harry potter.....

ok, so....the newest harry potter film...goblet of fire opens on many screens tonight at midnight.......and at that hour i will be asleep and not thinking about hp.......not that i don't care.......not at all...i care deeply....to watch the film during my usual wakeful hours.....after 6:30 am and before 10:00 pm......i honestly cannot wait to see how this new director treats the dragons and the mermaids and the serpent/voldemort.....and cho chang......and rita s. the reporter who.....well....musn't tell plot secrets......i do spend a few moments a day breathing slowly as a way to get through another day without volume 7 of this series.......i silently will j.k.rowling to get out of her multi-count cotton-sheeted bed and write just a few more lines of dialogue....so that i can put this angst behind me......must know what happens to dumbledore/harry/hermione/ron/voldemort....et al.......as i drove to work this morning npr ran an excerpt of a pre-national book award function that honored norman mailor.....and in his speech he basically trounced popular fiction as tripe.....that will not stand the test of time.......codswollop...i say......hp may be pop culture.....but when a grown woman looks forward to the next installment of a children's book.....from a series that averages 800+ pages per book.....that is no longer in the range of pop fiction....sorry, norman...........you may have a point about serious fiction....but hp is serious fiction....and i feel sorry for you if you have felt above it to this point..........go ahead....start in with book 1........