On Wisconsin!

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Wisconsin played UNC tonight, and wow, it was a tense, great game. The two teams kept trading the lead, and for a while I thought the Badgers were sunk, but they really pulled it off in the last five minutes. On to the Elite Eight!

In other news, we nearly had a Harry Potter emergency yesterday. Ros and I are just about to finish the Chamber of Secrets, so I popped into the big Indigo bookstore near work to pick up the Prisoner of Azkaban. Not only didn't they have it, but their database showed none of their stores in Toronto had it either. And they only had The Deathly Hallows of the other books. And they weren't taking orders online for Azkaban, and neither was Amazon. Looks like the publisher is in the middle of changing editions and we're caught in the middle.

Fortunately I called our last remaining mini-chain bookstore, and they had Azkaban and all the other Potter books at a store not too far away. So I dashed up there last night and bought the lot.

We finished reading the big climax of Chamber of Secrets tonight, and man, that was intense. We'll be on to Azkaban tomorrow. And after the Sweetie told Ros about his boss' family going to the Harry Potter park in Florida last week, she's pretty insistent that we have to go back to Florida for our family vacation next year. Awww, my budding fan.

Comments

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Oh no, why didn't your cousin tell your mum that the film is part of a long series? Or did he/she expect her to know that? (Which wouldn't be surprising, I'd have considered that common knowledge, too, so...)

Please keep on letting us know of Ros' progress with HP. Does she have a favourite character yet? (It's probably Harry, right? Although, I never liked Harry all that much, but I might have if I'd have been younger.)

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Oh, my mum knew what the score was going in. She just liked going to films with my cousin and his husband. And she likes complaining. ;-)

Ros' favourite character is Hermione. Which I am totally encouraging. (I'm finding myself awfully fond of Neville Longbottom this time through, poor long-suffering boy that he is.)

[forthewistful.livejournal.com]

Hermione is a good choice. I like her a lot. Okay, maybe not in the beginning when she is really an annoying know-it-all (for good reason, though, she really does know everything, doesn't she), but she grew to me with the later books.

I've never been too fond of Neville, but he's alright. And he proves himself in the end, which was great to see.

I am very fond of Draco (as my icon tells), Remus, Dumbledore, McGonagall and Snape. And of Draco's parents too, somehow. It's so hard to witness their demise. Seems as if I had a thing for characters that are definitely not black and white and that have quite a burden to bear, be it due to wrong choices they made or because they got the short end of the stick.

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Crikey, I meant to respond to this right away, but it's been a mad weekend! Not bad, but busy!

I'm fond of Hermione and Neville probably because I was a combination of the two of them in school (accident-prone, forgetful and always up for answering the teacher's questions *g*)

I'm also fond of Remus and Snape, and also Dumbledore and McGonagall. The Malfoys are so far not quite to my taste so far, though I have to say that casting Jason Isaacs as Lucius is definitely a Good Thing. And I do think that J.K. creates an unnecessary strawman with the Slytherins.