Harry Potter is sooooo my new fandom

[salinea]

There's nothing like spending a whole day deeply immersed in reading a book you were expecting with quite some amount of trepidation. I'm in 7th sky
I'm so glad I got into the HP fandom recently, i would never have enjoyed ready Half Blood Prince so much if I hadn't. Heh, don't worry, I'm not going to talk about the content of the book apart from saying I enjoyed it a lot. I'm going to make another post with spoiler after this one...

Impromptueness is the best for this thing, so I went a bit at random to find a place where to buy it yesterday evening. I ended up at the Luynn Abbey Canadian book store at St Michel (it's a very small shop with piles of books hanging everywhere in a mess, lovely if you love searching for goof old books among the trash)

The party was extremely small and made up of more people who were there for, well, partying and having fun with friends, than people who were actually interested into buying the new HP. I got to use one of stronger knack, which is, spend some time with total strangers and having a lot of fun at it. I flirted with a cute girl who read my fortune in a strange set of tarot. It was overall very random and fun.

I got to cut the cardbox with the book opened and bought the first copy, and it's a sign of how much a dork I am that I'm quite smug of it. Anyway, afterwhile we went at the Shywawa (a bar I love just because it's got my favourite Appolinaire line on the wall : "mon verre s'est brisé comme un éclat de rire") but I didn't stay very long after finishing my whiskey. I went to my appartment where I knew I could have quiet and space for my very favourite activity in the world : reading.

I finished reading OotP first yesterday night and this morning, then started reading HBP at 4 pm. I finished it, aaahh, something like 20 minutes ago, after going home to my parents' (for eating you see... my second very favourite activity in the world and i was starting to be hungry at my appartment ^_^)

Comments

[tanuki-dono.livejournal.com]

I recently finsihed as well. I enjoyed the read, too. I belive JK Rowling really got a good flow when she wrote this one. ^__~

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

She does. And she goes in such dark, twisted places. I really love her for that.

Just posted the post with he spoilers ^^

Sounds excellent

[generalblossom.livejournal.com]

Now all I need to do is get reading it!

Re: Sounds excellent

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

It is. What are you doing not reading it ? O_o

Re: Sounds excellent

[generalblossom.livejournal.com]

Busy! My crafts instincts went berserk ( see LJ, book covers for goodness sake. They are sort of handy though, I keep gettign mad when I hurt my poor paperbacks in the jungle that is my handbag), said craft instincts being an excuse to shop for all sorts of fun thingies ;) Had visitors last night, the Hound of Hell needed petting and walking and being talked to, and the Bush-in-HP6 thread at our meeting place needed to be really appreciated. I did get into HP6 late last night, am almost halfway in one sitting and it is so good far. Maybe less funny, a bit more ponderous and slow, but that is necessary, they are older and now it is death or life.

[sakanagi.livejournal.com]

All the current fandom activity is starting to make me want to read the Harry Potter books now. At this rate I'll probably try the first one and see if I like it.

That Appolinaire line is nice. I used to know a little French, but I've forgotten almost all of it now, and the only word I found familiar in that sentence was 'verre'. So I've used a translating program and am now looking up other things by the same poet, since he sounds quite good. ^^

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Do that, but the first book is crap. Read at least until the 2nd or 3rd before you take your decision ^^

The full poem is lovely, if you want me to attempt a translation, do ask.

[sakanagi.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'll read the next books as well, to give it a fair try. If the series turns out to be an absorbing read overall, it'll be worth getting through the first book.

I would love to read a translation of the full poem. ^_^

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

All right, I tried :


Mon verre est plein d'un vin trembleur comme une flamme
My glass is full of wine shuddering like a flame

Ecoutez la chanson lente d'un batelier
Hear a boatman's slow song

Qui raconte avoir vu sous la lune sept femmes
Who tells having seen under the moon seven women

Tordre leurs cheveux verts et longs jusqu'à leurs pieds
Twisting their green long hair up to their feet


Debout chantez plus haut en dansant une ronde
Stand up sing louder dancing in a round

Que je n'entende plus le chant du batelier
To cover up the boatman's song

Et mettez près de moi toutes les filles blondes
And bring up to me all the blonde girls

Au regard immobile aux nattes repliées
With unmoving gaze with folded braids


Le Rhin le Rhin est ivre où les vignes se mirent
The Rhin the Rhin is drunk where the vineyards mirror

Tout l'or des nuits tombe en tremblant s'y refléter
All the nights' gold falling ashudder therein reflect

La voix chante toujours à en râle-mourir
The voice still sings upto death-whine

Ces fées aux cheveux verts qui incantent l'été
Of those green-haired feys spelling the summer

Mon verre s'est brisé comme un éclat de rire
My glass has shattered like a break of laughter

[sakanagi.livejournal.com]

You're right, that is a lovely poem. I like it a lot, in particular the first and last lines. Thank you very much for translating it.

Welcome, welcome!

[silvertistel.livejournal.com]

The wackiest, most batshit insane fandom out there welcomes you with open arms. :)

Yay for Harry Potter.