Potterdammerung Has Arrived
I just finished DH. It's way past my bedtime, but I desperately want to spend the rest of the wee hours reading Fandom Wank. See, as much as I enjoyed the book, I can't shake the sense that the real fun will come from the explosively batshit Internet fallout. Fandom has broken me.
Anyway, scattered thoughts:
( SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS but not very many because I really have to get some sleep )
Anyway, scattered thoughts:
( SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS but not very many because I really have to get some sleep )
-McGonnagal (sp) has ALWAYS needed to kick more ass. She is the Queen B, and not in the hive-mind "Bring me nectar until my daughters kill me" kind of way.*
-Speaking of which, Ms. Rowling writes epic battle sequences with the ease and grace of a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs. Someone had to say it.
-I buy it, but I'm a bit confused. Harry's father didn't get to take advantage of that "Love" cop-out when he tried to stop Vol...You-Know-Who from killing Lily and Harry? He was wandless, he didn't try to fight. That was sacrifice...Kinda... I still feel like "Love" is cheap, but I accept it for what it is. It's the Harry of my Weasley family: There's not really room for more, but I gladly accept it as part of a functioning whole.
-Why does Firefox say "wandless" is spelled incorrectly?
-Snape/Harry, yes, creepy...But did anyone else think Snape/Lily was creepy, too?
-What happened with the middle part of that book there, Ms. Rowling? You don't have to stall for time when you're writing. Oh, and I knew you didn't have the stones to kill Harry. Nice half-death thing, though. That works.
-I wasn't that disappointed with Hedwig dying. Honestly, she's been nothing more than a space-consuming object since, well, Prisoner at the very least. I've felt more tugging at heartstrings when brooms are seized or broken. It's a shame, too, since Hedwig had so much potential.
I've got more, but that's what I can say for now.
*I may have made some of that up. I don't really know much about bee politics. I said that solely because it sounded cool.
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Snape/Anyone is creepy, honestly. But Dumbledore/Grindelwald is canon!
I didn't shed any tears over Hedwig, but I was surprised that the cute pet went down fewer than fifty pages in. And, you know, exploded. Speaking of "Well, that was sudden" deaths, I found myself wishing that Tonks and Remus had died earlier a couple books earlier, back when I liked them individually, rather than after I was thoroughly sick of them as a unit. They're like, I don't know, dill relish and cream puffs, and together they became a whirling maelstrom of metaphor-mixing suck. And they totally gave their offspring a werebear-bait name.
(I have no idea whether queen bees are eventually killed and consumers by their daughters once their egg-laying days are over, but I refuse to look it up and spoil a good idea.)
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