Weird ipad shut down/start up behavior

Shut down is normal (the speed at which it shuts down is different sometimes). When i start it up, though, it sometimes gives the same twirl that it gives at shutdown, and then it shuts off again. I then have to start it up again for it to turn on.

I actually have an idea as to why this is happening and I hope Apple will address this in their upcoming software update.
If you put your iPad to sleep via the sleep/power button and then wake it up to get to the lock screen, if you don't swipe to unlock right away, you'll notice that the screen will go to black in a very short period of time - literally a few seconds.
I believe what's happening is that, depending on what apps you've been running, when you go to power down the iPad (rather than just put it to sleep), if there is something in memory that the iPad is trying to clear out before shutting down, the screen will go to black (much as it does when it's on the lock screen) before the iPad has the chance to finish shutting down. When you then hit either the home button or sleep/power button, the iPad reawakens and finishes the shut down process.
This is observable behavior in all iPads and is definitely a software issue. A lot of people don't see it happen because many never power down their iPads. Plus, when it happens, this behavior happens sporadically and is almost impossible to duplicate on demand, hence the uselessness of taking to the Genius Bar. However, since it's a software issue, there really isn't anything they could do about it anyway.
The only fix is to see it addressed in the upcoming update in November. Keep your fingers crossed.

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