Harry Potter - Deathly Hallows

[teyla]

*forces herself to close the fandom_wank tab*

MWAHAHAHA LOL! I am SO glad I'm not in HP fandom. OMG all that batshit craziness LMAO. "If JKR refuses to see the love that is H/HR, Snape/Harry, Draco/Harry, insert your OTP, THEN SHE OBVIOUSLY HAS NO IDEA ABOUT THE CHARACTERS." Her own characters. Jeez...

And no, I didn't only read the book so I could fully enjoy the Potterdämmerung. It may have made me read it a bit faster than I usually would have ;).

I liked the book! I was sort of disappointed that all her plot twists were pretty straightforward - I so wished for Dumbledore to be a Phoenix animagus, that would have been MAJOR WIN - but then, it's Harry Potter, not John le Carré.

Here's what I thought how the whole Deathly Hallow thing would go when Harry and his team visited Mr. Lovegood and first heard the Tale of the Three Brothers.

- the Elder Wand had obviously been stolen by Grindelwald
- the Invisibility Cloak is Harry's, of course
- the Resurrection Stone:

first theory (formed upon reading the description of Luna's room):
> Luna's father owns the Stone
> Luna is actually dead, died a long time ago. Daddy brought her back and went crazy, just like the one brother did who had brought back his dead girlfriend
second theory (formed upon reading that the Death Eaters have Luna):
> Luna's father owns the Stone
> He used it to bring back his dead wife. She lives in the basement or something. Both Mr. Lovegood and Luna are as loopy as they are because of that.

I still think the second theory about Luna's mom rocks, if I say so myself. I'd've loved to see more of these kinds of plot twists. But then, the whole wandlore thing did make me happy, too. I loved the idea of the Horcruxes, and the Deathly Hallows were quite brilliant, too. All that wand stuff had me fascinated ever since I first met Ollivander a long long time ago as a little kid reading Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.

One question: am I being a helpless fangirl when I think that Voldemort's granddad Marvolo Gaunt was named Gaunt because of Leland Gaunt from Stephen King's "Needful Things"?

I also found a hy-ooge inconsistency regarding the movies: snitches have flesh memory, yes? Then why the fusk are the Quidditch players wearing thick leather gloves as part of their uniform?

Yeah, I know. I'm being nitpicky.

All in all, yays for Deathly Hallows! I can see why people would hate the epilogue, but then, Harry Potter simply is a fairy tale. It wouldn't be right without a fairy tale ending.

Comments

[rosettastone-d.livejournal.com]

I loved the Deathly Hallows. The ending caused some serious tooth decay, sure, but I agree with everything you've said. And I love your theories about Luna + Dad. The first one is seriously creepy.

[teyla]

It is, isn't it? But that weird, has-not-been-used-for-ages description of Luna's room made that theory pop into my head as if it were as obvious as gravity *gg*.

[dangomango.livejournal.com]

While the epilogue pissed me off when I read it online, after reading the book properly and seeing all the hell everyone went through, I'm glad they all got to be happy at the end. Sure, for some fans a wife and three or so kids isn't their idea of happy, but for JKR it is. And for Harry etc.
And I'm v. glad she didn't make Dumbledore all evil. She just fleshed him out; everyone makes mistakes, and I think it was Dumbledore himself that said the more power you have, the bigger and more devastating your mistakes become.
I don't know why anyone with an OTP that didn't get "recognized" would be infuriated-the book's ending is quite open, and marriages can end, people can turn up from the dead, etc. There are some characters that didn't get mentioned in the epilogue-I'd think fanfic writers would leap at the opportunity to make up some fanon for them.

[teyla]

I didn't read the leaked book because I didn't want to be spoiled. The epiloge was pushing it, but for me, it more or less worked.

I loved how she developed Dumbledore. Even though his white-washing in the King's Cross chapter was a little too much for me. According to me, he could have kept a few of those corpses in his closet and still be a cool guy ^^.

Whining about JKR sinking fandom ships is ridiculous. It's like being outraged if House and Wilson haven't gotten together after the finale episode of the show. A fandom ship might - might - become a canon ship, if the ship isn't too far-fetched and the shippers are lucky. But being outraged because it didn't happen? As I said, ridiculous.

But that is what's fanfiction for, isn't it? Why can't they just write AUs where Snape survived and still enjoy the canon?

[dangomango.livejournal.com]

Why can't they just write AUs where Snape survived and still enjoy the canon? LOL BECAUSE THEY WANT TO *~COMPLAIN~*. Which I am totally guilty of almost all the time; that said, when other people do it I still want to tell them to stfu.

[wihluta.livejournal.com]

liked the hallows too.
my deeper thoughts over at my journal. :-)

but, Your Lovegood theory is cool! I'd have liked it. But my first thought was 'the ring that Dumbledore took'. :-)

[housepiglet.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed it: more than I'd expected to, really. I've never been a huge fan, and my expectations weren't enormous because I've never really considered the books to get higher than an 8/10 on my personal book enjoyment scale. I don't think I've read the 6th one yet. Having read the first 5, though, I really didn't want to stumble across the outcome in a newspaper/on the internet etc, and so I've read this one.

I enjoyed seeing another side to Dumbledore, and I was interested in the Snape stuff: he's always seemed to me to be the most interesting character, and the one played by the most attractive actor. Having no preconceptions or any particular hopes, I enjoyed the epilogue too. I thought it was very open-ended, though: it positively screams out for a further sentence, beginning, "However, just at that very moment Harry felt his scar begin to tingle...". What don't people like about it?

Tbh, the most head-spinning thing about the whole series for me is Hermione ending up with Ron. In my world view, never in a million years would someone like Hermione ever want to get together with Ron!