Thankful.

But keep the old, like the people who I met before Nimbus: folk and titanic_days and ivyblossom and nothingbutfic, and those I met at Nimbus, like fick_l_rene and aegeus and resmiranda. I treasure you guys!

Blessed Solstice!

Can this fandom possibly deal with a film and a book in the same year?

Re HPB, my real vote is Godric and my sentimental vote is Seamus because I'm loyal like that. Yes, I will stand in line at a certain bookstore in NYC again, hopefully with friends. Yes, I will buy an advance UK adult cover hardback. (I love those adult covers; they're so pretty.) No, I won't be rereading OotP beforehand; I can't imagine I'll be able to reread 5 or 6 until I've read 7 and know how it ends. I probably won't be staying up all night to read HPB, but rather will zoom through it the next day.

I hope that we all will be a bit better able this time to respect each other's immediate emotional reactions to this book (though, to be fair, I think OotP took us all by surprise). I also hope that no one will be saying, "Get over it!" no matter who dies, because that's just mean.

Re GoF pics, poor Ron looks like my brother in his 1972 prom picture but hey, the hair totally works. Or possibly a reject from the Bay City Rollers? Harry, of course, looks dashing as all hell in his white tie. I love that they are saving Hermione for the movie; if there is an image I don't want to be spoiled for it's that one, though having seen Emma at premieres I think we have a good idea how she'll look in that scene. The Unexpected Task is my favorite chapter of GoF and close to being my favorite chapter in HP ever, so I'm really looking forward to seeing it unfold on screen. As for the Harry and Hermione picture, ♥. I can't wait to see the film with as many of you as possible!

Speaking of which, Cassie posted a long time ago about what songs are in your soundtrack, so as things are in a pre-holiday lull at work, I thought I'd post some of mine from EWFS and what I'm listening to a lot for the sequel:
( Soundtracks. Sort of. )