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I'm putting my order for a cosmic favor in early: When the 7th movie finally comes out there needs to be a vid, featuring clips from all of the movies (especially the last few) cut together with clips of Rowling's appearances and interviews and what not... Set to "I Can't Decide" by the Scissor Sisters. Can somebody do that for me, O Great High Pubah of Teh Internets?
Carrying on (with the proviso that I loved all of it, no matter how much I pout), this will be easier in list format.
Things That I Saw Coming Pre-Release:
Things That I Saw Coming While Reading
Things That Made me Go "Wha?"
Other Favorite or Otherwise Notable Bits
This list of things may get updated later as I remember more. I may even become semi-articulate! (Which is rather a lot the ask of someone who only had two hours of sleep last night.)
Speak to me, for I fear that any attempt to find a Harry Potter conversation already in progress may damage my grades due to severe time-wasting! Please? I wanna gossip! I have bunnies! (No, really! They're little and cute and are about why Sirius ran away from his parents when he was sixteen. There's a Muggle girl involved...)
I'm putting my order for a cosmic favor in early: When the 7th movie finally comes out there needs to be a vid, featuring clips from all of the movies (especially the last few) cut together with clips of Rowling's appearances and interviews and what not... Set to "I Can't Decide" by the Scissor Sisters. Can somebody do that for me, O Great High Pubah of Teh Internets?
Carrying on (with the proviso that I loved all of it, no matter how much I pout), this will be easier in list format.
Things That I Saw Coming Pre-Release:
The Motorcycle. Love this to itty-bitty bits - on the basis of the first book alone, Harry kind of had to leave the Dursley's the same way he got there. Adding that it was one of Sirius' most prized possessions and we never found out what happened to it, there really wasn't any other way to start this book. Plus I love motorcycles, so that means it had to show up, right? ;)
Trip to Godric's Hollow. For similar reasons the motorcycle had to come back. Partly for symmetry, bringing the story back to where it started; partly for the Big Finish, making sure every major location or event from the earlier books played some part in how the last one turned out.
Motivations of Snape. Oh, I so called the Lily thing by the fourth book - most were with me after OotP, although there were a few who took a while to be convinced that no, he didn't join Dumbledore out some whacked-out sense of altruism (*cough*moss6886*cough*). I'll admit to being one of the few who were on the fence about what side he'd be on by the end, but I'd been leaning towards the Dumbledore side just because making him a plain-dealing villain after all these years would have been too easy - and J.K. never does it the easy way.
Aberforth. Umm... it's possible that barkeep-guy's identity was revealed in the 6th book and I just don't remember it, but even if that is the case I still called it right after he was introduced in more vague terms (actually a friend predicted that one, I just agreed).
The Continued Ambiguity of Family Malfoy (or, Whatever Happened to the Murdering Psychopaths You Could Trust with Your Children?). For whatever reason, Moss was very fond of this plotline. More to the point, she was glad that JKR took that route with the characters. Not saying that I disliked the arc, I thought it worked quite well, but I also don't think that it's that remarkable because that was the only truly workable plotline available for them.
Harry-the-Horcrux. I wasn't too sure about this one, but turns out I was on the right track. Cool.
Trip to Godric's Hollow. For similar reasons the motorcycle had to come back. Partly for symmetry, bringing the story back to where it started; partly for the Big Finish, making sure every major location or event from the earlier books played some part in how the last one turned out.
Motivations of Snape. Oh, I so called the Lily thing by the fourth book - most were with me after OotP, although there were a few who took a while to be convinced that no, he didn't join Dumbledore out some whacked-out sense of altruism (*cough*
moss6886*cough*). I'll admit to being one of the few who were on the fence about what side he'd be on by the end, but I'd been leaning towards the Dumbledore side just because making him a plain-dealing villain after all these years would have been too easy - and J.K. never does it the easy way.Aberforth. Umm... it's possible that barkeep-guy's identity was revealed in the 6th book and I just don't remember it, but even if that is the case I still called it right after he was introduced in more vague terms (actually a friend predicted that one, I just agreed).
The Continued Ambiguity of Family Malfoy (or, Whatever Happened to the Murdering Psychopaths You Could Trust with Your Children?). For whatever reason, Moss was very fond of this plotline. More to the point, she was glad that JKR took that route with the characters. Not saying that I disliked the arc, I thought it worked quite well, but I also don't think that it's that remarkable because that was the only truly workable plotline available for them.
Harry-the-Horcrux. I wasn't too sure about this one, but turns out I was on the right track. Cool.
Things That I Saw Coming While Reading
Ron Getting the Sword. Nothing much to say here. Harry found the pond-with-sword, and all I could think was "Yup, Ron's going to be showing up in the next couple pages." And Viola! there he was. Speaking of, Ron's a grownup in this book. That makes me sad, yet strangely proud. Poor, grown-up Ron...
Death of Lupin. Being pseudo-forewarned did not help, BTW. *meep* I figured something bad was going to happen as soon as he said Tonks was pregnant, but managed to put my metaphorical fingers in my metaphorical ears and go "lalalalala" (metaphorically, of course). But when he hopped into Bill's house all proud-papa-y and grinning like a loon, I knew there was no way he'd survive the book. ::<3's Moony:: No surprise that Tonks went with him, she's an Auror and Sirius' cousin, no way was she going to let hubby (or Harry) charge into battle without her, baby notwithstanding. ::<3's Tonks, too::
Death of Lupin. Being pseudo-forewarned did not help, BTW. *meep* I figured something bad was going to happen as soon as he said Tonks was pregnant, but managed to put my metaphorical fingers in my metaphorical ears and go "lalalalala" (metaphorically, of course). But when he hopped into Bill's house all proud-papa-y and grinning like a loon, I knew there was no way he'd survive the book. ::<3's Moony:: No surprise that Tonks went with him, she's an Auror and Sirius' cousin, no way was she going to let hubby (or Harry) charge into battle without her, baby notwithstanding. ::<3's Tonks, too::
Things That Made me Go "Wha?"
Dobby. Oh, Dobby.
"NOT MY DAUGHTER, YOU BITCH!" Daaammn. The first fully spelled-out swear word in the series, and Molly Weasley gets to say it? And she's a duelist?
lml -_- lml
"NOT MY DAUGHTER, YOU BITCH!" Daaammn. The first fully spelled-out swear word in the series, and Molly Weasley gets to say it? And she's a duelist?
lml -_- lml
Other Favorite or Otherwise Notable Bits
Ron rescuing Harry getting the sword of Gryffindor
Hermione beating up Ron after the whole rescue-and-sword thing, and pouting because she didn't have her wand.
Sirius' room (and the letter from Lily).
OMG they killed Fred! Those bastards!!! (Um, this is a "notable" not a "favorite." Just thought I should clear that up.)
Dudley's goodbye.
They really did manage to get everyone in on that battle, didn't they? Cool. (Special attention to Neville kicking ass and the herd of attack desks. And Grawp.)
Neville's Gran.
Harry's death procession, with the ghosts of Lily and James and Sirius and Remus... *sniff*
Hermione beating up Ron after the whole rescue-and-sword thing, and pouting because she didn't have her wand.
Sirius' room (and the letter from Lily).
OMG they killed Fred! Those bastards!!! (Um, this is a "notable" not a "favorite." Just thought I should clear that up.)
Dudley's goodbye.
They really did manage to get everyone in on that battle, didn't they? Cool. (Special attention to Neville kicking ass and the herd of attack desks. And Grawp.)
Neville's Gran.
Harry's death procession, with the ghosts of Lily and James and Sirius and Remus... *sniff*
This list of things may get updated later as I remember more. I may even become semi-articulate! (Which is rather a lot the ask of someone who only had two hours of sleep last night.)
Oh, and Moss and I went to see OotP on Saturday (Book 7 was waiting for us when we got home). It was good. Still not quite as good as PoA - it felt rather abridged - but close. Luna was amazing, Grawp was charming, the banter was good, Cho wasn't nearly as irritating as she was in the books... I've got a couple criticisms, but the only ones that spring to mind at the moment are that Bellatrix was just a little too crazy, and that Sirius' death almost completely lacked a certain angst-inducing factor that the book was laced with (which left me unfit for conversation for about three hours... Can you guess who my favorite character is?)
ETA: Ooh! And they got a real dog for Padfoot finally! It's the perfect dog - a smallish wolfhound I think. Also I kept getting distracted by Sirius' tattoos, despite the wrongness of ogling Gary Oldman.
ETA: Ooh! And they got a real dog for Padfoot finally! It's the perfect dog - a smallish wolfhound I think. Also I kept getting distracted by Sirius' tattoos, despite the wrongness of ogling Gary Oldman.
Speak to me, for I fear that any attempt to find a Harry Potter conversation already in progress may damage my grades due to severe time-wasting! Please? I wanna gossip! I have bunnies! (No, really! They're little and cute and are about why Sirius ran away from his parents when he was sixteen. There's a Muggle girl involved...)
