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The Buffista Book Club: the Harry Potter iteration  

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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.

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Fay - Aug 22, 2007 7:18:07 am PDT #2580 of 3301
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

Fascinating concept, though, Kathy!

(I'd be interested to see something in the HP Wizarding World that incorporated the Prague Golem, myself.)


Connie Neil - Aug 22, 2007 7:18:29 am PDT #2581 of 3301
brillig

I had an idea for a fic involving Draco getting married--before DH came out--but I'm clinging to the shoreline trying not to get involved.


Kathy A - Aug 22, 2007 7:33:30 am PDT #2582 of 3301
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

I've had this fic in my head for more than a year, but it's been the fear of writing Holocaust fic that's getting me more nervous than anything.

In my head, Grindelwald has managed to surpress Wizarding abilities in certain districts (the ghettoes, the camps), so all the Jewish wizards who haven't gone into hiding have to live like Muggle Jews. My hero joins the two Muggle Jews who give Jan Karski a tour of the ghetto and gives him a tour of the wizarding section and asks for his assistance in getting something to Dumbledore in London that will help defeat Grindelwald. At the end, the hero ends up in Treblinka with everyone else, walking up the "Road to Heaven"--very sad ending, lots of angst.

I really should write the damn thing, since I have it all mapped out in my head.


billytea - Aug 22, 2007 3:04:28 pm PDT #2583 of 3301
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

IIRC, JKR said that Petunia's parents died of natural causes in an interview

Wow. Must've been one stressful interview.


Kathy A - Aug 22, 2007 3:06:22 pm PDT #2584 of 3301
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Oh, hush up, you!


Hil R. - Aug 22, 2007 3:13:10 pm PDT #2585 of 3301
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

(I'd be interested to see something in the HP Wizarding World that incorporated the Prague Golem, myself.)

I'm almost positive I've seen this.

Yes: [link]

(I didn't read the whole thing. The combination of religious stuff with Harry/Snape was too weird, and I had to close it before my brain exploded. Totally my own issue.)


Dana - Aug 22, 2007 3:19:58 pm PDT #2586 of 3301
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Oh, that's a great story. But yes, wholeheartedly slashy.


§ ita § - Aug 22, 2007 4:43:03 pm PDT #2587 of 3301
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Hmm. Occurs to me now that the interjection is "Bollocks!" and I never thought about spelling the verb.


Sue - Aug 22, 2007 4:49:39 pm PDT #2588 of 3301
hip deep in pie

Okay, not the movies thread but I just watched Goblet of Fire. I totally didn't realize that David Tennant was Barty Crouch Jr.


DebetEsse - Aug 22, 2007 5:02:45 pm PDT #2589 of 3301
Woe to the fucking wicked.

I know! How many actors have transformation scenes in both of their biggest projects?