mijan | Aftermath of Deathly Hallows (Spoilers

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...

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?