DUMBLEDORE OMG YAYE OMG THIS BOOK PWNZ SIMPLY ON VIRTUE OF DUMBLEDORE AND HIS LACK THEREFORE.
Seriously, I flipped a shit at how awesome the Dumbledore family stuff was. Magical insanity! A really cool goat-fucker! A haughty muggle-born mother and a father in Azkaban. The most brilliant wizard of his age with a wand called the Deathstick. The rest of the book could have been nothing but the epilogue and I would have loved it for this stuff.
The only thing that could have made it better was if she had realized what she HAD to do and put him in Slytherin. But alas, I forgive and will see Slytherin!Dumbledore and warm fuzzy socks in my Mirror of Erised.
The Ron/Hermione didn't bother me either. Instead of JKR coming at it as "this is obvious to me and I will show you why over and over again and poorly" she took it as given and it was just there. It was nice that way and undistracting.
I was expecting the Snape/Lily and I was expecting to hate it. But the fact that they were lifelong friends who had a falling out (and he was in love with her) was much better than what I was expecting, AND explained some Petunia stuff I'd been wanting to know about.
Yes, there are PLENTY of things I disliked, but since a good chunk of the book was Dumbledore and omg we met Grindelwald and they were friends!111! and DUMBLEDORE and omg DUMBLEDORE I can forgive so very much.
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Date: 2007-07-24 02:07 am (UTC)Seriously, I flipped a shit at how awesome the Dumbledore family stuff was. Magical insanity! A really cool goat-fucker! A haughty muggle-born mother and a father in Azkaban. The most brilliant wizard of his age with a wand called the Deathstick. The rest of the book could have been nothing but the epilogue and I would have loved it for this stuff.
The only thing that could have made it better was if she had realized what she HAD to do and put him in Slytherin. But alas, I forgive and will see Slytherin!Dumbledore and warm fuzzy socks in my Mirror of Erised.
The Ron/Hermione didn't bother me either. Instead of JKR coming at it as "this is obvious to me and I will show you why over and over again and poorly" she took it as given and it was just there. It was nice that way and undistracting.
I was expecting the Snape/Lily and I was expecting to hate it. But the fact that they were lifelong friends who had a falling out (and he was in love with her) was much better than what I was expecting, AND explained some Petunia stuff I'd been wanting to know about.
Yes, there are PLENTY of things I disliked, but since a good chunk of the book was Dumbledore and omg we met Grindelwald and they were friends!111! and DUMBLEDORE and omg DUMBLEDORE I can forgive so very much.