Comments | esyla: 50 POINTS FROM ROWLINGDOR

esyla

50 POINTS FROM ROWLINGDOR

Jul 23, 2007 23:21

I had a bad day. A horrible, no good, very bad day. But I did finish Harry Potter, and Erin took me to the Dennys where we used to hang out after high school and talked things out with me, so that was good. And we started planning for my birthday/Aaron's going away/Erin & Jake's housewarming party. I'll tell you one thing: the theme is hobos. ( Read more... )

dennys, books, harry potter

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adasca July 24 2007, 07:47:28 UTC

Your cut link made me giggle out loud.

What pisses me off the most about Remus and Tonks is not just that they both died (although Tonks, being most likely steeped in her postpartum period, should not have been away from the baby at ALL) but that they died so abruptly. I mean, he comes around a corner and there they are, dead. No heroic story, no warning, foreshadowing, no leading up to it, just BAM, there they are, gone forever. They don't even explain how it happened, even after it's all over!

Seriously needed another chapter.

Whining aside, I loved it too. ^_^ (Yeah, two pages in my journal about that)

elvengrrl July 24 2007, 08:30:23 UTC

What I want to know is how the hell Neville got the sword, since the goblin ran off with it.

scooterboy1234 July 24 2007, 13:23:18 UTC

he pulled it out of the sorting hat just like harry did way back in the chamber of secrets. sort of a raw deal for the goblin if any time a true griffindor shows exceptions bravery (or is threatened by a snake?) i thought it was another interesting parallel between harry and neville.

other interesting parallels: snape died in the shrieking shack where he would have died originally if James hadn't saved him.

Sirius bought Harry his first broom when he was a baby... and bought him his firebolt later on.

p_x_l July 24 2007, 13:35:57 UTC

both of those interesting parallels are MINE! why must you always steal the only interesting things i have to say?!

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p_x_l July 24 2007, 13:41:16 UTC

as soon as lupin made harry the godfather, it was over for he and tonks. but. maybe it was in doing so, and placing that extra importance that he definitely chose to HAVE the "normal" wizard life and choose family above all else.

to be honest, NOTHING in the book seemed like loose ends tied up to me, although there definitely were plots i expected more of a conclusion from (the centaurs, for one)

Draco should have died, I'm afraid, and I have a feeling he was the one whose death was reprieved at the last chance.

I agree that the end chapter left something to be desired, but I wonder how long ago she wrote it. we know it was a while ago, so maybe she didn't want to add anything to it. she's also said that she'll be answering questions and stuff, so i'm sure she DOES know what happens to everyone else, even if it's not in the book.

i never wanted Harry to run Hogwarts, but I'm bummed that he didn't break the curse by taking over DADA.

elvengrrl July 24 2007, 14:17:17 UTC

Yeah, I was wondering what happened to Luna... she seemed conspicuously absent to me from the epilogue.