~~ ootp reading update.

[reenka]

heeeeee. i am so happy. i didn't mean to do this... i mean, i'm in the middle of reading, and why am i stopping, silly really, but. heeeee.

For were there such friends anywhere
As Slytherin and Gryffindor?

!!
heeeeee.
ahem.
i just had to say something at that point :D :D :D
completely stupid and pointless, i know, but it just made me so warm and fuzzy, i had to share.
EDIT - read the rest of the song, heee. gahd, i loveit. finally, the question of why i'm not a hufflepuff can be laid to rest (ahahah, hufflepuffs have no distinctive characteristics, really, do they-- just like i thought! ha!). also, i thought it was touching, and FINALLY, finally the issue has been addressed, finally. wheeee! about goddamned time, isn't it??! i shouldn't be so attached to a silly song, but i really am digging it, 'cause well-- i was waiting for something like it, i think. so yeay.

so, um, i've been loving this book, obviously. loving. it.

i read the 4th to refresh my memory, right before, so i'd only gotten to book 5 yesterday, even though i bought it at midnight of the 21st, along with lady_morsmordre, hehehe. it was -such- a circus at the times square `toys r us', but it was worth it, seeing vlamidala and the gang again, drawing the dark mark on my arm to protest everyone having scars on their forehead (the overabundance of gryffindorishness, i mean), and just generally being silly. heeeee.

anyway, as much as i liked the 4th, i'm adoring this, because it has the added bonus of continuously surprising me and making me cackle 'cause so far, everyone's gotten everything wrong, which is completely delicious, just... priceless. completely priceless. except for percy. percy as a bad apple was a pleasant bit of fanon to become sort-of canon (so far). so yes, all the death-eater!percy fics probably seem more canonical as of page 204, eheheheh.

i loved the description of the ministry, because no one had even come -close- to making it weird and cool like that and yet it sems so natural, so obvious that it'd have to be, considering everything else in jkr's world. i love, adore and worship pissy!harry. yeay! he's not a wet sock-- he's not moping weepily, he's frustrated and angry, like a normal(ish) boy! yeay!! he's not suicidal! he's angry and petulant and snappish and yet still all heroic-like! I'M SO HAPPY!

i love that ginny is like, a normal girl (for a weasley) and no longer fainting over harry and yet she's not distant from him and yet not rebelling and wearing black lipstick! YEAY! i love that mrs weasley isn't just all warm and cuddly and yelling about inconsequential things anymore, and is a part of the serious stuff. cool. i love pissed-off-and-trapped-useless!sirius, what a great characterization and i haven't seen it anywhere, so YEAY!!

and where do i even BEGIN with sirius' house and history??! because there are no words. part of it is because it makes total complete sense and part of it is glee 'cause no one's thought of it, ahahah. and needless to say, i'm overjoyed that sirius and narcissa are cousins. DIE SIRIUS/NARCISSA, DIEEEEEEE!!!

the first dead (het) ship out of all this, and i should've had a toast. obviously, no slash ship could really die 'cause it was never really alive, in the normal sense. so i mean, h/d -can't- die. i'm a necrophiliac anyway, but only when it comes to h/d, eheheheh. and omg, i was so, "sirius & remus are fucking" the whole time with the house. i'm hopeless.

obviously, my fascination with the blacks isn't entirely 'cause i'm happy to see sirius/narcissa die a horrible oh-so-tragic death. i find it fascinating 'cause obviously this'll give birth to a load of fic, and that seems like a good thing. good, -good- fodder, man. mmmmmmm. ahahah, it's funny, considering my favorite sirius characterization was `drawing down the moon', where he's a mudblood. funny, huh?

i love how, unlike with the fourth book, the fifth is a direct and closely-tied sequel to book 4, so i -did- need to remember it well, after all. i love black house, did i mention that? that was a bit draggy, but such a wealth of info, i mean.... yes. the characterization of sirius (and harry) there was just priceless.

i find it fascinating that harry can see the horses. heee. makes sense though, doesn't it. i was like, YEAY when ron was prefect 'cause GODDAMN no one thought of that, and i've read a lot of fic, man. i love creepily-distant!dumbledore. heeeeee. anyway, ron-as-prefect makes a weird sort of "everything is topsy-turvy now" sense. and i LOVE that harry was being aggressive to draco on the train, so yeay. more aggressive!harry, please, thank you <333333333333

i was -so- chortling with glee over fleur-and-bill, man, that's just priceless (overusing that word, aren't i), and OH MY GOD, i just remembered the little reference in book 4 where she was checking him out). i can only imagine how many little clues like that we've missed!! heeeeee!!

i don't quite like tonks, but she's ok. i like moody a lot (i was rather sad that wasn't the "real" moody, 'cause i quite liked the impostor too, heee). in book 4, draco was rather adorable, i decided on consideration, until that last bit on the train. i dunno what it is. i thought ron was adorable too, so i mean, you can't trust me. not to mention i thought moody was adorable, so you REALLY can't trust me. i thought book-5!sirius was adorable (so far), or at least i want to cuddle him and stroke his fur (as snuffles). they're really being rather mean to him-- or at least totally insensitive, rather like they're being to harry. 'course, harry's better at pretending than sirius.

i dunno what i think about luna so far. when i saw "lovegood" i was like, OH PLEASE LET THIS NOT BE THE LOVE INTEREST, eheheh, 'cause that's just sad, if it were that obvious. i was afraid tonks was the love interest too, so obviously you can't trust me ^^; i think i'll like luna -and- tonks if they're not the love interest ^^;;

anyway. really rather liked all the excitement with the dementors. hee. i dunno why, i'm an adventure-loving dork sometimes.
mrs black is adorable as his mum. heeeeeee. and i'm STILL so chuffed blacks and malfoys are related and the blacks are a lot -like- the malfoys, i just can't even describe. i mean, this isn't like the "good" guys and the "bad" guys very much, then, is it. not as clear-cut as it was, anyway. so i'm all happy. i mean, if harry has to deal with the blacks being not much different from the malfoys... it just seems like a good direction for his thoughts to wander.

there's a weird increase in neville-presence, but i suppose that makes sense. hee. i guess i'm running out of steam.

really, i just wanted to squee over the gryffindor-slytherin friendship thing, even though it's a stupid song, it's SYMBOLIC, i tell you, SYMBOLIC. ahahahah <3

YOU KNOW HE LOVES HIM (AND HE'LL BE DOGGING HIS FOOTSTEPS, POOR LOVE-STRUCK FOOL). heeeee.
ahem. i'll shut up now. i think i needed to get that out. heeee.

EDIT - except, i guess, also that i'm continuously delighted at jkr's display of logic in everything in terms of characterization and plotting. we've speculated for -so- long about what will happen, and so far -all- of it has been completely following smoothly from preceding events and situations. especially because jkr tends to be clear about the emotions and motivations unless they're part of the mystery, it just seems weird that so many of these things were never quite guessed correctly, because in the end all of them use a sort of simple logic, it seems. harry's reception when first returned to hogwarts, his feelings at the dursleys', the ministry's continuous reaction-- all of it makes complete and utter sense. i feel a bit ashamed that so many fics had totally missed the train with so many of these things, because they just-- well-- seem elementary. but really, i'm just so happy to see it all work out. i've heard people say they might rebel if the characterizations don't jibe with their own attained ideas of harry & the gang. and i can't imagine how that might be so for anybody, because it's blindingly clear that even though so much fanfic delves so much deeper into the subconscious desires and the roots for behavior for harry & draco & ron & hermione, they don't really tend to attain this sort of straightforward sensibleness most of the time, which i find so necessary and refreshing.

we've all been going on about the art and craft of extrapolation, how to deduct possible behavior from the characters' previous actions and emotions. and i have to say, that's what -jkr- is doing too, and i think a lot of it could've been deduced without any foreknowledge of the plot like she obviously has as the actual author. a lot of it seems like simple, old-fashioned extrapolation, just like in fanfic, except she's writing fic based on her -own- fic, and extrapolating with the benefit of more in-depth familiarity-- which a reader could also attain with a careful enough reading. just putting 2 and 2 together, so much of it, really, so very much of it. anyway. i suppose you could say that this is what being the actual author is all about, but i'm just happy at finally seeing some follow-through on all these things-- because it seems like the fanfic-writers just didn't -care- enough, probably, to pay attention to all these threads, to watch -all- directions, however unexciting they might be (like the motivations of the ministry, of dumbledore, of sirius, blahblahblah and how that would influence harry).

i don't know if we couldn't have guessed a lot of this, if only we'd have paid more attention to all directions, been thorough about tying -all- the threads together. i mean, obviously that might be too much to ask-- but it's just the books are -so- much like a puzzle, much more so than your usual piece of writing. they -could- be deciphered independently, i'm sure of it. and i'm just so pleased to see it the way it's supposed to be done, sort of like it's teaching me something-- how to see plot in a more comprehensive way-- as i go along. i've had so many moments where i went, "OH, OF COURSE, NATURALLY!". i wonder if it's just me-- probably not.

so far, it seems to be unfolding the -only way- it could unfold if you consider -all- the variables. and that's really saying something, considering all the rather convincing 5th year fics out there. but all of them pick 2 or 3 threads to follow-- 7 at most-- while this has a dozen or more, and all of them influence each other. even -disregarding- new characters completely, i feel so many frequently passed-over -old- threads being tapped. mmm.
~~

erm. anyway. i'm still incommunicado, not receiving any comments made, not checking this lj's email. i REALLY don't want to distract myself from the book. it's awkward, reading it, since my mum's here for my birthday and i haven't had as much time to myself as i'd like, so. it's moving slower than it would otherwise, but it's moving. i won't be back until i've finished -and- digested, though. i can only -imagine- going through 5 days (or so) worth of my friends list, but i'll um... manage.

loff and bouncy squees to everybody, 'cause i'm just that gleeful right now. THEIRLOVEISSOHISTORICAL!! >:O

Comments

[rhiannon333.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday!

I know you will enjoy the rest of OotP, and best wishes for your birthday.

Megan

[slinkhard.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday!
You know you HATE FAKE!MOODY! HE WAS AN ANIMAL TORTURER!
Mhm, Draco will be dogging Harry, doggy style.
I think I may need to lie down.

[greenapricot.livejournal.com]

I'm late but, Happy Birthday all the same.

And
For were there such friends anywhere
As Slytherin and Gryffindor?

I squeed madly over that too.

[starlitefaerie.livejournal.com]

Everyone else here seems to be wishing you a happy birthday so, uh, yeah. happy birthday!

THEIRLOVEISSOHISTORICAL!!

so true. *nods head* and c'mon, didn't you just die at dudley's comment in the beginning and the h/d git conversation? *swoons*