Order Only: ISS Business

[alt_sally_anne]

I was thinking we could make a list of things we find usefully distracting.

1. Christmas gifts. I've been working on knitting things and so on.
2. Someone left behind a catalogue from a book shop and I've been going through it and writing down the names of books I'd like to try to borrow from somewhere.
3. I was thinking maybe I'd re-read 'Pure Hunger' and 'Pure Power' seeing as the sequels are coming out soon and perhaps tonight would be a good night to do that as I don't expect I'll be sleeping much.

Comments

[alt_justin]

Sally-Anne,

Excellent notion, what.

5. If he's out there fighting, Professor Dolohov won't be able to teach Noble Arts tomorrow.
6. Nor shall Professor Lestrange.
7. Do you think there will be another play next term? What about?

-Justin

[alt_sally_anne]

So what you're saying is, it's probably not going to be a terrible problem that I didn't get most of my homework done.

That's something, anyway!

And I think there will be another play next year and it will be a musical production based on ... I don't know. Oh, wait, I do know. It'll be a musical based on 'Pure Hunger,' it'll be a hit.

[alt_justin]

I say, Hydra wanted me to read those and I couldn't see what the fuss was about them.

I mean to say, I can bally well understand they're jolly thinly veiled parallels to the Protectorate. But I found them--well, the first one, I should say--rather formulaic.

Oh, I say:
8. Who in the Galleon club do you think will be next to join the Order? Ginny?

-Justin

[alt_sally_anne]

I wonder if that would make Mrs Weasley happy or if it would send her utterly round the twist? If Ginny worked things out and asked to join.

Maybe Cedric Diggory?

[alt_harry]

Yeah.

I think he'd be good for it.

[alt_sally_anne]

I don't even know what you mean by 'formulaic.' They're exciting and fun to read and I want to know what happens next.

[alt_justin]

I mean that I guessed what was going to happen before it happened, what. The author was following a formula popular in that sort of fiction.

It reminded me of a number of books I've read before. Perhaps it's because they're not available here, though, that it seems so engaging.

-J