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[snowystingray]

Early to bed in order to rise early and experience Harry Potter IMAX in the morning. Mixed feeeeeelings... Deathly Hallows wasn't my favorite book ever, and in fact there are certain aspects of it that REALLY REALLY BOTHER ME A LOT, and I know I'm just going to get upset all over again about character deaths... but, honestly, this series more than

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[arcadiaego]

I've suprised myself by how nostalgic I've got for HP over the last couple of weeks - DH the book killed my love quite a bit due to the character deaths (dammit), I didn't even bother seeing HPB in the cinema and I only watched DH1 last weekend. I suppose I've been sucked into all this 'end of an era' stuff. I almost miss how insane fandom was - everything's too small now to be that level of batshit. (Unless you're into Justin Beiber or something.)

[snowystingray]

I think I've managed to accept the fact that the last two books were something of a disappointment and separate it from my overall fannish love of the series. In the case of Half-Blood Prince, it worked because the film was FUCKING AWESOME and fixed all of (most of) the things I didn't like about the book; in the case of Deathly Hallows... well, honestly, all of the things I didn't like about the book were still in the film (send all the Slytherins to the dungeons are you kidding me uggghhhhh I can't deal with this shit honestly) so that didn't make much of a difference. I guess maybe it's still the same "end of childhood" thing that makes it have such a heavy hold? The book came out when I was almost finished with college so it meant more about finishing up student life and moving on... and now this year has been so many "HI YOU'RE AN ADULT NOW AND YOUR CHILDHOOD IS GONE FOREVER" events, some of them okay but most of them super shitty, and Harry Potter is just the ultimate in completely stubborn, no no I'll never let go youth