Deathly Hallows
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Went this morning to buy it, was there slightly after 8:00. They had a midnight sale, here in cologne, but I didn't want to have the book last night, I would have had to read it, then! So I rather slept, though only from around 2 to 7:30.
There were some others in the otherwise deserted city, one with a bag of bread rolls in his arms, and every single one of them bought two exemplars of the book.
Then I proceeded to eat cake, drink cappuccino and coke, slouch on my bed with Elia and readreadreadread, with some breaks for more cake, coke or the loo (and one for feeding the boycat who *loved* the fact that there were his two favourite humans on the bed with him, apparently doing nothing, too. XD).
13 hours solid reading (and I would have been faster, but it was a joint venture and thusly more fun) and I'm through. Pointing to my last entry I may repeat: GAH!
And now, off to the spoilers:
(Warning: Makani-isms ahead. She showed me squeeing embarassingly is okay in fandom.)
ARGH NOOOOO! SNAPEYPOOO!!!!
But hey, he got to be headmaster and aaaaalll suffering hero like. Though, come on, "Look at me..." that was a low blow, J.K. Loooowwww. *wail*
Perfect, of course, but still... Snapeypoo....
Things I loved:
On the topic of one R.A.B.: YES!! Isn't it a marvelous thing how all those intelligent brains of fandom came up with nearly all the answers? I loved the two adjoining rooms, and Kreacher fighting under his banner...
Kreacher was an unexpected bit I loved to pieces, anyway.
And YAY for character realism. Ron *does* stupid things, Malfoy *is* a spineless ferret and Snape is not a nice man and quite futureless anyhow.
And of course it takes a lot to let Harry grow into heroism. He doesn't crave to be a hero, he doesn't want power.
Both Remus and Albus seen from their most human and de-idolized side, beautifully done!
Hermine was nearly too cool and kickass and everything, but yeah, those brainless griffindor fools would have been dead on day one without her.
May nobody tell me J.K. didn't use some personal experience with the press, here. I am glad not to be famous at all.
YAY for Grimmauld place all shiny and homey and with steak and pie on top! Old house love!
Things that hurt:
Remus, Tonks and Fred, Snape (yes, ALTHOUGH it makes sense, still...), all those shiny secret hidden things in the Room of Requirement and Snape.
Nearly all of the frustrating middle part of the book, where they just had no *plan*. Damn those griffindor main characters!
Things I missed:
What about the veil, woman?! And thestrals, huh? I see a large new fanfiction looming there, I just should write it before someone is quicker. I won't write anything when somebody already did a great job with an idea.
How George is coping, well, maybe, *if* he is.
So, fandom, I dare you to make some Snape/Harry out of THAT canon. *sniffle* ... Can't think of anything anymore. Canon grew to be too strong, here. Daaamn. ;D
EDIT: On the whole I shouldn't have been but was very much surprised at the level of hurting realism in the book. I mean, she let Harry be the annoying teenager before, and she killed Sirius. But this feeling of helplesness, because you don't have all the information and therefore can't really plan... gosh. And all this death. Peter and Snape not *really* being able to change... just ouch.
No wonder her world is so intruiging. It fits neatly into reality. No, nothing can actually beat death. And yes, it's not fair. No, the adults don't always know better, and yes, all your actions have consequences.
Although, I really could have done without the no-plan-angst. I suffer from that in real life plentysome enough.
EDIT2: And another YAY for wartime illegal radio shows! Potterwatch!
Another EDIT: And: Albino peacocks. AHAHAAAAA!
Oh! Oh! Oh! And the Ravenclaw common room! Waaaah, so beautiful, and WHAT a cool way to open it up.
Allright, dear nearly totally empty flist, what do you guys think? :D
EDIT2: Dear God, fandom asplodes. I wish there were ways to ensure that one doesn't miss too much in ones little corner of fandom...
Went this morning to buy it, was there slightly after 8:00. They had a midnight sale, here in cologne, but I didn't want to have the book last night, I would have had to read it, then! So I rather slept, though only from around 2 to 7:30.
There were some others in the otherwise deserted city, one with a bag of bread rolls in his arms, and every single one of them bought two exemplars of the book.
Then I proceeded to eat cake, drink cappuccino and coke, slouch on my bed with Elia and readreadreadread, with some breaks for more cake, coke or the loo (and one for feeding the boycat who *loved* the fact that there were his two favourite humans on the bed with him, apparently doing nothing, too. XD).
13 hours solid reading (and I would have been faster, but it was a joint venture and thusly more fun) and I'm through. Pointing to my last entry I may repeat: GAH!
And now, off to the spoilers:
(Warning: Makani-isms ahead. She showed me squeeing embarassingly is okay in fandom.)
ARGH NOOOOO! SNAPEYPOOO!!!!
But hey, he got to be headmaster and aaaaalll suffering hero like. Though, come on, "Look at me..." that was a low blow, J.K. Loooowwww. *wail*
Perfect, of course, but still... Snapeypoo....
Things I loved:
On the topic of one R.A.B.: YES!! Isn't it a marvelous thing how all those intelligent brains of fandom came up with nearly all the answers? I loved the two adjoining rooms, and Kreacher fighting under his banner...
Kreacher was an unexpected bit I loved to pieces, anyway.
And YAY for character realism. Ron *does* stupid things, Malfoy *is* a spineless ferret and Snape is not a nice man and quite futureless anyhow.
And of course it takes a lot to let Harry grow into heroism. He doesn't crave to be a hero, he doesn't want power.
Both Remus and Albus seen from their most human and de-idolized side, beautifully done!
Hermine was nearly too cool and kickass and everything, but yeah, those brainless griffindor fools would have been dead on day one without her.
May nobody tell me J.K. didn't use some personal experience with the press, here. I am glad not to be famous at all.
YAY for Grimmauld place all shiny and homey and with steak and pie on top! Old house love!
Things that hurt:
Remus, Tonks and Fred, Snape (yes, ALTHOUGH it makes sense, still...), all those shiny secret hidden things in the Room of Requirement and Snape.
Nearly all of the frustrating middle part of the book, where they just had no *plan*. Damn those griffindor main characters!
Things I missed:
What about the veil, woman?! And thestrals, huh? I see a large new fanfiction looming there, I just should write it before someone is quicker. I won't write anything when somebody already did a great job with an idea.
How George is coping, well, maybe, *if* he is.
So, fandom, I dare you to make some Snape/Harry out of THAT canon. *sniffle* ... Can't think of anything anymore. Canon grew to be too strong, here. Daaamn. ;D
EDIT: On the whole I shouldn't have been but was very much surprised at the level of hurting realism in the book. I mean, she let Harry be the annoying teenager before, and she killed Sirius. But this feeling of helplesness, because you don't have all the information and therefore can't really plan... gosh. And all this death. Peter and Snape not *really* being able to change... just ouch.
No wonder her world is so intruiging. It fits neatly into reality. No, nothing can actually beat death. And yes, it's not fair. No, the adults don't always know better, and yes, all your actions have consequences.
Although, I really could have done without the no-plan-angst. I suffer from that in real life plentysome enough.
EDIT2: And another YAY for wartime illegal radio shows! Potterwatch!
Another EDIT: And: Albino peacocks. AHAHAAAAA!
Oh! Oh! Oh! And the Ravenclaw common room! Waaaah, so beautiful, and WHAT a cool way to open it up.
Allright, dear nearly totally empty flist, what do you guys think? :D
EDIT2: Dear God, fandom asplodes. I wish there were ways to ensure that one doesn't miss too much in ones little corner of fandom...
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Date: 2007-07-21 09:21 pm (UTC)The Fred-scene hit me HARD. Extremely. As well as Lupin and Tonks, just because I never thought she'd kill Lupin..
I was kind of frustrated through the whole searching-living in the woods thing as well.. and I got to love Hermione even more now.
Snape... did hurt. Oh yes. I have to admit though that his memory hurt more than his death, because I was halfway prepared to that and because well.. it would have been strange had he survived all this. But the memory hurt.
I loved what she made of Neville. And I actually liked that she didn't make the Malfoys the coldblooded persons they used to be. I also liked how she made it possible to like Kreacher.
Fred hurt... ;______;
(I feel incoherent..)
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Date: 2007-07-21 09:25 pm (UTC)*leslesles*
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Date: 2007-07-21 09:27 pm (UTC)Nothing much further to add to what you already said.
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Date: 2007-07-21 10:06 pm (UTC)And yes, the Malfoys! A real family, in spite of everything! *happy sigh*
I was so insecure about anyone surviving, I just fervently hoped against all hope. Lupin and Tonks were probably forfeit the moment they had Harry godson. Now he could make his own fate better with their son, in a way, right? And all other marauders were already dead... still brutal, though.
I kind of knew that Snape had to die and that he probably would be redeemed, but I thought he would be redeemed *because* he would die, like, throwing himself between Harry and Voldemort or something. But his doings never were about Harry, not really, so... yeah, makes sense. -_-
I loved the hurting from his memories. Exactly my kind of angst-poison. XD
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Date: 2007-07-21 10:06 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-07-21 10:14 pm (UTC)Yes, that's it! I thought before that maybe Narcissa would do something stupid to save Draco, and that Lucius would follow.. I just felt a pang of happiness when she didn't give Harry away.
Lupin was even more cruel because I remembered he has been happy for the first time in ages before, stumbling into Bill's home with the news of the new born.. and it was sudden, just their corpses described, pang. I DO wonder if his son inherited something wolfish, though.
I guess that's what everyone thought how Snape would die, saving Harry. She twisted it around, but that was perfectly fine. It would have been strange if it had went on like that, what with him really not liking Harry very much *coughs*
I still try to sort out if I actually like Grindelwald... ^^;; must find the instinctive urge to like thieving characters... *hits head against something solid*
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Date: 2007-07-21 10:21 pm (UTC)And isn't Teddy THE Gary Stue of all times? Half werewolf, half shapechanger?! Seducing the girl with the bits of veela blood and, yeah, Victiores father had somethign wolfish about him too, since HP6, right? Cooool pairing, that.
I approve of Neville/Luna, too. And we don't know who Draco married, do we? *thinks* Well, probably just Pansy. Boooring. XD Though, what a cool name for his son!
Somebody pointed out the name of one of the next generation ships: Albus Severus / Scorpius = AS/S.
LOL!!!!
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Date: 2007-07-21 10:25 pm (UTC)He is. You forgot the tragic dieing of parents at young age, and the famous "relatives".
LOL!!! AS/S, my favourite XDD (I still thought "WOW, they didn't exactly hold back" when reading they had five children already *laughs*)
*scrambles through
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Date: 2007-07-21 10:33 pm (UTC)Gooood, yes, I want to make icons and backgrounds and fanfiction and even feeble fanart and... hngn...
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Date: 2007-07-21 10:45 pm (UTC)He, I wanted to make a Lucius one first, but then I had to go for Hermione. I can google at Lucius enough on my own XD
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Date: 2007-07-22 12:50 am (UTC)Agreed. Agreed so much. It hurt, but that precise thing made it the best book, too.
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Snape. ;_;
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Date: 2007-07-22 10:37 am (UTC)Sad and happy indeed.
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Date: 2007-07-22 12:17 pm (UTC)Snape ist tot... heißt das, in Bezug auf deinen anderen Post, dass Cyran auch sterben muss? *wink*
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Date: 2007-07-22 03:29 pm (UTC)