HP 7.2

[rsadelle]

I almost didn't make a post about this, and here's why: I read the book once, and quickly, and once I was done, I was, in many ways, done with Harry Potter. I no longer remember any details about the book, so seeing the movies was like meeting the story anew all over again. There's something they kept in the movie that made me wince (see below the cut for details), and I remembered it bothering me in the book too, so I went back to see if/how I talked about it at the time. Half the comments on that entry are people telling me I'm wrong, and I was surprised by how much that hurt. After thinking about it, I realized I was still upset about the first time people told me I was wrong about Harry Potter (even though it was ten years ago, and even though I turned out to be right after all). But then I thought about it some more and I decided (a) to hell with this; I'm an adult, and I can handle people disagreeing with me, and (b) I've decided that if last year's summer meltdown involved flashbacks to high school and this year's involves flashbacks to college, that must be progress. So here's a post with my four HP bullet points and my two recs requests.

Thoughts About the Movie

• The thing that made me wince in the movie that I hated in the book is, "Not my daughter, you bitch." Even aside from the fact that "bitch" is a gendered insult (I've been working - sometimes successfully, sometimes not - on excising it from my vocabulary), from a technical writing perspective, it doesn't fit. It doesn't sound like something Molly Weasley would say, and it doesn't sound like the rest of the language in the movies. They should have just stopped with "Not my daughter." After all, the point of that scene should be Molly defeating Bellatrix, not that line.
• I found the epilogue adorable in the movie where it was annoying in the book. (Despite the fact that Hermione and Ginny still looked seventeen.) The only thing that could have made it more adorable would have been if Ron, Hermione, and Harry were holding hands as they watched their kids go off to school.
• Harry and Draco. I loved the subtext of them being almost friendly, even if they cut almost all of the Malfoys' storyline from the movie, and I especially liked them in the epilogue.
• All in all, even though I liked it, I found the movie oddly forgettable. norwich36 and I went out to lunch afterwards, and by the time we left the restaurant, I'd forgotten why we were out and about in the first place.

Recs Requests

1. The epilogue actually made me want to read Harry/Draco fic for the first time in years and years. What I want to read is not the kind of thing I used to read. What I want is post-war/post-series (I'm not picky about epilogue-compliance) fic where they're adults, and preferably long fic at that. (Reading a lot of Sherlock and Generation Kill fic has left me in the mood for fic about adults coming home from war and getting on with their lives.)
2. The movie also reminded me how much I really want some Harry/Luna. Is there anything out there worth reading?