~~ to start with... (HBP post 1/??!)

I really wanted to type up my notes and scan my doodles before I did this, but of course I glanced at my flist and my poor brain was set off on more analytical paths.... Woe. I'll still post my reading diary thingie, if only to run through the whole book in my mind again. I'm really not the rereading sort (that is to say, I've never fully reread anything longer than a short story in my life.)
    So ...Finally, my first still-barely-coherent book overview post. Snape, Dumbledore, Ginny, Draco & the Trio.

( Harry, Snape and Dumbledore. )

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( The Trio. )

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( Ginny and Harry. )

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( Draco, Draco, Draco. )

~~ of death and Harry Potter.

I love Snape.

I just want to put that out there, because it needs to be said.

Much as Draco's my pissy little princess (whom I alternately adore and want to torture), and Harry's my heart in HP, Snape.... He's like that prickly, growly, antisocial hateful bastard you want to dislike but can't, because he's too brilliant and torn and stubborn and loyal and desperately lost. And the most awful thing about him is that he's not nearly as awful as he tries to be. Oh Snape. A lot of the attractions of Tom, but without the raging sociopathy.

I suspect it's only his fanon that was holding me back before.

( More spoilery Snape, Sirius and Harry & Dumbledore. A little tiny bit of Draco. And death, murder, and dismemberment. Because I suspect I am obsessed. )

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Also, omg!! Aaaah, kungfooqueen's H/D art is killing me dead! The snarky love and the fantasy AU love and the canon love through the years and OMG OMG the HBP love!!
    And half-nekkid!Draco is just. Um. Yeah. *fans self* Really makes me wanna write H/D like whoa o_0

And djinniyah's spoilery H/D art is like. Well. If you love H/D even a little, this'll probably make you squee in a frighteningly loud manner. Ahem.