Deathly Hallows
I’ve been spending most of my time away from the computer diving into the Harry Potter books lately. I hadn’t really picked one up since July 21st, 2007 - the day Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows took the world by storm. I read it during that day so as to not be spoiled by other people, though I remember being so tempted to check out the Wikipedia article and see the spoilers. I think I rushed through the book when I was reading it because I wanted to read the final battle against Voldemort so badly. It’s also kind of hilarious, because my English teachers always used to tell us to ask questions while we read, and I thought it was kind of stupid to say something like that at the time; but now I ask myself things about the book as I read on.
At any rate, I’m amused that my obsession’s come back. I started reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix one night while it was on HBO because everything seemed very out of place in the movie and I felt ashamed that I couldn’t remember if several things were in the book or not. So I sat down and read it, and now I’m stuck in the books until the end of Deathly Hallows. I didn’t used to like J.K. Rowling’s writing style, finding it boring and slowing down the series even further, and often criticized it amongst friends, but as I reread it my opinion has changed: she’s actually very good. Granted I’m at the end of the series, so of course her style will have improved over the years, but the only thing that ever irks me is her dialogue construction. It’s nearly all he said, she said.
Right now I’m at the part where they’ve broken into Gringotts, gotten the Hufflepuff cup and jumped off the dragon into the water. It’s funny how they’ve only defeated one Horcrux by page 500, and then the end is totally rushed. 
And I still can’t help but be completely angry at Ron. Ron’s never stood out to me as a character - good for comic relief and all, but when he abandons Harry and Hermione I still agree with Harry: “Did you think you’d be home to Mummy in time for Christmas?”
In other news, it’s raining constantly here. This is the sixth day in the row it’s rained. 
I love the rain and all, but this much of it is incredibly annoying when it also happens to be muggy and the windows have to be closed. This is the wettest summer I’ve ever had.
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As I said on AIM that epilogue NEVER happened.
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Aha, Harry Potter is the one obsession I (and, it seems, a lot of other people, too) can always go back to and somehow be so….involved as we all were the first time we read/watched the series. I can honestly say that I used to worship JK Rowling, but now that I have been reading for five years now, she’s not the best, no. Her dialogue is crap, but at the same time, it works for the books. I cannot wait for the movie, as I feel it will definitely be spiffy, although Ron suddenly playing Quidditch still irks me.
I also know how you feel with the weather - we have a pool in our front yard, and it’s about ten feet from reading our steps. It’s scary, as this is only July. *shudders*