Comments | delylah: still more thoughts

delylah

still more thoughts

Jul 18, 2005 23:51

Yeah, I know, you all are getting sick of this. Well, it's either post my thoughts here, or start posting retorts to all the comments I'm reading about what's wrong with this book. Everyone seems to want to talk about what was wrong with it instead of what was right with it. And yeah, I know, I could just stop reading. No, this isn't directed at ( Read more... )

hbp: musings

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huehau July 19 2005, 04:47:42 UTC

Why would Ginny go to all that trouble to feed a love potion to Harry, presumably for months, and yet go out with Dean while she's doing it? If Ginny was feeding Harry a love potion wouldn't she have gone out with Harry? Or are we supposed to believe that Ginny bought a slow acting love potion and she was just biding her time until the potion was working right?

Likewise for Ron and Hermione.

I look forward to seeing how convoluted the Slow Acting Love Potion theory gets in the next few weeks. I think we've found post-HBP equivalent of the Hippogriff of Lurve.

delylah July 19 2005, 04:58:04 UTC

Of course, Ginny and Ron could have simply cast Imperius on Hermione and Harry because they are the Spawn of Satan after all and go about using unforgiveable curses every day.

::headdesk headdesk headdesk headdesk:

dalf July 19 2005, 05:01:07 UTC

Damn those evil nasty scheming Weasleys!

Well I say Ron's love potion must not have worked out that well ..... unless getting attacked by a flock of birds is a singe of true lurve!

madderbrad July 19 2005, 04:57:07 UTC

You may laugh - actually, no, stop, go back to being magnaminous - but a small part of me still hasn't given up on the love potion. Not deliberately done, but maybe some sort of residue, left around from a failed WWW experiment, lurking around the Burrow, causing Harry and Hermione to be attracted to their respective Weasleys. Dammit, stop laughing! I've read a couple of blog entries which have pulled out a few interesting facts out of HBP to support some sort of hanky-panky going on.

I agree that OotP had probably what was enough grieving for Sirius. Fan fiction definitely has spoilt me ... when the Black inheritance was all tied up in five seconds flat I was aghast, thinking of all those fanfics that went into the reading of the will in so much more detail.

That's the frightening part of all of this ... if I hadn't been reading fan fiction avidly the past 13 months ... would I have actually naively *enjoyed* HBP?

*shivers*

delylah July 19 2005, 05:15:23 UTC

I don't know that I would call it "naively" enjoying HBP. I enjoyed HBP, and I don't consider myself naive ( ... )

dalf July 19 2005, 05:19:00 UTC

Even if Ron and Ginny were dead (and the Hr/H people are the only ones that don't like weasleys it seems). Still Harry and hermione could not end up together. They are (based on how I read the books anyway and what JKR has said in at least one interview) more like sister and brother. It would just be ..... incestious. (even if I cant spell it)

madderbrad July 19 2005, 07:53:35 UTC

"naive" is a word I think could have described me-with-no-fan-fiction. The stories I've read the past year have opened my eyes to a *lot* of possibilities I would never have thought of, made me think about all the potential for HBP. It's really been fun 'exercising' what I have for an imagination, guided by the far more able authors out there. I felt let down by HBP only because I'd been thinking big thoughts about what it could have been ... I wouldn't have been thinking those thoughts if I'd been 'naive' and ignorant of the existence of fan fiction ( ... )

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dalf July 19 2005, 04:59:50 UTC

Harry mourning Sirius: He did!!!!! Quite aside from the mess his room was in (if you re-read chapter 3) there is also ... from page 77

"He coudl tell that Dumbledor understood, that he might even suspect that until his letter arived, Harry has spent nearly all his time at the Dursley's lying in his bed, refusing meals, and staring at the misted window, full of chill emptiness that he had come to associate with dementors."

A few weeks of depression ..... we thankfully were only told it happened and did not have to read it.

DD's death: I think that scene in the hospital wind was a bit before such thigns really set in and become real. The Tiara was not about the Tiara it was about the resolution of the conflct that Molly and Fluer (And the fmaily had beenhaving). SO I agree with you 100%

Love potion? ummmm yeaaaaa!

delylah July 19 2005, 05:18:13 UTC

I knew that HBP had referenced Harry's grief in the beginning, but I didn't have my book to quote from (hubby has it in Chicago) so thank you for that. I rest my case. :)

captain_jester July 19 2005, 05:18:58 UTC

Bah. Wuld Dumbledore have wanted people all weepy? No...Dumbledore loved a good laugh. his words at the first start of feast that harry remembered...His built in punishment for peopel trying to sneak past the Age line in GoF. Dumbledore was about not fearing death but embracing it as part of the natural process...(Plus near as I can tell he became a phoeniz at his funeral.

As for the love potion idea. Get over it folks. Ginny has always be described with terms that made me think she was going to be sexy when she got older. Well she's there and she's a full-blown hottie...naturally harry would want this incredibly beautiful woman who shares all of his interests to be his girlfriend...Personally given how long it took him I think it's more lucky he was getting a drop of Felic Felicis a day so he could actually get lucky enough to be with Ginny.

oh well...good night everyone

starbuckx July 19 2005, 06:38:22 UTC

Goodness gracious, just the thought that some of these people might be B/A shippers gives bad names to us B/A shippers everywhere!

delylah July 19 2005, 14:42:52 UTC

:) I started off B/A but wound up C/A at the end.

starbuckx July 19 2005, 21:10:29 UTC

I stopped watching Angel, to be honest. Only ever really watched the first season. :)