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(A brief note about the fifth Harry Potter movie: Luna. ♥)
Note: from the third or the fourth book on, my interest in the series has really depended on Snape and his position and involvement in the story. I can be momentarily interested in a multitude of the characters, but he's the only one who truly goes beyond skin-deep. Sad, but true.
These are in no real order:
-Albus Dumbledore/Gellert Grindelwald WAIT I MEAN--
-the change from the school scene didn't work for me. It allowed no spotlight for anyone but the members of the main trio (not that I hate any of the three. Harry occasionally excluded), and there was even interesting stuff going on there, with Neville, with Luna!
-the lack of everyone means the lack of the two guys most left hanging in the previous book. Namely, Snape and Draco
-the Malfoys working as a family unit was touching. But it seemed to be the only place where the not-good guys got... anything. Of anything
-the so-called evil people are allowed to be human, are allowed to be right on occasion on some things, even if their morality is questionable. The bad guys should be allowed to have some dignity, too!
-selected deaths: Hedwig's was sad, Hagrid's didn't happen (WHY), Fred's I didn't feel anything for, Mad-Eye's I forgot, Lupin's I didn't notice...
-at the moment it happened, I just went numb all over and ceased to think, but looking back now (it's been, what, almost twenty hours since I finished?), Snape's death seemed unnecessary. Or just a bad choice, from a narrative point of view? Because now there's a lack of a real confrontation between Harry and Snape, it should have been there. Should have! Seriously, I feel betrayed
-so, I like Ron a lot
-what is that thing at the end supposed to be? The one with the title "Nineteen Years Later"? It was bad. It didn't fit. I disliked it immensely. I demand destruction upon it!
-Lupin/Tonks: ...
-DEATHSTICK LOL
-Snape's reasons, uhh. Own reaction: ooohhhh. And then: ... :/ The theory has been circulating around since forever, and I've never liked it, but somehow I didn't have any automatic gut-reactions against it. THAT SAID, the more I think about it now, the more I dislike it. Turned to the side of good because of a woman, and all these years later he's still carrying a torch for her! But he's supposed to be where he is because of his own morals. Because it's more of a right thing than the opposite. Because teeny little Slytherins need a role model.
BETRAYED AGAIN OMG
(-if part of Snape's reason would have been Lily Evans -as in, influenced by her, and then moved onwards on his own- and not romantically, I would have been happy. Platonic love FTW! And as a backstory: his bestest of best friends, the only one he's really had for the whole of a young person's understanding of forever, running off, and with a man he has personal enmity towards, and not without reason, too... Alas, none of it happened this way. Anything would have been more interesting and original than a love story like that
-I'd maybe possibly want to see some sort of pondering on Lily & Severus & James, in fanfic form. I don't really... "get" Lily/James)
-...but, Slytherins?
-I think I'm pleased with Dumbledore and the handling of his backstory throughout the book. It worked, and it wasn't anything I'd thought of
-Grey Lady/Bloody Baron: I read it, and I just started grinning stupidly. I don't know why. It lasted quite a while, the grin. I'm even half-seriously thinking of drawing fanart. The story only has some dozen lines, but those contain conflict of identity versus personal feelings! Family drama! Blood! A play whose players never achieved peace and are still, centuries later, at a standstill - but within the reach of one another
-but what about Draco?
I don't feel like I read the second half of the book, not really. I skimmed over SO MUCH text just because I was tired (I had less than two days to read the book, and I had to do plenty of other stuff during that time, so most of the reading took place after midnight of the second day when I was, really, dead tired), I feel criminal stating almost anything about the book's latter half - "look, I have these opinions and these feelings, I only read the book halfway through but they're totally legitimate" - and ARGH. But now I can't just download it from the internet and read the second half again, because I really, really, REALLY don't feel like it. I'd rather, I don't know, clean all the toilets in the house. Which I wouldn't dislike, but that's not the point.
I'm ignoring the actual book for the moment. Because my opinion seems to waver from "O GODS I HATED IT" to "Ehh, it was all right, I guess" to "Dumbledore ♥ Grindel- Gray Lady ♥ Bloody Baron OTP!" and it hurts my brain.
If anything in this post seems coherent, it's accidental, because really my thoughts are not very orderly at the moment. So now I'm going--
--not to sleep. Because I have twenty seven windows open right now, and 90% of them are fanfiction. It's the Potter disease. Thankfully it's over after this. \o/
Note: from the third or the fourth book on, my interest in the series has really depended on Snape and his position and involvement in the story. I can be momentarily interested in a multitude of the characters, but he's the only one who truly goes beyond skin-deep. Sad, but true.
These are in no real order:
-Albus Dumbledore/Gellert Grindelwald WAIT I MEAN--
-the change from the school scene didn't work for me. It allowed no spotlight for anyone but the members of the main trio (not that I hate any of the three. Harry occasionally excluded), and there was even interesting stuff going on there, with Neville, with Luna!
-the lack of everyone means the lack of the two guys most left hanging in the previous book. Namely, Snape and Draco
-the Malfoys working as a family unit was touching. But it seemed to be the only place where the not-good guys got... anything. Of anything
-the so-called evil people are allowed to be human, are allowed to be right on occasion on some things, even if their morality is questionable. The bad guys should be allowed to have some dignity, too!
-selected deaths: Hedwig's was sad, Hagrid's didn't happen (WHY), Fred's I didn't feel anything for, Mad-Eye's I forgot, Lupin's I didn't notice...
-at the moment it happened, I just went numb all over and ceased to think, but looking back now (it's been, what, almost twenty hours since I finished?), Snape's death seemed unnecessary. Or just a bad choice, from a narrative point of view? Because now there's a lack of a real confrontation between Harry and Snape, it should have been there. Should have! Seriously, I feel betrayed
-so, I like Ron a lot
-what is that thing at the end supposed to be? The one with the title "Nineteen Years Later"? It was bad. It didn't fit. I disliked it immensely. I demand destruction upon it!
-Lupin/Tonks: ...
-DEATHSTICK LOL
-Snape's reasons, uhh. Own reaction: ooohhhh. And then: ... :/ The theory has been circulating around since forever, and I've never liked it, but somehow I didn't have any automatic gut-reactions against it. THAT SAID, the more I think about it now, the more I dislike it. Turned to the side of good because of a woman, and all these years later he's still carrying a torch for her! But he's supposed to be where he is because of his own morals. Because it's more of a right thing than the opposite. Because teeny little Slytherins need a role model.
BETRAYED AGAIN OMG
(-if part of Snape's reason would have been Lily Evans -as in, influenced by her, and then moved onwards on his own- and not romantically, I would have been happy. Platonic love FTW! And as a backstory: his bestest of best friends, the only one he's really had for the whole of a young person's understanding of forever, running off, and with a man he has personal enmity towards, and not without reason, too... Alas, none of it happened this way. Anything would have been more interesting and original than a love story like that
-I'd maybe possibly want to see some sort of pondering on Lily & Severus & James, in fanfic form. I don't really... "get" Lily/James)
-...but, Slytherins?
-I think I'm pleased with Dumbledore and the handling of his backstory throughout the book. It worked, and it wasn't anything I'd thought of
-Grey Lady/Bloody Baron: I read it, and I just started grinning stupidly. I don't know why. It lasted quite a while, the grin. I'm even half-seriously thinking of drawing fanart. The story only has some dozen lines, but those contain conflict of identity versus personal feelings! Family drama! Blood! A play whose players never achieved peace and are still, centuries later, at a standstill - but within the reach of one another
-but what about Draco?
I don't feel like I read the second half of the book, not really. I skimmed over SO MUCH text just because I was tired (I had less than two days to read the book, and I had to do plenty of other stuff during that time, so most of the reading took place after midnight of the second day when I was, really, dead tired), I feel criminal stating almost anything about the book's latter half - "look, I have these opinions and these feelings, I only read the book halfway through but they're totally legitimate" - and ARGH. But now I can't just download it from the internet and read the second half again, because I really, really, REALLY don't feel like it. I'd rather, I don't know, clean all the toilets in the house. Which I wouldn't dislike, but that's not the point.
I'm ignoring the actual book for the moment. Because my opinion seems to waver from "O GODS I HATED IT" to "Ehh, it was all right, I guess" to "
If anything in this post seems coherent, it's accidental, because really my thoughts are not very orderly at the moment. So now I'm going--
--not to sleep. Because I have twenty seven windows open right now, and 90% of them are fanfiction. It's the Potter disease. Thankfully it's over after this. \o/
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Though I liked the change from the school scene because it was really nice for character development imo, I agree -- much more interesting stuff going on back at Hogwarts. And I'm still so torn about Snape/Lily -- which I loved in concept for years, but hate the way it was actually pulled off. (And yeah, James = obnoxious prick.)
Here's some nice Snape/Lily meta though. Which kind of makes me feel better about it. Kind of.
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It worked fine with the trio in mind, but yes. The student resistance and Snape the Headmaster/the Death Eater teachers at Hogwarts. Besides, I feel that it breaks from the formula too much - the schoolyear at Hogwarts has always been the frame in which the plot operates. Now the series is divided into the first six books and then the last one. This may be just my opinion, of course.
(Oh, that meta! I've been meaning to read it before, but now I actually did.) I don't know, I sort of dislike the suggested idea that the change in him happens during the books (as opposed to waaay before them). But it is the only place in the text for it. :/ Damn, now there's this difficult shift going on from the Snape in my head to the Snape in reality; the latter's not all bad either, but. Still a disappointment. And I'm still conflicted what to think about Lily/Snape.
James's a dick! :D