Sorting out the post-DH mess

[oudeteron]

I'm back with the meme I did before DH's release to check how successful I was in my predictions. Concerning the title and covers, I'll be detailed on what I got right or wrong, while for the other sections I've made up the following "grading system" to keep the whole thing legible: SCORE! obviously means I was right, FAIL that I was wrong, 50/50

Comments

[mustntgetmy]

Re-reading this makes me excited about DH all over again. Nice call on the Ravenclaw artefact. I believe you :)

Also, we sure as hell could not have asked for R/S to be less disproved if we tried. That forest scene? Brilliance, brilliance, brilliance.

[oudeteron]

Aw, thanks about the Ravenclaw item. And I'm really glad this has made you excited about this book again! ^_^

I was literally crying during that forest scene (but then again, finding Remus dead was what got me started on that). Anyway, I would have been perfectly content with how dysfunctional that whole Remus/Tonks thing was (sure, he was happy about the child, but I didn't notice any happy feelings on his part with just her around) but then JKR lets both of them die and next we see Remus and Sirius reunited? That's just too brilliant! Oh, and it helps that they're both young in the afterlife - it emphasizes the age difference between Remus and Tonks further. Yet another division to add to the list! Hey, I feel kind of bad for the hardcore Remus/Tonks shippers after this book...ah, scratch that, would they feel sorry for us if things had been the other way around? I doubt it!

Eh, my apologies for the rant. I should get working on that essay before it drives me completely insane...

PS: Your icon pwns! XD

[mustntgetmy]

I think if you didn't get at least a little teary during the forest scene you're not human. I sobbed.

I must admit, when I heard they got married in the first chapter I was a little worried. But then, as you have recounted, the problem solved itself :)

Ooh, essay! And on my favorite topic too.

Thank you! last5 is doing funny recounts of all the chapters of DH if you want to check them out.

[oudeteron]

So true. I know there will be tears involved next time I read it, too.

Hey, the marriage was rushed for a reason (ie. Remus doesn't like condoms that much - surprise, surprise). But you're right, it doesn't matter either way now!

I'll get the damn thing done, promise. *freaks out*

Oh, I might check those out, then... Thanks for the tip, in any case! ; )

[remeciel]

3) Dumbledore's portrait says witty and useful lines.FAIL [I was so looking forward to him being an advisor! But we got the real afterlife!Dumbledore, so it's all good.]

But... it DID happen, right? unless I'm mistaken an got confused with my bad English, I was sure that Dumbledore had advised Snape after his death from his portrait? am I wrong? I'll have to read the book again, then.. *sighs*

[oudeteron]

Sorry, I was hoping he would advise the Trio somehow and it would be all on-screen. Of course he hadn't been just quietly hanging there all year! But wait...I'll need to look up the part with him talking to Snape. I read the book in almost one day, so this bit was probably buried under a pile of other things. ^_^;

[remeciel]

I forgot a lot of details, to tell you the truth. Maybe after reading it five times, I'll be able to tell you what exaclty is going on in the book. ;D

[oudeteron]

I'm going to read it again soon, so maybe that won't even be necessary. xD

[iggy_lovechild]

Moody deserved a much more dramatic death imho. I was real disappointed over that. He should have died in a blaze of glory, surrounded by a dozen Death Eaters, but of course he's take a whole bunch with him! *sighs* Other than that, I was really happy with the book, though seriously the Malfoy's needed more face-time. It's like JKR decided that they weren't that important after all. Or maybe that's just my personal desire to have seen Draco give Voldy the finger in the end. ^^;;;

Fucking epilogue, tho'. *shakes head* I would have loved to know about what happened to the Ministry.

Oh yeah and why do I even bother with author's notes when people don't even read them?

[oudeteron]

Yeah, I was really shocked that Moody had an off-screen death. (But at least we've had some account of how it happened, unlike with several others *cough*Remus*cough*). And I'd also thought Draco would be much more prominently featured than he was, though the scenes he did have were very nice.

What happened to the Ministry, if McGonagall became the Headmistress after all (damn, would she even be alive nineteen years later?), what the wizarding world as a whole looked like... So much unanswered questions here. Oh well, maybe it's better JKR left it so vague...

What, someone's already complained? You're not serious! What are those people doing on fanfic sites if they can't even read?!

[iggy_lovechild]

Nah, it's wasn't a complaint really. It was this:
Somehow I can imagine this meeting happening. Harry'd be pretty stupid to leave his wand behind, though from some of the things that happen in DH I'd
believe it.
*sighs* But in my author's notes, I pretty much said that the story has nothing to do with DH canonically speaking.

I guess I should take it as a compliment that the person could still see it as a possibility even with all it's contridictions to DH. So far it's the only review I've gotten and it's from the ff.net post.

Yeah, I think my heart stopped a little when Remus was just laid out there, but I was a bit surprised that Tonks was dead, too. Really, after all JKR's emphasis on family she leaves their kid an orphan! Well, I suppose he had his extended family with Harry and everyone else who was close to Remus or Tonks. Though I presume he ended up living with his grandmother.

[oudeteron]

XDD Well, that's distinctly better than what I'd expected at first. And you've already posted it on FF.net as well? Nice. Though I generally avoid that site like the plague.

Really, finding those bodies just like that was the bit that actually made me cry. (Especially since I'd wanted him to die all along and was completely taken aback that I didn't even know how it had happened.) I feel sorry for Tonks snuffing it too, but I don't complain - it makes the fact that Remus chose to spend the afterlife with Sirius that much more meaningful. No, I have no shame whatsoever.

Anyway, I think you're right about who ended up raising the kid. And it seems like Harry was a bit more responsible godfather than Sirius...