I'm evil in that I'm kind of pleased one of the twins got it, because I despise practical jokers and they got away with too darned much that was cruel and hurtful.
You walk in worlds the others can't begin to imagine.
Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'
The Buffista Book Club: the Harry Potter iteration
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***SPOILER ALERT***
Connie Neil - Jul 22, 2007 8:35:55 am PDT #1369 of 3301
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chrismg - Jul 22, 2007 8:51:01 am PDT #1370 of 3301
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade
Jilli - it's "One Big Happy Weasley Family", it basically means an ending with Harry/Ginny and Ron/Hermione.
Steph L. - Jul 22, 2007 9:56:45 am PDT #1371 of 3301
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
I did think giving Draco a receding hairline at thirty-six was a little spiteful.
Heh. But I have friends (shit, *I'm* 36, and I haven't learned one single spell!) that age who already have receding hairlines. Not, like, slightly, but rapidly fleeing.
Just finished. Am spent. I cried when all the dead were laid in the Great Hall, and the Weasleys were around Fred, and then Harry noticed Lupin and Tonks. But then I pulled myself together, but then Harry left, and asked Neville to kill Nagini if no one else was able to, and I started up again, and then when Harry used the Resurrection Stone, I pretty much sobbed until not!dead naked Harry woke up in...well, in his own brain, I suppose.
And I got teary again at the very end, just because....it's over.
More to say later.
Atropa - Jul 22, 2007 10:02:01 am PDT #1372 of 3301
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Jilli - it's "One Big Happy Weasley Family", it basically means an ending with Harry/Ginny and Ron/Hermione.
Huh. Go fandom and its acronyms for everything, then! I'm okay with the notion of OBHWF, because it satisfies my not-so-secret addictions to happy endings.
I was thinking about Snape's death, and it dawned on me that his asking Harry to look at him as he died was so he could see Lily's eyes one last time. Oh Sev, you poor poor thing.
Steph L. - Jul 22, 2007 10:20:21 am PDT #1373 of 3301
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
it dawned on me that his asking Harry to look at him as he died was so he could see Lily's eyes one last time.
I just replied to your comment about this in Fay's LJ -- that didn't even occur to me when I read it, but OF COURSE.
And the thing is, Snape felt all betrayed when he found out that he was helping keep Harry safe *seemingly* to be sacrificed, and then Harry got to pull an Aslan and come back, and Snape never even knew that Lily's son made it after all.
Poor Snape.
Emily - Jul 22, 2007 10:25:13 am PDT #1374 of 3301
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
But I have friends (shit, *I'm* 36, and I haven't learned one single spell!) that age who already have receding hairlines.
Oh, me too. But, you know, Ron didn't have a receding hairline, Ginny didn't have extra baby weight left over. Or maybe they did, but Rowling didn't find it worth mentioning. I'm not really upset about it, just thought it was a bit mean. Funny, but mean.
Emily - Jul 22, 2007 10:26:18 am PDT #1375 of 3301
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Poor Snape.
See? This is what I'm saying! He doesn't even get to know they won, or anything! Dammit.
Theodosia - Jul 22, 2007 10:32:26 am PDT #1376 of 3301
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Well, presumably in whatever afterlife we get to see Dumbledore et al in, Snape gets to find out that it did all work out OK.
justkim - Jul 22, 2007 10:35:49 am PDT #1377 of 3301
Another social casualty...
I liked the observation that Draco had a receding hairline. The story is still being told from Harry's point of view, and that's exactly the kind of detail Harry would notice and feel smug about. There are aspects of being in high school that you never quite recover from.
megan walker - Jul 22, 2007 10:36:07 am PDT #1378 of 3301
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Instead of it all feeling predictable, it was more like everything snapping into place. I guess she really set it all up properly, so they were payoffs instead of obviousness.
This.
Yes, it dragged in parts, but honestly? How much can I complain about dragging when I couldn't stop reading? Loved it.
And very much this.
I've been feeling crappy since Friday and didn't manage to get my copy until yesterday afternoon, but I sped through it. I cried at a number of points, especially during Harry's walk to the woods. It reminded me very much of how I felt about Frodo when I finished LotR.
And I think it says a lot about Rowling's talent that she could take a character I loathed (Dobby) and make me sad about his death.