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moshimo negai hitotsu dake... kanau nara
kimi no soba de nemurasete... donna basho demo ii yo.
beautiful world... mayowazu kimi dake wo mitsumeteiru.
beautiful boy... jibun no utsukushisa mada shiranai no...
it's only love...
--utada hikaru, "beautiful world."
eeeeee, the 2.0 version of that song is so gorgeous. ♥
(speaking of 2.0, expect a review of the EVA 2.0 movie in my next post. IT IS TEH AWESOME. i've already watched it twice, but so far it's just been a lot of mindless squeeing and flailing, so i've yet to take any serious "notes" on it. i'll watch it again this week and write up a coherent review).
and speaking of movies, last sunday i went to the theatre to watch the HP movie again and these are a couple (some possibly shippy) details i didn't notice the first time around:
_luna was at the gryffindor tryouts! xD how funny, i didn't even see her there the first time i saw the movie. she was smack in the middle of lavender and hermione, how the heck did i miss that? ^^;;; of course, they probably just put her there to say "sorry we couldn't put her in as quidditch commentator" but i'll take it to mean she was there to support ronnie ;)
_when harry's comforting hermione and ron and lavender come in, harry totally throws ron the ultimate glare of D00M. =P man, i loved that. perhaps loved it even more than the comforting itself! i love protective harry, he gives me the fuzzies ^.^i feel reassured about what's coming up in ARIP, now. which i probably shouldn't have said, given that you're not supposed to know what's coming up in ARIP... >.>
_BTW, harry so does not look even remotely happy when talk of ron/hermione comes up. i know, because THIS TIME I MADE SURE I CHECKED. he looks quite confused most of the time, actually. once does he smile when the topic comes up, and that's when ginny tells him "it's about time" as she's leaving the hospital wing. however, as soon as she walks past him the smile goes away. i don't particularly mean they're making him seem jealous or anything, of course, just pointing out that he didn't look happy about it, either. compare it to the big grin on his face when lavender kisses ron in the common room-- completely different.
_when ron is saying he can't remember anything about the night he was poisoned, and hermione looks so down, harry gives her a look like it hurts him that she's hurting. it's more friendshippy than anything, but it just really got to me. awww =3
_i had forgotten how hilarious the whole "harry high on felix felicis" thing was. xDDDD good lord, i laughed so hard that i almost choked on my popcorn. looooool. props to dan radcliffe for that, it was brilliant. x3
and speaking of harry potter (lol, i have a gift for stringing my posts together, don't i? ^^;;; haha), here's a little part of the latest scene i wrote for ARIP 5:
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Before he could make some (probably half-assed) comment, though, she jumped. "Oh, there's one!" she exclaimed, and when Ron reacted to move his gaze from her stocking-clad feet to the stream, he barely managed to catch the silhouette of scaly, webbed hind-quarters before they disappeared into the water. "It seems they're just being sneaky and avoiding my bait, then," Luna continued, her tone almost like she was proud of the little creature. She had already lowered the fishing rod, though, so she couldn't really test that theory now. She turned her big gray eyes towards him. "You know, the last time we went fishing, Dean managed to catch one by the legs. It was very impressive."
At the mention of his fellow Gryffindor, Ron snorted, but quickly covered it with a cough. "Yeah. Impressive." He moved to get up from his spot on the grass. "Of course it had to be impressive, he's trying to score points, the slimy git," he muttered under his breath as he stood upright.
"I beg your pardon?"
"Nothing," he was quick to reply. He moved towards the water and stood by the edge, crouching slightly and squinting to try and see anything in the stream. "Maybe they're just not hungry," he wondered out loud. He had no idea why he suddenly felt the urge to locate the stupid fish, to be honest. Just curiosity, probably. "I mean, they're not supposed to be that smart, are they?"
He hadn't even finished the sentence when he found himself getting splashed with water all over his face; the splish-splash of little legs paddling on the surface of the water once again was a clear, signature sound. He had barely had enough time to close his eyes.
Luna's vaporous tone came to his ears from a closer position than before, and he could feel her long skirt swish against his shoulder; she had moved to stand beside him. "On the contrary," she said, "it seems they're smarter than you thought." Ron's ears burned red as he wiped the water from his face: Her voice gave no indication that she was making fun of him but that didn't stop him from being embarrassed.
He cleared his throat awkwardly as he stood up from his crouching position. "You know what, I think we should let this one go. It's mating season, after all. Wouldn't want for it to miss all the fun," he stated, in what he hoped was a solemn tone. "What say we take a walk down the hills instead?"
She nodded, looking up at him. "I like that idea. Very considerate of you to be the bigger person in this conflict, Ron," she replied, her tone every bit as solemn (or as solemn as Luna could sound, that is), like she thought of this brief interlude as some legendary ancient struggle between man and nature. Hmm. Perhaps she was making fun of him after all... nah.
Luna put her footwear back on and made sure she left the fishing rod standing perfectly upright against the trunk of a tree before they set out on their leisurely walk. What was it with the Lovegoods and fishing rods, anyway? Once again, he refrained from bringing the topic up.
"Ronald, can I ask you a personal question?" she asked, once again staring at him with unblinking grey eyes. Obviously she didn't share his reservations when it came to asking people things.
He let her, wondering what the harm could be. Even her gaze on him was not as unnerving as it had once been; by now he had simply categorized it as a Luna thing. And of course, her being Luna, he should've known her question would be something he never expected any other person to ask; and this one was pretty out there, even for her, or so he thought as his brain processed the fact that the words "if you were a vegetable, which one would you be?" really had come out of her mouth. "...Huh?"
At his completely random reply, she cocked her head like she was pondering it, a hand on her chin, then nodded. "Yes, yes, I can definitely see why."
He gaped at her. He'd only picked the tomato because his hair was red and he thought carrots were overused. After a few seconds of just blinking at her (and her not blinking back at him), laughter finally began to bubble up his throat, thinking of how inane this must sound to an outsider, them taking a stroll while talking about produce. "That's rich, Luna. What's with the question, though?"
She gave him a vacant smile and a shrug. "I've just always been curious about it."
He guffawed out loud at that.
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PS: they're catching plimpies. i don't know if it's mentioned there, or in the part previous to this snippet.
i quite like this scene. (yaaaay, my good streak isn't dead after all! ^.^) however, i can't shake the feeling that i've made luna... too luna-ish. i feel like i overdid it on the quirkiness. hmmm. i dunno... you guys probably can't see it from just this small part of it...
this chapter is getting to be quite long. it's already half as long as chapter 4 and i'm not even near the halfway point yet. i may have to split it in two. =/