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Originally Posted by Thomas Banacek
It was weird reading it because every plot line I had guessed after the end of the last book was there in this one. I didn't know whether to be smug or slightly freaked.
I enjoyed it, I initially thought the ending seemed like a cop out, a "best of both worlds" scenario, but I soon got over that and saluted it for the fine finale to a fine series of books.
One thing which angered me intensely however.
The queue outside Waterstones was full of young kids, many of them dressed up in cute fancy dress.
For them to have to endure the abuse thrown at the crowds by drunken idiots (I won't say neds cos there were plenty folk who would not have looked out of place on the Moshulu dancefloor also engaged) was disgusting and made me feel on several occasions like committing a violent offence.
I am more than a little certain that some kids were probably very upset by it, and I hope whoever those people were feel big and proud of themselves.
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The wisdom of having a midnight launch on a Friday night, for a book read by lots of children, always seemed a bit dodgy to me. Surely they could have changed it to a midweek launch or something, instead of having lines of children standing around city centres getting abuse from pissed up louts.
Aside from that I have no interest in Harry Potter whatsoever. The books and the films haven't appealled to me at all.