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petronia30 degrees Celsius out. Iced latte, what a lifesaver.
Anyhow I thought I wouldn't talk about HP5, not because of lack of desire per se but, well, adding waterdrops to a deluge. But there are bits I haven't seen anyone mention, so.
Noticeable effort put toward bringing setting into line with the movies and videogames, this time around: the spiral staircase, the house-point hourglasses, the common-room corkboards. Not sure whether these are details the designers dragged out of JKR during the consultation process, or if she just cribbed the bits she thought were nifty.
Major, major points for the way Harry/Cho was handled. Not so much because I like the way Cho was depicted, but of all the pleasantly John Hughesian slash TokiMemo teen-soap clichés I expected the Ginny-Harry-Cho triangle to devolve into, the realism of relational fumbling --> deciding not to give a shit --> dating other people was not one of them. Meanwhile, Hermione Granger narrowly refrains from laughing her head off at the poor saps and points out repeatedly that this is why she and Ron are skipping the whole "dating" step and moving straight to "bickering marrieds", only Harry's too dim to see it. Brilliant.
(Cho BTW is a highly typical, not unlikeable teenage girl of the "popular" subtype. Just that by this point Harry is as emotionally beyond her as he's beyond rivalising with Malfoy.)
Speaking of Harry being too dim to see (in ten years he'll be thinking back and will suddenly stop in the middle of the sidewalk and slap his forehead), all that BLATANTLY CANON Sirius/Remus? I suspect she's doing it on purpose to see if any wacky Bible Belters will burn her book for corrupting little children with crypto-gay. I know, call me crazy, but OotP as a whole exudes an aura of "I'm richer than the Queen of England, go ahead and ask me if I care. No, really, ask" anyway.
(And they won't. They haven't. Equating werewolf-prejudice with HIV-prejudice takes too much lateral thinking for fundamentalists.)
Speaking of which, out of all British celebrities who get their rubbish bins sorted by the tabloids, JKR has it good: she gets to skewer the media mercilessly right back.
Luna Lovegood. Ten bucks say she and her father sit around the house smoking maryjane all day, because no one volunteers for an Evil Lord bossfight that calmly without being stoned.
"Beyond the veil". *groans* Rip my heart out if you like, but have the basic decency not to make screamingly bad puns while you're doing it, kthx.
Always loved the wankcore analysts' theory that Neville was the "shadow hero" of HP, all the while filing it under "nifty but will never find its way into the canon ever". Now it turns out that It Coulda Been Neville, at that (500,000-word AU, baby, here we come). If this goes on I may even start believing in the Redemption of Draco Malfoy.
Phineas Nigellus: the man has style to burn.
Severus Snape: love you dearly. Seek therapy.
Umbridge: hateful but *not* annoying (vid. Lockhart, Skeeter), which for me at least will greatly increase the re-readability of the book.
All of you people saying The Death was unexpected and/or rushed? You're insane. It was more set-up than a Sophocles play. Also, Romeo and Juliet died because of delayed mail, and I have yet to hear anyone complain that the story was pointless. Consistency, j0.
Anyhow I thought I wouldn't talk about HP5, not because of lack of desire per se but, well, adding waterdrops to a deluge. But there are bits I haven't seen anyone mention, so.
Noticeable effort put toward bringing setting into line with the movies and videogames, this time around: the spiral staircase, the house-point hourglasses, the common-room corkboards. Not sure whether these are details the designers dragged out of JKR during the consultation process, or if she just cribbed the bits she thought were nifty.
Major, major points for the way Harry/Cho was handled. Not so much because I like the way Cho was depicted, but of all the pleasantly John Hughesian slash TokiMemo teen-soap clichés I expected the Ginny-Harry-Cho triangle to devolve into, the realism of relational fumbling --> deciding not to give a shit --> dating other people was not one of them. Meanwhile, Hermione Granger narrowly refrains from laughing her head off at the poor saps and points out repeatedly that this is why she and Ron are skipping the whole "dating" step and moving straight to "bickering marrieds", only Harry's too dim to see it. Brilliant.
(Cho BTW is a highly typical, not unlikeable teenage girl of the "popular" subtype. Just that by this point Harry is as emotionally beyond her as he's beyond rivalising with Malfoy.)
Speaking of Harry being too dim to see (in ten years he'll be thinking back and will suddenly stop in the middle of the sidewalk and slap his forehead), all that BLATANTLY CANON Sirius/Remus? I suspect she's doing it on purpose to see if any wacky Bible Belters will burn her book for corrupting little children with crypto-gay. I know, call me crazy, but OotP as a whole exudes an aura of "I'm richer than the Queen of England, go ahead and ask me if I care. No, really, ask" anyway.
(And they won't. They haven't. Equating werewolf-prejudice with HIV-prejudice takes too much lateral thinking for fundamentalists.)
Speaking of which, out of all British celebrities who get their rubbish bins sorted by the tabloids, JKR has it good: she gets to skewer the media mercilessly right back.
Luna Lovegood. Ten bucks say she and her father sit around the house smoking maryjane all day, because no one volunteers for an Evil Lord bossfight that calmly without being stoned.
"Beyond the veil". *groans* Rip my heart out if you like, but have the basic decency not to make screamingly bad puns while you're doing it, kthx.
Always loved the wankcore analysts' theory that Neville was the "shadow hero" of HP, all the while filing it under "nifty but will never find its way into the canon ever". Now it turns out that It Coulda Been Neville, at that (500,000-word AU, baby, here we come). If this goes on I may even start believing in the Redemption of Draco Malfoy.
Phineas Nigellus: the man has style to burn.
Severus Snape: love you dearly. Seek therapy.
Umbridge: hateful but *not* annoying (vid. Lockhart, Skeeter), which for me at least will greatly increase the re-readability of the book.
All of you people saying The Death was unexpected and/or rushed? You're insane. It was more set-up than a Sophocles play. Also, Romeo and Juliet died because of delayed mail, and I have yet to hear anyone complain that the story was pointless. Consistency, j0.
