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By consensus, this thread is reopened specifically to discuss Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. It will be closed again once that discussion has run its course.
***SPOILER ALERT***
- **Spoilers for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows lie here. Read at your own risk***
If My F-List Had Written DH--Omigod so hilarious!
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Also, everyone sees Harry naked. Six times. Sometimes with frilly underwear.
Aimee???
The next third of the book is a chapter all about Snape and how he was in looooooove with Lily. This may or may not have been preceded with the warning, "may cause nausea." But then Snape says, hey maybe I wasn't in love with her, maybe it was just the guilt. And this goes back and forth for a long time until people decide they want to see how the book ends. Well, except for a few who yell BUT SNAPE IS DEAD IT IS ALL OVER and fling themselves off of buttresses.
Then Harry dies. Then Dumbledore Explains Everything, as he is wont to do. Then Harry comes back, possibly plagiarizing from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and/or the Bible.
Harry came back WRONG....
Also, Neville kills Nagini and is more awesome.
Neville is MADE OF AWESOME.
All of that was in the first 300 pages of the book and the remaining 400 are the epilogue, which may be written in crayon, and may or may not have been uploaded by JKR onto fanfiction.net many years ago.
Also, a major plot point is that Draco Malfoy is going bald.
::snerk::
I've been reading through the Sugar Quill's discussion forum on DH, and someone pointed out something that I missed in my reread of the first six books:
In GoF, when Dumbledore is talking to Harry about what Harry had just seen in the Pensieve, do you remember what happened when he taked about Neville's parents? He said they were insane - and his voice was filled with a bitterness Harry had never heard there before. Well we know now why the thought of people being tortured into insanity is such a bitter one for Dumbledore.
A very interesting point.
I'm impressed that The Empress has something left that she can do innocently.
I meant to say "Thanks!" to Anne W. for that Neville-during-DH fic that she linked to upthread; it's really good, and I'm looking forward to more in that series from the author.
I can recommend some DH-fics that Fernwithy has written so far, especially the beginning of a Teddy-Lupin-goes-to-Hogwarts one that she just got started on called The Forest Guard. Some minor aspects of the story call back to the two Remus/Tonks novel-length fics she wrote titled "Shifts" and "Shades" (which I highly recommend), but it's definitely not necessary to read those to read her post-DH stories.
I've decided that if they put the whole Lavendar/Won-Won in HBP the movie, then there needs to be a vid made to "Girlfriend" by Averil Lavigne.
Someone on LJ just joked about what my Patronus would be.
I can't believe I never thought about it myself.
Ahahaha.
I wonder. I mean, I'd like it to be some sort of big cat, like a leopard. or maybe a raven or a stallion. But, I wonder what my true inner self would produce?
