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[kasche]

Happy birthday to __hibiscus!



First of all, a notice - I haven't got a single comment notification for a solid week now. I hope the problem will be solved soon, but in the meanwhile, if I haven't answered a comment of yours? There's a very, very high chance that I haven't seen it at all. :) It also means that if you've got anything important to tell me, you'd better send me an email. ;)



On the other hand, about HP7 spoilers, since they're starting to circle in my lj-corner as well... if you're planning on making (or if you already have) a spoilers filter? Please, keep me out of it. :) And if you're not going to, I'm really appealing to your common sense and/or courtesy - please, use lj cuts, mark them clearly as spoilers, all that jazz. I would really love to keep myself unspoilered until July, if possible. :P I'll be careful and pay as much attention as I can, but, you know, all kind of help will be appreciated. ;) Thank you in advance! ♥

(I still can't forget how I'd managed not to hear anything about OotP (not too hard, that, I didn't even have this account yet) and on the day of the release? On the newspaper I've always read? In the very last line of the (unsigned, obviously) article about the book, in the cultural section? I find "And the readers will finally learn that the character dying is Sirius Black, (and in case it wasn't clear enough) Harry's godfather". God, but I was one pissed off monkey that morning. :P)

...you know, I'd better figure out how to keep me entertained during my online time, in the days between the book release and my actually getting a copy - last year I did this, and it DID entertain me for days - though I was quite close to the I-can't-bloody-take-it-anymore stage by the end of it - but there are only so many times you can tag every single entry you've made in your own journal. (Namely, ONE.) I'll really have to figure out something.

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[monophobia.livejournal.com]

You can tag mine for me? XD

Really, I am dreading the spoilers. But at least I'll be busy enough at the end of July to keep me distracted until I get my hands on my copy.

[kasche.livejournal.com]

Is that a real offer? Because I would have no qualms doing it, you know. XD

...that's right! I've got exams in that period! I might throw myself on my Math books to avoid the internets!

...

Yeah, right. As if that worked before. :P

[monophobia.livejournal.com]

Sadly I don't really need tags, or I might have to make a real offer out of it. XDDD

And yeah, if anything exams make a person spend MORE time on the net!

[kasche.livejournal.com]

*narrows eyes* Are you sure? Because you could use tags. Everyone could use tags! THE WHOLE WORLD NEEDS TO BE TAGGED!

...

Yup, Moment Of Insanity is over.

[monophobia.livejournal.com]

I have only one tag I ever use, and that's "Vault 711" and that's good enough! XD

As it is, I'm tempted to do a COMPLETE re-sorting of all my journals....

[kasche.livejournal.com]

Only one tag! *looks to the right* Man, I don't really think I'd be able to do that. XD Not even tags to categorize the pics as they are on V711? Like, "s/r collection", "not r/s", "november special", "extra extra special"... maybe by characters, guest stars (like the pony!), or...

No, eh? ;P

[remeciel.livejournal.com]

I want to be spoilt by ANY spoilers I can fidn about DH.... so, of course, I was planning to add as many LJ cuts as possible asn what-not. ;D
(oh, and about selling this book with my illustrations on my website, it's just a project actually. I think it's too expensive anyway...)

[kasche.livejournal.com]

*giggles* I swear I don't really understand you spoiler-craving people all that much. ;D It takes half the fun away! I mean - you can't try to figure out what's going on, ending up making half-baked and half-assed thoeries that get more and more absurd the more complicated the plot becomes! :P

[remeciel.livejournal.com]

I'm not keen on reading spoilers. Actually, I kind of hate it.
But HBP disappointed me a lot - writing in itself as much as the plot - and i'd rather know before if the seventh book is worth buying... That's all. :D

[kasche.livejournal.com]

Heh... that's not really a issue for me, you know? Ootp and Hbp had to disappoint me a lot more, for me not to buy the book. I've got this far, I'm way too curious not to buy Dh. :)

[remeciel.livejournal.com]

Maybe you'll post something about the seventh book after reading it? ;) I will be there to read... your spoilers. :D :D
*adores you*

[kasche.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'll post all right - probably when I'm halfway through it, with crazy theories about this or that that will turn out to be wrong by the end of the book. ;D

It's more the days between the release and me getting the book that I'm worried about, really - those could be tricky. I suppose I could get off my lazy butt and finally do something about the recs-journal I never really worked on. :P

*glomps*

[remeciel.livejournal.com]

Oh, I would love to read your POV about it! provided I'll be able to find a computer and read my flist comments throught my staying at Sectus...

[kasche.livejournal.com]

Oh, no need to worry about that - knowing me? By the time I'll actually have something posted, you'll have probably been back from Sectus for a week already. ;D

[remeciel.livejournal.com]

Too bad you can't come, really. Will you be working at that time? :((

[penhaligonblue.livejournal.com]

I've always been amazed at how well you organize your entries. Now I know why. :)

When HBP came out, my roommate, who works at McDonalds in the summer, read the book in under 24 hours, made a number of huge signs saying 'SNAPE KILLS DUMBLEDORE', and posted them around her workplace. From what I hear, there were many children crying over their happy meals that day.

[kasche.livejournal.com]

Well, mostly it's because I'm anal. But I could use the "oh, it's ONLY because I had a lot of time to kill", I guess. *g*

Grah! God, that sounds awful.

...but it also makes me remind of that one time our English teacher took us to a theater-play entirely in English, based on an Agatha Christie's mystery novel. Since it was mostly conceived for high schoolers, you could purchase a copy of the script in advance, so that you could study it and stuff - but since it was a mystery novel, they left out the final scene, so not to spoil the ending.

A classmate of mine had read the novel, and not only did he enlighten every single one of us to whom the murderer was - once we were in the theater (we had seats in the gallery), he wrote "the murderer is ____" on scraps of paper and let them fall down.

I admit I did have fun too, watching the faces of the people who picked them up... ;D

[penhaligonblue.livejournal.com]

Hee - I can definitely understand the impulse to organise. :)

Yeah, one of my school-friends really enjoyed ruining books for me, which turned me off of spoiling for other people. If anything, I like to give misleading (though not false) hints - like if someone guesses something about the plot, and they're right, I usually respond with "You really think so? Hmm. Interesting." So, you need fear no spoilers from me. :)

[kasche.livejournal.com]

Hehehe! I know - I've been doing it too. ;D (Er, the misleading thing. Not the book-spoilering thing.) Glad to know I haven't got anything to fear from you! ;)

[ourmutualfiend.livejournal.com]

Write a book. No, seriously. Write your version on HPatDH, use an ouiji board and see how close (or purposely unclose) you can get!

[kasche.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAHA yeah right. ;D At most I might one of those List 5 things you'd like to happen in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and you think probably WILL happen, list 5 things you'd like to happen, but probably WON'T, and 5 things you'd like to happen, but DEFINITELY won't memes. :P

[ourmutualfiend.livejournal.com]

1. Something gay
2. Someone dies
3. More Luna
4. Another person dies
5. A subliminal advertisement for the new HP theme park in Florida.

[kasche.livejournal.com]

*laughs Oh god, I heard about the theme park... I'm almost curious to know what it might be like. :P And the subliminal ad might be? "Now that the Voldie business is over and done with, I'll take my holiday in Florida, like I've wanted for years"?

[red-magicmarker.livejournal.com]

I totally understand where you are coming from with the whole spoiler thing. I'm staying away from the computer until i read the book. The year of OOTP my friend had an msn name that gave away the fact taht sirius died. I could have killed her, seriously. People just don't think sometimes lol

[kasche.livejournal.com]

Gah! I... don't quite think I'd manage to do that ^^; (Explanatory picture (http://kasche.livejournal.com/82524.html#cutid1). :P) But hey, I envy your strength, I really do! :D