The one witht he spoilers

[salinea]

Definitly my favourite book of the serie so far.

I am quite glad that JKR seems to share my love for the Family Black as a whole, especially :

Chapter 2 : Cissy and Bella. How very gorgeous.

Phineas who we kept seeing as well.

Finally making me like and find interesting the only Black spawn I didn't like so far. That's Draco, in case you couldn't guess.

R. A. B. who is obviously Regulus Black and I think that's the one I'm the most exhilarated about, given that Regulus is my favourite backstory character. The coincidence of telling us Regulus had a few days of running before he was killed, and the formulation on the message leaves no doubt to me.


I found myself liking Slughorn a great deal. He's so.... slugish, and slimey, and flamboyantly cowardly. I really like him as a Slytherins that Harry doesn't actually hate. Oh, and the fact he was so fond of Lily is really cute. It's very funny how the one character who's the first to tell Harry a lot about his mother would be... that kind of character.

Talking about slimey character, I find muself liking Mundungdus even more than I did before. Very enjoyable scum, he is.

Lastly, about Snape. Oh, does anybody actually believes he wasn't asked by Dumbledore to kill him (both to save his life and to preserve Draco) ?
After the conversation that Hagrid witnessed where Snape argues he didn't want to do something ?
After the whole book being named after Snape ?
After the whole deal being so that Snape could teach Harry a lot ? (such a beautiful irony)
After the fact this is happening in tome 6, and not in, you know, tome 7 where it would have been so much more dramatic ?

Oh well, if you want to.

Ship wise. I'm glad for the Ron/Hermione. Harry/Ginny, errr, whatever. I actually liked Ginny a great deal in that book, but it did came out of the blue. Oh well, I don't care much. Remus/Tonks.... meh. Very meh. Not that I dislike Tonks, but.... oh well, I hope she turns evil, she would be the most fun character to turn treator at the last moment (and i thought so before this book in case you wonder)

Comments

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

She totally was. I was cracking up. XD *grin* Now if only she'd pick up a sword and take a liking to roses...

You know, I wanted to read a crossover of this before that, so yeah, I was snickering. It would be much fun, I agree.

WORD UP. I've always had a fondness for rival slash, and I'm glad that Draco actually gained another dimension in this book...yay. Now he's a two-dimensional character, just like all the rest of JKR's characters with the exception of Snape.

I always thought HarryxDraco made for rather endearing melodramatic sometime good trash reading. And you meant tridimensional right ?
Snape is the most complex and compelling character of the whole cast, point. He's the only truly unique thing of those books. ... and he's not even my favourite character XD

James/Severus/Lily OT3!

Eeeep *falls over* That's funny.

Yeah, that's true, but I had always pinned Remus as the type to never take on another mate, because wolves mate for life. I figured werewolves might too. :/ Boo.

Werewolves mate for life, God I hate that bit of fanon. I don't know, I never like the idea of just laying down to die just because the love of your life is over. Second chances and mature romance is a lovely thing (i guess that's why I love Snupin so much)

And yeah, Snape/Lupin doesn't look like it's going to happen. Don't worry dear, there's always fanfic. I want to go and gorge myself on some James/Severus...

Well, I was never expecting to see in canon. Just asking for JKR not to spoil it otherwise with, you know, metamorphmagus who would be so much better off with one-eyed paranoid Aurors.

Oh wait, there is none. Curses.

Actually I read a Snarry recently that had JamesxSeverus in the background. I mean, it's the HP fandom and Snape is slashed with everything that moves and breathes. Or not even that.

The ones in Japan are different. >_> I have seen more HP/SS smut than I can shake a stick at. And hey, as long as there is fulfillment after the grief and denial, it's all good to me. X3 HP/SS is no fun without a little angst. (*coughs in the general direction of James/Severus*)

Point. I hate people who try to write sappy stories to that kind of pairing. I swear...
I love the Japanese fandom culture, but that's nothing new.

[skuldchan.livejournal.com]

I always thought HarryxDraco made for rather endearing melodramatic sometime good trash reading.

It does! :D Doesn't all fanfic fall under the category of "rather endearing melodramatic sometime good trash?" >_> Or maybe judging by the vast amount of total shit out there I'd but "rarely" in there instead of "sometime." =_=;; *nope, not bitter. No bitterness here.*

And you meant tridimensional right ?

Nope. I meant what I said, "two-dimensional." Every single one of JKR's characters is a bland, minimally characterized "lick & stick" archetype. Hell, Draco was unidimensional before this book came along. Almost every single one can be described in some sort of three letter catchphrase (ie: "angsty teenage hero" or "trusting best friend" or "the smart girl") that we can all universally understand from just their label alone, except Severus Snape. He is the only true character in the entire series.

But hey, nobody ever said that JKR was a good writer. Her works are certainly far from Pulitzer Prize literature. If viewed as fanfiction, it's pretty good, though I've certainly read better. The important thing is that she is an amazing storyteller, and she knows how to spin tales for our imaginations. She's good at throwing us plot twists and entertaining us. So I can't complain too much. X3

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Doesn't all fanfic fall under the category of "rather endearing melodramatic sometime good trash?" >_>

Yes, I suppose, but in HP before, I mostly read fics which features the adults, not the kids, with a whole different mood than the teenage angst I associate with H/D.
Nope. I meant what I said, "two-dimensional." Every single one of JKR's characters is a bland, minimally characterized "lick & stick" archetype.

She does a lot of caricatures but she also manage to picture a lot of her characters as rather more complex and endearing than she's sometimes given credits, I think.


Hell, Draco was unidimensional before this book came along. Almost every single one can be described in some sort of three letter catchphrase (ie: "angsty teenage hero" or "trusting best friend" or "the smart girl") that we can all universally understand from just their label alone, except Severus Snape. He is the only true character in the entire series.

I have to agree with that last assessment, but I think she's writes slightly more complex characters than that. "the smart girl" doesn't encompass Hermione's streak of ruthlessness for exemple.

But hey, nobody ever said that JKR was a good writer. Her works are certainly far from Pulitzer Prize literature. If viewed as fanfiction, it's pretty good, though I've certainly read better. The important thing is that she is an amazing storyteller, and she knows how to spin tales for our imaginations. She's good at throwing us plot twists and entertaining us. So I can't complain too much. X3

Yes, yes, yes. I agree, she's a storyteller, not a good writer. She's not even half as good as a lot of fantasy writers I love better, butwhose works I don't read fanfics for. ^^