November 24th.

Happy Monday!

I got Paper Towns last week, and I finished it last Thursday, so you can talk to me about Paper Towns now. I loved it, it was absolutely fantastic.
However, I would like to be slightly more on topic and talk about another book I got last week and just finished reading.

Harry, a History
If you haven't heard of it, it's by Melissa Anelli, the awesome webmistress of The Leaky Cauldron. The book tells the story of the fandom and her life in it, and it's so effing awesome and it makes me so squeefull! Go read it.

I've been home sick (or rather just extremely exhausted and in need of a break) today, which resulted in me reading one of my friends' blog, which goes way back, and I read a bunch of her Harry Potter related posts, and on top of reading Harry, a History, it made me miss the days we were out of the know. And I wish I'd been more active! I was never active online the year leading up to DH, and I just want to go back in time and kick me!
Anywho, it's only a month until Christmas now. Or at least for us Swedes, since we're weird and start Christmas on the 24th instead of the 25th...

Questions!

Which covers do you like the best?
Okay, first of all, I HATE the British covers. They're yuck. I mean, just look at the first book! The British cover for Beedle The Bard is nice though, I'm actually glad we're getting that one in Sweden. Btw, I'm not sure, but there doesn't seem to be coming a Swedish translation of Beedle The Bard, at least not for now. Which I am kind of happy about, since that means a certain woman no one in the Swedish fandom likes won't get to butcher it! But on the other hand, little kids who aren't capable to read it in English should get their chance to read it too.

But anyway, back to the question! the American ones are really nice. I want to have all the American edition in hardback on my shelf as well as the my British and Swedish and one German :P I'll get to that next year.

But the Swedish ones are also pretty good. That's the thing I like about the Swedish version. That and the smell. I don't know why, but the Swedish versions have this smell from the ink or something, and it makes me really sentimental, to think about the days when I'd only read the books in Swedish...

So I'm deciding to go with the Swedish cover of PS/SS as my absolute favorite. I also like the last one, but the color is different on the title which makes me kind of sad.




Do you think Twilight will be bigger than Harry Potter?
Hm, I don't think so. I don't want to be one of those HP fans who bitches about Twilight and hates it just because the Twilight fandom is doing the same thing as we've done and we're jealous. But seriously? I don't hope so.
But, I have read all the books except Breaking Dawn (I have it already, I've just not been able to bring myself to read it. Maybe I will read it for English so I can hate it in front of my class! :D), and I just don't like it. Sure, the plot is exciting and it's not boring, but the writing is not that good. And I really don't like Edward. He is creepy and I hate what he does to Bella (I like strong female characters, like McGonagall...), and the fact that every single guy on the planet seems to like her, even though she's oh, so ugly and stupid.
Sorry, I don't mean to offend any Twilightfan! You have the right to like Twilight as much as I have the right to like Harry Potter.
But, to answer the question, I don't really want the fandom to be as big. And it also seems that the fandom of Twilight didn't really have the time to grow as big as the HP one until the books were all out. I don't know, it just seems like there was this Twilight hysteria a few months ago, but then Breaking Dawn came out. The Harry Potter fandom had ten years to be out of the know, waiting for the seventh book and so on.
And I see HP and Twilight (is there a short for that?) as two very different series, and, to me at least, HP has more depth to it.
But I think that answers the question.

My question! Which HP fansite is you favorite?
I just need to take a brief moment from this blogpost, which is already becoming very long (sorry), to bitch about a Swedish HP fansite. I just googled Beedle The Bard Sweden (to check if there was anything about a translation) and it came up. It's the biggest HP fansite in Sweden, and it's horrible. I looked around on it and it made me nauseous. It's updated, like once a month, if you're 'lucky', and they don't check their sources or anything that you'd think the biggest fansite in the country would do. And the fact that they called Jo's 800-word 'Prologue' a book just makes me want to cry at it's patheticness.

But anywho, PayPal is a bitch, and have an awesome week!
The one who has too many nicknames to be named...aka the Slytherin girl.