EXTRA!!-- deathly hallows review (obviously there are spoilers!)
i'll do a meme first, because i'm stalling xD
GRYFFINDOR:
[x] You've never done drugs.
[x] You have a lot of friends.
[x] You get along with everyone.
[x] You love soccer.
[x] You love baseball.
[x] You're into writing and art.
[x] Favorite music genre is rock.
[x] You believe in "innocent until proven guilty" theory.
[ ] One of your favorite colors is red or gold.
[x] Good grades at school.
[x] One of the worst things you can do is lie.
[x] You plan(ned) on going to college.
TOTAL: 11 (MUST i do the rest?)
HUFFLEPUFF:
[x You're content with mostly everything in your life right now.
[x] You laugh a lot.
[ ] You like to follow trends.
[x] Politics suck.
[x] You love to swim
[ ] Water polo is awesome.
[ ] Pink is one of your favorite colors.
[ ] Black is morbid & depressing.
[ ] Michael Jackson is talented as a musical artist.
[x] You're an optimist.
[ ] You're very emotional.
[ ] You believe in going steady at a young age.
[ ] You haven't made fun of anyone this month.
[ ] Loyalty is the MOST important thing in a relationship.
TOTAL: 5
RAVENCLAW:
[ ] You're depressed to a certain extent.
[x] You love to read.
[x] You appreciate theatre & arts.
[ ] Sports suck.
[ ] Hate is completely unneeded.
[ ] Indie is your favorite genre of music.
[ ] Every once in a while you have little anger outbursts.
[ ] Lying is only sometimes okay.
[x] Blue is one of your favorite colors.
[x] Knowledge is the key to power
[x] Sarcasm is the best kind of humor
[x] People should know what they're talking about before they talk.
TOTAL: 6
SLYTHERIN:
[ ] There's at least one person you hate.
[ ] Basketball is a good sport.
[x] Football is amazing.
[x] Black is a cool color.
[ ] You've lied about something serious
[ ] You're a very deep person.
[ ] You have considered suicide.
[ ] You are not very loyal.
[x] You like heavy metal.
[ ] They make school seem more important than it is.
[x] You're scared to grow up.
[ ] Anger is one of your primary feelings.
[x] You have trust issues.
[ ] Guilty until proven innocent.
TOTAL: 5
i'm a gryffindor. surprise surprise ^^;;; every single time i've done any sort of sorting like this, i've been placed in gryffindor-- though i think i was ravenclaw once-- but gryffindor still wins most of the time. and why wouldn't it, it's the best house ^.^ dutchie_1991 calculated that from the actors' ages she'd probably be in ginny's class... i tried the same and found something funny: if i go by the actors' ages, i'd be about five years ahead of them. if i go by the actual ages of the characters, i'd be exactly five years below them. how curious ^^
okay, so i finally finished reading DH last night and i just have to say... best bloody book ever. i LOVED it, no question about it. i thought it was the perfect way to wrap up the series. and if i thought HBP was the "OMG" book, then DH was definitely my "xD" book, because i couldn't stop grinning all through it.
and well, i always write up a review, right? well, this time i decided, for the sake of science, to do it a bit differently. i wanted to be able to see my train of thought as i went through the book, and kind of analyze how i got to my conclusions, so i decided to write it up chapter by chapter. so i read one chapter, then wrote up my comments and reactions to it, then moved on to the next chapter, and so on and so forth. i quite liked it that way, it made me feel a bit less dizzy at the end of the book ^^;;;
i won't post it here because i think it's too long for LJ, but i've uploaded it to my server in case anyone wants to read it. warning, though: it IS hellishly long. but give it a try-- after you get past my "i knew its" and "i should've knowns" and my ron rants, you might even have a laugh at all the stuff i see/hear (read), my comparing voldemort to legally blonde and my speculations about neville's virginity ^^;;; all shippers welcome! i know i have my bias, but i did say i liked the book, right? all shipping comments are said in good fun, i promise. seriously, though, please read it. there are a bunch of questions i couldn't understand in there, maybe you can help me figure it out? and if you read it, please pass the link to this post over to your friends and such-- i'm really interested in knowing if i'm the only crazy one that goes through this absolutely hyper and warped deductive process.
HP&DH through cali's eyes: a review
start time: sat, 2 am; end time: mon, 5 am
(i don't believe i broke my record...)
...read it? pretty please? do it for the sake of science... xD
now that i'm done with the last book, i can properly make up my mind about a ranking for them:
1. prisoner of azkaban: because of the crazy amount of emotional background there was. the marauders were introduced. all the characters gained more depth.
deathly hallows: this book had everything. the story was not only sound, but wholly entertaining. the characters were all at their best. ron absolutely shone through. the ending was solid, and it was the LAST. what's there not to like?
2. philosopher's stone: this one will always have a special place in my heart because it was the first. it shone with innocence, with the trio all cute and bright-eyed and ready to fight what they didn't understand. the troll scene, the chess scene... the perfect beginning to all the craze.
order of the phoenix: there were insane amounts of character development in this book. harry finally let his feelings out. we finally learned that it would come down to him and voldemort. we got to see the marauders when they were young. so many new, interesting characters that won over our hearts. and of course, it was THE BOOK OF RON.
3. half-blood prince: i liked that in this one we actually got all the information we'd been clamoring for since the beginning of the series. we knew voldemort's plan. and it was so action-packed, too.
4. goblet of fire: feeling, feeling, feeling. this was what this book was all about. the whole idea about the tournament was also very attractive, especially the idea that the goblet chose harry even if there were only supposed to be three champions. it was the first time that fate had really forced itself on harry. and of course, all the wonderful new characters, and our first real tragic death...
5. chamber of secrets: this is the only book in the series i might even say i didn't like. i just think that, as important as that particular storyline was to later events, when i read it first it felt like it was... completely detached. everything was happening to harry, but it was not about harry. i can't explain it, really, but it didn't grab me as the others did.
and after that is done, it's my job to take a look at my HP fanfics and figure out how they stand in the light of the most recent canon. and you know what? well, orbe's been out since OotP came out. somnium (english and spanish) doesn't hold up, but that one's basically done for anyway. ultima prueba... am i ever going to go back to this one? i have to read "higher learning" again, but i know it doesn't work with the new canon anyway. tritatos can only get better with each new book. and quite surprisingly, i believe all's right can still work out, what with the gap before the epilogue... minus a few annoying details. i'm amazed, i didn't think that one would stand its ground. so yay! ^^