Deluminiator - light - light is often a guide? that was what I assumed
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The Buffista Book Club: the Harry Potter iteration
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beth b - Jul 23, 2007 10:08:02 am PDT #1515 of 3301
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Polter-Cow - Jul 23, 2007 10:09:18 am PDT #1516 of 3301
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Yeah, but it's the Deluminator. It takes away light. It should make you LOST. Heh.
§ ita § - Jul 23, 2007 10:09:32 am PDT #1517 of 3301
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I hated 'and they lived happily ever after' as a kid
That was something I wondered. At 17 or 18, I wouldn't have cared about them getting married and having 5 kids. I would have thought it terminally saccharine. Now I'm closer to the age that they all are when the book finally ends, it has a bit more resonance to me. But I've been going with the basic assumption that the books are targetted at a readership basically Harry's age--is that wank or meta-canon?
-t - Jul 23, 2007 10:10:03 am PDT #1518 of 3301
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I'm glad that Harry saved the day with fucking Expelliarmus! That's awesome.
Which he was taught by Snape! I just put that together.
And the last words Harry ever spoke to Lupin were in anger, calling him a bad father, basically.
Good thing the Resurrection Stone brought him back so they could smile sadly at each other and be okay. Poor Hedwig. It's hard out there for an owl.
-t - Jul 23, 2007 10:13:51 am PDT #1519 of 3301
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I've been going with the basic assumption that the books are targetted at a readership basically Harry's age
Or a bit younger, I'd say. The way that, say Seventeen is really read by girls under 15. Not that I know that is reality, of course, but that's the way it seems to work.
Polter-Cow - Jul 23, 2007 10:18:24 am PDT #1520 of 3301
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Which he was taught by Snape! I just put that together.
Ha! Nice!
Kathy A - Jul 23, 2007 10:18:25 am PDT #1521 of 3301
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Didn't Lupin and Harry make up when he asked Harry if he'd be Teddy's godfather? I just reread the part where they had the big blowup at Number 12, and I thought that was it for them arguing. Maybe not.
sumi - Jul 23, 2007 10:18:48 am PDT #1522 of 3301
Art Crawl!!!
Kathy, I think you're right.
Polter-Cow - Jul 23, 2007 10:20:03 am PDT #1523 of 3301
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Hm. Maybe you're right, Kathy. I know there was some tension when Lupin came in on Potterwatch and that Harry gathered that he had forgiven him, so it didn't seem like they were on great terms.
Scrappy - Jul 23, 2007 10:23:04 am PDT #1524 of 3301
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
The kids I know most jazzed about this book are early to mid teens, and I would have been thrilled to know that they got married and were happy when I was that age. Actually, at 16 or 17 I might have said it was sappy, but inside I still would have been thrilled. All 10 or so Neicephews I hung out with this weekend were all about the Ron/Hermione and Harry/Ginny match-ups.