Harry Potter day
Ben and I love books. A lot. So when a book steals the limelight from all the movies, TV and other junk around then its worth celebrating. Espescially when its a good book by an already classic author. So at midnight on the 20th we were standing in the queue at King’s Cross station (location of Platform 9 3/4 of course) to pick up my copy. The next day we went to Waterstone’s in Picadilly (which had been ‘magically transformed’ into Harry Potter world) to pick up Ben’s. And the best thing about Harry Potter? Travelling on a bus or the tube at the moment in London you can’t help but notice the surreptitious looks from readers, covert and otherwise (Is he further in than me? / Ah — she’s about to gt to ”’that”’ bit).
June 28th, 2003 at 1:41 pm
hi
how’s things
good to c u loving potter…bk 5 is good.
miss u heaps
just had a little girl.
called Madeleine
tom
July 20th, 2003 at 9:56 am
Dear Chris
Potter’s fifth escapade is good; a reminder of that dawky angry adolescence that every boy cannot exscape from, even if u happen to be a wizard. Have you heard or read A S Byatt’s comments about the novel. According to our papers the comments have split the reading world on two! people pro potter and the anti potter crowd who long for the numinous world of Tolkien of Garner of Susan Cooper, all of whom may conjure more substantial ideas and historic links. Even if this is the case - which i agree with - Byatt i feel has forgotten the drive to escape from a current world living on the brink if terror and madness and a young world who are sick of reading reality as it is meant to be, according to those pc idealists who believe the mimetic art of the novel should run the gammit of drugs to drugs. I just wish Hermione was a better crafted character. look forward to Potter’s outing in the seventh book (check fifth book and his first date for possible futures). Have fun in the place where 9 and3/4 could be a reality
love tom