Harry Potter and the LJ Fen
What a strange, strange place Livejournal has been these past few weeks, with the widespread anticipation and the elaborate spoiler-policy manifestos and the weird silence Saturday morning as everyone read words inked on paper for a change and the triumphant clocking-in as LJer after LJer proudly announced having finished speed-reading her way
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I like the fact that Harry himself has taken some real strides forward from OotP in terms of his overall emotional maturity, as well as in terms of specific stages of male adolescence (i.e., JKR's moved him on from "petulantly rebelling against authority" to "quite interested in snogging" and as wearisome as the latter stage can be for the reader, it left me wanting to slap him far less often than during OotP).
I'm baffled at the number of people who seem to be reacting to controversial elements of the main plot as if there's no ambiguity to them, because if there's anything that's become clear over the last few books, it's that JKR is playing with us when it comes to the introduction of new pieces of information, making us think we know something, then overturning our assumptions, then overturning them again. (I think this book's extra twist on OotP's Big Revelation about James and Sirius is an instructive example.)
As for characters I'm particularly invested in--JKR's got me a little concerned about Hermione, but not irredeemably so; and I can't believe how much she gave the Remus fans to work with, given his overall lack of page-time in the book. (You know, seeing as how fanficcers really needed some more angst to draw on with regard to RL... *g*)
Oh, and like pretty much everyone else, I now officially adore Luna.
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