Comments | lykaios: A Healthy Dose of Deathly Hallows and Balderdash

lykaios

A Healthy Dose of Deathly Hallows and Balderdash

Jul 25, 2007 23:10

So I wasn't even counting on having read this by now, but by Saturday night my sheep sensibilities kicked in and I read the chapter summaries of HPB on Sparknotes in order to avoid actually reading that one again. (I had forgotten what a horcrux was, SO FUCKING WHAT). I went into it with a sparkling, spoiler-free mind (amazing what not using the ( Read more... )

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glitterdemon July 26 2007, 04:27:43 UTC

Wizard metaphysics is fucking crazy!

<3 This made me laugh. Because it's true.

lykaios July 26 2007, 04:43:38 UTC

I remember reading and thinking, Oh my god! Wizards are dualists! Which isn't exactly unusual, nor is it news, but it just struck me as rather strange all of a sudden. And that's about as deep as I could get into it (horcruxes! make things so complicated).

sodamnquirky July 26 2007, 04:28:50 UTC

meep. oh, sarwah! hold my hand! it's over. ...but wasnt it FANTASTIC?

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lykaios July 26 2007, 04:44:32 UTC

Yes! Hard to believe. Hard to believe I'm saying hard to believe about this, but in short I will hold your hand!

barbyinthegardy July 26 2007, 04:53:53 UTC

i dont see how the remus/tonks disrupted the otp at all. i know he married her and they had sex and whatever, but he didnt seem to like her very much, tried to walk out on her, and only went back because he was shamed into it.

but though i never really cared for tonks her death WAS sad. poor baby! at least he got to snog a veela-weasley, though.

booksandsarcasm July 26 2007, 05:01:05 UTC

Yes, but they are distantly related. *disgusted* or, on the bright side, it might not be Bills' baybeh. :D

booksandsarcasm July 26 2007, 05:12:35 UTC

Ooch. I'm posting too much. But I also don't think that its because lupin didn't love Tonks. More like he was kicking himself for marrying her because she then became an outcast. With the possibility of the baby being a wolfet. ^_^

lykaios July 26 2007, 05:15:05 UTC

I know, but seeing one half of the ole OTP paired with someone else always made me a bit sad, regardless of whether this makes any damn sense.

I wasn't sure what to think about their relationship and how Remus really felt about Tonks. I didn't think their problems were about his disliking her so much as his own ass-load of personal issues. Which I think would follow him around in just about any relationship, never mind the other party, who becomes almost irrelevent. Kinda shitty deal for everyone involved.

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anonymous July 26 2007, 04:55:19 UTC

I hearted the graveyard scene. A bit of it having to do with my shipping preference, but the 99.9% rest was due to Harry FINALLY being able to visit their graveyard. One of the things that did bother me though, was the whole use of the unforgivable curses used by Harry becoming more frequent and less serious. Like crucioing a guy for spiting on a teacher. I mean, punch him? Yes. Kick him in the nads? Fine. Expelliarmus? (spelling? Pshaw) You go girlfriend. But making it feel like twisting screws in the guys body and other various forms of torture? Slow down man! Maybe for some sickos, but, come on Harry! Stuff weasels up his armpits or something! Its a good alternative!

booksandsarcasm July 26 2007, 04:57:29 UTC

: O I wasn't logged in? The above post was mine, sorry.

lykaios July 26 2007, 05:21:24 UTC

I was sort of surprised and intrigued that he did use one, in the end. On the one hand, Unforgivables become practically second nature to people like Bellatrix, and Crabbe and Goyle. For someone like Harry to use one is different (going back to the whole "you've got to mean it" thing), which is not to say it's right or anything. Whether you think it's justified or not, I liked that Rowling showed it's not just the Bad Guys who engage in this kind of thing.

booksandsarcasm July 26 2007, 05:55:45 UTC

I guess my perspective on that is that the unforgivable curses were made to control people in the worst ways. To torture, etc. In other words made to do just plain evil to people. Like the one ring almost. And that was also usable by the good guys if you can recall. €_€

lykaios July 26 2007, 06:05:58 UTC

I appreciate the idea that in all of us there is a capacity to perform those kinds of deeds, though, a threshold behind which normally we wouldn't bring ourselves to do it. At least, we'd like to think we wouldn't. I have to admit, in this context I wasn't troubled by the fact that Harry used one so much as kind of touched by the loyalty he felt toward McGonagall. (My memory's fuzzy - that's who it was, wasn't it?)

Yes, lykaios the moral relativist is going to hell.

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