Oh Potter, You Rotter

With just four days to go until Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix hits bookstores, your humble correspondent should have been in a state of advanced anticipation.

Along with other Pottermaniacs, she has waited patiently for three years for this moment, sustaining herself on deep drafts of the previous four Potter books and applying the balm of lesser solaces, such as the Lemony Snicket books, Eoin Colfer