Ramblings of a total Zack girl

The funny thing is, I used to be an HUGE Harry Potter fan. Enormous. I owned nine cloaks and presented a paper at a convention (really badly, but never mind that) and went to premiers in a nine-layer reasonably-chronologically-authentic Helga Hufflepuff costume. That I had sewed myself. Etc.

And I almost didn't even go last night. In the end, I just thought that I didn't want to be so grown-up I missed a midnight premiere of my very first fandom...and I went. And I'm even glad I did. But I think if I hadn't I wouldn't have regretted that either, and it kind of makes me sad inside. But sleeeeep!

So, anyway, ( Cut for...not spoilers, exactly? But my impressions may color your viewing )

Taking a break from my costume to post my spoiler policy.

I promise I will not be an asshat.

Please do not be one to me.

Thank you.




Yes, I know it's supposedly out there. No, thanks, I'd rather read and squee and sob and flail with the rest of the world.

I just spent twenty minutes looking for the O.W.L. exams.

In Half-Blood Prince.

*smacks self on forehead*

So, I had the blinding revelation that hey, Reversathon's due in a little over a week. *duh*

I've made a few weak starts before, but nothing's really clicked. (Not to worry, mod, this is totally typical of my process.) I panicked.

I started brainstorming in earnest, and in the middle of this I fell asleep (update on workday from hell later.)

Actually, I frequently do this on purpose, brainstorming and then falling asleep--at least three fic plots have been realised for me by presenting me with Technicolor pictures. So, really, a good thing.

And I dreamed all right. Three of the plots I was thinking of, and about seven I wasn't (half of which were not, in fact, Harry Potter, but were Stargate: Atlantis instead) tumbled through my head, most of them logical, some of them great ideas, four or five actually fitting what I need to do for my Reversathon assignment.

HOWEVER.

In EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE DREAMS, the main characters were played by Jared and Jensen. EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. I don't mean, you know, a Jsquared AU or anything, I mean the actors were playing the characters in my film-dreams.

Jared, surprisingly, makes a great Snape. And Jensen's wry John Sheppard is priceless. Make of that what you will.

We have a date!

Wehaveadatewehaveadatewehaveadate!!!!

FIVE MONTHS.

FIVE.

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!

I FINISHED THE WHOLE FIRST SCENE.

I know.

But I'm excited!

I totally can't remember...if Harry was eleven when PS was first released, what year does he turn eighteen?

JEREMY PAXMAN: Why stop when they grow up? Might be interesting to know what becomes of Harry as an adult.

JK ROWLING: How do you know he'll still be alive?

JEREMY PAXMAN: Oh. At the end of book 7?

JK ROWLING: It would be one way to kill of the merchandising.

June 19, 2003

JUNE NINETEENTH, TWO THOUSAND AND THREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I don’t wanna go to bed, it’s coming, coming, coming!!!!!! TOMORROW!!!!!

Okay, so it’s technically the day after but we’re going for the midnight release so all my build-up is towards tomorrow. TWENTY-FIVE HOURS LEFT!!!!!!!!!!!! I can remember when it was twenty-five DAYS! It’s COMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Holy freaking son of ZEMENAR!!!

Okay…must calm down.

Just spent three days filing for Toni, who is nice but confusing. What kind of woman puts racy romance novels and condoms in the same box as the BoM? I mean REALLY.

And that one line…that was just a slap in the face. I was reading that one message-board thingy, and I thought, oh, how can people be so horrible (a support site for people w/ AIDS and they’re posting such flaming hate-messages? How can there be people like this?) but I didn’t read it all and it passed from my mind. But just that one line, scrawled across the official release form: “I’m being fired because I’m HIV positive…” Wow. Just. Like. Smack. Across my cheek.

How can there be people like that OUT THERE? I mean, really, How CAN THERE BE? It isn’t right. She’s still a kind person who loves cats and is nervous abt her first employee. She’s still a person. Period.

BTW, ducks should not cross 65-mph roads. And traffic is horrible stuff.

I’m going…