rebecca_in_blue | How does it end? Rebecca almost doesn't want to know.

In about thirty-six hours, my adventures with Harry will be over for another two to three years while Rowling writes the final book. I am going to read the last five chapters tomorrow, and if I can finish them after midnight, I will have made the book last four weeks. That's a new record: Order of the Phoenix, which was significantly longer, took me three weeks. The strange thing is that making the book last this long hasn't been difficult, but I can tell that today and tomorrow are going to be harder than the last few weeks put together. I've been pacing the floor and clenching my fists to keep from grabbing that book. I finished the really wonderful book The Red Tent last night, so now I no longer have Dinah and her family to keep me distracted from Harry.

I'm not going to pretend that I still don't know who dies. I visited a webpage that I shouldn't have and read a spoiler, and it's exactly who I've suspected all along. Adam has told me that the real spoiler isn't who dies, it's how he dies. The news hasn't really hit me yet, but I'm sure I'll be crying my eyes out when it happens.

Adam and I have been arguing over which book is dark, The Order of the Phoenix or The Half-Blood Prince. We finally agreed that Prince is darker but Phoenix seems darker. Prince is piled with more deaths and disasters -- Katie, Stan, Hannah's mother, the Montgomery boy -- and though Phoenix had less unpleasantries, its were closer to home, largely thanks to the cruel sadism of Umbitch.

My favorite chapter for this entry is definitely Chapter 22, "After the Burial." I would have never, ever expected Harry to so exploit being an orphan. "But my mum is dead! Give me the memory!" Hilarious. It was obviously the Felix Felicis that made him do it, because he usually doesn't even like to talk about his parents, much less use their deaths to get what he wants.

And Tonks reminds me of Mom. Sometimes I'd just like to tell both of them to get over it. Yeah, I'm a bitch, I know.