Harry Potter remains awesome

[beboots]

 I... can't help myself. >_> The shinies. They are so pretty. (ALSO: warning, the last one in this list is a (hilarious) SPOILER OF SPOILERS)




I... am irrationally amused by puns, as I think I've said before. >_> 



MOAR PUNS, YOU SAY??



:D



Yeah, that one was bad. I still find it ridiculously hilarious, though. You may judge me for my sense of humour. >_>
(I then had this GLORIOUS GIF of a first year Harry rolling his eyes, but sadly, it does not want to load completely and just loops like he's twitching. :P )





FOREVER



Needed to include this one because Sirius Black is amazing.

And, finally: SNAPE KILLS DUMBLEDORE

Comments

[beboots.livejournal.com]

I think something would have died in all of the fans all over the world if Harry Potter HAD died. She had to make it seem like she COULD kill him, though. All of that hype? I mean, there had to be an actual danger in the reader's mind that Harry might not make it. Reading the Deathly Hallows in the few days after it came out was a magical experience, because almost NOBODY KNEW WHAT WOULD HAPPEN. That won't happen again in such a large scale, ever.

I can't remember where I first heard of it, or even whether I got into it before or after Lord of the Rings. I think it was after. I do remember distinctly going to the small library they had on the military base where my dad worked in Kingston, Ontario, and wanted to check out the first one. They only had the second, and when I went to the nice librarian at the counter to check it out I explained to her that I hadn't read the first one yet and she convinced me to wait and even put it on hold for me. I'm so glad I didn't skip ahead.

After I read them at the library, I got the first three for my birthday (I don't even remember how old I was) and about a year later the Goblet of Fire came out and I saved up my allowance to buy it. :)

Seriously, the kids in the books matured as I did. It's brilliant. I'm going to make my kids read them when they're like ten or so.

[feral-shrew.livejournal.com]

My parents were actually close to naming me Hermione. I think I would have long ago resigned myself to being her clone in everything.

Yeah, those books should wait until the kiddies are old enough to handle somebody dying and unhappy things that don't quite get fixed.

[beboots.livejournal.com]

To be clear, that was way before the first book came out, right? The books like really popularized that name, dragging it away from obscurity. :)

I mean, there was still a lot of death in that last book - even for a fantasy novel, it would be completely unrealistic for everyone to come out completely unscathed, but... yeah. I cried a few times while reading it. The bit where just ONE of the Weasley twins died... the most horrific outcome imaginable. Molly Weasley really did have the most to lose.

That fight she had with Bellatrix Lestrange? Badass.

[feral-shrew.livejournal.com]

I think I was about seven when the first book came out, so all you really had was "Helen of Troy's daughter," and she didn't do anything.

Molly Weasley lost her twin brothers, too, and yeah. Killing ONE was the worst, because of anybody in that family to lose...

[beboots.livejournal.com]

Again, I cried. I also have a twin sister, but that fact probably didn't affect my reaction much.