BOOK 7 afterthoughts
just finished book 7!! (and for those who didn't get it, then i suggest you should go out of your houses more often :P)
it was okay... i mean, for me, it was anticlimactic (if there is even a word)... book 4 was like the peak for me... after that... well, everything was just okay (except for the 5th book which was so disappointing for me that it's traumatic to even think of reading it again... thank goodness the movie was GREAT!!)...
before i go on ranting (or raving... ^_^), i would just like to warn people who haven't read the book yet that the next few paragraphs i will write will most likely have some spoilers, and since i don't know everybody's spoiler tolerance, then i think you should read the following at your own risk (just a disclaimer, unless someone i know reads this, sees me, and then kills me... keke)
anyways, i have to admit that book 5 started off fast... before the end of chapter 2, some characters had already died... and then the middle starts to get a little slow... which is not too bad, because i think ms. rowling had to cram everything that had to be said in one book... and boy, i thought my brain would hang from all the information...
keke, i actually don't want to summarize the book.. i'm never good at summarizing things... a 2 page article for me means a 1 page summary... but i just wanted to pour out everything i feel about it before i study (because i will never, ever get to concentrate with all these non-law related stuff swimming in my head - and holding a wand :P)...
i wrote out a few things while reading the book... kind of like notes i wanted to discuss or wanted to share (i know, it's either i'm a super harry fan, or i'm getting too nerdy... i'm hoping to be the former...)...
ron was a real hoot in this book.. for a book which is suppose to be grim... he had a lot of really funny pick-me-uppers... here are some of the things he said that made me laugh (and at 5 in the morning.. that's hard to do...)... some aren't verbatim because i only thought of writing them down in the middle of the reading the book so i was too lazy (or maybe sleepy) to backread:
1. Overkill, Harry. - On trying to appease Kreacher (this isn't really accurate, but you guys'll probably read or have the read the book anyway.. so you'll get it ^_^)
2. Sometimes, he gets bored of running at them, flapping his arms and shrieking. - On Death getting humans
3. If we die for them, I'll kill you Harry! - On saving Draco, Crabbe and Goyle
4. And that's the second time we've saved you life, you two-faced bastard! - On saving Draco... again
5. What! Are you mental!?!? - Keke, I actually forgot the context, but the phrase per se itself is funny... you'll really feel the youthfulness of ron the way he says things keke... makes JK's writing even more realistic ^_^
keke, okay, maybe there's still more, but i'm too lazy to backread... besides, i don't want to get too addicted since i have to study...
some fragments of thought (i'll just go get the pensieve... kekeke)...
- i'm really curious why hermione's eyesight got bad when she turned into harry... i thought that it wasn't suppose to affect you in that way cos i remember in an earlier book (the 2nd, i think) that harry couldn't see anything when he turned into goyle (or was he crabbe? never can tell with those 2...)...
- there was a law profession-related part in the book where hermione was being asked if she wanted to get into law (the magical type), and she said something about rather doing good, instead... i kinda got offended... (or was it guilt because instead of studying i'm reading hp and had to be reminded of something i wanted to forget?)
- keke i didn't like that umbridge had cute portraits of little kittens in her room... that pissed me off while watching the 5th movie... so i was really, really happy that mcgonagall's patronus are 3 cats with spectacle markings... that did it for me for the 7th book... keke, i think i'd like to call it vindication (yeah, yeah, i'm a cat-crazy person)...
- i wasn't really happy about the ending.. i mean, i read the epilogue a couple of days before the release of the book, and i thought it was really, really cheesy... the cheesy-factor didn't really go away when i read it the second time (after reading the whole book)... but the cheesey factor was less bothering... anyways, what i'm saying is, i know that it's a harry potter book and it's all about harry potter, but i would've really appreciated it if there was a rundown of what the other characters were doing after voldermort had been defeated... like what happened to george (and his ear) after fred died, what happened to luna and if she hit it off with dean thomas (i personally go for neville.. but there were sadly no neville-luna moments in book 7)... the point is, i wanted to know how everybody was doing, not just how harry, and ron and hermione were doing 19 years after...
speaking of ron and hermione... gosh i'm uber disappointed!!!! their finally-hooking-up thing was such an anti-climax... after building them up for more than 6 books... they only get one deep kiss moment!?!?!? ginny had more snogging time with harry than they had actually showing physical affection with each other... i want more ron-hermione-sucking-each-other's-mouths-off moments!!!!
hmmm, and back to the ending... actually i wanted harry to be alone... not lonely because those are two very different things... but i actually didn't want him have a family.. i wanted him to be more of a sirius black... more of the godfather than the father ^_^ but ending up with ginny isn't really a bad thing... i guess i just wanted a darker ending...
keke and who the hell is victoire!?!?!? i'm guessing she's bill's and fleur's daughter.. but can't things be a little more clear? i mean, this is the last freaking book... i don't want to have to wonder about who she is...
hmmm... and i was a little sad about the whole snape-lily thing... it just goes to show that everything happens for a reason.. i mean if lily had ended up with snape.. then harry would be harry snape... but come to think of it... if she did end up with snape, there wouldn't be a harry potter... but you know, before book 7 i was kinda already suspicious that snape hated james not just because of his bullying... i just didn't expect that love angle though... and i'm thinking it must be painful for snape to have to look harry in the eye... it's like looking at someone you love and lost... and oh my gosh!!! the patronus doe thing was really, really touching!!!! i thought it was dumbledore (someone had tipped me that he was still alive), but my gosh!!! it was snape's!!! i feel really bad for snape... i truly am... and after he died and didn't say anything to harry except give him his memories, i felt bad because i wanted the two of them to talk and actually be friends before he died... but alas, all he left harry were memories that explained everything about himself...
but i guess that's how it should be... how ironic for snape to actually want to protect someone who he despises because of love... i think it would be weird if he and harry suddenly became chummy...
and albus!!! gosh!! i thought he had a dark side, but i didn't know he actually had one!!!! so that's why his eyes glinted at the end of one of the books (3 or 4?)... i forgot the context but after reading that i was already suspicious... but i appreciate how ms. rowling gave character to dumbledore... it just shows how realistic the book is, because the one person you'd think was perfect was actually human, after all... i just wish he could have spoken to aberforth during the book... maybe both of them would've felt better...
it's so sad to think of all the what-ifs in this book... a lot of stuff happened that set off unpleasant things... but in the end, i guess everything turned out right.. besides, if the bad things that happened didn't happen... i guess harry potter would not be as engrossing as it is...
i have a lot more things in my head... but i can't put them into words... it's been one hell of a magical journey reading and breathing harry potter... and all the things that happened... i guess it's really true that "everything happens for a reason."
p.s. my ranking of hp books (1 being most favorite)
1. book 4 ( i read the last few chapters 7 times, and i cried each time... almost the same way i cry over "love story" (erich segal) every time i read it again)
2. book 3 (i know a lot of people's fave is book 3... but its ending was too painful for me that it kinda ruined the book for me)...
3. book 7 (i could have put this as second, but i guess i felt more "magic" in book 3 than i did with book 7...)
4. book 1 (this one started it all for me... after reading the first 4 books one after the other... i got to a point where i started doubting when i was actually born (my birthday's on the 30th, harry's is on the 31st... keke)
5. book 6
6. book 2
7. book 5 (i just can't bring myself to read this again.. i dunno why... but i felt anger and angst all throughout this book... which is why i love the 5th movie, cos it was totally lighter!!!)
ranking of hp movies released so far...
1. 3rd (cuaron, you're the man!!! i don't care if you changed a lot of details from the book... but the film was so great to watch!!! the scenematography was breathtaking!!!)
2. 5th (my gosh, this movie saved the book for me.. thank goodness he's doing the 6th one... love the top view angles... and the zoom-out transitions... i didn't even notice how choppy the film editing was...)
3. 2nd (if it weren't for the 5th movie, this would have been 2nd place... great mix of adventure and book details... for me, this has the nearest semblance to the book in terms of details)
4. 4th (if i didn't love the book i would have made this last on my list... it was so anti-climactic (using the non-word again... i better look for it in the dictionary one of these days) after watching the 3rd one...)
5. 1st (my gosh, this was painful to watch... kinda boring... but this was the first book... and i guess the excitement of seeing harry potter in the flesh (or at least on the silver screen) makes this movie watchable... (maybe i should have put this above movie 4? :P))
it was okay... i mean, for me, it was anticlimactic (if there is even a word)... book 4 was like the peak for me... after that... well, everything was just okay (except for the 5th book which was so disappointing for me that it's traumatic to even think of reading it again... thank goodness the movie was GREAT!!)...
before i go on ranting (or raving... ^_^), i would just like to warn people who haven't read the book yet that the next few paragraphs i will write will most likely have some spoilers, and since i don't know everybody's spoiler tolerance, then i think you should read the following at your own risk (just a disclaimer, unless someone i know reads this, sees me, and then kills me... keke)
anyways, i have to admit that book 5 started off fast... before the end of chapter 2, some characters had already died... and then the middle starts to get a little slow... which is not too bad, because i think ms. rowling had to cram everything that had to be said in one book... and boy, i thought my brain would hang from all the information...
keke, i actually don't want to summarize the book.. i'm never good at summarizing things... a 2 page article for me means a 1 page summary... but i just wanted to pour out everything i feel about it before i study (because i will never, ever get to concentrate with all these non-law related stuff swimming in my head - and holding a wand :P)...
i wrote out a few things while reading the book... kind of like notes i wanted to discuss or wanted to share (i know, it's either i'm a super harry fan, or i'm getting too nerdy... i'm hoping to be the former...)...
ron was a real hoot in this book.. for a book which is suppose to be grim... he had a lot of really funny pick-me-uppers... here are some of the things he said that made me laugh (and at 5 in the morning.. that's hard to do...)... some aren't verbatim because i only thought of writing them down in the middle of the reading the book so i was too lazy (or maybe sleepy) to backread:
1. Overkill, Harry. - On trying to appease Kreacher (this isn't really accurate, but you guys'll probably read or have the read the book anyway.. so you'll get it ^_^)
2. Sometimes, he gets bored of running at them, flapping his arms and shrieking. - On Death getting humans
3. If we die for them, I'll kill you Harry! - On saving Draco, Crabbe and Goyle
4. And that's the second time we've saved you life, you two-faced bastard! - On saving Draco... again
5. What! Are you mental!?!? - Keke, I actually forgot the context, but the phrase per se itself is funny... you'll really feel the youthfulness of ron the way he says things keke... makes JK's writing even more realistic ^_^
keke, okay, maybe there's still more, but i'm too lazy to backread... besides, i don't want to get too addicted since i have to study...
some fragments of thought (i'll just go get the pensieve... kekeke)...
- i'm really curious why hermione's eyesight got bad when she turned into harry... i thought that it wasn't suppose to affect you in that way cos i remember in an earlier book (the 2nd, i think) that harry couldn't see anything when he turned into goyle (or was he crabbe? never can tell with those 2...)...
- there was a law profession-related part in the book where hermione was being asked if she wanted to get into law (the magical type), and she said something about rather doing good, instead... i kinda got offended... (or was it guilt because instead of studying i'm reading hp and had to be reminded of something i wanted to forget?)
- keke i didn't like that umbridge had cute portraits of little kittens in her room... that pissed me off while watching the 5th movie... so i was really, really happy that mcgonagall's patronus are 3 cats with spectacle markings... that did it for me for the 7th book... keke, i think i'd like to call it vindication (yeah, yeah, i'm a cat-crazy person)...
- i wasn't really happy about the ending.. i mean, i read the epilogue a couple of days before the release of the book, and i thought it was really, really cheesy... the cheesy-factor didn't really go away when i read it the second time (after reading the whole book)... but the cheesey factor was less bothering... anyways, what i'm saying is, i know that it's a harry potter book and it's all about harry potter, but i would've really appreciated it if there was a rundown of what the other characters were doing after voldermort had been defeated... like what happened to george (and his ear) after fred died, what happened to luna and if she hit it off with dean thomas (i personally go for neville.. but there were sadly no neville-luna moments in book 7)... the point is, i wanted to know how everybody was doing, not just how harry, and ron and hermione were doing 19 years after...
speaking of ron and hermione... gosh i'm uber disappointed!!!! their finally-hooking-up thing was such an anti-climax... after building them up for more than 6 books... they only get one deep kiss moment!?!?!? ginny had more snogging time with harry than they had actually showing physical affection with each other... i want more ron-hermione-sucking-each-other's-mouths-off moments!!!!
hmmm, and back to the ending... actually i wanted harry to be alone... not lonely because those are two very different things... but i actually didn't want him have a family.. i wanted him to be more of a sirius black... more of the godfather than the father ^_^ but ending up with ginny isn't really a bad thing... i guess i just wanted a darker ending...
keke and who the hell is victoire!?!?!? i'm guessing she's bill's and fleur's daughter.. but can't things be a little more clear? i mean, this is the last freaking book... i don't want to have to wonder about who she is...
hmmm... and i was a little sad about the whole snape-lily thing... it just goes to show that everything happens for a reason.. i mean if lily had ended up with snape.. then harry would be harry snape... but come to think of it... if she did end up with snape, there wouldn't be a harry potter... but you know, before book 7 i was kinda already suspicious that snape hated james not just because of his bullying... i just didn't expect that love angle though... and i'm thinking it must be painful for snape to have to look harry in the eye... it's like looking at someone you love and lost... and oh my gosh!!! the patronus doe thing was really, really touching!!!! i thought it was dumbledore (someone had tipped me that he was still alive), but my gosh!!! it was snape's!!! i feel really bad for snape... i truly am... and after he died and didn't say anything to harry except give him his memories, i felt bad because i wanted the two of them to talk and actually be friends before he died... but alas, all he left harry were memories that explained everything about himself...
but i guess that's how it should be... how ironic for snape to actually want to protect someone who he despises because of love... i think it would be weird if he and harry suddenly became chummy...
and albus!!! gosh!! i thought he had a dark side, but i didn't know he actually had one!!!! so that's why his eyes glinted at the end of one of the books (3 or 4?)... i forgot the context but after reading that i was already suspicious... but i appreciate how ms. rowling gave character to dumbledore... it just shows how realistic the book is, because the one person you'd think was perfect was actually human, after all... i just wish he could have spoken to aberforth during the book... maybe both of them would've felt better...
it's so sad to think of all the what-ifs in this book... a lot of stuff happened that set off unpleasant things... but in the end, i guess everything turned out right.. besides, if the bad things that happened didn't happen... i guess harry potter would not be as engrossing as it is...
i have a lot more things in my head... but i can't put them into words... it's been one hell of a magical journey reading and breathing harry potter... and all the things that happened... i guess it's really true that "everything happens for a reason."
p.s. my ranking of hp books (1 being most favorite)
1. book 4 ( i read the last few chapters 7 times, and i cried each time... almost the same way i cry over "love story" (erich segal) every time i read it again)
2. book 3 (i know a lot of people's fave is book 3... but its ending was too painful for me that it kinda ruined the book for me)...
3. book 7 (i could have put this as second, but i guess i felt more "magic" in book 3 than i did with book 7...)
4. book 1 (this one started it all for me... after reading the first 4 books one after the other... i got to a point where i started doubting when i was actually born (my birthday's on the 30th, harry's is on the 31st... keke)
5. book 6
6. book 2
7. book 5 (i just can't bring myself to read this again.. i dunno why... but i felt anger and angst all throughout this book... which is why i love the 5th movie, cos it was totally lighter!!!)
ranking of hp movies released so far...
1. 3rd (cuaron, you're the man!!! i don't care if you changed a lot of details from the book... but the film was so great to watch!!! the scenematography was breathtaking!!!)
2. 5th (my gosh, this movie saved the book for me.. thank goodness he's doing the 6th one... love the top view angles... and the zoom-out transitions... i didn't even notice how choppy the film editing was...)
3. 2nd (if it weren't for the 5th movie, this would have been 2nd place... great mix of adventure and book details... for me, this has the nearest semblance to the book in terms of details)
4. 4th (if i didn't love the book i would have made this last on my list... it was so anti-climactic (using the non-word again... i better look for it in the dictionary one of these days) after watching the 3rd one...)
5. 1st (my gosh, this was painful to watch... kinda boring... but this was the first book... and i guess the excitement of seeing harry potter in the flesh (or at least on the silver screen) makes this movie watchable... (maybe i should have put this above movie 4? :P))