HBP made me cry, when Snape killed Dumbledore
I was pretty good until Fawkes sang at the funeral. Then I lost it.
Zoe: My man would never fall for that. Wash: Most of my head wishes I had.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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DawnK - Mar 30, 2007 10:08:03 am PDT #2419 of 28175
giraffe mode
Aims - Mar 30, 2007 10:26:14 am PDT #2420 of 28175
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Sobbing mess, I was.
That's how Joe knew what happened.
Gris - Mar 30, 2007 11:42:53 am PDT #2421 of 28175
Hey. New board.
I cried multiple times. Fawkes bit killed me dead.
I just finished "Fledgling" by Octavia E. Butler. Fun! Anthropological vampire book. Bit creepy at points, with the sexualization of the main character (who happens to be a vampire that looks like an 11-year-old girl. Um.) but generally a neat read.
erikaj - Mar 30, 2007 11:52:08 am PDT #2422 of 28175
Always Anti-fascist!
I like the Harry Potter books, but they don't really push my emotional buttons. Maybe I'm callous and strange.
Amy - Mar 30, 2007 11:53:47 am PDT #2423 of 28175
Because books.
I sobbed at the end of HBP. I can't imagine what The Deathly Hallows is going to do to me.
Fred Pete - Mar 30, 2007 11:54:59 am PDT #2424 of 28175
Ann, that's a ferret.
No, callous and strange is even asking whether you should attend a wedding on the day of the new HP release. The HP will be there the next day, the wedding won't.
Polter-Cow - Mar 30, 2007 11:57:50 am PDT #2425 of 28175
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Yeah, but HP7 is an event NINE YEARS in the making! How long have the bride and groom known each other, huh?
HP doesn't make me cry. And I think the Dumbledore thing lost its impact since I was spoiled for it and spent most of the book wanting to get to it to see if it was true or not.
Strix - Mar 30, 2007 12:08:05 pm PDT #2426 of 28175
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I wasn't spoiled, but I didn't cry, cause I am not that invested. I mean, I want to know what happens, but it's not like Buffy.
I think I laughed and shouted "Hot damn! That's AWESOME! I can't believe she did that!"
§ ita § - Mar 30, 2007 12:16:39 pm PDT #2427 of 28175
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I disliked Fledgling. I thought it was very awkward for OEB, and even if I could reliably make the psychological distance so the sex wasn't statutory rape (but it was, wasn't it? Her age in human years shouldn't make the difference, not if she was still a child in vamp years), the relationships smacked too much of culty drug-addict for me to care about any of them.
What I like about OEB is her "great power comes with great compromise and loss" air. Didn't get that feel off Fledgling, and I missed it.
Connie Neil - Mar 30, 2007 12:18:38 pm PDT #2428 of 28175
brillig
I just want to see what happens to Draco, honestly. And I'd like to see Hermione be proven wrong and Ron to stop whining.