Thursday, May 19, 2011

Have broom, will travel

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: Chapter 3

A chapter with another good-bye to the dreaded Dursleys and a slew of new characters with more funny names.

Except for Kingsley Shacklebolt ... let that name run through your mind in a British accent. It's what all British names should be made of. Can't you just hear the queen saying, "Kingsley dear, do pour me another cup of tea."

Smashing.

I do say it was interesting to meet the real Alastor Moody. This Mad-Eye acts a lot more like the Mad-Eye that was described in Goblet of Fire. This one is way more paranoid, eccentric and irritable. Tonks (I promise not to call her Nymphadora) is apparently along for the ride to provide balance to Mad-Eye. And Lupin is there to make Harry feel comfortable.

Note to self: If you are ever invited on a night-time broom ride, wear a coat, gloves and a ski mask.

This story might be getting a little TV-crime-drama-like with Harry being taken to a safe house in a London slum. I guess I will soon find out who and what this secret society called the Order of the Phoenix is.

Maybe they are about to rise again.

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