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vive_le_roi

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Jul 23, 2007 13:09

So I finished Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows...

Oh my God!!!!

I'm completely speechless and need you all to finish the thing so we can talk about it.

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shaych July 23 2007, 20:01:24 UTC

OMG, I know! Like, WHAT?!?!?! I don't even know if I can form coherent sentences about it yet, because so much of it was good, and then I'd hit one of the things that made me shriek incoherently and throw it across the room!

(and excuse me, but that epilogue? WTF was she thinking?)

vive_le_roi July 24 2007, 03:31:52 UTC

FINALLY!

ok, so that epilogue was just...it was like Chris Columbus had returned and written her epilogue for her. Albus Severus? Then there was a James and Lily floating around as well as a Hugo and...it was confusing.

I cried when Harry screamed at Lupin...I dropped the book and blinked for what must have been a minute when he DIED! AND TONKS! AFTER JUST HAVING A CHILD!

And why did Colin Creevey have to die. I'm sorry, that was gratuitous.

I also began sobbing when Fred died...too much.

But I completely and utterly love Snape now and hate myself for ever doubting him. That wonderful man...

It was incredible up until just after harry learned that he had to die after watching Snape's thoughts in the penseive (sp?). After that, it was a jumbly bloodbath filled with a million deus ex machinas. It was good and exciting, but wow...just wow...

I cheered when Mrs. Weasley went completely WTF!!! on Bellatrix. I love that woman.

so much to say...can't...organize...thoughts...

shaych July 24 2007, 08:03:27 UTC

I've been hashing mine into some form of coherency over MSN with Steven. But yeah. I enjoyed a lot of it, I laughed hysterically in places (mostly over the twins and Merlins Underpants), and I screamed and threw things in other places ( ... )

shaych July 24 2007, 08:11:26 UTC

Also, because apparently I wasn't finished ranting, how were the Death Eaters defeated? Because the "good guys" obviously aren't using, say, avada kedavra. Even when Mrs. Weasley kills Bella, it's just "a spell". I'm sorry, what? Seriously, woman, it's a war! One of the best lines Ms. Rowling ever wrote, imho, and one that she desperately needed to pay more attention to, is "The world is not split into good people and death eaters." But that's exactly what she did. The good guys were using stunning spells, for christ's sake! Stunning spells! Seventeen year olds casting stunners, and they defeated an army of supposedly iredeemably evil deatheaters with decades of combined knowledge of dark magic? What ( ... )

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beckersher July 27 2007, 11:06:33 UTC

I havn't finished it yet, but I thought I'd relay an anecdote: First time I read "Teddy Remus Lupin" I though I read "Teddy Ruxpin Lupin". Which, I do say, I a billionty times awesomer.

typos be damned! beckersher July 30 2007, 08:49:24 UTC

Well, I've finished it now, so I guess I'm supposed to have an opinion right?

Um. I feel prettymuch exactly the same as I did going into it, only now I know the series is over cause she's officially killed off (or prematurely balded) all the good characters.

I really don't know. I only finished it this afternoon, though I can say I really don't like how she writes. Rowling, she writes badfic, and it hurts deep inside. I've read dozens of fanfic better than her versions of the story and WOMG.

THE FOUNDERS? STEP OFF MY FOUNDERS, ROWLING. You do nothing but stain my Godric and make him LESS THAN AWESOME. WHICH IS NOT COOL. You know what?? His sword, is a real mothering sword. Not some sissy rapier. Wtf is a guy in the middley-ages gonna do with a rapier? LOOK SISSY, THAT'S WHAT. BROADSWORD, BITCHES ( ... )

Re: typos be damned! vive_le_roi July 30 2007, 16:17:43 UTC

Actually, the biggest thing that bugged me about the book was that she's now writing, knowing they'll be films eventually. So the quality of the stories is no watery and effects based (yes, a book can be too effects heavy) that the story died. The characters were completely different than the way they used to be. And REMUS DIED! That made me sad, especially after just having a child and after Harry's OMGWTFRESPONIBILITY!!! tirade.

And since we never got an explanation of what that thing in the Department of Mysteries was, I am in my firm belief that Sirius (or Puppy as he is lovingly known by me) is somewhere out there...beneath the pale moonlight. *ahem*