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I'm still in London... yes... I couldn't quite bear to leave England immediately after Sectus, so I stayed. Went to see Stonehenge with
dragon_charmer the day after the convention ended. Yesterday, I went around town with a group of both locals and people who were still in town post-Sectus. (More on that later - much slashy fandom happiness.) Today, I'm meeting up with the same group, then my sister is coming into town from Cambridge, and meeting up with the bunch of us. But for now...
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Overall, it was a good read, but there were things missing. Not just things that were left "open-ended", but stuff JK promised to tell us. Kinda miffed about that. I was pleased that fandom was clever enough to figure out all the major things, such as unrequited!Snape/Lily, and so on. As a result, a lot of this felt like a fic, but it felt like a *fairly* complete fic, with a lot of reasonable answers.
Likes: Dobby, Kreacher, slightly-more-intelligent!Voldy, clever-determined!Harry, very-reasonably-human!Ron. Liked the last couple of chapters before the epilogue for the fact that it did make sense.
Disliked: The rambling talk with Dumbledore, but it wouldn't be a Potter book without one of those, right? Didn't like Married-with-children!Remus. (He and Sirius can shag in the afterlife now.) Didn't like the drawn out way JKR wrote the drawn out weeks of them wandering in the woods. Summarize, plz? And some parts just needed to be "tightened up", in the literary sense.
WTF-ishness: Weeks of wandering in the woods... I believe I already did that. And correct me if I'm wrong, but I think I managed to keep the plot focused in the meantime. Oh, and "Accio salmon"??? Er... mine was "Accio fish!" *headdesk* And Hagrid carrying Harry out of the woods, apparently dead... I should have shed a tear at that image, but I'd already had Harry carry Draco out of the woods, apparently dead. My thought was more, "That's familiar." Not quite dead yet, eh? *shrugs* Either way, it made me giggle.
I just read this article, and it says that JKR is going to write an encyclopedia sort of thing about the characters, to give us all the back-story that we never got. Maybe we'll find answers and explanations there. Also, in that article, she wrote that she had planned to kill Arthur Weasley back in the 5th book and couldn't bear to do it. Naturally, I grumble because that had been my guess.
You know, I'd planned to write more, but I need to go meet a group of people at King's Cross, and I can't be late. (Damn, doesn't that sound wierd... I'm heading down to King's Cross... huh. *shrugs*)
I'll write more later, and try to be more detailed. You know, I've been so sleepy, I'm sure a re-read is an order. I'll re-read, and give a better analysis later.
Oh... and I'm DEFINITELY EWE. Epilogue? WHAT Epilogue?
Likes: Dobby, Kreacher, slightly-more-intelligent!Voldy, clever-determined!Harry, very-reasonably-human!Ron. Liked the last couple of chapters before the epilogue for the fact that it did make sense.
Disliked: The rambling talk with Dumbledore, but it wouldn't be a Potter book without one of those, right? Didn't like Married-with-children!Remus. (He and Sirius can shag in the afterlife now.) Didn't like the drawn out way JKR wrote the drawn out weeks of them wandering in the woods. Summarize, plz? And some parts just needed to be "tightened up", in the literary sense.
WTF-ishness: Weeks of wandering in the woods... I believe I already did that. And correct me if I'm wrong, but I think I managed to keep the plot focused in the meantime. Oh, and "Accio salmon"??? Er... mine was "Accio fish!" *headdesk* And Hagrid carrying Harry out of the woods, apparently dead... I should have shed a tear at that image, but I'd already had Harry carry Draco out of the woods, apparently dead. My thought was more, "That's familiar." Not quite dead yet, eh? *shrugs* Either way, it made me giggle.
I just read this article, and it says that JKR is going to write an encyclopedia sort of thing about the characters, to give us all the back-story that we never got. Maybe we'll find answers and explanations there. Also, in that article, she wrote that she had planned to kill Arthur Weasley back in the 5th book and couldn't bear to do it. Naturally, I grumble because that had been my guess.
You know, I'd planned to write more, but I need to go meet a group of people at King's Cross, and I can't be late. (Damn, doesn't that sound wierd... I'm heading down to King's Cross... huh. *shrugs*)
I'll write more later, and try to be more detailed. You know, I've been so sleepy, I'm sure a re-read is an order. I'll re-read, and give a better analysis later.
Oh... and I'm DEFINITELY EWE. Epilogue? WHAT Epilogue?
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Date: 2007-07-25 11:21 am (UTC)So great to see you, and because I can... squirrels!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v492/azhure/london/smallDSCN2184.jpg
Sorry for nearly deafening you, and miss you already!
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Date: 2007-07-25 07:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-25 07:16 pm (UTC)I <3 squirrels, and now even more!
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Date: 2007-07-25 11:14 pm (UTC)Yes, it ended too soon. And yes, I wish we'd spent more time, but there were so many people to see, and so much going on. I'm glad I got to see you. *huggles muchly*
I'll have to take a look at all your pics when I get home. I can't believe I'm STILL in London!!!
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Date: 2007-07-25 01:51 pm (UTC)Re: DH
Date: 2007-07-25 11:16 pm (UTC)Re: DH
Date: 2007-07-29 05:30 pm (UTC)I think the thing I was most upset about (despite loving the whole book overall) was that Draco never got his moment of redemption... I suppose Harry rescuing him from the flames on the back of his broom was more than we should have hoped for... but Draco and his family's status all felt so unresolved at the end of it.
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Date: 2007-07-25 03:47 pm (UTC)I could have done with less camping myself. The forest in Britain must be pretty awful to yield mushrooms as the only food. Having grown up surrounded by forest, and with their magic skills, I could lay out a several-course vegetarian dinner. Sad. It kind of had "plot device" written all over it.
I had to giggle myself at the Kings Cross reference. On my only visit to London, my B&B was about a block from KC and I remember it fondly.
Safe travels! Make sure you get over and geek out at the Royal Observatory!
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Date: 2007-07-25 11:21 pm (UTC)And yeah, plot device. And a shoddily-used one, at that. So much can happen in a setting like that, but it was poorly put together. *le sigh* And I'm sure they could find more to eat than that. Also, if I wasn't an experienced mushroom hunter, I'd feel really nervous gathering wild mushrooms to eat. So many of them are SO poisonous.
And... Royal Observatory, eh? Where's that? I have all day tomorrow to wander. :D
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Date: 2007-07-26 12:07 am (UTC)Agreed. You have to know your 'shrooms. Around here, we have many agarics and other delights. Although Hermioninny probably could detox whatever she found, encourageing kids to eat mushrooms like Harry Potter = NOT GOOD.
It was a tiny, hole in the wall B&B that you wouldn't know was there unless you has Rick Steve's in your hand at the time and had called a week in advance. Can't recall the name, but there was no sign in front, and it was right across the street from a hotel that was so fancy it had two footmen on duty 24 hours and only a tiny brass nameplate. The circular drive was situated behind trees such that you could not see who came and went at all. Nice, safe neighborhood, but the stairs of our B&B were murder and there was an inch of dust on everything but the bed and the nightstand.
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Date: 2007-07-25 07:12 pm (UTC)So many intelligent people writing their ideas of what might happen, based on what was written so far is bound to come up with some right answers. There's no way she could have written something we hadn't already read.
Which is funny, but confusing. I just treat the book like The Fanfic and smile. Albus Severus. *shudder*
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Date: 2007-07-25 11:22 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-07-26 01:50 am (UTC)Yes, they are! I also have my tits as an icon sometimes.
Yay for body parts!
And thank you :)
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Date: 2007-07-26 02:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-26 04:13 am (UTC)Are NaughtyKnickers a real thing? I want some.
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Date: 2007-07-26 06:27 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-07-25 11:25 pm (UTC)Either way, I'm still blissfully denying the existence of the epilogue.
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Date: 2007-07-26 05:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-29 05:36 pm (UTC)Although, I'm currently in the process of forgetting it exists.
*joins the EWE club*
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Date: 2007-07-29 07:17 pm (UTC)*giggles and smirks*
"AS/S Pirate"
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Date: 2007-07-31 05:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-25 07:56 pm (UTC)and suffering from severe post-conference depression. It was awesome getting to meet and hang out with you. We'll keep in touch about a possible fandom meet-up type thing in Boston in the not-too-distant future! Anyway, am friending now. ::friends::And yay for EWE!!
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Date: 2007-07-25 11:27 pm (UTC)I'm glad you made it home safe. I still can't believe that I'm still in London. I've been having so much fun, too. It's letting me down from con-drop more gently. And then, I can jump right into Prophecy. YAY!!!
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Date: 2007-07-25 08:43 pm (UTC)(note: Before my computer was "misplaced" by the movers, I had finished the last fifteen chapters of "The Hidden Horcrux". Some plot similarities: Draco, Snape and Kreacher's storylines were fairly accurate, with one major difference:
There was an attack at the Weasley wedding. Tonks had been tortured by Draco to prove his allegiance, and she later miscarried. He went into hiding. Luna was kidnapped by Death Eaters. Voldy had used Legilimency on her, and discovered that she was in love with Harry. Hello, revenge.
Instead of nineteen years later, I had written a six months later epilogue, in which Harry had been in a coma and upon waking, discovered that Luna had a secret: she was pregnant with the Dark Lord's child.)
The DH epilogue was a bit unnecessary, although I like the ASS pairing.
*imagines FAP thread entitled: Score/Asp; Getting a Piece of AS/S*
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Date: 2007-07-25 10:37 pm (UTC)i wish i could have been in london for the 7th book's release too... T_T; oh well.. maybe for the next/last movie...
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Date: 2007-07-25 10:58 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-07-28 10:04 pm (UTC)And yes, I got home safely... WORST flight(s) ever. I'll post about it later.
*thud*
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Date: 2007-07-29 01:06 pm (UTC)All my theories came true, too. How sad. Except the one about Godric Gryffindor's sock being a Horcrux. *snortgiggle*
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Date: 2007-08-02 01:31 am (UTC)I also didn't really like the epilogue, but I can see why JKR put it in. After all, last time everyone thought Voldemort was dead, he came back.
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Date: 2007-08-03 05:00 am (UTC)Have a fabulous time at Prophecy!
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