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Bought this used for $5 at Friendly City Books in Columbus! Love the movie, excited to read the book :)

Loving rereading this! Looking up words as i go and doing it proudly

Being publicly queer used to be a crime!!! That's so insane

Rich benefactor man buying gifts for her and her friends? Rich people are not generous like they used to be.

The chapter on sex is quite heavy-hitting. Stigmas and prejudices are ever-present, even within our own community. The dangers of sex work were imminent then and even remain so now.

I'm learning so much, it's wild. Legal persecution destroys so much history.

This is my friend Blake's copy. He read and annotated it, now I'm reading and annotating it. This is real living.
Intro by Sasha Velour? IM SOLD.
Seeing MY culture shared through letters is a beautiful treasure. Loving this so far.

I hate Umbridge and I love McGonagall and I love Fred and George and I hate Grawp and QUIDDITCH CUP

This shit is crazy and so different from the movie

Why is Lockhart making an appearance wtf

So much stuff in here that I think would've been great in the movies

HAGRIDS BACK HAGRIDS BACK

Malfoy deserved worse than what he got. And Umbridge deserves to be flayed alive

The competition's really starting to heat up

I hate Umbridge so badly

This school wants Harry to kill himself good fucking god

We're cooking now

Finally we're heading to Hogwarts omfg

Idk man she's writing a lot of nothing burger paragraphs. We don't need to know about every magic item in the room honestly

Obsessed with how dramatically the smallest bit of magic improves Harry's mood

(Forgot to update, but I read to page 42 on July 31st, 2025)
Harry is so angsty good lord

Author makes a lot of cringey dialogue choices that feel like he's trying too hard to write a movie script