HP DH
Okay, so I'm teh corny and listening to my Sinatra mix because that's what I do when I'm sad/confused/don't know what to do.
And no, I'm not just being a whiny shipper or anything. I'm sad that the series is over and I'm officially a grown-up. And it really sucks that I had to wait ages upon ages to write something up, but I got the book and drove with teh family to NJ and then had crazy ridiculousness that emiliap knows about but, hey, I'm writing about it now. And there's no time like the present!
Spoilers for DH:
The summary on the back of the front sleeve and the dedication made me unable to open the book for 30 minutes because I was crying so much. I even cried as Marissa was driving me to my house from Borders. She tried to console me, but it just wasn't possible. I've loved these books since I was 11 and it was ending. I was almost scared to crack it.
But I was so glad I did... Might I just say that I LOVED the first bit of the book... it was really a happy thing for me. Well, not happy since it was depressing as hell, but yeah. It's almost the same, no?
--Mad props to Dudley. Harry tastes good. OMG that was frickin hilarious. Go Hermione and your awkwardness. Boo for Ginny being a whore. I never really thought of it this way, but apparently some people think that she was offering Harry sex? What a skank. I'm glad that she wasn't in most of it. Yay for trio going off and being all triolike in Grimmauld Place and tents. Go Kreacher and your cutesey lurve for the Blacks. Boo for Ron being hungry and moody and more salt-like than ever.
OMGYAYFORGODRIC'SHOLLOW.
That scene made the whole book for me. If nothing shows H/Hrs relationship (canonly love-filled or not), nothing else does. I'm glad that they were back to being close. And I'm glad that Hermione stuck with Harry even when tehloveofherlife walked out on them. Good girl for being loyal. Yay for the doe... and Ron getting the Horcrux. The whole fake scene was kind of whatever (where fakehorcruxH/Hr kiss), and I'm really surprised that people are telling me that it's my consolation for the book. Just proves that H/Hr won the shipping war. < / H/Hr snottiness>
Uhm... I found it a little bizarre that Harry only talked about Ginny during their little trounces about the dark bits of the castle. Gross. To the extreme. To me, it says: "Go yon chitlins and have sex with boys you pine over for years and he will marry you and have real babies with you". Le'choke.
I. Loved. The. Malfoys. And their manor. And the ALBINO PEACOCKS. Whoa. Go Lucius and Narcissa. You KICK ASS. I almost love them more than the Wealseys. Yeah, I said it. Molly lost it for me when she called Bellatrix a bitch and killed her. If Bellatrix should have died at anyone's hand, it should have been Harry or Neville's.
Speaking of-- I WANT TO HAVE NEVILLE'S BABIES. And I wans to be BFF with Luna.
Her dad was a bit cracked out though. Oh well, she still kicks ass. And I will forever love her. But how cute was it when Dean went and grabbed for her hand. AW. Lovelovelove.
Dobby dying had me in tears. Like, I couldn't read for forever. I seriously was devastated. My mom even reached back and touched my knee as she was driving because I was such a wreck (pun intended).
GO PERCY. That's all I have to say about him.
Tonks and Lupin had a kid! And Lupin was stupid and went and whined to Harry--wth are stupid, Lupin? Harry being the Godfather was good though. Except he doesn't seem to have done anything with that. Lame, Harry. But Tonks and Lupin going off to fight and leaving their kid at home was kind of meh to me. I mean, I guess it was the right thing to do and all, but neither of them seemed to be torn up about it. Which was weird. I would hope to be attached to my kid when I have one.
The whole breaking into the bank thing didn't really do it for me. Nor did the riding out on a dragon thing. But everyone knowing about it because of the radio station did! SO CUTE. And the fake names were hilarious.
I was kind of mad with the whole "DUMBLEDORE IS AN ASSHAT" thing. I'm glad it eventually got cleared up. Except I was really afraid that Harry would return to capslock!Harry. Thank God he didn't.
I was a bit sad that they didn't go abroad anywhere exciting. :( They should have had to go see... something. I don't know, I think I was just expecting more than I got. I was also a little :/ at the crackpot fanfic theories were right. I would have never put money on Harry being a Horcrux-- it was so obvious. And, um, Severus/Lily was so a fanfic I read back in the day... not canon! Oh well. I suppose he had to have a reason to be good. Which I knew he was. Yeah! Rock on, Snape. You will forever live in my heart. However, I don't think Aberforth will. He kind of just confused me. And did something really happen with a goat? What?
I didn't quite know what to think of the grey lady bit, either. I suppose it makes sense but it seemed all too simple... like everything else in the book. I was glad, though, that Draco stayed back in the RoR and tried to get Harry but was saved by him in the end. Thank God that Crabbe died, though. Stupid fucker.
What happened to LOVE being the theme of the series, though? I kind of lost that bit somewhere along the way. Perhaps Dumbledore said something about it in the deadtrainstation bit? I was kind of weaving in and out by that point.
Speaking of 'lurrrve', I actually didn't mind the R/Hr in the book. But that's only because I knew it was coming. Anyway, JKR didn't really do that bad of a job of it either. Ron definitely stepped up and became a better person... but Hermione kind of stepped down and tolerated weird things. I don't know, I can believe it for a couple of years, but not for a lifetime. Oh well, 19 years and two kids isn't too bad. There's definitely room for improvement in fanfics ;)
I couldn't really do the H/G, though. I refuse to believe that you marry someone you like to have sexual relations with. Do they ever talk? No. Does he remember her for conversations? No. Does he want to see her before anyone else? No. He wants to see R/Hr. Does she love him enough to try to help him? No. She does as she's told like a dog. Does she lose her opinion when she's with him? Apparently so since she lets him name all the kiddies and lets him order her around. (Stay in the RoR. Leave the RoR. Wait for me. Don't try to help. Don't fight. Don't look for anyone else.) Gag me with a chainsaw.
I could have stomached it if JKR didn't make it so fake and romance-novel-y. I want real, not fake.
Which brings me to the epilogue.
It was pretty much the only bit that made me not like the book. Because it made the teenloverelationship (which I can totally do, teens are hormonal and love sex!) of H/G solidified with 3 kids and R/Hr official (which I could stand a hell of a lot more-- don't get me wrong, though. I'm still a H/Hr shipper till I die). But that's not the only thing that made me dislike the epilogue...
I. Am. Not. A. Shallow. Reader. And. I. Do. Not. Just. Care. About. What. Happens. To. Only. Four. Characters.
This is what I would have also liked to know:
-What happened to Moody's body?
-Where did Teddy go live (cause it sure as hell doesn't sound as if he went to live with Harry)
-What happened to Hermione's parents?
-What happened to Luna?
-Did anyone besides OBHWF get together?
-How did Aberfroth hold up?
-What happened to all the old teachers?
-What happened after the war?
-How in the hell did Harry go from "omg have to see R/Hr first" to "omg G is teh lurve of mah life so I married her and is thus above all"?
-How did George deal with Fred dying?
-Did the joke shop stay in business?
-What did Percy wind up doing?
-What in the world were everyone's occupations?
-Did Ginny and Hermione become happy little house-wives? (Ick if so)
-Does Harry walk all over Ginny? (Suggests so when he basically named all the kids)
-OMG CAN AS/R GET TOGETHER PLEASE?
-Who in the hell was Draco's nameless wife?
And yeah, I understand that it was important to have just because of Albus Severus, but, she could have done that another way. Seriously.
As emiliap said (more or less):
Book - Epilogue = amazing
Book + Epilogue = gross
It read like a badly done fanfic, and I so could have done without that. For real. If I wanted to hear that tripe, I could have gone online and gotten a fix.
Shippy Musings:
And by shippy I mean H/Hr.
I don't think we lost the battle... Well I suppose we have if you're talking about canon, but not really. Because, no offense R/Hr and H/G shippers, but I wouldn't have wanted my ship to be canon if it happened that way-- especially H/G. I don't want my characters to change themselves to fit each other... I want a natural fit. I don't want my character to lust over each other, I want them to love. And, sure, JKR was unnecessarily harsh with her "We love each other like brother and sister" thing, but that changes. All we need is an epiphany and fanfic can surely provide that. As lots of us chanted after HBP, I don't want my ship to be canon if that's how she's going to write it.
Long live H/Hr.
Thank you for showing me what love should be like... thank you for showing me the qualities I should look for in a relationship. Thank you for letting me see something that is truly beautiful when not many others could. Thank you for letting me know that there is more to a relationship than a hot bod and raging hormones. Thank you for letting me see that guys will want a bookworm like me before they want the popular hot snogger who flounces about. Thank you for letting me hope that I will find someone who knows me completely and accepts me for who I am rather than tease me about it. Thank you for showing me that boys will not need books to understand me, that they do so on their own because they genuinely care about me. Thank you for always being there. Thank you for helping me expect more, even the exceptional. Thank you for showing me that I will never need to settle for someone who doesn't really get me. Thank you for being the role model for my future relationship.
I only hope to find someone else who will hold me when I need them and stick by me when their supposed world walks out on them. I hope to live up to your loyalty and love and kindness and endearing charm. I hope I can, one day, weed through the Rons and find the Harry that will be the man I always dreamed of.
My childhood may be over and the series may have ended against us, but I have come out ahead in the end because I dared to believe in something that I was chastised for. I have come out ahead because I will be happy later in life even if I don't find someone because being alone with self respect is better than dumbing myself down and lowering my standards. I am a better person because I believed in H/Hr and nothing, not even JKR will change my mind.
So, yeah, maybe I am delusional... but I'm happy and content. Which is more than I can say for others. I'm glad that I'm a H/Hr shipper.
Oh my. DH, you were a very interesting book. Very interesting indeed.
Oh and disregard the spelling mistakes. It may be 3:30, but I'm still tired and recouperating from the crazy read of doom (because apparently I read slow and didn't finish it in 5 hours like everyone else did).
And no, I'm not just being a whiny shipper or anything. I'm sad that the series is over and I'm officially a grown-up. And it really sucks that I had to wait ages upon ages to write something up, but I got the book and drove with teh family to NJ and then had crazy ridiculousness that emiliap knows about but, hey, I'm writing about it now. And there's no time like the present!
Spoilers for DH:
The summary on the back of the front sleeve and the dedication made me unable to open the book for 30 minutes because I was crying so much. I even cried as Marissa was driving me to my house from Borders. She tried to console me, but it just wasn't possible. I've loved these books since I was 11 and it was ending. I was almost scared to crack it.
But I was so glad I did... Might I just say that I LOVED the first bit of the book... it was really a happy thing for me. Well, not happy since it was depressing as hell, but yeah. It's almost the same, no?
--Mad props to Dudley. Harry tastes good. OMG that was frickin hilarious. Go Hermione and your awkwardness. Boo for Ginny being a whore. I never really thought of it this way, but apparently some people think that she was offering Harry sex? What a skank. I'm glad that she wasn't in most of it. Yay for trio going off and being all triolike in Grimmauld Place and tents. Go Kreacher and your cutesey lurve for the Blacks. Boo for Ron being hungry and moody and more salt-like than ever.
OMGYAYFORGODRIC'SHOLLOW.
That scene made the whole book for me. If nothing shows H/Hrs relationship (canonly love-filled or not), nothing else does. I'm glad that they were back to being close. And I'm glad that Hermione stuck with Harry even when tehloveofherlife walked out on them. Good girl for being loyal. Yay for the doe... and Ron getting the Horcrux. The whole fake scene was kind of whatever (where fakehorcruxH/Hr kiss), and I'm really surprised that people are telling me that it's my consolation for the book. Just proves that H/Hr won the shipping war. < / H/Hr snottiness>
Uhm... I found it a little bizarre that Harry only talked about Ginny during their little trounces about the dark bits of the castle. Gross. To the extreme. To me, it says: "Go yon chitlins and have sex with boys you pine over for years and he will marry you and have real babies with you". Le'choke.
I. Loved. The. Malfoys. And their manor. And the ALBINO PEACOCKS. Whoa. Go Lucius and Narcissa. You KICK ASS. I almost love them more than the Wealseys. Yeah, I said it. Molly lost it for me when she called Bellatrix a bitch and killed her. If Bellatrix should have died at anyone's hand, it should have been Harry or Neville's.
Speaking of-- I WANT TO HAVE NEVILLE'S BABIES. And I wans to be BFF with Luna.
Her dad was a bit cracked out though. Oh well, she still kicks ass. And I will forever love her. But how cute was it when Dean went and grabbed for her hand. AW. Lovelovelove.
Dobby dying had me in tears. Like, I couldn't read for forever. I seriously was devastated. My mom even reached back and touched my knee as she was driving because I was such a wreck (pun intended).
GO PERCY. That's all I have to say about him.
Tonks and Lupin had a kid! And Lupin was stupid and went and whined to Harry--wth are stupid, Lupin? Harry being the Godfather was good though. Except he doesn't seem to have done anything with that. Lame, Harry. But Tonks and Lupin going off to fight and leaving their kid at home was kind of meh to me. I mean, I guess it was the right thing to do and all, but neither of them seemed to be torn up about it. Which was weird. I would hope to be attached to my kid when I have one.
The whole breaking into the bank thing didn't really do it for me. Nor did the riding out on a dragon thing. But everyone knowing about it because of the radio station did! SO CUTE. And the fake names were hilarious.
I was kind of mad with the whole "DUMBLEDORE IS AN ASSHAT" thing. I'm glad it eventually got cleared up. Except I was really afraid that Harry would return to capslock!Harry. Thank God he didn't.
I was a bit sad that they didn't go abroad anywhere exciting. :( They should have had to go see... something. I don't know, I think I was just expecting more than I got. I was also a little :/ at the crackpot fanfic theories were right. I would have never put money on Harry being a Horcrux-- it was so obvious. And, um, Severus/Lily was so a fanfic I read back in the day... not canon! Oh well. I suppose he had to have a reason to be good. Which I knew he was. Yeah! Rock on, Snape. You will forever live in my heart. However, I don't think Aberforth will. He kind of just confused me. And did something really happen with a goat? What?
I didn't quite know what to think of the grey lady bit, either. I suppose it makes sense but it seemed all too simple... like everything else in the book. I was glad, though, that Draco stayed back in the RoR and tried to get Harry but was saved by him in the end. Thank God that Crabbe died, though. Stupid fucker.
What happened to LOVE being the theme of the series, though? I kind of lost that bit somewhere along the way. Perhaps Dumbledore said something about it in the deadtrainstation bit? I was kind of weaving in and out by that point.
Speaking of 'lurrrve', I actually didn't mind the R/Hr in the book. But that's only because I knew it was coming. Anyway, JKR didn't really do that bad of a job of it either. Ron definitely stepped up and became a better person... but Hermione kind of stepped down and tolerated weird things. I don't know, I can believe it for a couple of years, but not for a lifetime. Oh well, 19 years and two kids isn't too bad. There's definitely room for improvement in fanfics ;)
I couldn't really do the H/G, though. I refuse to believe that you marry someone you like to have sexual relations with. Do they ever talk? No. Does he remember her for conversations? No. Does he want to see her before anyone else? No. He wants to see R/Hr. Does she love him enough to try to help him? No. She does as she's told like a dog. Does she lose her opinion when she's with him? Apparently so since she lets him name all the kiddies and lets him order her around. (Stay in the RoR. Leave the RoR. Wait for me. Don't try to help. Don't fight. Don't look for anyone else.) Gag me with a chainsaw.
I could have stomached it if JKR didn't make it so fake and romance-novel-y. I want real, not fake.
Which brings me to the epilogue.
It was pretty much the only bit that made me not like the book. Because it made the teenloverelationship (which I can totally do, teens are hormonal and love sex!) of H/G solidified with 3 kids and R/Hr official (which I could stand a hell of a lot more-- don't get me wrong, though. I'm still a H/Hr shipper till I die). But that's not the only thing that made me dislike the epilogue...
I. Am. Not. A. Shallow. Reader. And. I. Do. Not. Just. Care. About. What. Happens. To. Only. Four. Characters.
This is what I would have also liked to know:
-What happened to Moody's body?
-Where did Teddy go live (cause it sure as hell doesn't sound as if he went to live with Harry)
-What happened to Hermione's parents?
-What happened to Luna?
-Did anyone besides OBHWF get together?
-How did Aberfroth hold up?
-What happened to all the old teachers?
-What happened after the war?
-How in the hell did Harry go from "omg have to see R/Hr first" to "omg G is teh lurve of mah life so I married her and is thus above all"?
-How did George deal with Fred dying?
-Did the joke shop stay in business?
-What did Percy wind up doing?
-What in the world were everyone's occupations?
-Did Ginny and Hermione become happy little house-wives? (Ick if so)
-Does Harry walk all over Ginny? (Suggests so when he basically named all the kids)
-OMG CAN AS/R GET TOGETHER PLEASE?
-Who in the hell was Draco's nameless wife?
And yeah, I understand that it was important to have just because of Albus Severus, but, she could have done that another way. Seriously.
As emiliap said (more or less):
Book - Epilogue = amazing
Book + Epilogue = gross
It read like a badly done fanfic, and I so could have done without that. For real. If I wanted to hear that tripe, I could have gone online and gotten a fix.
Shippy Musings:
And by shippy I mean H/Hr.
I don't think we lost the battle... Well I suppose we have if you're talking about canon, but not really. Because, no offense R/Hr and H/G shippers, but I wouldn't have wanted my ship to be canon if it happened that way-- especially H/G. I don't want my characters to change themselves to fit each other... I want a natural fit. I don't want my character to lust over each other, I want them to love. And, sure, JKR was unnecessarily harsh with her "We love each other like brother and sister" thing, but that changes. All we need is an epiphany and fanfic can surely provide that. As lots of us chanted after HBP, I don't want my ship to be canon if that's how she's going to write it.
Long live H/Hr.
Thank you for showing me what love should be like... thank you for showing me the qualities I should look for in a relationship. Thank you for letting me see something that is truly beautiful when not many others could. Thank you for letting me know that there is more to a relationship than a hot bod and raging hormones. Thank you for letting me see that guys will want a bookworm like me before they want the popular hot snogger who flounces about. Thank you for letting me hope that I will find someone who knows me completely and accepts me for who I am rather than tease me about it. Thank you for showing me that boys will not need books to understand me, that they do so on their own because they genuinely care about me. Thank you for always being there. Thank you for helping me expect more, even the exceptional. Thank you for showing me that I will never need to settle for someone who doesn't really get me. Thank you for being the role model for my future relationship.
I only hope to find someone else who will hold me when I need them and stick by me when their supposed world walks out on them. I hope to live up to your loyalty and love and kindness and endearing charm. I hope I can, one day, weed through the Rons and find the Harry that will be the man I always dreamed of.
My childhood may be over and the series may have ended against us, but I have come out ahead in the end because I dared to believe in something that I was chastised for. I have come out ahead because I will be happy later in life even if I don't find someone because being alone with self respect is better than dumbing myself down and lowering my standards. I am a better person because I believed in H/Hr and nothing, not even JKR will change my mind.
So, yeah, maybe I am delusional... but I'm happy and content. Which is more than I can say for others. I'm glad that I'm a H/Hr shipper.
Oh my. DH, you were a very interesting book. Very interesting indeed.
Oh and disregard the spelling mistakes. It may be 3:30, but I'm still tired and recouperating from the crazy read of doom (because apparently I read slow and didn't finish it in 5 hours like everyone else did).