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[reenka]

I'm only posting the things I can't bear not to say RIGHT NOW.


...I just could never hope that what I wanted from Harry & Draco post-OoTP could be finally (finally!) given to me by canon instead of an H/D fanfic.

Draco's got his. I was literally so happy I cried.

I just. Thank you, JKR.

That is all.

PS. No, I mean. I'm a bit WTF though, I must admit. I... it... I mean.

This. I refused to hope for this. Refused. And people have been semi-spoiling me so I don't even -know- (not for sure), but just going the way it's going and JUST Draco getting one up on Harry and JUST Harry obsessing over him and omg JUST JUST JUST JUST AAAAH. I can't even.

I was just thinking, actually, reading the last chapter of `Eclipse' right before HBP, that I don't need H/D actual slash-- that the tension and the UST and the preslashy intensity between them is what I adore and come back for. And. Well.

HELLO, BOOK 6!!1oaiufdlak;jflamkjglmjfsd

PPS. I keep thinking that Draco could've hexed him much worse than he did-- could've really hurt him, and didn't. Didn't. Went for the personal, for the violent, which he never does-- Draco doesn't do violence. Oh. Just. Oh. My. God.

And Harry hates him more than ever :D :D :D Oh, I am so happy. I. Wow. This feels more like my birthday than my birthday did :D

...You know, some H/D shippers I know have claimed that H/D could only make sense post-Hogwarts. And who proved them wrong? Yep. JKR. Oh man oh man.

I wouldn't actually be surprised if after that promised epilogue at the end of book 7 it became clear that H/D could only work well -in- Hogwarts.

Comments

[bookshop.livejournal.com]

YES YES YES THIS IS WHAT I DID ALL DAY YESTERDAY. including all the OMG. ...WTF? WTF? WHAT AM I READING? WTF?

Reena, it just gets better and better and better and SO MUCH FUCKING BETTER.

i'm not kidding, chapter 24 on is just.

This is H/D fanfic, Reena. IN CANON. I CANNOT EVEN FIND WORDS. adkfljasf;asfsfsflasf.

...!

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

(....because I had to take a break. TO WRITE SOME HORRID SAP FLUFF OMG WTF??! IT DOESN'T EVEN MAKE SENSE, OMG WHAT HAVE I COME TO??!)




- Draco Malfoy's Lucky Day -

It was sunshiny out, and Harry thought he smelt the pleasant combination of wildflowers, the sweet polish of his broom, and something else. Something else he didn't think about.

Draco was sprawled next to him, shirt open a few buttons, half-dozing on Harry's lap. Harry was stroking Draco's hair slowly, trying not to think of it as 'grooming', because that would've made him groan, and he felt too good. Entirely too good.

Draco hadn't said anything in a while, but he didn't need to, and in enough ways, Harry still preferred he didn't. They had an still-fragile understanding like this, and he was loath to threaten it.

Harry leaned back, his hand slowing further against Draco's gleaming hair, and sighed. Who'd have thought? No one, and least of all himself. Suddenly, he laughed-- the sheer incredulous joy bubbling over.

This wasn't obsession at all. He'd accidentally taken the potion, he'd figured that much out early enough. But this wasn't obsession; it was contentment.

He leaned down with a sense of newfound purpose and-- missed-- kissing right below Draco's eye.

Draco squinted up warily, mouth quirking up at one corner only slightly. He was too content to manage a proper smirk, it seemed. Harry felt pleased with himself, really.

"What was that for, Potter?" he drawled, with only slight irritation.

"I felt lucky," Harry said.

Re: ...!

[bookshop.livejournal.com]

AHHHHHHHHH. Oh Reena.

"I got lucky," Harry said, because Draco Malfoy was within earshot. OR WHATEVER THAT LINE SAID. Just. YAY.

I have every faith in the world that book 7 will open with a scene like this:

Harry: *glower* *thinks about Draco's sleek blond head*
Draco: *icy stare* As I've been thrown out of the DE league I've decided I might as well help you find the last horcrux, as you're so incompetent Rowling will have to extend her book contract otherwise.
Harry: *glower* Fine. But only because I have to learn to love your humanity in order to defeat the Dark Lord.
Draco: *flutter* If you'll do some exploring, I believe you'll find my humanity is very loveable, Potter.

Re: ...!

[shaggirl.livejournal.com]

<33333!

[sarahtales.livejournal.com]

OMGYES IT GETS SO MUCH BETTER OH REENA I LOVE HIM SO MUCH THE INCREDULOUS JOY WILL NEVER END.

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

I HOPE YOU MEAN YOU LOVE HARRY TOO :)) <3

...is Snape getting any love?
I'm starting to wonder ^^;

[black-dog.livejournal.com]

You know it's making Harry crazy to watch Pansy stroking Draco's hair. Um, in that totally unacknowledged, dissacociated way of being crazy that Harry has. :)

Won't spoil you further, having just finished.

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

*laughs* Is it even possible to spoil me further than everyone's been doing? ^^;; *cowers under the onslaught of well-meaning spoilerage* ^^;;; I have seriously taken to focusing on like, Snape, just to ignore the constantly screaming H/D fangirls in my mind. It's like a Greek chorus now, I swear. :)) I think the effect is similar to poking a tiny hole in the door when there's a flood outside o_0

...But I'm totally with you about the stroking. :D :D
Harry is just.
I'm very WTF but in a good way. I've actually written Harry like this before, which is hilarious, really. I am really happy you're not screaming gleefully at me, too. *cowers a bit*

[black-dog.livejournal.com]

I am really happy you're not screaming gleefully at me, too.

Well, I'm waiting until you finish the book, first. Which seems only polite. :)

Although I probably won't be screaming, you know. Just pitching the meta, in a deceptively decorous way!

I definitely like this Harry, though. And I hope that saying that is not too spoilery. He reminds me of earlier-Harry in his greater self-containment, although there's more inside than there used to be, and he seems to be reflecting sometimes, not just repressing.

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

And she's *smirking* as she does it, in Harry's view. Like she thinks everybody should be jealous. Well, he isn't jealous! No sir!

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

He's too busy staring at Draco's shiny hair to be -jealous- :D

[black-dog.livejournal.com]

He's not remotely wishing Draco's head was in his lap. Nope, nope, nope. He just wants to see "where Draco comes all the time" and "what he does inside you." I <3 repressed!voyeur!Harry. :D

[bookshop.livejournal.com]

from Friday night, 2 am-ish--Orphne had not gotten the book yet and was loudly demanding to be spoiled, so I spent many hours typing things to her while reading along, which led to many moments like this.

murmur_maid: "Harry lay curled uncomfortably under the cloak to ensure that every inch of him remained hidden, and watched Pansy stroke the sleek blond hair off Malfoy's forehead, smirking as she did so, as though anyone would have loved to have been in her place."
murmur_maid: .....................
orphne: ..............................
orphne: ..............................
orphne: YOU ARE MAKING THIS UP
orphne: WTF
murmur_maid: i could never make that up.
murmur_maid: omg.
murmur_maid: :X
murmur_maid: THE BOOKS ARE H/D ASFJKASJFS
murmur_maid: asfdjklasf;jsafla
murmur_maid: ASFJ;JFLKASJF;SAJKFSFKLFJ;FJFJF;FJLFJLJF;FLJFKL;JA
murmur_maid: PANSY LEFT. NOW HARRY AND MALFOY WERE ALONE IN THE COMPARTMENT.
murmur_maid: PEOPLE WERE FILING PAST, DESCENDING ONTO THE DARK PLATFORM. MALFOY MOVED OVER TO THE COMPARTMENT DOOR AND LET DOWN THE BLINDS, SO THAT PEOPLE IN THE CORRIDOR BEYOND COULD NOT PEER IN. HE THEN BENT DOWN OVER HIS TRUNK AND OPENED IT AGAIN.
murmur_maid: HARRY PEERED DOWN OVER THE EDGE OF THE LUGGAGE RACK, HIS HEART PUMPING A LITTLE FASTER.
orphne: slKJFKDSLFJKSDJFLS
murmur_maid: WHAT HAD MALFOY WANTED TO HIDE FROM PANSY? WAS HE ABOUT TO SEE THE MYSTERIOUS BROKEN OBJECT IT WAS SO IMPORTANT TO MENT?
murmur_maid: "PETRIFICUS TOTALUS!"
murmur_maid: ASDFKJAS;FJ;FJAJFJ;LJF;LJF;LJFLDLJA
murmur_maid: WITHOUT WARNING, MALFOY POINTED HIS WAND AT HARRY, WHO WAS INSTANTLY PARALYZED.
orphne: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
orphne: HAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA
orphne: DUDE
orphne:
orphne: IS MALFOY GOING TO MOLEST HIM NOW
murmur_maid: HOLY HELL YES HE IS
murmur_maid: AS THOUGH IN SLOW MOTION, HE TOPPLED OUT OF THE LUGGAGE RACK AND FELL, WITH AN AGONIZING, FLOOR-SHAKING CRASH, AT MALFOY'S FEET, THE INVISIBILITY CLOARK TRAPPED BENEATH HIM, HIS WHOLE BODY REVEALED WITH HIS LEGS STILL CURLED ABSURDLY INTO THE CRAMPED KNEELING POSITION. HE COULDN'T MOVE A MUSCLE; HE COULD ONLY GAZE UP AT MALFOY, WHO SMILED BROADLY.
murmur_maid: OH
murmur_maid: MY
murmur_maid: GOD
murmur_maid: I CAN'T BREATHE LKASFDJL;ASJF;LJF
orphne: akjdflafjakfldajfdlkajfdlajfalfkal
orphne: KNEELING POSITION
murmur_maid: I KNOW SDFLKASJF;JFLAKSFLSF;LSF;LF;LFJ;FAS
orphne: LEGS CURLED UP
murmur_maid: TRAPPED
orphne: GAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH
murmur_maid: UNABLE TO MOVE
murmur_maid: SAFJJFKLF;SJLKFJSA;LFFA
orphne: ON TOP OF HIS INVISIBILITY CLOAK
orphne: CUSHIONING!!!!
murmur_maid: MALFOY SMILING BROADLY
orphne: GAZING UP AT HIM
orphne: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

:D I swear, JKR picked the right time to spring Harry/Ginny on me because by that point in the book I was just like *waves hand airily* Whatever, Harry. Enjoy your shrinking closet while you can!

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

I KNOW :((
I SORT OF GURGLED & CRIED & GURGLED MORE WHEN I READ THAT. OMG WTF WTF WTFLFJkaslkja;lkdlj
ALONE IN THE COMPARTMENT??!!! I WAS LIKE, IS THIS CANON OR IS THIS AN H/D FIC??!! I CANNOT TELL!!!1

... AND THEN HE STEPPED ON HIS FACE :(( :((
*cannot take it* I WAS THINKING THE SAME THINGS OMG!1!! I WAS LIKE, OMG WHY IS HIS HEART BEATING FASTER, WTF HARRY, HOW IN DENIAL ARE YOU??! o_0 o_0 o_0

well, I guess now I don't have to wonder at the 'funny' clues at H/G so far like Harry smiling at her & wondering why she wouldn't hang out with him, etcetc. Thanks Aja :))

[shaggirl.livejournal.com]

This entire volume is like the bestest crack fic evah!

[malafede.livejournal.com]

I COULDN'T BELIEVE THE SPOILERS BECAUSE IT WAS JUST TOO GOOD AND THEN IT *WAS* THAT GOOD AND MY LOVE WILL GO ON AND ON FOREVER AMEN.

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

*hides*


*tries to distract herself & focus on Snape* ^^;;

[thalia-seawood.livejournal.com]

Wow!! I'm up to chapter 7, too. And yeah!
I was so worried that the HBP would just have stereotype Draco once more or hardly any Draco, that I was afraid to read the book. I angsted over it on my journal in fact. But now, I'm blown away!
I'm looking forward to a new wave of H/D as well.

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

Ahahah, one of the only things I hoped for in HBP was that Draco remained minor and semi-evil & 2D. Partly 'cause I didn't trust JKR & partly 'cause I heard some spoilers & was all 'meh'.

...In a way, I think I -don't- want H/D -because- of the book even so far, because I don't want to see people twist it & be OOC -again-. Because I am -still- a Bitter Old Fanfic Queen.

Canon is enough, even right now. Maybe especially right now :>

Hee. But that's a good thing. Who'd have thought canon itself would finally satisfy my H/D fixation.

[shatterglass.livejournal.com]

YECH epilogue.

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

In a way, I almost feel a morbid satisfaction at the idea of how many people are likely to be deflated/pissed by it ^^;;

...This is what happens to me when there's too much love in the air :)) ^^;

Though, I mean. Yeah, I'm dreading it too, even though I sorta... canon!ship H/G & R/Hr and have accepted that ages ago.

[flimpy.livejournal.com]

Oh man :> I admit I'm not the H/D shipper that I was 2 years ago, but I can't help feeling vicariously excited for the H/D fans because they had to put up with so much "H/D is dead", "Harry would never pay attention to Draco", yada yada. Cuz like, Harry was literally STALKING him, DREAMING about him all throughout the book. That makes me squee (though not as loudly as the insufferable Snaco-er in me :D).

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

I was sort of... WTF at just how much attention Harry paid to Draco, not that I was complaining :> Heheh though I kinda miss OoTP!H/D, 'cause I'm all for the angsty lurve, but. Yes, more Draco = yeay, though all the rampant fandom Draco-lurve still scares me.

...And I kept thinking of Snape/Draco whenever Snape & Draco were in the same paragraph. I blame it all on you, y'know. Well, and also Slytherlynx ^^;;

[notrafficlights.livejournal.com]

HBP is the BEST THING EVER to happen to H/D since the very first book.

Also, on top of everything else, Draco suddenly gets awesome "sleek" hair. XD Harry's totally obsessed.

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

...So you're over your distaste for it...?
Though I think Malfoy always had sleek blond hair :-? Shiny & smooth, anyway. I thought Harry was always pretty obsessed :>


...But even now I prefer OoTP-canon!H/D 'cause it's darker ^^;;