Deathly Hallows
Jul. 23rd, 2007 12:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sebastienneThis book has made me want to write fic again, in a way that I haven't since the publication of OotP. And here's me about to be in Edinburgh with an A4 notebook & loads of free time...
Snape/Lily.
How many of us shipped it irrationally, how many of us couldn't pin-point any canon evidence, but just KNEW that Snape saw in Harry the man he hated with the eyes of the girl he loved?
Even now I can't think why or how I knew this was coming. But I DID KNOW, even when people mocked me & pointed out my lack of canonical support.
The only other thing I have always felt as strongly as Snape/Lily is Remus/Sirius. And thus I choose to believe that Remus' out-of-character action in this book was not due to bad writing, but due to ANGST & GAY. Tonks - a dyke with exceptions? Lesbians, back me up on this, Remus is up there with Bowie & Depp on the list of exceptions, right? So I say, Tonks really did love Remus, enough to be Sirius for him, but Remus was just fucking conflicted. "But I'm a werewolf!" = "But I'm a big flamey gay!" I might even go so far as to suggest that he wanted to die, really.
Fred - ghost. Has to be. I WILL NOT COUNTENANCE George without Fred. I'd imagine there's even more mischief can be got up to if one of you is non-corporeal..
Page 84 purges Emma Watson from my mind in a wave of cleansing fire. Hermione, my faith in you was vindicated on this page. I have loved you since I was 11.
"Kings Cross Station" a bit too "Architect" for my liking, and Dumbledore, what a BASTARD, training this boy up to die - although it explains his constant withholding of plot-relevant points which seemed to me sometimes like bad writing.
A few exclamations: Aberforth! Neville! Kreacher!
The epilogue mostly just makes me feel excluded. Like they don't want My Type there, the queer & the childfree & the poly & the anti-marriage. Then again, does Luna's conspicuous absence mean that she never married, became her father to a certain degree, lived in a windmill & hunted crumple-horned snorcracks? JKR, if you're going to write a cracky epilogue like that, just to spite the ficcers, you could at least bother to include all your major characters? As it was, it was too short, too pointless, too much two-fingers to ficcers; I predict that fandom will soon come to a consensus which pretends that epilogue never existed. In fifty years' time, they'll be printing the book without it. (Hugo WTF?!)
But mostly - JKR you have rekindled my love for this world and these people! You're back on books 1-4 form!
And now; it's over. This series caught me at a unique time in my life, between 11 & 21. I will never again feel as I did the first time I met Hermione. I will never again feel as I did meeting![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
gatty at midnight. I will never again feel as I did on threadbarewolf's carpet, talking HP Source with her & aliche. I will never again feel as I did in deathbyshines' kitchen, seeing the sun rise, crying and shrieking and laughing so intensely.
But this was just my Hobbit.
Bring on The Fellowship of the Ring.
Snape/Lily.
How many of us shipped it irrationally, how many of us couldn't pin-point any canon evidence, but just KNEW that Snape saw in Harry the man he hated with the eyes of the girl he loved?
Even now I can't think why or how I knew this was coming. But I DID KNOW, even when people mocked me & pointed out my lack of canonical support.
The only other thing I have always felt as strongly as Snape/Lily is Remus/Sirius. And thus I choose to believe that Remus' out-of-character action in this book was not due to bad writing, but due to ANGST & GAY. Tonks - a dyke with exceptions? Lesbians, back me up on this, Remus is up there with Bowie & Depp on the list of exceptions, right? So I say, Tonks really did love Remus, enough to be Sirius for him, but Remus was just fucking conflicted. "But I'm a werewolf!" = "But I'm a big flamey gay!" I might even go so far as to suggest that he wanted to die, really.
Fred - ghost. Has to be. I WILL NOT COUNTENANCE George without Fred. I'd imagine there's even more mischief can be got up to if one of you is non-corporeal..
Page 84 purges Emma Watson from my mind in a wave of cleansing fire. Hermione, my faith in you was vindicated on this page. I have loved you since I was 11.
"Kings Cross Station" a bit too "Architect" for my liking, and Dumbledore, what a BASTARD, training this boy up to die - although it explains his constant withholding of plot-relevant points which seemed to me sometimes like bad writing.
A few exclamations: Aberforth! Neville! Kreacher!
The epilogue mostly just makes me feel excluded. Like they don't want My Type there, the queer & the childfree & the poly & the anti-marriage. Then again, does Luna's conspicuous absence mean that she never married, became her father to a certain degree, lived in a windmill & hunted crumple-horned snorcracks? JKR, if you're going to write a cracky epilogue like that, just to spite the ficcers, you could at least bother to include all your major characters? As it was, it was too short, too pointless, too much two-fingers to ficcers; I predict that fandom will soon come to a consensus which pretends that epilogue never existed. In fifty years' time, they'll be printing the book without it. (Hugo WTF?!)
But mostly - JKR you have rekindled my love for this world and these people! You're back on books 1-4 form!
And now; it's over. This series caught me at a unique time in my life, between 11 & 21. I will never again feel as I did the first time I met Hermione. I will never again feel as I did meeting
gatty at midnight. I will never again feel as I did on threadbarewolf's carpet, talking HP Source with her & aliche. I will never again feel as I did in deathbyshines' kitchen, seeing the sun rise, crying and shrieking and laughing so intensely.But this was just my Hobbit.
Bring on The Fellowship of the Ring.
