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Aug. 20th, 2007 07:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
newmoonstarFinished Harry Potter 7. I'm actually quite sad now that it's all finished. It's been quite a long time I've stuck with these, and I do miss the always being able to look forward to a new one. I was kind of bothered at having to read another one when I started it, but now that it's done... you how it is, you don't know what you've got till it's gone! I suppose I'm reasonably happy with how it turned out, the trio all alive and well and only one Weasley dead. But I must say that Fred was the one that bothered me the most. I've long loved Lupin, but I saw it coming a mile away with him. Especially since Sirius died, you just know that all James' old school group was gonna get it eventually. Quite frankly, I'm surprised Lupin and Pettigrew made it as long as they did. And it was nice how he got to have Tonks and a kid and all before he went. But Fred, man, I had a proper fit at that. My Weasleys! I love my Weasleys! I literally cried over it, even more than I did for Dumbledore. It's Fred for heaven's sake! The Weasley twins! *cries some more*
Glad Percy came around though, I knew he would. Percy's always been my special pet character, he's the only one I've written fanfic about (which I never finished!) and I wouldn't have been able to take it if all didn't turn out well with him.
I love that I was right about Snape. Mwahaha. But it was so obvious, wasn't it? If right before he died Dumbledore said, "please Severus" or something to that effect, you just knew he was asking him to go through with killing him, because it was all part of some larger plan, rather than begging him not to. Can you honestly imagine Dumbledore begging for his life from anybody? And after all, I always maintained that if Dumbledore trusted Snape, then so should we all. Dumbledore is never wrong about crap like that. I had figured there would be some great complex reason Snape turned from the dark side, but actually the Lily thing was so simple that it took me by surprise, and it actually makes sense of how he could be on the side of good and still hate Harry so much. And it makes him kind of noble and tragic in a strange way. Still a nasty git, but a noble and tragic nasty git. I never thought I'd ever feel slightly sorry for Snape. And it makes you realize how jerky James and Sirius and their little group were when they were kids. Smug, popular rich brats picking on the poor little weird kid. I think Lily would have been better off alone! She'd still be alive!
One thing that disappointed me some was that I wish the epilogue had dealt more with what happened with some of the other characters, and the wizarding world in general, rather than with Harry & Ginny and Ron & Hermione and their kids. Since they survived, we pretty much already knew they'd hook up and have kids and all that eventually.
But mostly I'm pretty happy with it. I do somehow feel that the end of the saga wasn't as awesome as the beginning had been, and I sat there thinking: "If I had been writing this, I'd have done it like this instead..." but maybe that's because I've been re-writing a story I've been working on so much that I now feel compelled to re-write other people's work! On the whole though, I'm at peace with it, and really do love these characters just as much now as I did before. I've even been toying with the idea of finishing "Percy's Holiday". Fanfic! I know! I must be insane! Or just a proper fan. :)
Glad Percy came around though, I knew he would. Percy's always been my special pet character, he's the only one I've written fanfic about (which I never finished!) and I wouldn't have been able to take it if all didn't turn out well with him.
I love that I was right about Snape. Mwahaha. But it was so obvious, wasn't it? If right before he died Dumbledore said, "please Severus" or something to that effect, you just knew he was asking him to go through with killing him, because it was all part of some larger plan, rather than begging him not to. Can you honestly imagine Dumbledore begging for his life from anybody? And after all, I always maintained that if Dumbledore trusted Snape, then so should we all. Dumbledore is never wrong about crap like that. I had figured there would be some great complex reason Snape turned from the dark side, but actually the Lily thing was so simple that it took me by surprise, and it actually makes sense of how he could be on the side of good and still hate Harry so much. And it makes him kind of noble and tragic in a strange way. Still a nasty git, but a noble and tragic nasty git. I never thought I'd ever feel slightly sorry for Snape. And it makes you realize how jerky James and Sirius and their little group were when they were kids. Smug, popular rich brats picking on the poor little weird kid. I think Lily would have been better off alone! She'd still be alive!
One thing that disappointed me some was that I wish the epilogue had dealt more with what happened with some of the other characters, and the wizarding world in general, rather than with Harry & Ginny and Ron & Hermione and their kids. Since they survived, we pretty much already knew they'd hook up and have kids and all that eventually.
But mostly I'm pretty happy with it. I do somehow feel that the end of the saga wasn't as awesome as the beginning had been, and I sat there thinking: "If I had been writing this, I'd have done it like this instead..." but maybe that's because I've been re-writing a story I've been working on so much that I now feel compelled to re-write other people's work! On the whole though, I'm at peace with it, and really do love these characters just as much now as I did before. I've even been toying with the idea of finishing "Percy's Holiday". Fanfic! I know! I must be insane! Or just a proper fan. :)
