Oh, for crying out loud, people.

[first_seventhe]

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[katmillia]

Awwwww. But I'm only mad cause the hero's "love interest" didn't get screen time and she should have. ;) Plus you know the whole horrid romance thing. Which isn't really this at all, is it?

I think we ruined the book by reading fanfiction that was better/what we wanted/going our way and thinking that the book was going to be like that.

[first_seventhe]

Oh, no, I agree with you - I WANTED MORE GINNY.

I am mostly sick of seeing little fanbrats going all "JKR OWED ME X AND Y BECAUSE I AM IN FANDOM". No, she didn't, STFU. ;) I was reading this horrible HP site and I have now closed the window and taken a deep breath.

I think it's also that fanfiction could be romance -- whereas the Harry Potter books weren't really built to carry a real romance. Note that JKR skips all the "good stuff" between Harry/Ginny. It is a kid's book after all.

I also think you're right though. HP fandom is so huge that you can usually find whatever you want. Snape a hero? There's 978236478 of those. Snape a villain? Yeah, there's 723676 of those too. XD Frankly, we're spoiled.

[katmillia]

I finally figured out why I disliked the ending so much. Throughout the entire story she'd made a point of Harry, because he didn't have his own biological family, forging a family out of his friends around him. The theme throughout the series was love, but never romantic love- always friendly or family love. Lily's love saved him, but that was family love. Dumbledore watched over him, but that was family love too. And I think the point was that these types of love are more binding and real, and it was disappointing to see her slip in romantic love just at the end there when it didn't feel relevant.

[first_seventhe]

I agree. And I kind of saw the epilogue in that way as right, yes, Harry's creating his own family, finally, and having a crapton of kids (orphans included) that he can share that love with. He's making that familial love real.

Then I get MORE pissed because if that's the case then Ginny is just Harry's gateway to familial love. Talk about a castaway.

I don't know. I had to rethink my opinion after talking to my mum and brother - both of which are just as into HP as I am if not more but have never been into fandom. They both loved the epilogue and thought it felt "right".

[venefica_aura]

You might appreciate this. Go to the next couple comics after it too.

I'd say something, but I'm not a fan. At all, really. I stopped reading at Book 5 and wanted my time back. XD

~Cendri

[first_seventhe]

You stopped at a bad point, because Book 5 blew ass basically. Should've either quit at 4 or at least gone the whole way through and gotten some redeeming shit out of it. ;)

Also those comics are much too true. >.> HP fen are scarier than FFVII fen.

[venefica_aura]

Eh, I read them all at once, because it took me like a weekend to read through them because they are super easy reads. I should have stopped at 4. This fits in with my theory that any series over four books is going to disappoint me. That, and I expect Lewis or Pullman or Lowry out of child fiction and have too high of expectations anyway. It's like when I thought about joining a newspaper and they kept telling me to dumb down my stuff... I forget that the average person in the US has the reading comprehension of a 13 year old.

Not saying you do. XD I mean, you actually finished college. You're ahead of the game.

And FFVII fen have at least a reason to be a little pissed sometimes. It's called retcon. Which is kind of sleazy, imo.

~Cendri

[first_seventhe]

It was one of those things where if you've invested that much time in something, you have to know how it ends. Where by "you" I mean "me". It's why I'm bad with TV because no matter how crappy a show is, if I've started watching it, I want to finish watching it.

And, oh, yes. I consider FFVII-OGC fans to be the real fans, and basically everyone else to be batshit. SO SUE ME.

[shahrizai]

Yes, but then you want to smash both the book and your head against a concrete wall when you don't like the title character! I have honestly never read a book or played a game where the main character was one of my favorites - it's always supporting cast.

Of course, that's why I read fanfic. Because if I wanted to, I could read a fic where Sirius lives, Harry dies in the final battle and Sirius and Lupin snog on top of his grave. Which I wouldn't, but if I wanted to...

[first_seventhe]

I know, and I don't think JKR quite realized how much we like her minor characters -- she seems almost surprised by the backlash she's gotten.

XD

[shahrizai]

Many authors write about their pet characters and forget they are not *our* favorite characters as well! I've heard some authors talk about it.

[first_seventhe]

It's a good point. I guess it's good that we have fandom, in a way. XD

I am just sick of hearing young fanbrats who think that JKR "owes them" because they are "in fandom". No, she does not owe you Harry/Draco buttsex. Really. She doesn't. ;)