We come to it at last, the great battle of our time.

[caithream]

Well, let's get to it, then.



It was very good. It was VERY good. I've only been around twice for the book releases, but it still surprises me how cheeky JKR's writing is. Or maybe that's still just a British thing. HAHA. UM. But I laughed an awful lot while reading it. Like the twin's exclamation after the Polyjuice, "Wow, we're identical!" and even after George lost his ear, "Holey. Get it, Fred?" JUST. The twins especially have always been my favorite characters, and when Fred died... oh. That hurt. :(

Okay... for some UTTERLY weird reason, when it was talking about the albino peacock at the Malfoy manor at the beginning and near the end, I thought, ahaha, it was Lucius or something. Like his patronus! Or, I dunno, he's an animangus! Because of his hair, you know, and then SUPER DUH, his animangus would so be something as superficially-focused as a peacock. I DON'T KNOW.

Really, I started crying for reals when Remus and Tonks died, but only, I think, because they had had a baby. (That, too, was one of those times that I literally flailed and physically said, "JAG;A4GOIUAKLDJajgwa;oij!!1" No lie.) And then I started up again during "The Forest Again," because guys, I've said it before and I'll say it again, ANYTHING with family-angst just really tears me apart. "You'll stay with me?" "Until the very end." Ah;o2i3hq;ohg;owiejaslkdfj aaaaahhhh. :(((((

I think I focus on a LOT of different things than most other people who read the books. Like, I'm not an overtly huge Snape fan, so the whole bit with in the pensieve and his death made me kind of smile sadly and move on. I love ANYTHING and everything to do with James and Lily, and even the mauraders, and just, I dunno! I don't neccessarily get my panties in twist if this and this happen, or whatever, I just kind of accept it and move on.

But the Ron and Hermione kiss! AAAAAHHH I MADE STUPID LOUD NOISES!! And it was just because, just because Ron mention the house elves that send Hermione over the edge, and really, that just makes me laugh so hard. EEEE!!

My heart was utterly pounding during the "Battle of Hogwarts" and "The Flaw in the Plan." UGH, JKR. How are you so utterly BRILLIANT? Absolutely amazing.

I KNEW Harry was a Horcrux, I KNEW IT.

Ron was seriously amazing. So much so. And NEVILLE!!!!! HAVE MY CHILDREN, PLEASE.

PERCY!!! UGH I WAS SO RELIEVED EVEN THOUGH HE WAS A HUGE DICK THE MAJORITY OF THE TIME IN THE OTHER BOOKS. :((((

The hiding in the woods stuff was a bit long and drawn out and monotonous, hm. But maybe that's just because I was like, I WANT ANSWERS, I WANT ANSWERSSSSS.

"NOT MY DAUGHTER, YOU BITCH!" A;LGIJAWOIJA;SLDKJFA;LFJ SO MUCH WIN, MOLLY WEASLEY. AJSDFLK;ASDFKLJAS;LDFJ.

Speaking of answers, we did not learn why Harry has his mother's eyes was so significant, other than than Snape wanted to see "Lily's eyes" one last time before he died, D'AW. Nor did we learn a secret about Petunia. Uhhh, there were other things that I was DYING TO KNOW, but I can't remember right now omg.

So, yeah, the epilogue. I'm really kinda... meh about it. I can't put my finger on it, really, just everything except the very very last part just didn't do it for me. Except, you know, OBHWF, and I really, you know, expected Teddy Lupin to be a Very Angry Child, but no, he just likes to think with his downstairs brain, apparently.

Ah man. I seriously can't believe it's over. All things culminated and led to this point. And when we're older with our own children, it's just going to be so WEIRD to say, "You're damn right I read those books, and waited for 'em with more impatience than a kid at Christmas." Seriously amazing. JKR, I owe my first born, and then some.

Hollywood, seriously, DO NOT EFF UP THIS BOOK. Just. DON'T. *Crosses fingers??*

I finished it up at around 12:30 last night and then had to be at work at 7:30 this morning, so that plus days previous of going to bed late and waking up early has made me SUPER EXHAUSTED. Ugh. I don't feel like doing anything.

And omg, things that make me STUPIDLY HAPPY, this fan report of the boys. ;LKJA;DLIAJSDF;LAIWEJA;!!1 Jensen waxing poetic about the Harry Potter phenomenon! JENSEN YOU NERD. And JARED being JARED and ugh, YOU GUYS, I love them so much. And guess what. GUESSWHATGUESSWHAT. I'll be seeing them in, OH, five days time, or so. WHAAAAAAAT.

Last night, just as I was falling asleep, I had the BESTEST IDEA EVER for an SPN fic. Sam and Dean are going to hate me, totally, but I am rubbing my hands together gleefully, HA HA.

And happy birthday to my lovely lovely aerinbrooke!! Hope your day was absolutely WONDERFUL, sweets! ♥!

Comments

[stepliana.livejournal.com]

Nor did we learn a secret about Petunia.

Well, we learned that she was jealous of Lily being a witch, and wanted to go to Hogwarts (and Lily finding out was what drove a wedge between them?), which may have then figured into her treating Harry so badly. And I think that Lily's eyes being important was that they were a constant reminder to Snape that Harry was Lily's child, and this was why he was doing this whole quadruple agent thing.

BUT YEAH SERIOUSLY SO GOOD.

[comically-so.livejournal.com]

FRED! DDDD: Seriously, the twins CRACKED ME UP in this book. The "We're identical!" thing? I probably laughed way too much at that. I think it was a bit slow at parts, but I loved the book too.

That fan report is my new favorite thing ever. I cannot express in mere words how much I love them. aljd aljdaskl jdals;kjda

Speaking of OMG SATURDAY. Has it been all figured out how we're getting to tinted_glass's place? Or, I mean, where it is? I don't know if you've talked to her at all since she said we could stay there...just curious. I'm outta here Thursday evening, so I thought I'd ask now.

Also, do you think we should exchange cell phone numbers? Just in case something happens, like flights get delayed or something? It'd be easier to find each other once you get to the airport. Just a thought. :D

EEEE! CAN'T WAIT!!!

[la-victorienne.livejournal.com]

AH MAH GAH. IT WAS SO AWESUM.

and, omg, geeking jensen makes my birthday THAT much better, okay.

alsdkfjasdlg, thank you for the birthday happies! it's been awesome!

[handlet.livejournal.com]

I don't neccessarily get my panties in twist if this and this happen, or whatever, I just kind of accept it and move on.

Yeah, me too! Going into the book I really, really didn't want Snape to have been in love with Lily, and then he was and I was like, "well, okay." It's only because JKR can do no wrong as far as I'm concerned. :D (In fact, I think I'm even warming up to the epilogue.)

Heh, I started crying over Fred again during my lunch break. OMG, THIS BOOK. So freaking great, and everyone was just amazing.

[believe-thelies.livejournal.com]

"You'll stay with me?"
"Until the very end."

^^^^
KILLED.ME.DED.

[idril-telrunya.livejournal.com]

Ok. ok yes! MOLLY FTW! I was like HOLY SHIT MOLLY!! YOU GO WITH YOUR BAD SELF! Ok so the Snape thing? I actually kind of liked it. I was like awwww. And then at the end? With Albus Severus Potter?!! OK MY HEART! It completely broke. When he said about being named after two of the greatest headmasters of Hogwarts and that one was in Slithern and he was the bravest man he ever met?!! TEARS!! And Snape wanting to look at Lilys eyes one last time. Killed me. AND DOBBY! OK was I the only one who was really upset about that? I was really really upset.

"You'll stay with me?" "Until the very end."
ASDLFKAJLSDKFJALKSJDF So painful. It was just like holy crap. No words.

Ron and Hermione! I made noises too!! Was done so perfect! Not really cheesy and yeah. *LOVES*

AND I LOVE J2!!!!!!! SO CUTE!

[idril-telrunya.livejournal.com]

ME TOO about the Ron and Hermione! We all knew it was gonna happen but I was so excited about it!! Sooooo cute!

OMG IT WILL HIT YOU WHEN YOU GET ON THE PLANE! YAY VIDEOS!! OMG JENSEN! AND JARED! Ok I'm starting to fall a little in love with Jared. Especially after that fan report. Give them love FOR REAL! OMG WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO ASK THEM??!

[starryeyedmagic.livejournal.com]

Oh gosh I cried and cried during "The Forest Again" I couldn't even see the page at one point, hahaha!

And I had to stop reading for 5mins when the Ron/Hermione kiss happened because I was laughing so hard! lololol Hermione's like "house elf rights make me HOTTTTT!"

[heybritney.livejournal.com]

i didnt like the epilogue either, i just felt that like... it didnt give us any information, but it crossed out a lot of stuff we could still dream about - for example, she basically killed off the career choice of headmaster for harry.
it was also really sad about teddy.
i hadn't thought about the peacock thing, but thats a really good idea.
and i was so upset about fred. it was the death that upset me the most.

also
that fan account is AWESOME
and this is the best part i think:

Looking at the back of the DVD case itself, not the sleeve, Jared says, "Wow, we're looking pretty studly there--I'm gonna sign on your face, Jensen."

[stargazertook.livejournal.com]

It is like 3 in the morning and I just finished reading Deathly Hallows and this entire entry with comments. I don't think I can add anything that hasn't already been said. Molly! *heart* Being a mother, I totally can back up her actions. Hermione has weird fetishes, yeah! FRED!!!!!! I think that's the death that upset me the most too. On a side note, when Harry, in the cloak, walks past Ginny, and Ginny is tending to some poor whining injured girl on the Hogwarts grounds, I stopped and said, "KIRSTEN! I found the part you can play in the Harry Potter 7 movie!" Ahahahaha, I'm so weird. The epilogue made me smile, because I think the ones everyone roots for to get together were put together. Wished they had mentioned George though - Maybe he was Victoire's parent, but I'd bet it was Fleur's and Bill's child. I can totally understand why J.K. might have written the epilogue, aside from chippering up the ending -- I think she wanted to prevent anyone from doing something weird with her young characters that she never pictured them doing. However, she's totally left the descendants of them all up for fanfiction I can see the Scorpius/Rose shipping now.

*sigh*

I'm going to bed. Goodnight!

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