gods, finally

[lmcgiglez]

yay Percy!
yay Snape!
poor Snape (and wow, he really was in love with Lily) he was an awesome tragic hero
poor Petunia
the only time i cried (including reading the other books) was when Dobby died
OMG i heart Narcissa
there are no more marauders and i'm sad.
dammit, Emily you lied to me about Fred.
awesomest part? Hermione kissing Ron when he showed sympathy for the elves, and the "Are you a wizard or not!?" squee!!!
i really like Aberforth
i'm sad about Colin.
god, please don't let him marry Ginny.
how did Neville get the sword?
for most of the story, i was insanely annoyed with everyone in the book. they're idiots.


god does hate me.
ok, so glad Draco is still himself, but not evil.
best dialogue :"See you later Al. Watch out fot the thestrals." / "I though they were invisible? You said they were invisible!"
who's kid is Victoire?
i love that his name is Albus Severus
i think i like Ron and Hermione's kids the best.
how many kids do they all have? and who is Draco's wife? what about the other Wealesys? dammit JKR! F!!!
that was kind of crappy.

man, i think JKR should have had consults for this. like Inell, or rosewhispers, or scifichick774. or, you know, a cat.
EDIT:

Emily: I didn't lie!!!!
me (10:02:52 PM): yes you did you told me Fred didn't die.
me (10:03:05 PM): and oh my god why does my eye hurt
Emily (9:03:51 PM): I did not say that Fred didn't die and I have the im records to prove it.
Emily (9:04:07 PM): your eye hurts because you called me a liar and I put voodoo on it.
me (10:04:14 PM): then what did you say Beckett
Emily (9:05:18 PM): Scorpius Malfou
Emily (9:05:20 PM): malfoy
me (10:05:15 PM): no you didn't
Emily (9:06:32 PM): [23:17] Lauren: oh, the spoiler was the death of George
[23:17] Right Daftie: my brain is simply unable to compute it.
[23:17] Right Daftie: um..that spoiler is false
[23:17] Lauren: oh thank god. who the hell makes an icon saying "Fred, the living twon"!?
[23:18] Right Daftie: although I feel like I spoiled you by confirming that.
[23:18] Lauren: neh,
[23:18] Lauren: i was freaking out mildly
[23:18] Right Daftie: twon is a creepy word
[23:18] Lauren: yes
[23:18] Right Daftie: why with the freaking?
[23:18] Lauren: i thought about fixing the typo, but didn't.
i don't know. i just was. they can kill bill, then the parodies will be easier
[23:19] Lauren: and they can get Uma Thurman in to play Fluer
[23:19] Right Daftie: hahahaha
me (10:06:40 PM): hmph, close enough
Emily (9:06:59 PM): *shrugs*
me (10:06:54 PM): i hate JKR so hard
Emily (9:07:10 PM): I meant that Scorpius Malfoy is a funny name.
me (10:07:02 PM): yes
Emily (9:07:19 PM): And you have that Albus Severus.
Emily (9:07:35 PM): I was like, "Harry Potter hates his children so he only names them after dead people."
me (10:07:43 PM): i like that Ginny got basically no say in the naming
me (10:07:57 PM): like she doesn't have anyone in her life that she'd like to commemerate
Emily (9:08:33 PM): I think one reviewer said it well when they described her as a character-less womb created solely to give Harry the family he always dreamed of.
me (10:09:33 PM): and everyone got together with their high school sweetheart, ponies shat lumps of gold, and Hagrid and his girlfriend that seems to have disappeared somewhere between books 5 and 6 had lovely little part giant children
me (10:09:48 PM): and i still want to know what happened to other people. JK can suck my cock
Emily (9:10:32 PM): yeah, pretty much. there's talk of her making an encyclopedia about what happened afterwards and I was like "No! She'll just fuck it up more!"
me (10:10:58 PM): ha. if she posts it online, then i'm for it. i don't want to buy something else.
i think maybe Dean and Luna got together
me (10:11:05 PM): and how did Neville get the sword?
Emily (9:11:44 PM): the sword is enchanted to return to the hat whenever a gryffindor needs it or some shit like that.
Emily (9:11:58 PM): deus ex machina in other words
me (10:11:57 PM): so Griphook the asshole loses, good
me (10:12:16 PM): and i just thought that you might have commented on the entry so i went to look
Emily (9:12:57 PM): She hasn't said much in interviews about who gets together with whom afterwards but she says the idea of Luna and Neville has been growing on her.
me (10:13:03 PM): god, does she have to be transparent?
Emily (9:13:15 PM): I wish she just wouldn't say anything at all.
me (10:13:19 PM): a customer i was talking to said she's thinking about writing a crime series
Emily (9:13:34 PM): I wish she had just left it at the last chapter and kept mum on everything else.
me (10:13:35 PM): that would have been goodish.
Emily (9:13:57 PM): that was a joke that went too far. She's not writing anything but she's always mentioned that she would love to write mysteries.
me (10:13:49 PM): the epilogue wasn't as bad as i thought it'd be
Emily (9:14:12 PM): it wasn't, it was just so cloying and pat.
Emily (9:14:30 PM): And it really didn't add to the book at all. Nothing important was really said.
me (10:14:22 PM): i heart Percy
Emily (9:14:38 PM): I do too.
Emily (9:14:43 PM): He's my woogie
me (10:14:35 PM): indeed.
Emily (9:14:56 PM): It's like "Percy! Don't ever change."
me (10:14:54 PM): after you return.
Emily (9:15:37 PM): Oh yeah. I'm completely sure that after reuniting with his family, they have another fallout a year or so later when everything's settled down and then they really hash it out.
me (10:15:35 PM): ha
Emily (9:15:56 PM): Their personalities demand it.
Emily (9:16:46 PM): That's how it is with my family at least. There's always someone in a large family who's personality just doesn't quite fit in. Luckily, the Weasleys are more forgiving of angry outbursts than mine.
me (10:16:37 PM): you know, i knew that a Weasley would have to die, because i mean there's almost a dozen of them, but did it have to be one of the twins?
oh, and i seriously heart Narcissa.
Emily (9:17:02 PM): Narcissa was pretty cool.
me (10:17:20 PM): yes. i also like how basically that one thing is what got the family off the hook. Harry is such a druglord
Emily (9:17:35 PM): Out of all the Weasleys to die, I'm glad that it wasn't Percy.
Emily (9:17:46 PM): Harry totally is. he's like the Godfather or something.
me (10:17:36 PM): yea
me (10:17:57 PM): if they have a fight, it won't last long
Emily (9:18:13 PM): I didn't care for how both Tonks and Lupin died. That was stupid.
me (10:18:17 PM): did they say how
me (10:18:18 PM): ?
me (10:19:04 PM): i just knew that they were both dead. which i think sucks, but i would have been surprised if one died and the other lived because Tonks seemed kinda obsessed with him and he was desperate(ish)
Emily (9:19:29 PM): I'm trying to remember. I think Lupin was killed by Rookwood and Tonks by Bellatrix but it's never mentioned in the books. Only in later interviews with JKR.
me (10:19:51 PM): oh, totally loved Molly for the fight with Bellatrix (even though she was one of my fav bad guys)
Emily (9:20:14 PM): Tonks became this total harridan about Lupin. God, she irritated me with her "I'm going to leave my baby with my grieving mother and look for my husband in the middle of battle! because I'm a smart, independant woman!" lame.
me (10:20:05 PM): it almost made up for how crappy a character Molly is
Emily (9:20:42 PM): The women in harry potter sucks so hard. especially once they become girlfriends/wives.
Emily (9:21:00 PM): and especially once they become mothers.
me (10:20:49 PM): well, Tonks is also an auror, so i can understand her coming to fight, especially since she does actually have someone who can watch Teddy.
me (10:21:01 PM): Hermione wasn't mentioned too much as a mum
Emily (9:21:25 PM): but she never mentions fighting; she just runs off in search of lupin all wailing for him and shit.
me (10:21:17 PM): which is probably what saved JKR from my wrath
me (10:21:48 PM): yes, well, postpartum depression drove her mad. and she's probably still thinking he'll try to run off on her again
Emily (9:22:02 PM): she said something about hermione becoming a solicitor for the MLE or something.
Emily (9:22:20 PM): who knows what's up with tonks. her character just disappeared.
me (10:22:13 PM): yea
Emily (9:22:35 PM): why did we have to spend two hundred pages in a freaking tent?
Emily (9:22:52 PM): that book frustrated me so much.
me (10:22:42 PM): is it anyworse than all the pages spent on Harry's monster in book 6?
me (10:22:59 PM): man, i'm so behind on HP fanfic now
Emily (9:24:25 PM): I didn't care for book six either.
me (10:24:20 PM): yea
Emily (9:24:33 PM): After book three, the books went downhill
me (10:24:27 PM): i don't know, i think 4 was ok
Emily (9:24:45 PM): four was eh, five was ugh, six was blargh and seven was moop
me (10:25:16 PM): and 5 did have Harry being less of a doormat (sorta) but then he 180'd his personality
Emily (9:25:32 PM): Most of the post-DH stuff hasn't been that great. I don't know about the trio fic though.
Emily (9:25:41 PM): Five was a whole lot of capslock.
me (10:25:43 PM): which might be what teens do, but i don't remember being like that. maybe you'd have to be british
Emily (9:26:04 PM): http://asylums.insanejournal.com/percy_ficathon/giglez101 (10:25:55 PM): i'm reading Inell's Worth the Risk series right now
Emily (9:26:32 PM): Inell's good. I'm not really interested in most HP stuff right now.
me (10:26:35 PM): i understand
Emily (9:26:55 PM): There is some good George stuff post-DH though.
me (10:26:44 PM): that's part of why i took so long to read DH.
Emily (9:27:12 PM): Yeah. HP just isn't on my radar much anymore.
me (10:27:26 PM): i had all of Stargate Atlantis fandom to read this summer. but i do want to catch up on Inell and scifichick774's stuff
Emily (9:27:39 PM): and Cairnsy wrote this great short piece that was Percy and Bill talking post-DH.
Emily (9:27:51 PM): they're your standards, I understand.
me (10:27:42 PM): yes
me (10:29:28 PM): “While men are so basic and obvious that it doesn’t require much thought at all to figure you out, in a general sense. It's a wonder we women even put up with you lot. And, for the record, there's a difference in an appreciative glance and a leer. While one can be flattering, the other can be creepy, depending on circumstances.”
“I’m not simple. Obvious, maybe, but not simple. I have layers and mysteries for some lucky woman to uncover. Want to uncover me? You can start with my shirt, if you must. I don't mind creepy leers when they're from you.”
me (10:31:31 PM): i also am curious about who else died. and i think its complete shit that the whole of Slytherin was sent home. bullshit, some probably wanted to fight
Emily (9:33:07 PM): I hate that the whole problem of Slytherin being maligned as evil even though it wasn't didn't get solved. I was like "Bullshit, JKR!"
me (10:33:49 PM): which didn't help when Dumbledore was all "you probably shouldn't have been in Slytherin Snape."
i hope Harry's kid does end up in Slytherin, that would help
Emily (9:34:10 PM): and then in interviews she said later that muggles who end up wizards actually have wizards as ancestors long and that they pop every once in awhile later because of recessive of genes and I was like "Genetics doesn't work like that JKR! Fuck you for taking away the entire point of your work!"
me (10:35:12 PM): though i do kinda like the whole Hallows thing, and how Harry died but didn't.
and i think Aberforth should write a counter-biography. or maybe Harry
Emily (9:35:36 PM): I loved Aberforth.
me (10:35:30 PM): yes
Emily (9:35:45 PM): He was a better man that Albus.
me (10:35:37 PM): duh
Emily (9:35:51 PM): I also like that Albus knew that.
Emily (9:36:06 PM): I didn't like the Kings Cross chapter much after Harry died/didn't die.
me (10:35:58 PM): i also like that his patronus was a ghost
Emily (9:36:15 PM): goat.
me (10:36:06 PM): yes
me (10:36:11 PM): totally thinking that
Emily (9:36:27 PM): I love that he has a seeming goat fetish.
Emily (9:36:33 PM): What a quirk to have. It's so right.
me (10:36:28 PM): but my finger broke
heh.
Emily (9:37:01 PM): albus with his incessant need to control everything and aberforth and his goats.
me (10:37:37 PM): i liked the logic behind the almost dying thing. and the bit of closure for Harry and Albus was good
the goats are the better but decidedly weirder
Emily (9:37:51 PM): I also enjoyed how everyone who told Harry about Albus was wrong to the very end.
me (10:38:00 PM): Aberforth was almost right
me (10:38:04 PM): and Snape
Emily (9:38:18 PM): very good bit of storytelling that was; about perception.
me (10:38:14 PM): what was?
Emily (9:38:31 PM): Snape was the most awesome anti-hero ever. So tragic.
Emily (9:38:53 PM): A lot of the series was about how everyone can have the same facts but their perception colors their conclusions.
me (10:39:26 PM): i have to admit i'm a little shocked that Snape was in love with Lily.
though glad that he still got offended that Albus seemingly set Harry up to die
ah, yes.
me (10:39:49 PM): so, was Dumbledore's image in the Mirror Ariana?
Emily (9:40:14 PM): It was his family altogether and happy.
Emily (9:40:25 PM): So it was him, Ariana whole, aberforth happy, and his parents all together.
me (10:40:26 PM): ah. so like Harry's
Emily (9:40:41 PM): yeah
me (10:40:29 PM): oh that hurts
Emily (9:40:44 PM): yeah
me (10:41:57 PM): though i like how all the broken chidren that thought of Hogwarts as home came together in Harry's mind when he thought he was going to die. and i wish he had thought up Severus too when he had the resurection stone.
and was the stone in the Gaunt ring? that got a little hazy for me, the whole how Dumbldore was dying
Emily (9:42:24 PM): the stone was in the ring, yeah.
me (10:42:26 PM): ok.
and man, i loved Kreacher. wonder what happened to him
Emily (9:43:12 PM): probably stays with harry, I would assume.
Emily (9:43:21 PM): Harry probably moved back into number 12.
me (10:43:10 PM): now that Harry knows to be nice to him
Emily (9:43:34 PM): yeah. I'm amazed at how stupid he was about that.
me (10:43:33 PM): also really glad that Regulus was kewl.
Emily (9:44:04 PM): It kind of sucked how there was so much build-up for Regulus but so little outcome.
me (10:44:02 PM): yea
Emily (9:44:14 PM): I was like "That's it?" He was still cool though.
me (10:44:06 PM): yes
me (10:54:31 PM): is it just me, or did hardly any of the "light" side use any bad hexes in the battle?
Emily (9:55:11 PM): I didn't pay much attention to the spellls cast.
Emily (9:55:28 PM): although Harry's use of Crucio raise a brow.
me (10:55:16 PM): i notice them sometimes for some reason
me (10:55:58 PM): probably cuz i wanted to see when they started to realize the world is a mix of grays not black and white.
who did he use that on? why did i forget that?
me (10:56:13 PM): i mean, besides the 5th book
Emily (9:56:33 PM): he failed in the fifth book
Emily (9:56:44 PM): in the ravenclaw dorm on that guy.
Emily (9:56:48 PM): carew?
me (10:56:38 PM): oh right
Emily (9:56:53 PM): something like that.
me (10:56:48 PM): when he spat on McGonagal
me (10:56:52 PM): i like her
me (10:57:05 PM): and now i'm affronted for Snape
Emily (9:58:03 PM): mm?
me (10:58:07 PM): how McGonagall treated him
me (10:58:15 PM): i can understand, but yea.
me (10:58:18 PM): still angry
me (10:58:58 PM): i also hate how Dumbledore treated him.
did Snape get a painting in the headmaster's room?
Emily (9:59:25 PM): I'm thinking he did.
Emily (9:59:30 PM): Harry would have insisted.
me (10:59:21 PM): good
Emily (9:59:43 PM): I can just imagine portrait Snape.
Emily (9:59:53 PM): He's probably a lot like Phineas.
me (10:59:45 PM): hee

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i really want to know what happened to everyone. like, the Dursleys. wouldn't it be kinda kewl (even if it is continuing the Only-Harry-Names-the-Kids) if Lily's middle name was Petunia? and they saw Dudley for Thanksgiving.
does England have a Thanksgiving?

more info JKR you whore.