i'm never changing who i am

[parkergray]

I don't even know what to do with myself.

Pumpkins, please talk to me. How are you processing it? Do we need a twelve step program?

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[eibbil_libbie]

For the most part? I feel vindicated for everything I believed and continue to believe even in light of the way canon went.

It erases a little of the infamous Interview of Doom sting, and I have happy mental pictures of the "I just bit into a lemon" expressions on a few faces. For now? I'm good with that.

And I feel like I need a very large drink, preferably vodka-based.

[parkergray]

That pretty much sums it up right there.

This doesn't affect my love of H/H, or canon (because I was one of the few pumpkins who loved and adored every single bit of Deathly Hallows, apart from the epilogue) at all. But. WE WERE RIGHT.

[heidi8]

I only have rum (here in front of me; I can go downstairs for the Absolut).

[parkergray]

Well, you know my absolute CRAZY on this matter. I sort-of have massive Ron problems that, surprisingly, have nothing to do with the shippy stuff.

But H/H is my absolute, to the pain, OTP. And to get vindication from JK herself, after all this time?

I honestly don't know how to process it. Besides screaming at Jeremy (and Sophie) 'I WAS RIGHT. I WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING.' Seriously - we spent the day together (it was our 2nd anniversary) and we were in the middle of watching Frozen when I got the news. And I couldn't find the words to explain it. Besides the aforementioned screaming. Which caused Sophie to look at Jeremy and say, 'Dad, I think she's even weirder than you are.' Hahahahaha.

[parkergray]

See, I never identified with Hermione. I was not the weird, smart girl. I was...Ginny. From the small glimpses we got of her, at least. And because she was never really included in canon, I was able to give her the personality that I wanted to give her.

And I love Hermione, but she's...intense. Ariana and I always used to joke that she was going to get Harry through everything, even if she had to kill Voldemort with her bare hands to do it. And she would have! Hahahaha.

Oh, Potter. You still give me all the feelings.

[beege22]

I'm not too bothered. This just confirms something I was always sure of anyway - I blocked out the epilogue a long time ago. If anything, it makes reading H/Hr fics more enjoyable, especially the ones in which Harry and Hermione get together post epilogue* - since that is now almost canon.

And okay, I admit, seeing some of the more stubborn canon shippers have meltdowns is just a bit fun.

P.S: And if this leads to an upsurge in H/Hr fic, that certainly wouldn't be a bad thing.

*A type of story which is now almost a complete subgenre in potter fic.

[parkergray]

I am feeling slightly drunk on vindication.

And I might have 7k of post-epilogue fic sitting on my laptop right now...

[ladyaeryn]

OMG you tease! *wants*

[beege22]

Pleeeeeeease post?

Drunk on vindication just about covers it. For me, what's really vindicating is not the issue of ships but her acknowledgement that her personal reasons for writing the canon pairings were pretty much what the portion of fandom that didn't agree with them has always suspected.

I'm not going to run around being a smug prick at canon shippers, because HP fandom has had enough of that, but here and now I'm going to indulge one moment of meanness:

There's only one way to describe the posts underneath the article by the canon shippers - Delusional.

[photosinensis]

I thought the Great Shipping War was over.

I guess I thought wrong.

[parkergray]

VINDICATION IS MINE.

Just imagining the hair-pulling and wailing right now is enough for me. SUCK ON IT, BITCHES.

[heidi8]

This is for y'all:

[parkergray]

Brilliant!