Double the sadness

Had THE MOST AWFUL day yesterday.

I was residually sad due to the reading of the new Harry Potter book. Yes, someone dies...in pretty horrible circumstances. I was gutted when I finished the book at about 1:20 a.m. and even woke up in the middle of the night thinking about it (and I NEVER wake up in the middle of the night unless woken up by my stupid continual SMS beep!) I have come to the conclusion that I just got waaaay too emotionally involved with the fictional characters and plot. Sleep should not be lost over such trivialities in my opinion! So yeah, come Sunday morning, I was still feeling like my insides had been slightly run over.

Then church on Sunday....oh dear dear me, what a pathetic exercise. Bf accompanied me to church to force me to try and make friends by having lunch with people from the uni group (which I have been attending sporadically...though I have been for the last 2 weeks in a row, gasp!!). To cut a long and painful and rather humiliating story short, I tried to latch on to 2 groups of luncheoners and thoroughly and spectacularly failed. I ended up having lunch with a rather random conglomeration of people (none of whom go to the uni group, where I am trying to carve out a posse for myself!)

Pathetic I say. I think I'll slink back to having lunch with my parents. It was just such a kicked-in-the-guts feeling, the kind formerly only associated with getting the knock back from employers! But on the other hand...I feel like I ought to at least attempt to carve out my posse a few more times (or at least find a bunch of people to leech on to!) before I resign myself to having no proper church friends.

So yeah, after that episode, I was doubly sad, for two entirely different reasons. I must say though, that sadness over Harry Potter dissipated after reading a few forums...I was quite considerably cheered. I have put my thoughts on the matter in a small paragraph below which you are welcome to read if you've read the book!

Otherwise, I bid you farewell with the sentiment: Nothing inspires blogging like procrastination. Hehe.


*SPOILER BELOW!! Do not read until you've finished the latest book!*










I don't think Snape is evil. For the simple reason that it's way too obvious and way too easy. Where is the drama and intrigue if Snape is evil? If Snape is evil, Harry must contend with Voldy AND Snape + the rest of the Death Eaters. So what. BUT if Snape is still spying for the Order...then the plot gets a lot more compelling in my opinion. And I think JK has been previously at pains to show us that good/evil aren't necessarily polar opposites and that there really are all shades of grey on the continuum. (Ergh, mixing my metaphors here.) Having said that though, he could STILL be evil and have killed because he was loyal to Voldy, but have a change of heart in Book VII. But the "Snape is 100% evil and will remain so forever more!" is a theory I have a hard time buying.