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Finished Deathly Hallows late yestereve. The no-spoiler summary review: a good book on its own, and a good conclusion to the story. The Jim Dale audiobook version was, as always, great.
( Observations -- spoiler-rich )

I'm continuing my way through The Book at a leisurely pace, savoring it over a week or two. But I just got to the start of Chapter 21 as I pulled into work, and would have fallen out of my seat if I hadn't been driving.
( Spoilers )

In honor of Potter Night, msmemory and I went out to see Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. A few impressions follow -- no significant spoilers, but ( I'll cut-tag on general principles. )
ETA: How could I forget the trailers?

• "Get Smart" looks good -- Maxwell Smart may well be the role that Steve Carell was born to play.
• "Enchanted" looks like it has real potential: a live-action movie with all the funny snark of Shrek, as Disney makes fun of themselves this time.
• "Stardust" looks like it might just live up to the book: the trailer seriously kicks butt, and the cast is remarkable.
• I haven't actually read "The Dark is Rising", but the trailer has potential, albeit in a pretty generic boy's-adventure coming-of-age hero's-journey kind of way.
• And just to ensure that I don't have to see *every* fantasy movie, "Fred Claus" looks like the greatest waste of time to come down the pike in some while.

Just a gentle reminder to everyone that not all of us are going to read The Book in the first 24 hours. Personally, it's going to take a week or two -- having listened to Jim Dale tell the entire story so far, I'm going to stick with him for the last volume, and continue to "read" it on CD.

So please: keep in mind those of us who are going to take such a ridiculously long time to catch up on the cultural milestone of the day, and keep the spoilers behind cut tags...