Because you know you miss my insomniac posts.

[lettered]

For instance, remember that Angel and Spike are Harry and Draco thing? I really, really want to write more of that.

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[lettered]

Yeah, mistful. She wrote a story that takes place after the epilogue, which dealt with a lot of my problems with how...at the end, a lot of the things I had problems with in the series were still there. Some of the things we talked about, such as the good guys being judgmental, that sort of thing. I guess what I love about this fic writer is she exposes all the things that bother me about HP, she gives the other POV, but she does it without feeling morally lecture-y, if ya know what I mean. Anyway the epilogue fic is here. It's actually not H/D, but most of her best H/D stuff is v. long, and I dunno if you wanna invest time in it. But anyway, you might not like it, but I'm currently kind of gah-gah.

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT IT IN PERSON. No, I dunno, I'll email you. I meant to email you.

I've been missing that Erik/Persian thing we were kinda sorta working on. Stephanie_bean did an interesting post about POTO and eroticism that really got me thinking (which sadly I never even commented on), and then I keep thinking about what you said about that self published book at your library, omg horrors. I am full of THOUGHTS but I know not what to do with any of them!

[my_daroga]

I'm certain I'll at least like it, if you love it that much; I'm interested in *anything* that addresses those kinds of questions about a text.

I told my friend human!Darcy about our epilogue woes, and she told me to read DH again, like she did, which made her feel better. I dunno.

Either way, talking is good!

Also, Phantom stuff. Yeah. I'm feeling motivated (by the craptacular book?) so I need to bounce off you.

[lettered]

She does not address them very directly, but it utterly worked for me. Can't remember if I self pimped this to you before: I did address the epilogue woes directly in this fic here: http://tkp.livejournal.com/70244.html. It's not the cleanest fic I've ever written, but apparently lotsa people were as disturbed by the end as I was.

Bounce bounce bounce. I need to reread your novella. I quite liked it the first time through, but I know I slacked horribly in giving you proper crit.

[my_daroga]

Shoot, did I not comment on that story? Because I meant to, and even printed it out for that friend who's not moving here. I loved it; it made me feel a little better about it that you'd written it.

[lettered]

Oh! I'm glad if it made you feel a bit better. I totally flailed at the comments about Slytherin in epilogue. Like I've said, I used to hate Draco, and while I've always loved Snape, I've pretty much thought most of the House was all losers in the past. But condemning a fourth of the children of the British wizarding population before they even get a fucking chance? Not a good move, Supposed Good Guys. But then, I *like* the good guys not being perfect. And I said before that I was more and more sure JKR was showing us the good guys doing these wrong things on purpose--well, DH really gave me severe moments of doubt on that point. But it's so evident in the epilogue, that even if she didn't mean to do it, it's all there . . . the fact that wars don't end, prejudice lives on in some form or another, that history repeats, and even if we do make progress, it is in the barest of nods, and never in leaps and bounds.

OMG *sniffle*

That whole thing makes me think about authorial intent a lot.

[my_daroga]

Yeah... human!Darcy tried to argue that Harry was reassuring the little one that it'd be okay if he was in Slytherin--but the fact remains that despite what Harry *says*, the prejudice is transparent. I mean, where did the kids get this anti-S attitude? It had to come from somewhere.

And who, really, from Slytherin did themselves proud at the battle? We don't really get that evidence, just a blanket appreciation that isn't held up by the evidence.

No, I don't expect Harry and Draco to go out for a beer after dropping their kids off. But things seem so divided, still. And that wouldn't be such a big deal to me, except for how Slytherin is prefigured as "bad," no matter what. Not just by Harry et al, but by the author.

If her intent was to say something about that system, she failed in my view. Because the lesson should either be that by ridding the world of Voldemort, we can take steps towards mending the gaps between the wizard "classes"; *or* that ridding the world of V doesn't do that at all and people are responsible for their own failings.

Now *that* would be a book. What if Voldemort isn't the enemy, but the symptom?