The YA librarian where I work was flaunting her copy of Half-Blood Prince about today, although out of courtesy to the patrons, she'd hidden it inside the cover of her copy of Order of the Phoenix. The stinker wouldn't give me ANY hints though!
I don't buy it. Adult literature might do that for the heroic tragedy component, and while the Harry Potter books appeal strongly to adults, it's still children's literature at heart and the readership base remains primarily children.
It would be a brave turn for the books to take -- might even be the best choice artistically -- but I completely disbelieve that she would do something like that to the kids who literally grew up reading these books.
She's clearly setting up Harry as the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor: look at some of the comments about it in book #5 ("You're the best Defense Against the Dark Arts instructor we've ever had!")
It takes a long time for light to reach us from the sun. Aren't the most intrepid fans going to go to a place closer to the sun, in order to be the first people to get the last book? When do we start hearing from people on Mercury about how it ended?
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Date: 2005-07-16 02:07 am (UTC)The YA librarian where I work was flaunting her copy of Half-Blood Prince about today, although out of courtesy to the patrons, she'd hidden it inside the cover of her copy of Order of the Phoenix. The stinker wouldn't give me ANY hints though!
Alternatively...
Date: 2005-07-16 05:28 am (UTC)Re: Alternatively...
Date: 2005-07-17 03:36 pm (UTC)It would be a brave turn for the books to take -- might even be the best choice artistically -- but I completely disbelieve that she would do something like that to the kids who literally grew up reading these books.
She's clearly setting up Harry as the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor: look at some of the comments about it in book #5 ("You're the best Defense Against the Dark Arts instructor we've ever had!")
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