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Chapter 34: The Forest Again

Jul 05, 2011 19:59

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ohsequins July 6 2011, 00:07:02 UTC

God, this chapter. What can I even say? The emotions are just so palpable, I'm not sure I've ever empathised with a literary character more than I do with Harry here, and of course I've never been in a situation anything like this. That's why Jo did such an excellent job with this chapter. You feel everything. Like when Harry remarks upon the quickening of his heartbeat, mine speeds up to match his every time. Even knowing that it's all going to be all right does nothing to calm my nerves.

acmeeoy July 6 2011, 00:35:38 UTC

There are some books that I have a hard time slogging through since they don't have that insight or detail in the characters' mind.

omgawz_jaimee July 6 2011, 00:36:15 UTC

basically.

ceebeegee July 6 2011, 04:02:19 UTC

Even knowing that it's all going to be all right does nothing to calm my nerves.

THIS. No matter what, I cry every time I read this chapter. Every. Time.

Good storytelling puts you IN THE MOMENT. It doesn't matter if you know how it ends. You're still IN THE MOMENT.

sodoesrachael July 6 2011, 00:16:43 UTC

*SOOOOOOOOOB*

acmeeoy July 6 2011, 00:36:18 UTC

Alternate plan: drowning Voldy in reader tears!

sodoesrachael July 6 2011, 01:29:28 UTC

It would have worked.

sodoesrachael July 6 2011, 00:18:49 UTC

I cried So. Hard. the first time I read this chapter. Oh god. Going to your death? Knowing that you've been kept alive to die at the right moment? How does someone even process that? And yet, he does it...

OH HARRY, HOW SO AMAZING???? ILU SO, SO MUCH.

I just. I can't even. This chapter. I can't.

acmeeoy July 6 2011, 00:37:41 UTC

I'm now comparing Harry facing death to another character in a show I've watched whose just Heroic Sacrificed.

ohsequins July 6 2011, 00:40:23 UTC

OH HARRY, HOW SO AMAZING???? ILU SO, SO MUCH.
I know, right? Like, these people aren't even real and yet they give me so much faith in human goodness and the strength of love and bravery. I wish I was an eighth as amazing as Harry.

sansastark July 6 2011, 01:39:43 UTC

OH HARRY, HOW SO AMAZING???? ILU SO, SO MUCH.

ugh i so agree. obviously we've seen harry is a good person but the way he handles everything in this chapter in particular just shows so much growth and what an amazing selfless human he is.

acmeeoy July 6 2011, 00:26:47 UTC

- I thought Harry landed on his feet, judging on how the last chapter ended ( ... )

superjesster July 9 2011, 15:12:38 UTC

- I know Colin's death is a sad moment, but then I remember how his actor had shot up and the scene, if played out in the movie, won't definitely bring to mind "tiny in death."
Colin won't even be in the movie (the actor didn't want to do the movies anymore apparently?). They're killing that Nigel Wespurt kid instead.

sodoesrachael July 6 2011, 00:31:34 UTC

Finally, the truth. Lying with his face pressed into the dusty carpet of the office where he had once thought he was learning the secrets of victory, Harry understood at last that he was not supposed to survive. His job was to walk calmly into Death's welcoming arms. Along the way, he was to dispose of Voldemort's remaining links to life, so that when at last he flung himself across Voldmort's path, and did not raise a wand to defend himself, the end would be clean, and the job that ought to have been done in Godric's Hallow would be finished: Neither would live, neither would survive.

*tremble tremble sob*

acmeeoy July 6 2011, 00:38:24 UTC

He just takes it. Like that.