Pottery 101...Harry actually

I'm picking up where I left off in August reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. I had kind of fallen off the book reading track I'd been on with other of life's distractions diverting my attention - you know, work, family, TV, football. I did manage to read through one of my Asimov's magazines. I'm behind on those again, I have four left and one is a double issue. It seems they send them out in clusters, after I caught up the last time I had a stockpile a couple of months went by and I didn't receive an issue then it seemed I received one every week for a month. Between those and the books I've acquired I may have a couple of months of continuous reading, maybe longer if I stopped to eat. Back to Potter & the Bird; I've been in no hurry to keep up with the series of Harry Potter books but with the hype of the concluding volume I figure I need to pick up the pace. Also, Carol has finished reading the series and I refuse to hear any discussion of things from the ones I haven't read which I get some grief about when she wants to talk to Ian and Taylor about them while I'm around. Carol had been a bit behind me in the series when I bought the Order of the Phoenix paperback (for traveling use, the thing is still almost 2 inches thick), our other volumes are hardbound. With the movie version out I wanted to have read the book before seeing the movie on DVD when it comes out. So Carol started reading the Prisoner of Azkaban (she took it on the Brit-Swed trip) then kept on going through the rest of the books. The way things are going I'll be happy to finish the one I'm on when the DVD is out.