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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

[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.

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

I miss angry!Harry even though I love this Harry & -every- Harry, so I was pretty happy when he bellowed at the Quidditch hopefuls :D :D :D
I think the reason I had a hard time writing him prior to OoTP is that I have a hard time with writing self-containment (even though I'm like that myself, so I dunno why), but now I think I get him lots more :D Though honestly, him 'doing some thinking' and skipping over most of the steps of grief in favor of being reasonable 'for Sirius' sake' is what's annoyed me most in the books so far. It's still -Harry-, but the non-existent transition sucked ass. I thought.

Hee :D I really appreciate the politeness, then; it lets me enjoy the book more ^^; I'm... really bad about hype -.-

[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

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

Even as his skin turned gray, his hair was sleek and white-blond!!!!

Consumptive!Draco being yet another fabulous H/D standard. That's the great thing about us pale faces. When we go pale, we really look frightening.

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

*is still only midway through chapter 11*
I -have- slept 2 hours, so mebbe I can just keep going~:))

Harry, no matter how straight you supposedly are, I will always believe you're gay for Malfoy's hair. *nodnod*

[malafede.livejournal.com]

I just want to point out that me and Reena started to write a fic with angsty bulimic Draco at some point. *has smug moment?* *is just a weird vomit fetishist?*

[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!

[black-dog.livejournal.com]

orphne: YOU ARE MAKING THIS UP
orphne: WTF

I love this, because you're absolutely right, if I hadn't read it on the page right there in front of me, I'd have thought some mad shipper was just lying to me about it. :D

Or how about that best-ever double-entendre later on, where Harry "needs to see where Malfoy comes" and "needs to see what he's doing inside you."

He is so erotically fascinated with getting-it!Malfoy, and doesn't even know it yet! And I have a ginny!displacement theory that is crystallizing in my head. Based of course on extensive textual evidence . . . ;)

[black-dog.livejournal.com]

And I just realized this was still on reenka's LJ so -- Sorry, reenka! I promised I wouldn't gloat more in front of you till you'd finished! Thinking nice, unexciting thoughts about Slughorn, now . . .

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

:)) I'm actually pretty excited about Slughorn-- he made me pretty happy when I first 'met' him :> :>
But that's nothing to how happy Tom Riddle is making me right now. I'm almost tempted to desert Harry & Draco & immerse myself wildly in Riddlefic and darkfic wallowing as is my wont ;))

[black-dog.livejournal.com]

Slughorn is the greatest new character she's done in a while. I mean, he is just straight out of the Senior Common Room, she's nailed him perfectly. The social favoritism and snobbery, yes, but also real affection and bonding with his favorites, both as a teacher and a Head of House, which is something I could never really see with Snape, no matter how hard I tried. And his foibles make his students even more attached to him but he still plays off his own alleged worldliness to maintain his authority, at least over young people. An absolutely classic academic type, and just wonderfully done.

And the Tom backstory is fantastic. I mean, those scenes in Little Hangleton, I could almost hear the banjo playing in the background, you know? And Dumbledore to Harry: "are you feeling sorry for Voldemort?"

I think what I loved most of all is Harry's relationship with Dumbledore, just the lessons that D is trying to get across to him and the way he does it. And now I'm thinking: please post when you're all done, because I really don't want to get ahead of what you've read and there's mountains of stuff to talk about!

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

I was just so happy we got a reasonably multi-sided adult Slytherin who wasn't, y'know, 'dark' or scary or... um, sexy, y'know (I really hope... I mean, they cleaned up Snape, but Slughorn, please no). He's not a villain & not a 'good guy', precisely, either, and I love that he's not even ambiguous in the same way as Snape (a bastard who seems to do the 'right thing'). He's sort of... an adult character, who does represent his House but doesn't seem entirely limited by it, the same way that Gryffindors aren't. That made me really happy :D

Man... I loved the 'sorry' thing too :D I've gotten just past that (to bestial!Tom on his bed) so far, and I'm loving it like whoah. Some of the best writing she's done, period. Omg. I just... Tom makes me tingle in a way neither Harry nor Draco do :> He's so... he's my type of character in the orphanage scene, dark & desperate and feral. I always played up those aspects in Harry, but in Tom they're right there for the taking! I was blissed out & came to my laptop to do something Tom-related, and wound up making an icon :>

And of course! I'll post loads when I'm done :D