OK, I have finished Harry Potter and the Last Noun Phrase.

(Did not yet go to see the movie of Harry Potter and the Antepenultimate Noun Phrase, but kind of looking forward to it, especially since that's the one I can never remember anything about so I might even be surprised by something.)

Inarticulate review: I liked this book a lot. I know Rowling isn't the greatest prose-maker, and she always pushes the limits of making up the rules as you go along, but I just really like the stuff she makes up. And I love what she chose to do with the main characters, even if a lot of the second-tier ones got short shrift. It works, and it even kind of makes you think.

However!

I didn't expect to run into so many rather obscene double-entendres. I'm not talking about take-that-wand-and-stick-it jokes, or even the whose-wand-is-bigger jokes, or "not my type" jokes; those are just PG teenage rudeness. I mean... other stuff... that certain people would consider very bad, and that would make slash writers very, very happy. I don't know enough about Rowling to know whether these are inadvertent, but I can't figure how an editor let them pass. But then I'm not sure whether I'm the only one (other than slash writers) who reads them this way; I may just be 12 years old to an unusual degree. Which is why I'm not gonna say what they are, until someone else admits to seeing them too.

I'll just say... one of them involves an ambiguous use of an em dash at the end of a sentence (just a suspenseful pause? or word(s) left off?) at the end of one of the final chapters. And another involves something someone said about what Grindelwald may or may not have done.

Goddamn, now I'm giggling again. I am so 12 years old. Someone else please own up.