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Maelstrom! Alternated some of the best moments of RP EVER with some truly hideous weather.


Getting stabbed up by the Bagman!
Raoul, the supplication, and the consequences.
Tag!
Gnolls and bells
Demon marshals and their reaction to Mil-en's blessed tent.
Post-supplication Zochyotl. Huh, pronouns!




Harry Potter, which I have now read.



Despite bad writing, crackyness, characterisation flaws and all the rest of it, it made me happy. It went in the direction I thought it was going to, I wasn't left with that sense of 'not the book I thought it was going to be' which often leaves me disapointed with the final parts of trilogies or series, but there was enough in there which was new that I wasn't bored by the predictableness. (I liked the whole 'who controls the wand' thing at the end; I LOVED Dumbledor/Grindlewald (Theirloveissofascist!), I liked the Hallows concept in general).

I loved everything that Fred and George did.

Neville! Yes, I'd more or less seen it coming, but it was still awesome.

I disliked that Lupin and Tonks died so cheaply. I was hoping that Tonks might have something to do this book that would render her not entirely pointless.

I disliked that Harry used the Unforgivable Curses so readily. There was an awful lot of 'Imperio', and the fact that he used Cruciatus at all bothered me. If you're doing to go with black and white, you have to not have your good guys doing unforgivable things. If you're going to go with shades of grey you have to not have every Slytherin be evil.

Which leads us neatly on to Draco. I liked what he did, I liked all the moments when he was on screen (page?), especially the clinging to Harry on a broomstick part. I just wish he could have found a Slytherin way to do things for Good. A lot of what people were suggesting ought to happen (last minute change of heart in the face of great evil to redeem himself) wouldn't have worked for me, because it would yet again have been privelidging the Gryffindor way of doing things - you win by being bravest and best. I wanted him to get to do something good and sneaky. Or good and cunning. Or good and self-serving. Or whatever.

Having said that, love for Narcissa.

I want to know if things are actually going to get better in the Ministry, or for the non-wand-carrying races, or for the mudbloods. Because if you read the epilogue as anything other than (really quite badly done) 'shipping, it's actually a fairly negative suggestion that nothing's actually changed

I want to read fic, actually. More than I have done in a while, I want to read all the 'what was happening at hogwarts during the year' fic, and all the 'what was happening at the ministry' fic, and the Order, and Potterwatch and all the rest of it. And I want to read all the 'what next?' fics, and the politicking at the ministry, and Hermione (and in fact most of the named seventh year charactersm but particularly Hermione) coping with the fact that she's ended up with no qualification. I want to know what happens to the Goblins and the house elves and the werewolves and the giants....

Comments

[liminereid.livejournal.com]

They SO let Hermione take NEWTS a year late. Think about it. McGonagall's got to be in charge of the school. She's bloody earnt it and would be fantastic and I think coming back to d your final qualifications a year late (and now conicidentally at the same age as a levels) is allowed when your excuse is I was saving the world.

I like both Lucius and Narcissa and even Draco. I liked that you could just go off evil and find things, like family, that you cared about more.

The ending not so good. I have more thoughts, perhaps I should save them. i will sound like geek and don't really know enough to pull that one off.

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

http://sam-storyteller.livejournal.com/117432.html

fic!

[anotherusedpage.livejournal.com]

ee fic!

[jacinthsong.livejournal.com]

I lt;3 Sam.

also: http://casirafics.livejournal.com/440900.html

[opportunemoment.livejournal.com]

Yes, cheaply (Remus and Tonks I mean), that was something I failed to articulate in my potter post of doom. They just died. Worse, they were just dead, just revealed as a pair of corpses and nobody seemed all that appalled. OK so they were a bit busy cuddling Fred (*snuff*) but still. Both of them, but especially Tonks because she never really fulfilled her potential, unlike Remus who got an entire book in which he was centre-stage and made of win.

[footnotetoplato.livejournal.com]

I actually liked that. I was impressed that Rowling had the courage to do "This is a battle. People die. Even though they're amazing people, they may just die not doing anything special."

Hated that all the Slytherins left, though.

[mejoff.livejournal.com]

I have to agree on both points, my innerfilmdirector had Ron looking down the lenght od the empty table shaking his head and saying 'I sort of hoped one or two of them would stay...'

[fhtagn.livejournal.com]

Gryffindor way of doing things - you win by being bravest and best. I wanted him to get to do something good and sneaky. Or good and cunning. Or good and self-serving

Thank you for summing up what most irritated me about the books.

As for the Lupin/Tonks thing, I didn't even notice they'd died until the summary at the end. That bit was just so poorly structured that I skipped chunks to stop myself dropping the book. ::mutters::

[herringprincess.livejournal.com]

I do wonder if she originally had a plan for Draco wherein he would be at least somewhat redeemed, but dropped it. She seemed quite horrified that young girls were wandering round idealising Draco and wanting to be his girlfriend and stuff - anything short of making him a bit rubbish could have fed on to that. I just wonder...

[mejoff.livejournal.com]

Please stop falling in love with my nazi posterboi...