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[pauraque_bk]

More people than I expected cared that I made a post. Maybe I will post some other things.

I guess I never posted about book 7 or about movie 5.

Book 7 was mostly boring to me because essentially everything that I believed would happen came to pass. My dad, who had never read any of the books or seen any of the movies, asked me how it ended. I said, "Harry defeats the evil wizard". He was like, "No way, you mean the evil wizard doesn't destroy the world? I'm shocked" or words to that effect. So, yeah.

It's not JKR's fault, it just means her plot was coherent enough that people devoted to analyzing it came up with an accurate prediction of most aspects of the final book, and she didn't get all contrary and intentionally do the opposite of what made sense.

The other thing that made it boring to me was that whole middle section that was actually boring, where they were camping or something and Harry couldn't decide what to do. Writing about indecision is intensely captivating when the result is Hamlet, but not everyone can really pull that off.

As for Peter, I'll take it. Granted she compressed into a sentence what I would have read a whole book about, but it was there, I'm not complaining.

I think I was annoyed when I first read the epilogue, but now I find it absurd enough to be hilarious. I mean what kind of a fucked up fandom shout out was that, are we supposed to be offended or amused? In a way it comes off as this bizarre flourish like AND NOW I AM DONE WITH THIS SHIT SO THERE!

My recollection of movie 5 is vague. I saw it with _hannelore at the 3D IMAX. They don't do the whole thing as 3D, just the end bit, which made it rather surreal. I remember finding it unbearably funny that they made Dumbledore a frost mage and Voldemort a fire mage, though you probably had to be there. Then there was something about Lucius that we also thought was too funny for words, but I don't remember what it was. Though I guess Lucius is always funny.


Oh... did theatresm go somewhere that she can be found?


ETA: OMG I FORGOT THE BEST THING EVER ABOUT BOOK SEVEN

which was that And Just Plain Wrong happened in it. i mean omfg omfg jkr I forgive everything.

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[arwencordelia.livejournal.com]

theatresm is now at InsaneJournal (http://theatresm.insanejournal.com/)

[pauraque]

Thank you!

[conuly]

Did you know that "To be or not to be: that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune..." anagrams into "In one of the Bard's best-thought-of tragedies, our insistent hero, Hamlet, queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten."?

[pauraque]

I'm not sure I know that even now, but I will take your word for it.

[conuly]

Well, if you want an easier one, slavegirls anagrams into villagers, but that isn't really relevant, is it?

[conuly]

Sorry, slavegirl, not girls.

[exbentley]

I'm pretty sure JKR has said it was a flourish, more a DON'T WRITE FIC than a shoutout.

As for Peter, I'll take it. Granted she compressed into a sentence what I would have read a whole book about, but it was there, I'm not complaining.

Yeah, that was pretty much my reaction. Still, choking oneself to death? Kinda lame.

And like the old Sirius fans of yore, I've firmly convinced myself that a man like Snape would have gained himself an immunity to Nagini's venom the moment he decided to play traitor again. No body, no portrait, I'm taking up residence quite firmly over here in denial land.

Lucius is always funny, yes.


It's weird to me that I'm commenting on this post and not your other one, when my interest in fandom has waned even more since DH. Still, I guess I'm more likely to comment when the post appears while I'm online. In any case; welcome back to lj o captain my captain, if only temporarily.

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

I maintain that it would be downright OOC of Snape *not* to take precautions against Nagini-bite. He's the one always going on about bezoars, for pity's sake.

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

Peter! Peter! He's our man!
If he can't do it, no one can
...strangle himself with just one hand?
Umm, okay.

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

I WAS flashing on "And Just Plain Wrong" when I read DH. Definitely a "Who knew?!" moment.

[mimine.livejournal.com]

LOL! I was also happy that And Just Plain Wrong happened!

Hi there! Been a while!

[aubrem.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I love the "And Just Plain Wrong" touch.

Welcome back. : )

There are a few of us who mostly just post at insanejournal now.

[pauraque]

Yeah, I know. But I don't think I have the energy to go anywhere new.

♥ though!

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

I have a friend who didn't read the books and she just asked me what happened. I was like...what could that mean if you haven't read the books anyway--like, what would you want to know? So I said, "Harry defeats evil and lives."

Turns out that was pretty much all she meant.

[amythis.livejournal.com]

I know you've left fandom, and I never agreed with you on everything, but I still enjoyed this post. I thought there was too little of Peter in DH, and I'm not even one of his fans.

Did you laugh when movie!Lucius took his wand out of his cane?

[pauraque]

I really don't remember what was so funny about Lucius, it could have been that.

There was too little many things in DH, in the sense that rather major plot elements were not given much time to be resolved. Not that she utterly ignored them, but like Peter they were sort of, um, brief.

[bowdlerized.livejournal.com]

Hello I love you do you still love me?!?!

[bowdlerized.livejournal.com]

PS Harry Potter is dead to me--I know how you felt after the previous book. :|

[pauraque]

Except probably worse because after HBP there was still the chance that the last book would make up for everything.

My love sensorz detect that I still love you.

[asphodeline.livejournal.com]

Book Seven sticks in my memory as the Deathly Boring Camping Trip accentuated with Hermione's bloody annoying tardis handbag!! I need a new obsession!

[pauraque]

Bwahahahaha!