I'm the goddamned Batman

[stillsostrange]

Nine a half hours, two cups of tea, a hamburger, and one ear really sore from the headphones, I have finished Harry Potter and the Deathly Doorstop.

A few random thoughts.



Krum! Krum! Krum!

Good lord, a house elf just made me cry.

Snape vs. McGonagall FTW! Seriously, that duel filled me with glee above and beyond the call of the actual scene.

SNAPELOFF!

Lilly Potter was an idiot.

NEVILLELOFF!

Good fucking god, the house elf just made me cry AGAIN!

That really didn't suck at all. The epilogue was a bit cutesy, but I don't hate it the way I hated the epilogue of At World's End

However, some things that I had hoped would be resolved never were. Namely the flaming lack of character development given poor Draco. Really, that was just ass. Also, the complete lameassitude with which the houses were handled. Ambition is always bad? Bravery and daring are always good? Intelligence and whatever the hell Hufflepuff stands for are less good but mostly not bad? LAME! Also the way everybody Harry hangs out with is handily shunted into Gryffindor? Cheap. Hermione should have been in Ravenclaw and Neville should have been in Hufflepuff, but then there would have been less convenient scenes in the Gryffindor common room. :P And anybody who thinks badgers don't kick ass needs to watch a honey badger go a few rounds with a cobra.

Also, words can't express my disgust for Ron/Hermione. It's fucking lame sidekick-syndrome, and I suspect done more for convenience than anything else. Also also, I think touting high school relationships as TWUE WUV is horrid, and a disservice to teenagers everywhere.

Err... yeah. Hate that.

In fact, I hate it so much that I'm tempted to try and write a rebuttal. Maybe I can somehow smoosh it in with my rebuttal of the prequels and write a novel made of nothing but cool shit and RAGE.

But yes, in spite of the rage I am really quite happy. Of all the books, Order of the Phoenix was the only one I couldn't stand, and the last two pretty much made up for it.

Comments

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

Despite my loff for this book, there is some stuff I absolutely hate. A lot of that you've mentioned but I also hated how Ginny is nothing more than set decoration.

Though Molly Weasley versus Bellatrix Lestrange was great.

(Ok! I'm glad the house elf made someone else cry. I felt like an idiot, tearing up over Dobby & Kreacher!)

Maybe I can somehow smoosh it in with my rebuttal of the prequels and write a novel made of nothing but cool shit and RAGE

You know, that's funny. I had this reaction too when I finished the book.

[stillsostrange.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the treatment of Ginny irks me more and more. She really should have dumped his ass for that.

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

It's definitely not cool when Ginny's essentially reduced to being Harry's prize for his good deeds. Ugh.

[mekkavandexter.livejournal.com]

i also find Hermoine's "scullyness" overwhelming. After a while, just STOP BEING SO SKEPTICAL.

the house elf, yeah, misty. Dudley! Misty! Neville's awesome, and Luna. I want a whole book about Luna. The Ginny thing, and Cho being referred to as his girlfriend. I know, high school, but it annoys me.

and mrs weasley calling bellatrix a bitch will make me smile until i am an old woman.

[merebrillante.livejournal.com]

and mrs weasley calling bellatrix a bitch will make me smile until i am an old woman.

Yes, that was very satisfying, in a Sigourney Weaver/Uma Thurman kind of way. :D

[merebrillante.livejournal.com]

Dobby's death was the only one in the whole series that made me cry.

My reaction to the other deaths in this book? She's killing off all the hotties! That BITCH!!!

The epilogue? SUCK! First of all, with them naming all their children after everyone else, I couldn't tell who was talking to who half the time. Second, kee-rist, how ShinyHappyPeople can you get?

And, oh, one glaring pothole plothole -- the person that tipped off Voldemort via Snape that the move was actually taking place the Saturday before was never specified, though it was obvious from the context. It was Harry. Snape knew through Harry. He was the only one who knew in advance that they were planning to go that Saturday, but not that they were planning to make seven different Harrys. I kept waiting for her to explain how Snape found that out, how Snape had been reading Harry's mind, but she never did.

Hrumpf.

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

>the person that tipped off Voldemort via Snape that the move was actually taking place the Saturday before was never specified, though it was obvious from the context...I kept waiting for her to explain how Snape found that out, how Snape had been reading Harry's mind, but she never did.

Reread the Snape's-brain chapter. That was Dumbledore and Dumbledore.

[sovay]

Also, words can't express my disgust for Ron/Hermione. It's fucking lame sidekick-syndrome, and I suspect done more for convenience than anything else.

Their relationship, actually, was the only one that I could believe would have formed in high school and lasted into adulthood: it had all the right kinds of awkwardness and compatibility as opposed to angsty predestination. I couldn't take Harry and Ginny seriously as a permanent couple, or at least not without several years of serious, serious talking (which we were given no reason to believe would take place). Probably for this reason, I was oddly pleased that neither Neville nor Luna was paired off with anyone, although I am fond of watermelontail's prediction that one of the most long-lasting rumors at future Hogwarts is the torrid, if unprovable, affair between Professors Longbottom and Lovegood.