My eyes! They burn!

[morsla]

Curse ye, boredom! A slow afternoon and an overabundance of LJ entries mentioning That Darned Book led me to this page - where the Guardian has a collection of rather different takes on the Potter story.

The Guardian staff were so starved for rumours that two weeks before the book's release, they decided to invent their own. The topic they decided on was the death of Dumbldore, and readers were asked to write a piece in the style of another author...

I've just read Potter via Irvine Welsh ("Aye, Volders is fuckin psycho, like, but he's a mate n aw, so whit can you do?"), Hunter S. Thompson ("all of a sudden the air was filled with hundreds and thousands of frogs, hopping all over the front of the car and a voice was screaming 'what are these creatures'"), and H.P. Lovecraft ("When my peers were united in ponderous folly on the Quidditch pitch, instead, there was I in the twilit vaults beneath the library, turning the worm-gnawed pages of tomes far better left unopened, learning things far better left unlearnt") - not to mention A.A.Milne, Spike Milligan, and other horrors that should remain unknown.

Link from sclerotic_rings, who pushes blame back another step to lolotehe. I spread it selfishly to get it out of my head...

Warning: May contain Actual Spoilers in the comments of this entry. Everything in the link above is fiction from two weeks ago...

Comments

[designadrug.livejournal.com]

Dude, LJ-cut? Spoiler alert?

[morsla.livejournal.com]

?

The newspaper staff were so starved for rumours that they decided to invent their own three weeks ago... I guess I can make that more clear.

[morsla.livejournal.com]

Although if I have to put Hypothetical Fictional Spoiler Warning on things, the world's stranger than I gave it credit for being...

[designadrug.livejournal.com]

What I meant was that perhaps you might consider putting the text behind an LJ-Cut and posting an alert that the subject matter contains spoilers for the book, since not everyone knows that Dumbledore karks it!

:)

[morsla.livejournal.com]

Well, I didn't know until you posted that :)

The topic was chosen by what the bookmakers guessed would happen, on July 4th...

[designadrug.livejournal.com]

I appreciate that, but there's still potential spoilers :P

Sorry if I did spoil it for you.

I had someone turn to me, midway through the book and say "She killed Dumbledore!".

I don't mind. I've only seen the third movie and never read the books.

How's the ankle?

[morsla.livejournal.com]

I can walk on it, but I'm not running any time soon. Reasonable degree of movement, not too much swelling, but it's staying bandaged for the next few days. I can probably strap my ankles with my eyes closed now - far too many injuries since the car accident in 2002.

I'm not fanatically following the books... although I'd be tempted to if Irvine Welsh wrote one. Two paragraphs in and *everything* I read has a thick Scottish accent in my head :)

[harkon.livejournal.com]

Hehe, Dr Seuss HP...

[kashiichan.livejournal.com]

For a second when you said "she", I thought you meant a character, and was outraged that you insulted [character's name] so.
Then I realised what you meant, and hung my head in shame.

[designadrug.livejournal.com]

No shame, Kashii-sama.

XD

[kashiichan.livejournal.com]

xD indeed.