantasy,' where fantasy here means 'a story involving wizardry and fantastical creatures, etc' and 'modern fantasy' is 'such a story in a modern-world setting vice a middle-ages styled setting.'

What do you think?

Comments

[mordainlove.livejournal.com]

::DIES:: of course you're harry potter! oh, how i laugh. that works out too perfectly for words.

and yeah, book four (and thus, movie four) is When Someone Dies. and ya know, death just keeps a'comin' after that.

doom doom doom the end.

[jackofallgeeks.livejournal.com]

-LAUGHS-
I really don't know how to take that. :p

Why, piggy?

[mordainlove.livejournal.com]

::snerk:: because you have a hero's complex, dearest andrew. and you should take that as a compliment, as that's how i'm saying it. ;)

[jackofallgeeks.livejournal.com]

Kay.
*love*