yes. but only "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" is worth it, i feel.
I didn't like the other two as much, either. I watch them b/c they bring to books to life, and have great special effects, but I'm hoping PoA will set the tone for the rest of the movies.
i don't believe that Chris Columbus was the best choice for the first two films...
but i suppose he was the best at the time.
it's interesting though, how he cast his daughter as Susan Bones, so that she was the only person outside of Draco and the trio to be Sorted in the first film.
in retrospect, i consider it a foreshadowing of her importance Book 5 on.
but i hope that the rest of the films will be as good as the third, definitely.
thank god Alfonso Cuaron is a competent director.:-)
i wonder though...if the graveyard on the grounds of Hogwarts, if we'll come across it in this book.
because i remember watching an interview with Cuaron and JKR on the DVD, and learning that the former wanted to film a scene in a graveyard on the grounds, but JKR said that it's somewhere else on the property, and that it would be important in the last two books...or at least in one of them.
hmmm. i suppose maybe, that's where Lily and James Potter are buried.
and maybe we'll find out more stuff in there besides.
wouldn't it be interesting if TMR/Voldemort's mother was buried in the cemetery as well?
i mean, i imagine that when she fell in love with and married Tom Riddle, that her family disowned her, so she had nowhere else to go...
she probably ended up in the Hogwarts cemetery, and of course her son went straight to a Muggle orphanage.
well, anyway, at least we would finally find out her name.
i do wonder what the first chapter of Book 6 will cover...
I really liked the way Alfonso Cuaron did the cinematography of PoA; everything seemed a bit grittier and more realistic, and I like the way he framed his shots. The first two movies just seemed...I dunno, generic. And I freaking hated the last half hour of Chamber of Secrets with a passion.
i do wonder what the first chapter of Book 6 will cover...
i like Voldemort even less now, but he makes for a better character.
i want to shag Christian Coulson, but that's entirely beside the point.
have you finished the book yet? shocking.
i just finished it today (Monday), as i've been deliberately taking my time (and taking lots of breaks for naps:-)).
i don't know about you...but i'm out of the Severus Snape fan club.:-(
i won't take him out of my Interests though.
i mean, in himself (ahem, when he's not killing people, or holding insane grudges that do more than just make him drip angst), he's a cool character...
as JKR put it, he really is a "gift" in that...
for her to write, and for us to read.
but after Book 6, i don't think i could be comfortable liking him anymore.
really.
i DEFINITELY think that there is more we have to learn about him...
i think finding out about Voldemort's past was a taste of that (since Snape is very much like Voldemort...and i think that might have been why Dumbledore trusted and believed in him so much...because he reminded him of Tom Marvolo Riddle, who he couldn't save, and so he wanted to believe the best of Snape...even, i think, moreso than most other people he believed in)...
and i still think that there is some sort of connection between him and Lily Evans.
they were both favourites of Professor Slughorn (who, even though i probably shouldn't, i really like; Romilda Vane is another character i should dislike, but i find rather fun...even if at times, stalker-ish and scary:-p), both brilliant and accomplished students, both good in Potions...
Sluggy said you couldn't help but like Lily, if you knew her.
and there has to be a reason why she features in Snape's "worst" memory...
considering all the shit he did in his lifetime, why did that have to be his worst memory...
i think her being in it helped to make it worse, quite freqently.
and there's tons of other reasons besides, but i won't get into that right now.
now, whether he loved her (or she him), i cannot begin to imagine...
but i don't think that we're done with our lesson, that obsessive love (whether manufactured by a love potion or not, in my view) is destructive.
i think that Snape must have had a thing for her. i still believe that.
i think that just because he called her a "Mudblood" in public (or at least, on one occasion) doesn't mean that he couldn't have "cherished a secret, burning passion" for her, as the pure-blood Merope Gaunt did for the Muggle Tom Riddle (and perhaps as Snape's own pure-blood mother, Eileen Prince, had for his Muggle father Tobias Snape).
i mean, it's a bit rich coming from him, despising her for being a Muggle-born, when he's a half-blood.
i could definitely see him hating James Potter and Sirius Black all the more for that though...
that they were both pure-bloods (thank you JKR for confirming that!^_^), which is what he wanted to be, since he despised his father for his nature, and for being a Muggle.
so what's on page 409 in your edition?
in mine, it wouldn't be the same.
despite Snape and...you know, stuff with him, the thing that i am MOST pleased about with this book, is the Draco Malfoy character development.
i think with just about everything in this book, JKR pulled the rug out from under me and all my little obsessive theories...
I actually like Snape even more, because I really think that it was Dumbledore's plan for Snape to kill him. I'm not sure why yet, but I think Snape honestly cared about the Headmaster, and killing him was probably the hardest thing he ever did. And no one but Snape would have ever been able to do it. That's probably part of why he freaked out when Harry called him a coward afterwards.
I agree with you on Snape and Lily. I think there was something going on there. And I also LOVED the Draco development, it made me quite happy. :)
On page 409 of my edition is the line about Harry "becoming obsessed with Malfoy." Oh, what a buoyant little wave for my H/D ship ;)
since of course, not only is Draco shown as a human and more complex character (and something other than the petty, arrogant, swaggering git that we've grown accustomed to over five books and eight years), but shows that he's also capable of love, is probably a decent person when it comes down to it, cares a lot about his parents, his mother loves him (she might not be a woman who loves too many people in general...but to me she definitely contradicts her name, with its images that it conjures of narcissism, self-love, in her, almost heart-breaking, love and concern for her son; i know that we haven't seen much of her up to this point, but i like to think that if it came down to it, that she would make the same sacrifice as Lily Potter did...maybe it's just a maternal thing, that might have been lacking in Merope Riddle and Eileen Snape *shrug*; but i'm glad that his mother loves him, even if i'm not sure about his father...and he definitely seems to love them both back) is, up to now, incapable of pulling off a Killing Curse, and i believe, has a good chance of being redeemed before the end of the series.
oh, this book was definitely oozing Harry/Draco...
moreso than i think Harry/Ginny, which, to tell you the truth, i'm a bit disappointed with, since it seemed a bit rushed, and out of nowhere on Harry's part (and damn, did Ginny bury her still present feelings deep...i could have sworn she was over him).
but those boys will of course not be together in canon, and i hesitate to ship them in fanon...
mostly because, i really believe that Harry will go out without being with the love of his life (might leave Ginny behind though, if she doesn't get killed)...
and i don't believe that anyone is quite good enough for Draco (i'd submit to the Dark Mark though, to be there and be the one for him...but that's just me:-)).
i'm removing Pansy Parkinson from my Interests list...
i don't even know why i put her there in the first place.
i certainly don't want her to end up with him (even though they do seem to be boyfriend and girlfriend in this book).
if she doesn't get killed off in Book 7, i rather hope that she runs off with Blaise Zabini (who rather annoys me, quite frankly; he was another bit of a disappointment, what will all the hype i bought into *shrug*), and embark upon their careers of several, mysteriously ending, but highly profitable marriages.:-p
i don't believe that either she, or Crabbe or Goyle, could be there for Draco completely, or address all of his needs, or would genuinely sacrifice themselves for him, out of love and not just out of blind devotion.
much as i despise Snape, i'm definitely keeping my fingers crossed for Draco...
not only for him to be redeemed (i know that i said i didn't want that, but i think that the process has begun, and i really prefer this Draco to the old one...i mean, look at Snape, with his personality he's all bloody cool and stuff...and he's a fucking murderer *shakes fist in outraged disappointment*; i'd Avada Kedavra Snape's ass just for letting me down...but i'll wait patiently to see what JKR's got left for us *grumbles and puts wand away reluctantly*), but for him to just be okay and alive in the end.
incapable of pulling off a Killing Curse, and i believe, has a good chance of being redeemed before the end of the series.
I'm hoping he'll be redeemed, too. I think secretly I always wanted Draco to be redeemed, I just don't want JKR to be fucking SAPPY about it. Ick.
oh, this book was definitely oozing Harry/Draco...
*squee!* :)
Harry/Ginny was definitely a bit rushed. That bugged me.
And Pansy Parkinson can rot in the bowels of hell as far as I'm concerned. I've always hated that bulldog-faced bitch. You'd think Draco would find someone attractive to be with. Although maybe for him, blood matters more than looks.
which makes me want to be a pure-blood witch living in Britain in those times.:-)
i guess maybe that's why i so strongly support the Draco/Hermione pairing. because Draco deserves a hell of a lot better than Pansy Parkinson (i don't even ship her with Theodore Nott anymore...she deeply sickens me, and i hope that she and Blaise run off and follow in Mrs. Zabini's footsteps)...
and even though Ginny's getting to kick some serious ass in these books, she seems to be Harry's equal and perfect match (though in my world it's Harry/Luna and Neville/Ginny...but we can't always get what we want *shrug*), Hermione is pretty strong herself (and obviously, smart), and in my view she's perfect for Draco because she wouldn't take any of his shit (god, i love that bitch-slapping scene in Book 3^_^) and, in fanfiction anyway, would be a good influence for him. especially now with inspiration from Book 6 for redeemed Draco.:-)
not to mention, how badly his parents would freak out if he ran off with a "Mudblood".:-p
although i found it nicely ironic that in life, Moaning Myrtle was a Muggle-born witch (as well as Lord Voldemort's first ever victim...assuming the Chamber of Secrets was opened before he killed Tom Riddle and Mr. and Mrs. Riddle anyway, which it might not have been, in which case his fourth victim)...
and yet when Draco is the most alone that he ever has been in his life, M. M. is the only one who's there to listen to him.
the bathroom scene...god, i love the bathroom scene.
and on top of the Astronomy Tower.
honestly, i could give JKR a huge, Hagrid-style bone-crushing hug just for the Draco character development in this book.
but i think i'll just settle with just feeling immensely pleased about things.
although i found it nicely ironic that in life, Moaning Myrtle was a Muggle-born witch (as well as Lord Voldemort's first ever victim...assuming the Chamber of Secrets was opened before he killed Tom Riddle and Mr. and Mrs. Riddle anyway, which it might not have been, in which case his fourth victim)...
Man, I love how you catch all this little stuff! Instead of Constant Vigilence! like Moody, you're Ms. Constant Insights! :)
honestly, i could give JKR a huge, Hagrid-style bone-crushing hug just for the Draco character development in this book.
yes, us incurable Draco Malfoy fangirls, we were finally shown some love in this last book.:-)
nah, i just have a sick memory for remembering a lot of trivial details...
though in the HP universe, hardly anything is truly trivial, and there are so many details that i'll have to finish reading all of the books at least twice before i can keep most everything stored in my brain.
before it all gets regurgitated onto my livejournal on a daily basis.:-/
ah well. i must occupy myself in some way, while still remaining in that world, for the next two years.
you know, i used to think that Bellatrix Lestrange would kill Lucius Malfoy...
now i'm wondering if Snape won't do that himself.
maybe i read too much into things (ha, bit of an understatement right there:-)), but i think that there's something more between him and Narcissa Malfoy.
and i wonder if (if my theory is correct, that is), if Lily Evans wasn't the only object of Snape's obsessive love, in his lifetime.
if Snape kills Lucius, that would put Draco in a tough position.
i don't want him to be a murderer (Dumbledore didn't think he is or could be one, and Harry and i believe it), but as we know from Harry, sometimes the choice has to be made to kill.
i would just rather not see Harry kill Snape.
i want a confrontation, some resolution, yes...
but not outright murder.
(and i do wonder now, if that life-debt Snape owes to James Potter will ever be repaid. i expect that it will have to be, as i think that life-debts, like unbreakable vows, must be paid or fulfilled, but perhaps not quite intentionally, as might also be the case in Wormtail paying back his life-debt to Harry.)
in any case, 2008 and Book 7 can't get here soon enough.
and i still ship Draco and Hermione, because i am a stubborn bitch and to hell with canon in that case.:-)
I forgot about the life debts...I wonder how that will play out.
I wouldn't have thought before Book Six that Harry would kill anyone but Voldemort, but after everything that's happened to him now, I don't know. I can see him knocking down anyone who got between him and Voldemort now.
I don't know how the hell I'm going to endure another long ass wait. I could scream!
and i still ship Draco and Hermione, because i am a stubborn bitch and to hell with canon in that case.
you know, i think of Harry and Dumbledore as two people who would never kill unless they absolutely had to.
i think there are different types of people in this world...
there are people who are full-on evil, who view human life as extremely cheap, while at the same time shunning and wishing to run away from death (Voldemort, who i firmly believe is the ONLY evil character in the series...honestly, i think people throw around that term rather carelessly *readies wand to A. K. anyone who insults Malfoy or Snape*)...
people who are extremely fanatical and take immense pleasure in torturing and killing (the Death Eaters, basically)...
those who are incapable of committing murder, even to save their own lives or the lives of their loved ones (Malfoy *beams*)...
and people who do not relish killing, would not wish to take part in it if they could avoid it, but realize that there are cases when they must, for the greater good (Harry, Dumbledore, the Order and Aurors).
i think that this year was about Harry starting to learn how to control his anger and other emotions...
which is good and he needs that.
Voldemort is the man that he's going to take down, and i think his main focus will be on destroying him.
notice how, even though Snape killed Dumbledore and he's mad as hell about it, that he just says that if he comes across Snape, then all the better for him and all the worse for Snape (i love that line).
he hates Snape as much as Voldemort at this point, but he's not like "oh yeah, he's on my shit list now, most definitely. i'm gonna kill that son-of-a-pure-blood-bitch."
no. he realizes what's at stake, and what prices have been paid for him to get to this point, and he just wants to end this. end Voldemort's life and end this war.
i still think that Neville will be the one to take down Bellatrix Lestrange...
but if the end of Book 1 foreshadows the end of Book 7, then i think that Ron might have to go up against Bellatrix as well.
and if you think about it, if you remove Snape (who is basically good, i still believe *breathes a sigh of relief at the other Snape fans' convincing evidence*) from the situation, the two most prominent of Voldemort's followers that have been shown so far are Lucius Malfoy and Bellatrix Lestrange.
they're certainly the ones who have gotten the most screen-time in any case.
if you ask me...well, Harry's five closest friends (and other members of the Weasley family and the Order of the Phoenix) are going to have to take down the Death Eaters closest to the Dark Lord, leaving Harry free to go on to the main man himself...
but if i had to match them up, then Ron vs. Bellatrix, and Hermione vs. Lucius (haha...get his ass kicked by a Mudblood; Draco won't like that, but maybe by then Lucius will have done something to make him think, 'hmmm, maybe my dad really is a bastard, and he never gave a damn about me' like stand by and watch him be put under the Cruciatus Curse or something like that...or, in contrast to his wife, is fully prepared to stand aside and let his son receive a Killing Curse)...
with Ron being injured (perhaps fatally...it could happen) by Bellatrix, and Neville jumping in to finish off the bitch.
hell, i'm looking forward to Neville vs. Bellatrix more than i am Harry vs. Voldemort.:-)
but yeah...
Ron and Hermione could get married in canon and have a million babies, and i still wouldn't do more than just acknowledge the pairing.
oh, and yeah...it doesn't look like it will be three years until the next (and last book), but two.
and it WILL be the longest in the series. JKR has said so, and, since there won't be any prequels or sequels after Book 7, it's down to this one to answer all remaining questions.
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mnemosyne_dream) wrote,
July 15 2005, 00:20:10 UTC 6 years ago
I didn't like the other two as much, either. I watch them b/c they bring to books to life, and have great special effects, but I'm hoping PoA will set the tone for the rest of the movies.
July 15 2005, 08:13:15 UTC 6 years ago
i don't believe that Chris Columbus was the best choice for the first two films...
but i suppose he was the best at the time.
it's interesting though, how he cast his daughter as Susan Bones, so that she was the only person outside of Draco and the trio to be Sorted in the first film.
in retrospect, i consider it a foreshadowing of her importance Book 5 on.
but i hope that the rest of the films will be as good as the third, definitely.
thank god Alfonso Cuaron is a competent director.:-)
i wonder though...if the graveyard on the grounds of Hogwarts, if we'll come across it in this book.
because i remember watching an interview with Cuaron and JKR on the DVD, and learning that the former wanted to film a scene in a graveyard on the grounds, but JKR said that it's somewhere else on the property, and that it would be important in the last two books...or at least in one of them.
hmmm. i suppose maybe, that's where Lily and James Potter are buried.
and maybe we'll find out more stuff in there besides.
wouldn't it be interesting if TMR/Voldemort's mother was buried in the cemetery as well?
i mean, i imagine that when she fell in love with and married Tom Riddle, that her family disowned her, so she had nowhere else to go...
she probably ended up in the Hogwarts cemetery, and of course her son went straight to a Muggle orphanage.
well, anyway, at least we would finally find out her name.
i do wonder what the first chapter of Book 6 will cover...
oh well. i'll find out tomorrow.^_^
have a nice day.
July 15 2005, 08:41:12 UTC 6 years ago
i do wonder what the first chapter of Book 6 will cover...
oh well. i'll find out tomorrow.^_^
Fangirl time...**squee!** :)
July 15 2005, 09:21:33 UTC 6 years ago
he is to blame, partially, for my insane crush on (pre-Lord Voldemort) Tom Marvolo Riddle.
the Serpentine Heir is just too sexy.
*fangirl sigh* and we'll all find out more about his past, very soon.
yay.^_^
July 15 2005, 16:46:45 UTC 6 years ago
I love how JKR goes back and examines Voldemort as he was; she's so good about giving her characters dimension.
July 18 2005, 12:15:18 UTC 6 years ago
i like Voldemort even less now, but he makes for a better character.
i want to shag Christian Coulson, but that's entirely beside the point.
have you finished the book yet? shocking.
i just finished it today (Monday), as i've been deliberately taking my time (and taking lots of breaks for naps:-)).
i don't know about you...but i'm out of the Severus Snape fan club.:-(
i won't take him out of my Interests though.
i mean, in himself (ahem, when he's not killing people, or holding insane grudges that do more than just make him drip angst), he's a cool character...
as JKR put it, he really is a "gift" in that...
for her to write, and for us to read.
but after Book 6, i don't think i could be comfortable liking him anymore.
really.
i DEFINITELY think that there is more we have to learn about him...
i think finding out about Voldemort's past was a taste of that (since Snape is very much like Voldemort...and i think that might have been why Dumbledore trusted and believed in him so much...because he reminded him of Tom Marvolo Riddle, who he couldn't save, and so he wanted to believe the best of Snape...even, i think, moreso than most other people he believed in)...
and i still think that there is some sort of connection between him and Lily Evans.
they were both favourites of Professor Slughorn (who, even though i probably shouldn't, i really like; Romilda Vane is another character i should dislike, but i find rather fun...even if at times, stalker-ish and scary:-p), both brilliant and accomplished students, both good in Potions...
Sluggy said you couldn't help but like Lily, if you knew her.
and there has to be a reason why she features in Snape's "worst" memory...
considering all the shit he did in his lifetime, why did that have to be his worst memory...
i think her being in it helped to make it worse, quite freqently.
and there's tons of other reasons besides, but i won't get into that right now.
now, whether he loved her (or she him), i cannot begin to imagine...
but i don't think that we're done with our lesson, that obsessive love (whether manufactured by a love potion or not, in my view) is destructive.
i think that Snape must have had a thing for her. i still believe that.
i think that just because he called her a "Mudblood" in public (or at least, on one occasion) doesn't mean that he couldn't have "cherished a secret, burning passion" for her, as the pure-blood Merope Gaunt did for the Muggle Tom Riddle (and perhaps as Snape's own pure-blood mother, Eileen Prince, had for his Muggle father Tobias Snape).
i mean, it's a bit rich coming from him, despising her for being a Muggle-born, when he's a half-blood.
i could definitely see him hating James Potter and Sirius Black all the more for that though...
that they were both pure-bloods (thank you JKR for confirming that!^_^), which is what he wanted to be, since he despised his father for his nature, and for being a Muggle.
so what's on page 409 in your edition?
in mine, it wouldn't be the same.
despite Snape and...you know, stuff with him, the thing that i am MOST pleased about with this book, is the Draco Malfoy character development.
i think with just about everything in this book, JKR pulled the rug out from under me and all my little obsessive theories...
but this one i'm happy about.
July 19 2005, 15:28:21 UTC 6 years ago
I agree with you on Snape and Lily. I think there was something going on there. And I also LOVED the Draco development, it made me quite happy. :)
On page 409 of my edition is the line about Harry "becoming obsessed with Malfoy." Oh, what a buoyant little wave for my H/D ship ;)
July 18 2005, 12:16:59 UTC 6 years ago
oh, this book was definitely oozing Harry/Draco...
moreso than i think Harry/Ginny, which, to tell you the truth, i'm a bit disappointed with, since it seemed a bit rushed, and out of nowhere on Harry's part (and damn, did Ginny bury her still present feelings deep...i could have sworn she was over him).
but those boys will of course not be together in canon, and i hesitate to ship them in fanon...
mostly because, i really believe that Harry will go out without being with the love of his life (might leave Ginny behind though, if she doesn't get killed)...
and i don't believe that anyone is quite good enough for Draco (i'd submit to the Dark Mark though, to be there and be the one for him...but that's just me:-)).
i'm removing Pansy Parkinson from my Interests list...
i don't even know why i put her there in the first place.
i certainly don't want her to end up with him (even though they do seem to be boyfriend and girlfriend in this book).
if she doesn't get killed off in Book 7, i rather hope that she runs off with Blaise Zabini (who rather annoys me, quite frankly; he was another bit of a disappointment, what will all the hype i bought into *shrug*), and embark upon their careers of several, mysteriously ending, but highly profitable marriages.:-p
i don't believe that either she, or Crabbe or Goyle, could be there for Draco completely, or address all of his needs, or would genuinely sacrifice themselves for him, out of love and not just out of blind devotion.
much as i despise Snape, i'm definitely keeping my fingers crossed for Draco...
not only for him to be redeemed (i know that i said i didn't want that, but i think that the process has begun, and i really prefer this Draco to the old one...i mean, look at Snape, with his personality he's all bloody cool and stuff...and he's a fucking murderer *shakes fist in outraged disappointment*; i'd Avada Kedavra Snape's ass just for letting me down...but i'll wait patiently to see what JKR's got left for us *grumbles and puts wand away reluctantly*), but for him to just be okay and alive in the end.
July 19 2005, 15:33:51 UTC 6 years ago
I'm hoping he'll be redeemed, too. I think secretly I always wanted Draco to be redeemed, I just don't want JKR to be fucking SAPPY about it. Ick.
oh, this book was definitely oozing Harry/Draco...
*squee!* :)
Harry/Ginny was definitely a bit rushed. That bugged me.
And Pansy Parkinson can rot in the bowels of hell as far as I'm concerned. I've always hated that bulldog-faced bitch. You'd think Draco would find someone attractive to be with. Although maybe for him, blood matters more than looks.
July 19 2005, 16:47:45 UTC 6 years ago
i guess maybe that's why i so strongly support the Draco/Hermione pairing. because Draco deserves a hell of a lot better than Pansy Parkinson (i don't even ship her with Theodore Nott anymore...she deeply sickens me, and i hope that she and Blaise run off and follow in Mrs. Zabini's footsteps)...
and even though Ginny's getting to kick some serious ass in these books, she seems to be Harry's equal and perfect match (though in my world it's Harry/Luna and Neville/Ginny...but we can't always get what we want *shrug*), Hermione is pretty strong herself (and obviously, smart), and in my view she's perfect for Draco because she wouldn't take any of his shit (god, i love that bitch-slapping scene in Book 3^_^) and, in fanfiction anyway, would be a good influence for him. especially now with inspiration from Book 6 for redeemed Draco.:-)
not to mention, how badly his parents would freak out if he ran off with a "Mudblood".:-p
although i found it nicely ironic that in life, Moaning Myrtle was a Muggle-born witch (as well as Lord Voldemort's first ever victim...assuming the Chamber of Secrets was opened before he killed Tom Riddle and Mr. and Mrs. Riddle anyway, which it might not have been, in which case his fourth victim)...
and yet when Draco is the most alone that he ever has been in his life, M. M. is the only one who's there to listen to him.
the bathroom scene...god, i love the bathroom scene.
and on top of the Astronomy Tower.
honestly, i could give JKR a huge, Hagrid-style bone-crushing hug just for the Draco character development in this book.
but i think i'll just settle with just feeling immensely pleased about things.
take care.
July 30 2005, 23:55:58 UTC 6 years ago
Man, I love how you catch all this little stuff! Instead of Constant Vigilence! like Moody, you're Ms. Constant Insights! :)
honestly, i could give JKR a huge, Hagrid-style bone-crushing hug just for the Draco character development in this book.
Oh, ditto. Actually, bolded and capslocked DITTO!
July 31 2005, 03:26:34 UTC 6 years ago
nah, i just have a sick memory for remembering a lot of trivial details...
though in the HP universe, hardly anything is truly trivial, and there are so many details that i'll have to finish reading all of the books at least twice before i can keep most everything stored in my brain.
before it all gets regurgitated onto my livejournal on a daily basis.:-/
ah well. i must occupy myself in some way, while still remaining in that world, for the next two years.
i'm Miss Constant Over-Analysis, lol.
have a nice day.:-)
July 18 2005, 12:17:45 UTC 6 years ago
now i'm wondering if Snape won't do that himself.
maybe i read too much into things (ha, bit of an understatement right there:-)), but i think that there's something more between him and Narcissa Malfoy.
and i wonder if (if my theory is correct, that is), if Lily Evans wasn't the only object of Snape's obsessive love, in his lifetime.
if Snape kills Lucius, that would put Draco in a tough position.
i don't want him to be a murderer (Dumbledore didn't think he is or could be one, and Harry and i believe it), but as we know from Harry, sometimes the choice has to be made to kill.
i would just rather not see Harry kill Snape.
i want a confrontation, some resolution, yes...
but not outright murder.
(and i do wonder now, if that life-debt Snape owes to James Potter will ever be repaid. i expect that it will have to be, as i think that life-debts, like unbreakable vows, must be paid or fulfilled, but perhaps not quite intentionally, as might also be the case in Wormtail paying back his life-debt to Harry.)
in any case, 2008 and Book 7 can't get here soon enough.
and i still ship Draco and Hermione, because i am a stubborn bitch and to hell with canon in that case.:-)
have a good day.
be well.
July 19 2005, 15:36:50 UTC 6 years ago
I wouldn't have thought before Book Six that Harry would kill anyone but Voldemort, but after everything that's happened to him now, I don't know. I can see him knocking down anyone who got between him and Voldemort now.
I don't know how the hell I'm going to endure another long ass wait. I could scream!
and i still ship Draco and Hermione, because i am a stubborn bitch and to hell with canon in that case.
LMAO! And agreed, wholeheartedly :)
July 19 2005, 17:10:31 UTC 6 years ago
i think there are different types of people in this world...
there are people who are full-on evil, who view human life as extremely cheap, while at the same time shunning and wishing to run away from death (Voldemort, who i firmly believe is the ONLY evil character in the series...honestly, i think people throw around that term rather carelessly *readies wand to A. K. anyone who insults Malfoy or Snape*)...
people who are extremely fanatical and take immense pleasure in torturing and killing (the Death Eaters, basically)...
those who are incapable of committing murder, even to save their own lives or the lives of their loved ones (Malfoy *beams*)...
and people who do not relish killing, would not wish to take part in it if they could avoid it, but realize that there are cases when they must, for the greater good (Harry, Dumbledore, the Order and Aurors).
i think that this year was about Harry starting to learn how to control his anger and other emotions...
which is good and he needs that.
Voldemort is the man that he's going to take down, and i think his main focus will be on destroying him.
notice how, even though Snape killed Dumbledore and he's mad as hell about it, that he just says that if he comes across Snape, then all the better for him and all the worse for Snape (i love that line).
he hates Snape as much as Voldemort at this point, but he's not like "oh yeah, he's on my shit list now, most definitely. i'm gonna kill that son-of-a-pure-blood-bitch."
no. he realizes what's at stake, and what prices have been paid for him to get to this point, and he just wants to end this. end Voldemort's life and end this war.
i still think that Neville will be the one to take down Bellatrix Lestrange...
but if the end of Book 1 foreshadows the end of Book 7, then i think that Ron might have to go up against Bellatrix as well.
and if you think about it, if you remove Snape (who is basically good, i still believe *breathes a sigh of relief at the other Snape fans' convincing evidence*) from the situation, the two most prominent of Voldemort's followers that have been shown so far are Lucius Malfoy and Bellatrix Lestrange.
they're certainly the ones who have gotten the most screen-time in any case.
if you ask me...well, Harry's five closest friends (and other members of the Weasley family and the Order of the Phoenix) are going to have to take down the Death Eaters closest to the Dark Lord, leaving Harry free to go on to the main man himself...
but if i had to match them up, then Ron vs. Bellatrix, and Hermione vs. Lucius (haha...get his ass kicked by a Mudblood; Draco won't like that, but maybe by then Lucius will have done something to make him think, 'hmmm, maybe my dad really is a bastard, and he never gave a damn about me' like stand by and watch him be put under the Cruciatus Curse or something like that...or, in contrast to his wife, is fully prepared to stand aside and let his son receive a Killing Curse)...
with Ron being injured (perhaps fatally...it could happen) by Bellatrix, and Neville jumping in to finish off the bitch.
hell, i'm looking forward to Neville vs. Bellatrix more than i am Harry vs. Voldemort.:-)
but yeah...
Ron and Hermione could get married in canon and have a million babies, and i still wouldn't do more than just acknowledge the pairing.
oh, and yeah...it doesn't look like it will be three years until the next (and last book), but two.
and it WILL be the longest in the series. JKR has said so, and, since there won't be any prequels or sequels after Book 7, it's down to this one to answer all remaining questions.
i can't wait.
have a nice day.