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that_september

Writer's Block: Birthday Shout-out

Aug 04, 2009 09:08

Deathly Hallows. It answered so many questions, tied up the loose ends, and marked the ending of a saga that I'd been following for as long as I could remember - and it was the first Harry Potter book with a happy ending. I think a runner-up would be Goblet of Fire because the first three had already come out by the time I started reading them, and ( Read more... )

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blergg August 4 2009, 21:04:26 UTC

YES ILY.
I hate how DH gets so much hate from a lot of people. I fucking loved it. It was a good book. Just because she didn't do everything the way YOU wanted it to turn out doesn't means it's bad.

that_september August 6 2009, 19:29:16 UTC

I know! In particular, I never understand the hatred of the epilogue. It was how J.K. Rowling wanted to end a series she worked TIRELESSLY on for years. It was sappy, true, but I think after all the shit he was put through, Harry kind of deserved that, in the end.

blergg August 7 2009, 01:50:42 UTC

I agree. I mean, I don't LOVE the epilogue, but I don't DESPISE it like everyone does. I was watching a documentary about her the other day and she was talking about the epilogue and she was like, "I just had to do it because I've been with these characters for years now, and I myself just needed to know what happened with them afterward, to know that they lived basically happily ever after," and I TOTALLY get that. I'd do the same thing it I were writing a series that I put my heart and soul into for years.

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that_september August 6 2009, 19:30:12 UTC

The 7th is awesome, isn't it? I wish I had my book here with me so I could be re-reading, too lol.

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that_september August 6 2009, 19:32:02 UTC

Yeah, I know, right? They were always kind of...not all depressing, necessarily, but there was never anything final or particularly happy because you always knew Harry had another miserable summer at the Dursley's or year of danger ahead of him. Most of the time, both! The seventh book was (naturally, I suppose) the only book that provided closure and that proverbial happy ending. That's why the epilogue, in all its wonderful sappiness, has never bothered me a bit.