Harry Potter. Because I can.
Jul. 23rd, 2007 08:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
debithaThis rambles all over the place. I started trying to organise it, but it got hard, so I gave up. What? It’s my journal and I'll be lazy if I want.
What an opening! The Stately Home with an unconscious body hanging upside down over the table in the drawing room and a screaming prisoner in the basement. Top marks.
Snape gets the big YAYs! Although I cannot help but feel that posthumous character development is a bit of a cop out. How would people deal with horrible old Snape turning out to be noble and tragic? How would misanthropic Snape deal with people being all, "You're so noble and tragic!"? JKR says "Too Hard Basket!"
I am very ambivalent about Remus/Tonks. It has always felt forced (it doesn't have to, it's been done really well, just not by JKR), but for it then to turn out that the whole reason she did it was so they could sprog and die, so it would be all cyclical and Harry could be a better godfather than Sirius... No. Not happy.
The Dumbledore Developments were fantastic. Even though Harry always had complete faith in him, his actions kept displaying a bit of a chess-player mentality. "For the greater good" was obviously not something he really gave up on, he just learned to temper it a bit. Which makes him morally and ethically ambivalent. My favourite flavour! (So to speak. Remove your mind from the gutter please!)
Can anyone work out why JKR hates the Blacks so very much (apart from Regulus, for some reason)? I mean, OK, yes, not a nice family as a whole. But Sirius was always trying to be a decent (if arrogant and messed up) person, and she just wouldn't let him. And Andromeda. Yikes! Hi, here's Andromeda. (Finally. After six books.) Now watch while I slaughter her husband, daughter, son-in-law and sister, and leave her to raise another metamorphmagus baby. On her own! *cackle* *rub hands together* *cackle some more!* (I know she probably wasn't real fond of Bella, but a sister is still a sister.)
Which leads me to the Malfoys. I had a major "Go, Cissa!" moment when she decided that the Dark Lord could take a hike, if she could just get to her kid. But on the whole I was quite disappointed. I kept waiting for them to pull something out of the hat. I was so sure at the start, with the way she was guiding Lucius and Draco in their responses to the goading, that she had a plan. There should have been a plan, dammit.
I had another moment of cheering (thank God no one else was home. I'd have been so embarrassed) for Percy. He was another character I was holding out for. It's a real shame he wasn't busily subverting the ministry back again from his position of trust, but I can't have everything. (No one's ever given me a good reason why not, but apparently I can't.)
I rather had Aaaawwwws over Kreacher coming over all mumsy. I may have had sniggers, too. It was a pretty damn funny image.
Neville... I'm still not sure about Neville. The things he was doing were fantastic, and I loved them. They just didn't seem very Neville to me. He was developing nicely in the books, but he never struck me as having a great resistance leader deep down inside him.
The wanduendo great. Ron's comment to Harry when he gives him the book for his birthday, about how it's not all wandwork? *snerk* Although it puts another spin on the whole "I am the true Master of the Elder Wand!" bit. Plus, the Elder Wand having been Dumbledore's.... errrr. I end that line of thought there.
I was very impressed with the ruthless genius of Hermione's plan to protect her parents. Absolutely brilliant. I'd have been a bit reluctant to marry her after that, though, were I Ron.
Poor little Scorpius. He wins the lottery on the worst name ever stakes. Although Albus Severus and Xenophilius (rough translation: Lover of Strangers) were giving him a good run for it. I have read mutterings about a Scorpius/Rose pairing. Oh, hell yes.
Did I miss something? Did the good guys have a whole bunch of professional Quidditch players on side, and FAIL to launch an aerial strike? Who the hell was in charge?
Also, at what point did Griphook play tooth fairy and slip the sword back under the metaphorical pillow? That one was definitely a WTF.
What an opening! The Stately Home with an unconscious body hanging upside down over the table in the drawing room and a screaming prisoner in the basement. Top marks.
Snape gets the big YAYs! Although I cannot help but feel that posthumous character development is a bit of a cop out. How would people deal with horrible old Snape turning out to be noble and tragic? How would misanthropic Snape deal with people being all, "You're so noble and tragic!"? JKR says "Too Hard Basket!"
I am very ambivalent about Remus/Tonks. It has always felt forced (it doesn't have to, it's been done really well, just not by JKR), but for it then to turn out that the whole reason she did it was so they could sprog and die, so it would be all cyclical and Harry could be a better godfather than Sirius... No. Not happy.
The Dumbledore Developments were fantastic. Even though Harry always had complete faith in him, his actions kept displaying a bit of a chess-player mentality. "For the greater good" was obviously not something he really gave up on, he just learned to temper it a bit. Which makes him morally and ethically ambivalent. My favourite flavour! (So to speak. Remove your mind from the gutter please!)
Can anyone work out why JKR hates the Blacks so very much (apart from Regulus, for some reason)? I mean, OK, yes, not a nice family as a whole. But Sirius was always trying to be a decent (if arrogant and messed up) person, and she just wouldn't let him. And Andromeda. Yikes! Hi, here's Andromeda. (Finally. After six books.) Now watch while I slaughter her husband, daughter, son-in-law and sister, and leave her to raise another metamorphmagus baby. On her own! *cackle* *rub hands together* *cackle some more!* (I know she probably wasn't real fond of Bella, but a sister is still a sister.)
Which leads me to the Malfoys. I had a major "Go, Cissa!" moment when she decided that the Dark Lord could take a hike, if she could just get to her kid. But on the whole I was quite disappointed. I kept waiting for them to pull something out of the hat. I was so sure at the start, with the way she was guiding Lucius and Draco in their responses to the goading, that she had a plan. There should have been a plan, dammit.
I had another moment of cheering (thank God no one else was home. I'd have been so embarrassed) for Percy. He was another character I was holding out for. It's a real shame he wasn't busily subverting the ministry back again from his position of trust, but I can't have everything. (No one's ever given me a good reason why not, but apparently I can't.)
I rather had Aaaawwwws over Kreacher coming over all mumsy. I may have had sniggers, too. It was a pretty damn funny image.
Neville... I'm still not sure about Neville. The things he was doing were fantastic, and I loved them. They just didn't seem very Neville to me. He was developing nicely in the books, but he never struck me as having a great resistance leader deep down inside him.
The wanduendo great. Ron's comment to Harry when he gives him the book for his birthday, about how it's not all wandwork? *snerk* Although it puts another spin on the whole "I am the true Master of the Elder Wand!" bit. Plus, the Elder Wand having been Dumbledore's.... errrr. I end that line of thought there.
I was very impressed with the ruthless genius of Hermione's plan to protect her parents. Absolutely brilliant. I'd have been a bit reluctant to marry her after that, though, were I Ron.
Poor little Scorpius. He wins the lottery on the worst name ever stakes. Although Albus Severus and Xenophilius (rough translation: Lover of Strangers) were giving him a good run for it. I have read mutterings about a Scorpius/Rose pairing. Oh, hell yes.
Did I miss something? Did the good guys have a whole bunch of professional Quidditch players on side, and FAIL to launch an aerial strike? Who the hell was in charge?
Also, at what point did Griphook play tooth fairy and slip the sword back under the metaphorical pillow? That one was definitely a WTF.
