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So! Here are my thoughts on yaoi Deathly Hallows.
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- D-Dudley! *happy squeak* You're - you're a decent person!
That whole scene, with the quiet, awkward reconciliation just made me so happy. It's kind of a nice warm feeling for Harry to be ending his association with the Dursleys on a not-entirely-negative note.
- It was nicely creepy and dire to have the Ministry be Voldemort-run. It really built tension. The statue in the Ministry was HORRIFYING, as was the EYE OH GOD. UMBRIDGE, YOU MONSTER.
Loved the infiltration in general. ♥
- Harry slightly annoyed me in OotP and HBP. Here, I loved him all over again. It's like books 5 and 6 were his hero growing pains, and in book 7 he's matured into a proper little hero.
- RON! Ron Ron Ron Ron. Ron got to be so cool! Getting the sword, stabbing the locket... ALSO, HE CAN FAKE PARSELTONGUE. HOW COOL IS THAT.
- The locket-stabbing scene in itself was pretty awesome, too. It was kind of raw and painful to see the full scope of Ron's insecurities and fears laid out in front of him so... blatantly, and cruelly, and in front of Harry no less. And then stabbing it anyway, and omgsoawesome. And Harry addressing and laying his fears to rest immediately afterward, before they have time to reseed and put down roots again. Just. YES.
- POTTERWATCH! (Oh, Lee, you are a born radio personality. ♥.)
- Kingsley Shacklebolt for Minister Y/Y. I love that man. For as little screentime as he gets, he uses it well. SO FULL OF COOL.
- NEVILLE. NEVILLE. NEVILLE. OH MY GOD, NEVILLE YOU ARE SO COOL. ♥ I am just so proud, he's come into his own and proven to be an AWESOME WIZARD. I squeed shamelessly when he pulled the sword out of the hat ("OMG NEVILLE'S A TRUE GRYFFINDOR ♥") and beheaded Nagini. I shall treasure that mental image forever. NEVILLE, COULD YOU POSSIBLY HAVE BEEN ANY MORE OF A BADASS? I MEAN, THE BADASSERY IS CRAMMED IN THERE PRETTY TIGHT, I'M NOT SURE IF THERE'S ROOM FOR ANY MORE.
- D-Dobby! Why Dobby? ;_; I am very pleased with the dignity and respect he was afforded, though. Oh, Dobby.
- Speaking of house-elves, dignity, and respect - KREACHER. OMG KREACHER. HEART. Also, Regulus. Oh man. I would've never dreamed that he actually DIED there and asked Kreacher to dispose of the locket. Reguluuuuusss. ;_;
- I may or may not have fistpumped triumphantly when it turned out Dumbledore HAD arranged his death with Snape in advance. That whole chapter made me really happy, somehow. SEVERUS AND LILY WERE TINY FRIENDS! Snape was trustworthy all along! YAAAAY
- Okay, the sheer amount of deaths was miserable, but expected. I could accept every single death, except one: Fred's.
I mean... Fred and George. Fred and George. It's... for one thing, when those two go everywhere and do everything as a unit, their whole lives, and finish each other's sentences and practically read each other's minds, it's unspeakably cruel to kill off one of them. And the sheer arbitrariness of it just makes it worse. Fred wasn't killed by a Death Eater, a WALL FELL ON HIM.
And... I'm perhaps disproportionately upset about this, but what about Weasley's Wizard Wheezes?! I loved the chapter in HBP devoted to that store, because it's - it's such a symbol of spirit and defiance and joy and light. It's laughing into the darkness, which is one of my personal straight-to-the-heart themes, because it takes such courage and strength to fight off terror and despair with light and hope and sghjdfjks. And I know there's not so much darkness around to laugh into anymore, but it seems brutal to just kill that symbol. And the thing is, I can't wrap my head around George running that place alone. He and Fred got most of their material from striking sparks off each other, I just... poor George!
So, really, I was pretty much in denial over Fred's death.
Then![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
flidgetjerome went "Hey! Ghost Fred!" and everything was better.
Because, seriously, would Fred leave George alone like that? Fuck no! Of course he'd come back as a ghost to keep his twin company! And they could still run the shop together, and Fred could make dead jokes and George would laugh because Fred was there to laugh with, and Fred would have the time of his afterlife milking the ghost thing for all it was worth, he'd do shit like make sales pitches while floating upside down, and he'd lament with George that he wasn't beheaded so he can't do stunts with his severed head. It would be perfect.
And the reason there's no kids named after him is because he wouldn't have it. Ginny probably argued with him about it. James was going to be Frederick James and Fred said no and put his transparent foot down on the issue. XD
See? Everything's fixed! ♥
- DID I MENTION NEVILLE? BECAUSE NEVILLE.
- Also, Aberforth = win.
- I really appreciate that we got a whole chapter just of Harry walking to his death and coming to terms with it and talking to the ghosts and oh. ;_; It was so powerful.
- The Godric's Hollow graffiti was beautiful. ;_;
In short, AWESOME BOOK and I can't wait for the movie.
The release party was fun, too! I went as a random Ravenclaw. Highlights of the evening included singing the Pokemon theme with Voldemort, Bellatrix, and Hermione, and playing Phoenix Wright in line, in full Ravenclaw costume, using a wandpen as the stylus. XD Also, the Great Snape Debate. That was fun.
All in all, I'm pretty glad about all this. ♥
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- D-Dudley! *happy squeak* You're - you're a decent person!
That whole scene, with the quiet, awkward reconciliation just made me so happy. It's kind of a nice warm feeling for Harry to be ending his association with the Dursleys on a not-entirely-negative note.
- It was nicely creepy and dire to have the Ministry be Voldemort-run. It really built tension. The statue in the Ministry was HORRIFYING, as was the EYE OH GOD. UMBRIDGE, YOU MONSTER.
Loved the infiltration in general. ♥
- Harry slightly annoyed me in OotP and HBP. Here, I loved him all over again. It's like books 5 and 6 were his hero growing pains, and in book 7 he's matured into a proper little hero.
- RON! Ron Ron Ron Ron. Ron got to be so cool! Getting the sword, stabbing the locket... ALSO, HE CAN FAKE PARSELTONGUE. HOW COOL IS THAT.
- The locket-stabbing scene in itself was pretty awesome, too. It was kind of raw and painful to see the full scope of Ron's insecurities and fears laid out in front of him so... blatantly, and cruelly, and in front of Harry no less. And then stabbing it anyway, and omgsoawesome. And Harry addressing and laying his fears to rest immediately afterward, before they have time to reseed and put down roots again. Just. YES.
- POTTERWATCH! (Oh, Lee, you are a born radio personality. ♥.)
- Kingsley Shacklebolt for Minister Y/Y. I love that man. For as little screentime as he gets, he uses it well. SO FULL OF COOL.
- NEVILLE. NEVILLE. NEVILLE. OH MY GOD, NEVILLE YOU ARE SO COOL. ♥ I am just so proud, he's come into his own and proven to be an AWESOME WIZARD. I squeed shamelessly when he pulled the sword out of the hat ("OMG NEVILLE'S A TRUE GRYFFINDOR ♥") and beheaded Nagini. I shall treasure that mental image forever. NEVILLE, COULD YOU POSSIBLY HAVE BEEN ANY MORE OF A BADASS? I MEAN, THE BADASSERY IS CRAMMED IN THERE PRETTY TIGHT, I'M NOT SURE IF THERE'S ROOM FOR ANY MORE.
- D-Dobby! Why Dobby? ;_; I am very pleased with the dignity and respect he was afforded, though. Oh, Dobby.
- Speaking of house-elves, dignity, and respect - KREACHER. OMG KREACHER. HEART. Also, Regulus. Oh man. I would've never dreamed that he actually DIED there and asked Kreacher to dispose of the locket. Reguluuuuusss. ;_;
- I may or may not have fistpumped triumphantly when it turned out Dumbledore HAD arranged his death with Snape in advance. That whole chapter made me really happy, somehow. SEVERUS AND LILY WERE TINY FRIENDS! Snape was trustworthy all along! YAAAAY
- Okay, the sheer amount of deaths was miserable, but expected. I could accept every single death, except one: Fred's.
I mean... Fred and George. Fred and George. It's... for one thing, when those two go everywhere and do everything as a unit, their whole lives, and finish each other's sentences and practically read each other's minds, it's unspeakably cruel to kill off one of them. And the sheer arbitrariness of it just makes it worse. Fred wasn't killed by a Death Eater, a WALL FELL ON HIM.
And... I'm perhaps disproportionately upset about this, but what about Weasley's Wizard Wheezes?! I loved the chapter in HBP devoted to that store, because it's - it's such a symbol of spirit and defiance and joy and light. It's laughing into the darkness, which is one of my personal straight-to-the-heart themes, because it takes such courage and strength to fight off terror and despair with light and hope and sghjdfjks. And I know there's not so much darkness around to laugh into anymore, but it seems brutal to just kill that symbol. And the thing is, I can't wrap my head around George running that place alone. He and Fred got most of their material from striking sparks off each other, I just... poor George!
So, really, I was pretty much in denial over Fred's death.
Then
flidgetjerome went "Hey! Ghost Fred!" and everything was better.Because, seriously, would Fred leave George alone like that? Fuck no! Of course he'd come back as a ghost to keep his twin company! And they could still run the shop together, and Fred could make dead jokes and George would laugh because Fred was there to laugh with, and Fred would have the time of his afterlife milking the ghost thing for all it was worth, he'd do shit like make sales pitches while floating upside down, and he'd lament with George that he wasn't beheaded so he can't do stunts with his severed head. It would be perfect.
And the reason there's no kids named after him is because he wouldn't have it. Ginny probably argued with him about it. James was going to be Frederick James and Fred said no and put his transparent foot down on the issue. XD
See? Everything's fixed! ♥
- DID I MENTION NEVILLE? BECAUSE NEVILLE.
- Also, Aberforth = win.
- I really appreciate that we got a whole chapter just of Harry walking to his death and coming to terms with it and talking to the ghosts and oh. ;_; It was so powerful.
- The Godric's Hollow graffiti was beautiful. ;_;
In short, AWESOME BOOK and I can't wait for the movie.
The release party was fun, too! I went as a random Ravenclaw. Highlights of the evening included singing the Pokemon theme with Voldemort, Bellatrix, and Hermione, and playing Phoenix Wright in line, in full Ravenclaw costume, using a wandpen as the stylus. XD Also, the Great Snape Debate. That was fun.
All in all, I'm pretty glad about all this. ♥
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Anyway, they don't really say at what point you had to be the happiest. I imagine Fred would be pretty fucking unhappy to be split up from George.
I LOVE KREACHER THIS IS VERY TRAUMATIC.
I was sort of hoping all along that some combination of Grim! and Curtains! would allow an on-screen reconciliation between Regulus and Sirius. Or at least Harry or someone being able to tell Sirius what Regulus had done.
Y'know, though? As the books went on I increasingly disliked James Potter and am now pretty damn well convinced that if Voldemort had gone after Neville Harry would have still achieved some notoriety as 'The Boy Whose Parents Had the Messiest Divorce Ever'. He's just . . . What he does he does because that's the side he was brought up on, not because he had to think about it like Draco or Sirius or Severus, so the fact he 'does the right thing' doesn't really mitigate the fact that the guy seems to have been a complete prat. I get the feeling that if he and Sirius had switched families he'd had have grown up to be a nice and loyal Death Eater instead. Anyway, as it is that marriage no longer fits with my ideas of how Lily was and now I'm just envisioning stupid hormonal teenage marriage during the emotional turblance of war that managed to last as long as it did because they had a baby.
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Yes, that's true. *clings to happy thoughts of ghost!Fred*
I KNOW HOW DID THAT HAPPEN. HE'S ALL LOVABLE AND SHIT.
This calls for afterlife!fic.
... XD *pet*
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YES
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Ghost Fred for the WIN!
(damniit, I don't touch the HP fandom with a ten foot pole, and now I want to write that. Sheeeeeeeeesh.)
and NEVILLE. I cheered when Neville appeared and when he was all badass and wow. XDD
Yes, this book was made of so much WIN.
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(hahaha XD I planted the idea over at
I WAS SO HAPPY JUST TO SEE NEVILLE. THAT HE WAS AN UNMITIGATED BADASS ON TOP OF THAT WAS DELICIOUS.
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Still, though... Fred and George. If the relationships you cited were examples of the criteria to make a ghost, you wouldn't be able to take five steps without walking through somebody. Fred and George have operated as a unit almost their entire lives, to a degree that it's just wrong for me to think of them as separate. I'd like to think that Fred coming back wouldn't have anything to do with bravery or lack thereof, just that he'd feel it was unnatural to be separated from his brother like that. And hey, there's plenty of new jokes and games to be had that way! At the very least, how could he pass up the opportunity to help George develop some prank or another that works on ghosts? ;)
Of course, this is also the only way I can accept Fred's death without succumbing to a horrible gnawing depression, so.
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Fred as a ghost would be fun in a fic, but only if he'd appear rarely. I think having him as a ghost just wouldn't give any closure...
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...WOW totally didn't mean to go off like that. XD;
GOD, I couldn't believe Fred and Hedwig. I MEAN. HEDWIG. HARRY HAD THAT OWL FOR YEARS. IT WAS LIKE, HIS FIRST FRIEND. H-HEDWIG. ;o;
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... plus, of course, with the anticipation that had built up? Nothing written by a human being could have lived up to it. XD
I KNOW. HEDWIG. AND IT WAS SO SENSELESS. ;_; But, hell, I can even accept Hedwig. Just WHY. WHY DID YOU KILL FRED. FRED. He's going to come back as a ghost and be up to ghosty hijinx, dammit.
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BUT OBVIOUSLY FRED'S GOING TO COME BACK AS A GHOST AND IT'LL BE AWESOME SO EVERYTHING'S OKAY
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SO SEXY, BABY.
Fred was totally a blow, but it does seem more likely that he would appear as a ghost. My only disappointment was that Rowling spent very little time on his death and then he just kinda faded out (like much Mad-Eye D:).
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I didn't even think about Fred coming back as a ghost, but it really does make sense.
And Potterwatch absolutely rocked.
I think in a lot of ways I'm still in shock over this book. I haven't even cried over Severus yet.
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It does, doesn't it?
YES. It would've been neat to see a couple more episodes.
Yeah... I got all my weeping done in small, short spurts while reading - which may not sound like much, but I hardly ever cry at anything, so. (Partly, I think my sorrow over Snape is balanced by my smug feeling of superiority at having been correct about trusting him. XD)
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And to think he basically defied Voldemort for the sake of a house elf...
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