Here's another one, just like the other ones.

[leene_chan]

At the expense of everything else in my life, I read HBP in under five hours. Huzzah!

My impressions? At the risk of oversimplifying, I think this was JKR's best book to date. I had thought that the fifth book was quite good as well but there was too much misery for it to be completely enjoyable. Why is it that this book that contains even more misery was more enjoyable?

I had pegged Dumbledore for being the one to go in this book but it didn't happen the way I expected it to. WHY, SNAPE, WHYYYYY!!?? I'm not a huge Snape fan but I'm not writing him off (or any of the other characters, for that matter) until the last book is published. Nice to know that JKR has more tricks up her sleeve!

The new professor is entertaining, much better than that horrible cardboard Umbridge. Imagine a big drunken Bacchus as the Potions Master! Potions can be fun! :D

Dumbledore's decline and death were painful to read. I can imagine it was worse to write. Even if he was an old man and his death was predictable, no one wants to see the unsinkable ship wither and die. Poor Dumbledore. ;_;

Speaking of sinking ships.....::waves heartily to the Good Ship Wolfstar as it disappears into the briny sea:: Lupin and Tonks together, imagine that, mwah ha ha! :D I know it's rotten to take delight in other people's suffering, but it's about time karma bit some of these psycho RemusxSirius shippers in the ass! ::starts cackling like Bette Davis in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?::

I can't believe what happened to Bill. How horrible!

I admit that Harry and Ginny's relationship seems forced. I don't like that some people refer to Ginny using ugly language because she has a lot of boyfriends, though. Would it have been better if she were a boy? O_O