reactions while reading HP7 4/4

[salinea]

chapter 29 to the very ending.



♥ Augusta Longbottom

You gotta love watching Snape duel.

♥ Percy. Althought it's almost as rushed as Peter's death. I think JKR set herself up for way too many redemption and now she has trouble fitting 'em all

Poor Crabbe and Goyle, they get lines and all they get to be is poor caricatures

Yeah, well, I knew one of the twin would die >_>;;

..... yeah, I knew that would happen too ;_;

Okay, Lily just called him Sev XDDDD c'mon please! XDDDD *gigglefits*

"Would you like me to do it now? asked Snape his voice heavy with irony. "Or would you like a few moments to compose an epitath."

XD awesome!

Snape's Patronus, yeap, still laughing. XD

Okay that would be me retching out from all that Snape/Lily. Urgh.

What the fuck? Did Remus and Tonks die and I MISSED it? Can't even find it back. The fuck.

*singsongs* Harry pulled a Buffy. Okay, I knew that too.

♥ Narcissa

"No, he was cleverer than you, said Harry, "a better wizard, a better man." and a better pirate! Ooops. Wrong fandom.

I love that Harry is just like Tom : he talks about his plans as they happen. Someday that boy will have a great future as Evil Overlord.

Okay, can we all just agree to ripp off and burn the epilogue out of the book, possibly drown the ashes in the sea abysses and sent into outer space and pretend it doesn't exist? I can live with Snape/Lily and the Lupin/Tonks and their baby but there's a certain amount of sugarcoated clichéed I will not bear.


And that's it.

Have to go run give back the book now.

Comments

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

ah, that makes sense. Well, not, but why i missed it. WTF JKR, WTF. I don't mind the characterization, I mind the fact she had nothing to do with those characters plot wise so she got em married, knocked up, and died. *headpalm*

Neville totally rocked. I forgot to mention it because I was busy squee at his granny but I really can't wait at all the fanfics set in Hogwarts while the trio's away. So much fodder!!!!

[pixychelle.livejournal.com]

And didn't even bother to show the deaths. Remus was a major character in at least one book, and both of them were significant secondary characters. Colin Creevey's death got more attention, for crying out loud, even if it mostly served to highlight Oliver and Neville.

Haha, well, I forgot to squee over Augusta because I was so busy squeeing over Neville, so it all evens out. :D

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

I don't get JKR someimes. Oh well, I bet Harry was mistaken and they were just injured. Feeling right peachy now ^^

*giggles*

[bronze-ribbons.livejournal.com]

Oh well, I bet Harry was mistaken and they were just injured.

*am amused*

My new theory is that those corpses were decoys. Remus got himself killed on a secret solo mission, and Tonks lives another decade or so to raise Teddy... and that's why we see Remus's ghost but not Tonks's later on. Heh.

Thanks so much for the updates. I'd wondered how DH!Lupin would come across to you -- you've historically read him as far more flawed than most of my friendslist, so I was guessing your assessment of his characterization might be different. (So far it's quite mixed on whether he's IC or not. I've never liked canon!Lupin as much as fanon!Lupin, so I can only say that the excerpts I read were not to my taste. *rueful smile*)

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

I don't think Lupin was OOC. I was a bit fraggled by the quickness of the mariage+baby but in and of itself that's not OOC. I liked his outbreak, It worked with how I see Remus.
However I was very disapointed in the way he and Tonks had little plot purpose.

What are people on your flist criticizing exactly? Do you have link?

[bronze-ribbons.livejournal.com]

I don't remember anything detailed enough to link, but the basic issue appears to be whether Remus would be really be that dense, clueless, and irresponsible. (Some say no way, others point out that he's proven himself to be a coward before.)

I confess it doesn't sit well with me personally -- in part because two of my favorite moments in OotP are when Remus reminds Molly that there are people who care about Harry, Ron, and Ginny besides herself -- but you know the kinds of Lupins I tend to write and rec, and I've never not read the series through a Snupin lens, so I've been curious about how the DH scenes play to people to whom Lupin comes across as far more weak, passive-aggressive, etc. (or to whom he simply doesn't matter). *wry smile*

I also dislike the excerpts I've read because Lupin's self-identifying declamations struck me as hokey and illogical -- enough that I decided just to wait for my turn with a library copy. Perhaps I'm not being fair - there's lots of other things in the series that fail in style and/or sense, after all (musigneus has had to deal with me ranting about Pensieves too many times to count) - but I have to be in the right headspace to accept them as presented, and at the moment, I'm not. :-/

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

I think Remus is repressed, avoidant and prone to self-pity. He has been very irresponsible before, definitly. I can see him freaking out about Tonks' children because he'd never thought he can be a good dad. Remus seriously hates being a werewolf. I saw the passage working with that. I can totally forgive it, though.

but you know the kinds of Lupins I tend to write and rec
A wide range of? I remember some delightfully ambigous Remus by you ^^ I still think that Remus is also kind, intelligent, witty and has his own brand of stength. It's not uncompatible.

Honnestly I need to reread the scene (I haven't the book right now sadly), because when I read it it did come across as fishy/that Remus may have had a hidden purpose. Which is great because that's a good fodder for fics. (Once I arrive to reconcile myself with Snape's thing for Lily, I might write a Remus/Tonks/Snape story out of it).

I've never not read the series through a Snupin lens,
I might be luckier there. I tried reading the book separately from fandom issues.

Anyway you shouldn't read it until you're in the right headspace definitly ^^