Harry Potter Discussion Last July 13!

Last Friday, July 13, found Pao and I at Powerbooks, Greenbelt while waiting for Pinoy Harry Potter’s book club discussion. We apparently came around too early, though the place was already set up and such, and wandered through the sale racks in the hopes of finding something interesting to purchase (an attempt that failed, though we found a book that tests one’s Sex IQ; I am apparently more knowledgeable at it than he is).

The event itself started at 7 PM, with about a dozen people in attendance. Like for every school year that starts in Hogwarts, the event also started with its own version of the sorting process – Pao and I found ourselves aptly in Slytherin (he was in Hufflepuff, actually, but Khursten swapped with him since she was leaving early). After general introductions and the like, we spent a couple of hours summarizing the first three books of the Harry Potter series, round robin style.

It was, in general, a cozy and comfortable discussion. A lot of us couldn’t remember the exact details of the scenes that happened in the books, though a handful of the attendees apparently had elephant-esque memory for detail. (There was food, which made us very happy. And I feel like bringing out my copy of book three and giving it another read, though… lots of books to watch. I mean, read. Eh.)

After the summary, we grouped according to houses, and participated in a game. The moderator asked us where a certain person, spell, or object first appeared among the first three books. First to answer wins a point, and all that. Pao and I were with this other girl, Eds, I think. The Hufflepuffs won – or did the Ravenclaws? – and we were all given swanky bookmarks with HP7-related questions. Mine is: Is Snape Good or Evil?

(We Slytherins won the first point, but then the rules changed from raising our hands first to standing up first, which effectively killed any and all chances of us winning, and such. We didn’t mind – the Gryffindors were at last place with us, haha, though we had to catch up to their two points near the end of the game. Pao accused me of taking being a Slytherin too seriously. I demanded to know where his House Pride was.)

Afterwards, there was a general discussion on Book 7, The Deathly Hallows, and the various theories fans have spun about it. This went on until the store’s PA said that Powerbooks was closing, effectively and subtly kicking us all out. There was, I think, another event yesterday (Saturday) and today, which involved a Tri-Wizard tournament. The tournament is ending on the 21st, and features a box set of the books plus five grand as prizes.

Oh, and Pao and I decided that our RoD nicknames should be Retarded on Demand. What’s your RoD nick?

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July 15, 2007 Written by: Yukitsu | Filed Under Events 

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2 Responses to “Harry Potter Discussion Last July 13!”

  1. andrea on July 16th, 2007 10:24 am

    such fun!

  2. RITA on July 20th, 2007 8:54 pm

    THIS BOOK IS MOST AWAITED BOOK IN HISTORY of literature
    and the book is leaked already so for the doubters heres this link here
    http://www.zendurl.com/hallows/ch16.jpg
    ok now that uve seen the book pages scanned here is the entire book for ur pleasure at this site
    http://techkudi.blogspot.com/2011/07/harry-potter-and-deathly-hollows-leaked.html

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