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yubsieSo, I finished The Book yesterday, but was busy reading other people's posts and didn't make my own. But now...
Okay, let's get the death screaming out of the way...
Freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed!
Luuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuupin!
Tooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooonks!
Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeedwiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig! (That one's harder to scream :p)
Moooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooody!
Coooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin!
Doooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooobby!
Okay, now that that's out of my system, down to business, as random as always. :p
HOW awesome is it that Grindelwald was important? VERY awesome! Because Grindelwald is JUST THAT COOL! We came up with a plot that wound up being important! Go us! That plot was making me SO nostalgic for Grindelwald. I miss that game even now. :p
Cho got a cameo, how exciting was that? And Hannah!
I was SO upset when I thought that Hat had burned to death. What? I'm kinda attached to him!
LUna's dad is named Xenophilius. That amuses me. :p
As Mi pointed out, it's kinda morbidly funny that rocks really DID fall and someone really DID die. Except it was Fred. ONE of the Weasley twins, so traumatic!
OMG Molly is made of pure unadulterated AWESOME! "Not my daughter, bitch!" I cheered.
Poor Teddy! His grampa before he was born and then BOTH his parents. (I screamed so loud when they died that my brother assumed that Neville or Luna had just died. :p) Though he's a playmate for the Halfblood Prince! Meaning the Ravenclaw one, of course. Carrot and Angua's kid. :p
I was surprised that Colin's death hit me quite as hard as it did. It was a random in passing death, but I made another noise that my brother assumed to be Neville or LUna. I assure you, Neville or Luna would have warranted a MUCH more distressed cry. Including the words "DAMN YOU TESS!"
Speaking of Neville, he got to be SO awesome, that makes me SO happy!
Also, Neville and Luna are alive and not explicitly attached to anyone else. That's good enough for me. :p
I was SO excited about seeing the Ravenclaw common room. It's so cool, too. And their "password" is so utterly RAVENCLAW, I love it!
Also, getting to find out about the Grey Lady and the Bloody Baron was awesome, it excited me. I was amused that I actually kinda almost got close to the Grey Lady's past in a task way back when. :p
The one thing that bothered me a bit was Ron's taking off. I mean really, haven't we DONE this plot before?
She actually had me wondering if we were all wrong about Snape when he died still seemingly evil. I should give her mad props for that. And then of course he DID turn out to be good all along, proving that things WERE leading the way they seemed. :p
OMGWTF Snape/Lily is canon. :p
She also had me worried about Harry for a split second there. And considering I was a staunch "She wouldn't kill Harry, the tone is getting darker, but not THAT dark" person, that's saying something.
I don't get why people are hating on the epilogue so much. Well, other than the fact that those poor kids have badfic names. (And you just KNOW James's middle name is Sirius. Why didn't they just named him Detention Potter and get it over with? :p) Even with the deaths and such, Harry Potter is still ultimately a KIDS BOOK. Of COURSE it's going to have a happy ending! And the pairings in the epilogue were nothing unexpected. More to the point, no one had a mullet, and NO ONE WAS AN ASTRONAUT. :p
I do wish they'd included more about the supporting cast in the epilogue. But on the other hand, that does leave it open for interpretation. See: Neville and Luna are alive and not explicitly attached to anyone else, therefore I can think they got married and had oddly named children. :p Despite Tess shipping them, they lived! (Unlike poor Tonks and Lupin. Good job on that one, Tess. You were thorough. :p)
Finally, I REALLY want a book about what Neville, Luna and Ginny were doing at Hogwarts during this book! The glimpses we get of it sound SO COOL! It would make such an awesome story.
Overall, this was a great conclusion. No matter what the wank is already saying. :p
Okay, let's get the death screaming out of the way...
Freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed!
Luuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuupin!
Tooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooonks!
Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeedwiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig! (That one's harder to scream :p)
Moooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooody!
Coooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin!
Doooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooobby!
Okay, now that that's out of my system, down to business, as random as always. :p
HOW awesome is it that Grindelwald was important? VERY awesome! Because Grindelwald is JUST THAT COOL! We came up with a plot that wound up being important! Go us! That plot was making me SO nostalgic for Grindelwald. I miss that game even now. :p
Cho got a cameo, how exciting was that? And Hannah!
I was SO upset when I thought that Hat had burned to death. What? I'm kinda attached to him!
LUna's dad is named Xenophilius. That amuses me. :p
As Mi pointed out, it's kinda morbidly funny that rocks really DID fall and someone really DID die. Except it was Fred. ONE of the Weasley twins, so traumatic!
OMG Molly is made of pure unadulterated AWESOME! "Not my daughter, bitch!" I cheered.
Poor Teddy! His grampa before he was born and then BOTH his parents. (I screamed so loud when they died that my brother assumed that Neville or Luna had just died. :p) Though he's a playmate for the Halfblood Prince! Meaning the Ravenclaw one, of course. Carrot and Angua's kid. :p
I was surprised that Colin's death hit me quite as hard as it did. It was a random in passing death, but I made another noise that my brother assumed to be Neville or LUna. I assure you, Neville or Luna would have warranted a MUCH more distressed cry. Including the words "DAMN YOU TESS!"
Speaking of Neville, he got to be SO awesome, that makes me SO happy!
Also, Neville and Luna are alive and not explicitly attached to anyone else. That's good enough for me. :p
I was SO excited about seeing the Ravenclaw common room. It's so cool, too. And their "password" is so utterly RAVENCLAW, I love it!
Also, getting to find out about the Grey Lady and the Bloody Baron was awesome, it excited me. I was amused that I actually kinda almost got close to the Grey Lady's past in a task way back when. :p
The one thing that bothered me a bit was Ron's taking off. I mean really, haven't we DONE this plot before?
She actually had me wondering if we were all wrong about Snape when he died still seemingly evil. I should give her mad props for that. And then of course he DID turn out to be good all along, proving that things WERE leading the way they seemed. :p
OMGWTF Snape/Lily is canon. :p
She also had me worried about Harry for a split second there. And considering I was a staunch "She wouldn't kill Harry, the tone is getting darker, but not THAT dark" person, that's saying something.
I don't get why people are hating on the epilogue so much. Well, other than the fact that those poor kids have badfic names. (And you just KNOW James's middle name is Sirius. Why didn't they just named him Detention Potter and get it over with? :p) Even with the deaths and such, Harry Potter is still ultimately a KIDS BOOK. Of COURSE it's going to have a happy ending! And the pairings in the epilogue were nothing unexpected. More to the point, no one had a mullet, and NO ONE WAS AN ASTRONAUT. :p
I do wish they'd included more about the supporting cast in the epilogue. But on the other hand, that does leave it open for interpretation. See: Neville and Luna are alive and not explicitly attached to anyone else, therefore I can think they got married and had oddly named children. :p Despite Tess shipping them, they lived! (Unlike poor Tonks and Lupin. Good job on that one, Tess. You were thorough. :p)
Finally, I REALLY want a book about what Neville, Luna and Ginny were doing at Hogwarts during this book! The glimpses we get of it sound SO COOL! It would make such an awesome story.
Overall, this was a great conclusion. No matter what the wank is already saying. :p
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Date: 2007-07-22 11:07 pm (UTC)