Finally! Here are the annotations on the epilogue, after which I will begin posting annotations on the sequel. I'm still undecided about covering the third installment of the Trilogy on its own and then the prequel or doing the chapters of those two fics in the order that they were posted. (Both were being posted at the same time.) I'll decide soon ( Read more... )

I saw a thing on Facebook today about people being disappointed that JKR wasn't going to be writing any more books about Harry. Um, I thought we'd already established that? Yeah, I know she wrote the Quidditch World Cup coverage and people thought that the mention of Rita's new book was a hint that JKR would be bringing a book out next week. If she ( Read more... )

Almost done! I've started doing annotated chapters of the sequel, so I can amass a backlog of posts, to be more efficient about it this time around. After this there's just Chapter 32 and the Epilogue!

( Chapter 31: Legacy )

Another title for this post could be "Fandom-y things are fandom-y". Happy seventh birthday to Deathly Hallows! Oh, the marathon reading, the efforts to stay hydrated, the temptation to SLEEP before finishing (yes, I succumbed) and the tongue-biting to prevent spoiling family members who haven't read as far, or asking my daughter to clam up about ( Read more... )

Hello! It's been a little while, but the recent spate of JKR-related stuff in the news (and the reporting on the Quidditch World Cup!) has brought me back to my fandom journal and induced me to continue a project that has now been on hold for three years! I can't believe I let it go that long. But I am now going to finish the annotated posts for ( Read more... )

Chapter 28: The Choice

1. He helped her to stand and pointed through the trees at the fire; it was a large one, visible even at a distance. I hope they aren't going to burn the forest down, he thought.

No, Hermione does that in the sequel. ;)

2. He nodded again and took out his own--no, that didn’t look right. He had grabbed Ron's, which he put ( Read more... )

I had a lot of sitting-around-and-waiting-for-things-to-happen time this weekend, so I'm a lot closer to finishing now! Here we go:

Chapter 27: Unmasked

1. "Hey--sorry about all that. Just me being stupid."

No, thought Harry. Just you being spot on. Well, Ron usually is, isn't he? Even when he doesn't know it. (Or when others know it but don't ( Read more... )

Chapter 26: Addiction and Withdrawal

1. The world also seemed to have forgotten the Westminster tube station.

I think a lot of readers forgot about it, too, and then it became important again in the third fic in the series...

2. "Well, I always thought they were real cowards, hiding behind You-Know-Who's power, and masks and hooded cloaks. ( Read more... )

I recently watched all of the seasons of the show Saving Grace on Netflix and I was struck by the fact that, though my eldest sister has lived in Oklahoma City for something like 20 years, I never really considered how the events of April 19, 1995 had changed the lives of everyone in that city forever. The characters on the show, chiefly detectives ( Read more... )

Chapter 25: April Fool

1. It was--a bit of a shock at first. But--well, they're both over the age of consent. She's already sixteen, he'll be sixteen soon. Remember, in the PS universe the age of consent is 15, based on the idea that this was considered high hundreds of years earlier, when Muggles routinely married (girls, anyway) at the age of 11 ( Read more... )