haha my posts are irregular and long like a piece of toilet paper and also like.! charisse is lucky. not that i um.[/random]

finished ootp! and now i have a better understanding of what actually happened in the hall of mysteries. (correct me if the name's wrong) and before that, i could not empathise with harry's feeling of isolation at the end of it all- as in i understand his sense of loss for sirius, but not of the great burden because of the prophecy- his knowledge of having to defeat voldemort. and yes i know the prophecy does not have to be fufilled, but voldemort thinks that it does have to be fufilled, and has already fought harry so many times so harry doesnt exactly have a choice. and when having such a large task of killing the being that is responsible for all the terrorism the wizarding world has suffered, there is great personal stress and responsibility. and the parallels jkr has made are quite obvious, as well as her political stand- fudge in ootp?

Began hbp and understood importance of the unbreakable vow between narcissa and snape- laura of mugglecast thinks that snape is working more for himself to survive in the war- haha like mr mizar's reference to LKY during the war when he worked for the japanese. maybe snape does not want to commit himself to either side- i forgot when snape did the unbreakable vow-
pg 41 of the bloomsbury edition states: "'will you carry out the deed that the dark lord has ordered Draco to perform?' There was a moment's silence. Bellatrix watched, her wand upon their clasped hands, her eyes wide. 'I will,' said Snape."
the 'deed' is the killing of dumbledore but we dont know at this point. Bellatrix is still astonished that snape has done this to protect draco as she is suspicious of his involvement with the order and she is 'wide-eyed'. Snape is comtemplating in the 'moment's silence' and continues, afraid to blow his cover in front of narcissa and bellatrix. but isnt it a large promise to make since dumbledore has said that snape has pledged alliegence to him? i read an editorial and the writer thinks that the series is a large red herring and snape, instead of voldemort, is the antagonist. which is weird because since harry is the protagonist, he has to go fight voldemort, who will be the antagonist. and at the end of hbp, we know that harry is going to find the horcruxes (not horcri) which contain bits of voldemort's soul, not snape's.

ah well. will continue reading with my piece-of-ootp bookmark from bookday(: though i didnt manage to find which page it was cut out from. and i got it from BooksActually! which had all kinds of neat stuff on display (poetry grids!) which i didnt have money to buy): and if anyone wants to know, BooksActually is at 125A Telok Ayer Street Singapore 068594