'Hell Bound'
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***SPOILER ALERT***
So, Dumbledore ISN'T Ron...
would've been nice if JK could've split up the tent-chapters by devoting one or two chapters to Hogwarts
I was thinking the same thing! But, on the other hand, other than a chunk in the beginning, the books are pretty much Harry's POV. "Meanwhile, at Hogwarts" would have been satisfying, but it would have been a big departure.
So glad I'm not the only one!
Now I'm so glad I'm not the only one!
Thanks for the fic link. I'll take a look at it once LJ is up again.
I'm listening to The Secret Garden soundtrack now. Trying to get that song back in its proper context and out of my brain.
I'll take a look at it once LJ is up again.
It's up.
A friend of mine is reading. She just IMed me:
"Permittez-moi to assister vous?" Since Ron is taken, I think I should like to marry Fred Weasley. Or George. I'm not that fussy.
She's going to be wrecked in about 400 pages.
Oooh. Just read it. It wasn't quite what I was expecting, but it was really great.
I find myself really really wanting a Draco POV for that scene. And for most of the battle scene, too, though I think he was knocked out for much of that.
She's going to be wrecked in about 400 pages.
Hey, there's still one left! She's not fussy!
Depends on whether she likes ears.
...I watched film!Luna feeding the baby thestral...
First it is seeing a clip of Voldemort in a suit appearing before Harry on a crowded train station. Then it is reading that Umbridge blasts open the Room of Requirement--thus necessitating a major fanwank to include it in the next two movies--and now this. I've seen the first three but is there any wonder I have no desire to see any more of the movies? If you're gonna cut shit out of the book in the interest of time, then you can't be making shit up and adding it instead. They did it to LotR and they're doing it to Harry.
I was so sure he was good even after the events of HP6, and then for so much of book 7 it seemed like he might be all evilified after all, which made me really upset, so I was extremely relieved to find out where his true loyalties lay.
Oddly enough, I was oblivious to so much (Snape/Lily, Harry the Horcrux etc.) but I never doubted where Snape's loyalties lay, even after he snuffed out Dumbledore. There was too much emphasis placed on "please" at the end of HBP. Dumbledore kept saying "Please Severus" but he never added "Don't kill me", which made it sound like he was actually begging to be killed. I admit, the reason he was begging for death--only having 12 months to live anyway--was a surprise because I thought it was merely to save Draco's soul and because he didn't fear death the way Voldemort did.
First it is seeing a clip of Voldemort in a suit appearing before Harry on a crowded train station
That wasn't real, just a figment of Harry's imagination, I think.
I watched film!Luna feeding the baby thestral...
What's so bad about this?
If you're gonna cut shit out of the book in the interest of time, then you can't be making shit up and adding it instead.
Huh. I thought it fit perfectly. Plus, Luna being able to see the thestrals is well-established, and I thought the movie version handled it beautifully.