more afterthoughts (and comments for the comments - does this make sense?!)
since my net has the suckiest connection (ever!), i'm just going to comment on the comments here, along with added thoughts i have (which conveniently popped out after i'd already logged out and closed my lappy)...
- i missed hogwarts during the first part of the book.... it always seemed that EVERYTHING happened in hogwarts... good thing the finale was set there....
- and what the hell happened to harry and quidditch? i missed quidditch here... and harry didn't even fly a broomstick during the whole story...
- and speaking of hogwarts, i'm really curious if harry, ron and hermione graduated... did they put in another year in hogwarts, or did they accept their drop-out status since they're already famous anyway?... (at least harry is... and hermione's got brains so she wouldn't have a problem looking for a job, i'm not so sure about ron though...)
- and i must say, voldermort's really not such a formidable villain here... i mean, he's killed a lot of GREAT wizards, and then a 17 year old kills him? i feel insulted for those GREAT wizards who died in his hands...
- hmmm.... and i never really got the power of the deathly hollows... is it suppose to make you not die? or is it suppose to make you master (of) death? is there a difference? hmmmm.....
okay, moving on to comments for comments (mine is in maroon):
from leechunsa:
No Gab, he took off his glasses because Goyle could see well ^^ It affects you so, cause remember Barty Crouch Jr. had full use of Moody's revolving eyeball, and if he could see well as Barty Jr, then he wouldn't have to use that one well would he? :)
hmmm, maybe i'm just thinking from the 2nd movie's perspective... if you check movie 2 (which i am sure you very well have)... harry had to wear his glasses when he was goyle... that's why i got confused.... keke i'm actually too lazy to verify this from the book itself... oh well, i'm sure you'll be able to know ^_^
AHH, All of you wanting Harry to be alone I hate you. LOL! I bet everyone just went, "I bet Angel died of happiness in this one" hahaha, well I did. SO WUT. LOL! I think that JK didn't put in much RHr happiness cause you know, Hr isn't like that, she's more of secretive when it comes to personal life, I dunno, and Ron's not very touchy either. But heyy come on, they got 2 kids, what more to ask for? HAHAHAHA. You needed details on how they actually made them? HAHAHAHAHAHHAHA.
dear, i don't think ron's "not very touchy"... he almost ate off his ex-gf's head while they were (always) snogging in book 6... and what's with ron always putting his arm around hermione?!?!!? keke ron... not very touchy? i don't think so....
and I remembered you Gab when WONWON went, "If you're not in Gryffindor, we'll disinherit you," said Ron, "but no pressure." HAHAHAHA. It's the NO PRESSURE part. HAHAHAHA. So you. I would've thought this is why you love Ron so much, he reflects you so. HAHAHAHA <33
hehe i'm touched... enough said ^_^
But I'm glad at least you aren't soooooooooooooooooo disappointed, it's still in top 3. I was actually scared you wouldn't like it. I love the book like that, I want everyone to at least like it :)
the only book i hated was book 5... all because it felt too angsty for me... sorta like when you're reading it... it kinda sucks all of your cheerfulness from you (think dementors)... that's why i don't like to read it again...
PS. I did the LJ cut XD
what's an LJ cut? never mind... thanks ^_^
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From: snarkathon
Date: Jul. 24th, 2007 01:03 am (local)
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Christ on a cracker, did you not just HATE that crapilogue? It was so twee, so precious, I started to vomit butterflies and rainbows. SO TWEE. Ugh.
hehe i just love how you said "crapilogue"... i didn't even read "READ" it the first time... scanning it was painful enough... i was thinking... "what the hell?!?!?! i didn't know this was a fairytale!!" it's like saying "...and they lived happily ever after." at the end. gaaaahhhh!!!! i wanted to hurl your laptop (which i couldn't, for obvious reasons :P).
It just felt so tacked-on. I would have been so much happier if JKR revealed tidbits about their careers, the way they dealt with their loss (George, most especially, because losing a twin is akin to losing a limb), the way they rebuilt their lives. But what did we get? Albus Severus? Scorpius?! Oh, JKR, you are now forbidden to name anyone.
keke i feel you.... the ending was really, really.... can't say the word.... i actually felt cheated because we've all been so well-acquainted with all the characters (and not just the 3 musketeers)... and ms. rowling gives us 2 couples with children!?!?!? oh my gosh... and the names!!!
i think ms. rowling has a fascination for flowers... lily? petunia? rose?!? rose was the last straw... i could hear the titianic sinking in the background...
and ALBUS SEVERUS!??!? can't it have been severus james? or maybe albus james? why didn't she just give one name for each child, and maybe let ginny have another baby with the name severus (with no albus)?!?!
and i feel bad about george... i wonder how he's doing now that fred's gone... who'd he share his magical games and tricks ideas with?... and it's twice painful since they're twins... i really appreciated it when somebody said to me, "why wasn't percy the one who got killed instead?!!?"
And Jesus, fuck, way to commit character assassination! What the hell was up with Remus and Tonks? Can you say "marriage of convenience?" And then they get killed off with nary a moment of heroism?
keke i love how you swear.. i actually downplayed all of the bad things i wanted to say about the book, lest i would seem ungrateful to the author... but alas, the flood gates have been opened so i am not holding back!!!!
i know!!! f*ck!!! it's like another harry potter's been born (except someone wasn't trying to kill him).... what's up with jk and orphaned wizards? (harry, neville (who's technically not orphaned but since his parents will never ever become uncrazy, it's the same thing, right?), and now ted (who's snogging someone named victoire... what kind of a name is that for a girl!?!?))...
and i would have appreciated it if remus and tonks' deaths were explained... at least we saw how fred died... but those 2... they were just in a pile with the rest of the bodies... even peter the rat had a more vivid death scene...
hoho, and speaking of peter the rat... don't you find it sad how all of james' friends died in the end? and they didn't just die... they were all killed!!! talk about being cursed...
There were just so many things I did not like about the book, but I found just as many things that were pure awesome.
1. NEVILLE AS A BADASS RESISTANCE LEADER. Come on, he kicked ass.
man, how proud i am of neville. i remember when he was just a kid who couldn't even walk or talk properly, and was always bullied... now he has the force, man!! (sorry for getting star warsy....)
2. Kreacher cooking steak and kidney pie/hitting Dung with a saucepan/leading the house elves, armed with kitchen implements.
i love kreacher!!! he's the man , ehem, i mean elf!!!!! speaking of elves.... why did dobby die!!!!?!?!?! it's not enough that hedwig died, but dobby had to as well!!! why did harry's non-human friends have to die!?!?
3. 'Ear, 'ear.
not sure about this one... is this the same as 'Arry?
5. "I don't think you're a waste of space."
haha dudley is sooo stupid...
too stupid i think.... maybe he has mental disorder (as in a clinical one....)
6. "He must have known you would always want to come back."
awwwww...... senti moment!!! that was really sweet... i loved how they hugged each other after what happened with the locket and the sword... it's always touching to see two boys (men?) hugging... in a non-gay, we're best friends kind of way (not that i have anything against the gay type ^_^)
7. Potterwatch.
waaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!!!! i almost forgot this one!!! loved it!!!! keke especially all of fred's comments (awww... fred!! T_T)...
some quotables:
"... And now let's move to news concerning the wizard who is proving just as elusive as Harry Potter. We like to refer to him as the Chief Death Eater.."
"... For instance, this new idea that You-Know-Who can kill people with a single glance from his eyes. That's a basilisk, listeners. One simple test: Check whether the thing that's glaring at you has two legs. If it has, it's safe to look into its eyes, although if it really is You-Know-Who, that's still likely to be the last thing you ever do."
"Well, who wouldn't want a nice little holiday after all the hard work he's been putting in?"
"... but the fact remains he can move faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo when he wants to, so don't count on him being a long away away if you're planning to take any risks."
9. And my favorite moment of all: "NOT MY DAUGHTER, YOU BITCH!" (Clearly, you do not mess with mama bear)
keke i love cat fights.... i thought molly weasley would actually growl at bellatrix...
Wow, instead of studying for property, sumulat ako ng comment sa lj mo. I fail at life.
hehe i think it's called priorities :P don't worry friend.. nakalimutan ko rin ang property dahil kay hp. hayop siya :P
And, this is so OC, but the grammar-Nazi in my head kept hitting me across the face with an anvil: I would have been so much happier if JKR HAD revealed tidbits about their careers, the way they dealt with their loss (George, most especially, because losing a twin is akin to losing a limb), the way they rebuilt their lives. But what did we get? Albus Severus? Scorpius?! Oh, JKR, you are now forbidden to name anyone.
oh my gosh when i read your comment, i suddenly had an OC attack... i reread what i posted and edited away!!! keke i don't usually reread what i've already written... lest i find it too crappy for words :P...
- i missed hogwarts during the first part of the book.... it always seemed that EVERYTHING happened in hogwarts... good thing the finale was set there....
- and what the hell happened to harry and quidditch? i missed quidditch here... and harry didn't even fly a broomstick during the whole story...
- and speaking of hogwarts, i'm really curious if harry, ron and hermione graduated... did they put in another year in hogwarts, or did they accept their drop-out status since they're already famous anyway?... (at least harry is... and hermione's got brains so she wouldn't have a problem looking for a job, i'm not so sure about ron though...)
- and i must say, voldermort's really not such a formidable villain here... i mean, he's killed a lot of GREAT wizards, and then a 17 year old kills him? i feel insulted for those GREAT wizards who died in his hands...
- hmmm.... and i never really got the power of the deathly hollows... is it suppose to make you not die? or is it suppose to make you master (of) death? is there a difference? hmmmm.....
okay, moving on to comments for comments (mine is in maroon):
from leechunsa:
No Gab, he took off his glasses because Goyle could see well ^^ It affects you so, cause remember Barty Crouch Jr. had full use of Moody's revolving eyeball, and if he could see well as Barty Jr, then he wouldn't have to use that one well would he? :)
hmmm, maybe i'm just thinking from the 2nd movie's perspective... if you check movie 2 (which i am sure you very well have)... harry had to wear his glasses when he was goyle... that's why i got confused.... keke i'm actually too lazy to verify this from the book itself... oh well, i'm sure you'll be able to know ^_^
AHH, All of you wanting Harry to be alone I hate you. LOL! I bet everyone just went, "I bet Angel died of happiness in this one" hahaha, well I did. SO WUT. LOL! I think that JK didn't put in much RHr happiness cause you know, Hr isn't like that, she's more of secretive when it comes to personal life, I dunno, and Ron's not very touchy either. But heyy come on, they got 2 kids, what more to ask for? HAHAHAHA. You needed details on how they actually made them? HAHAHAHAHAHHAHA.
dear, i don't think ron's "not very touchy"... he almost ate off his ex-gf's head while they were (always) snogging in book 6... and what's with ron always putting his arm around hermione?!?!!? keke ron... not very touchy? i don't think so....
and I remembered you Gab when WONWON went, "If you're not in Gryffindor, we'll disinherit you," said Ron, "but no pressure." HAHAHAHA. It's the NO PRESSURE part. HAHAHAHA. So you. I would've thought this is why you love Ron so much, he reflects you so. HAHAHAHA <33
hehe i'm touched... enough said ^_^
But I'm glad at least you aren't soooooooooooooooooo disappointed, it's still in top 3. I was actually scared you wouldn't like it. I love the book like that, I want everyone to at least like it :)
the only book i hated was book 5... all because it felt too angsty for me... sorta like when you're reading it... it kinda sucks all of your cheerfulness from you (think dementors)... that's why i don't like to read it again...
PS. I did the LJ cut XD
what's an LJ cut? never mind... thanks ^_^
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From: snarkathon
Date: Jul. 24th, 2007 01:03 am (local)
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Christ on a cracker, did you not just HATE that crapilogue? It was so twee, so precious, I started to vomit butterflies and rainbows. SO TWEE. Ugh.
hehe i just love how you said "crapilogue"... i didn't even read "READ" it the first time... scanning it was painful enough... i was thinking... "what the hell?!?!?! i didn't know this was a fairytale!!" it's like saying "...and they lived happily ever after." at the end. gaaaahhhh!!!! i wanted to hurl your laptop (which i couldn't, for obvious reasons :P).
It just felt so tacked-on. I would have been so much happier if JKR revealed tidbits about their careers, the way they dealt with their loss (George, most especially, because losing a twin is akin to losing a limb), the way they rebuilt their lives. But what did we get? Albus Severus? Scorpius?! Oh, JKR, you are now forbidden to name anyone.
keke i feel you.... the ending was really, really.... can't say the word.... i actually felt cheated because we've all been so well-acquainted with all the characters (and not just the 3 musketeers)... and ms. rowling gives us 2 couples with children!?!?!? oh my gosh... and the names!!!
i think ms. rowling has a fascination for flowers... lily? petunia? rose?!? rose was the last straw... i could hear the titianic sinking in the background...
and ALBUS SEVERUS!??!? can't it have been severus james? or maybe albus james? why didn't she just give one name for each child, and maybe let ginny have another baby with the name severus (with no albus)?!?!
and i feel bad about george... i wonder how he's doing now that fred's gone... who'd he share his magical games and tricks ideas with?... and it's twice painful since they're twins... i really appreciated it when somebody said to me, "why wasn't percy the one who got killed instead?!!?"
And Jesus, fuck, way to commit character assassination! What the hell was up with Remus and Tonks? Can you say "marriage of convenience?" And then they get killed off with nary a moment of heroism?
keke i love how you swear.. i actually downplayed all of the bad things i wanted to say about the book, lest i would seem ungrateful to the author... but alas, the flood gates have been opened so i am not holding back!!!!
i know!!! f*ck!!! it's like another harry potter's been born (except someone wasn't trying to kill him).... what's up with jk and orphaned wizards? (harry, neville (who's technically not orphaned but since his parents will never ever become uncrazy, it's the same thing, right?), and now ted (who's snogging someone named victoire... what kind of a name is that for a girl!?!?))...
and i would have appreciated it if remus and tonks' deaths were explained... at least we saw how fred died... but those 2... they were just in a pile with the rest of the bodies... even peter the rat had a more vivid death scene...
hoho, and speaking of peter the rat... don't you find it sad how all of james' friends died in the end? and they didn't just die... they were all killed!!! talk about being cursed...
There were just so many things I did not like about the book, but I found just as many things that were pure awesome.
1. NEVILLE AS A BADASS RESISTANCE LEADER. Come on, he kicked ass.
man, how proud i am of neville. i remember when he was just a kid who couldn't even walk or talk properly, and was always bullied... now he has the force, man!! (sorry for getting star warsy....)
2. Kreacher cooking steak and kidney pie/hitting Dung with a saucepan/leading the house elves, armed with kitchen implements.
i love kreacher!!! he's the man , ehem, i mean elf!!!!! speaking of elves.... why did dobby die!!!!?!?!?! it's not enough that hedwig died, but dobby had to as well!!! why did harry's non-human friends have to die!?!?
3. 'Ear, 'ear.
not sure about this one... is this the same as 'Arry?
5. "I don't think you're a waste of space."
haha dudley is sooo stupid...
too stupid i think.... maybe he has mental disorder (as in a clinical one....)
6. "He must have known you would always want to come back."
awwwww...... senti moment!!! that was really sweet... i loved how they hugged each other after what happened with the locket and the sword... it's always touching to see two boys (men?) hugging... in a non-gay, we're best friends kind of way (not that i have anything against the gay type ^_^)
7. Potterwatch.
waaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!!!! i almost forgot this one!!! loved it!!!! keke especially all of fred's comments (awww... fred!! T_T)...
some quotables:
"... And now let's move to news concerning the wizard who is proving just as elusive as Harry Potter. We like to refer to him as the Chief Death Eater.."
"... For instance, this new idea that You-Know-Who can kill people with a single glance from his eyes. That's a basilisk, listeners. One simple test: Check whether the thing that's glaring at you has two legs. If it has, it's safe to look into its eyes, although if it really is You-Know-Who, that's still likely to be the last thing you ever do."
"Well, who wouldn't want a nice little holiday after all the hard work he's been putting in?"
"... but the fact remains he can move faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo when he wants to, so don't count on him being a long away away if you're planning to take any risks."
9. And my favorite moment of all: "NOT MY DAUGHTER, YOU BITCH!" (Clearly, you do not mess with mama bear)
keke i love cat fights.... i thought molly weasley would actually growl at bellatrix...
Wow, instead of studying for property, sumulat ako ng comment sa lj mo. I fail at life.
hehe i think it's called priorities :P don't worry friend.. nakalimutan ko rin ang property dahil kay hp. hayop siya :P
And, this is so OC, but the grammar-Nazi in my head kept hitting me across the face with an anvil: I would have been so much happier if JKR HAD revealed tidbits about their careers, the way they dealt with their loss (George, most especially, because losing a twin is akin to losing a limb), the way they rebuilt their lives. But what did we get? Albus Severus? Scorpius?! Oh, JKR, you are now forbidden to name anyone.
oh my gosh when i read your comment, i suddenly had an OC attack... i reread what i posted and edited away!!! keke i don't usually reread what i've already written... lest i find it too crappy for words :P...