heee.

[reenka]

I am so shallow. I mean, it's too much bother to stop reading (and taking copious paper notes) & post about the less... uh, predictable things, but. Well.


It is canon, folks:
Harry, however, had never been less interested in Quidditch; he was rapidly becoming obsessed with Draco Malfoy.
:D :D :D

Okay, no, I changed my mind.
'The Boy Who Scored' would be much better to inscribe on someone's forehead. Say, Harry's. By Draco. *whistles*

...He... he stared down Draco's "girlfriends", and was left "infuriated", and then snapped at Ginny. I mean. Yeah. Do the math.

I myself was totally like... I know this isn't the 'monster' of his jealousy/lust for Ginny, but. It's some kinda monster, all right. It's just an even more repressed one. (Actually, he's not really repressing his feelings for Ginny-- they seem... normal enough, if confused and sudden). But this-- this is so... all-consuming he doesn't even notice it, because it's just part of how he thinks and who he is, man. It's. *sigh*

I actually think H/D is now more 'canon' preslash (I say this pointedly in quotes) than S/R ever was, I think. Mostly because we have firsthand evidence of Harry's state of mind here-- we have the smoking gun, basically. Whether it comes to anything or not is another question, but at this point I am seriously saying it's right there, in the text. I'm just being bludgeoned to death with it. I mean... yeah, Harry's paranoid, and yeah, it's necessary to the plot, but....

He's -way- over the top and into outer space. Way, way. way.



Also: Er-my-nee <3<3<3<3 :D

Comments

[black-dog.livejournal.com]

Chapter 19? That's almost . . . chapter 21, isn't it? *whistles innocently*

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

I'm all about appreciating the 'small' things, it seems :D :D :D :D

[black-dog.livejournal.com]

Oh, not at all -- I admire you for having the iron will to read slowly. (I tried to!) And I definitely agree about the Chapter 19 stuff. I like your point about the smoking gun. I do hope you like the smell of cordite!

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

It's not iron will, I'm just... uh, too wired/tense to read faster, plus I take -copious- notes & keep trying to -think-, plus I'm sort of scared of fandom right now -.- I think too much of it (like, reading my flist at all) might kill my enjoyment of the book all together :/

Omg, right now I'm just giggling my ass off over Myrtle, and Draco being all 'sensitive' and 'lonely' and okay with crying :D :D :D I can't even. AHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHHAHA times FIVE MILLION. Ahem. :D :D :D NO, I MEAN, POOR DRACO, CRYING WITH MYRTLE, THAT IS SO SAD. (???!)

And Harry brooding/trying to get in for an hour = BEST EVAR.

[black-dog.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think you're right about thinking it out for yourself before getting into the debates. I can never really assimilate stuff on first reading, so I just sort of go through it without making notes, but I definitely didn't read flist this weekend while I was reading.

So now I've sort of spent a day checking out what people think (until I'm almost kind of sick of it, except for a few questions that grabbed me) and I'm rereading interesting bits right now. And noticing more stuff.

I think it would suck completely to have a reading totally animated by fandom-based questions. There is just an amazing amount of surprising and funny and wonderful stuff in this book, page by page, that never makes it into the big meta debates. I have some gripes with JKR, but I love her madly for her details and they make me forgive all.

Anyway, am being selfish because I should leave you alone but was tempted because no one else seems to be up and around. I should go to bed, anyway. Happy reading!

[bookshop.livejournal.com]

*giggles incessantly*

[sarahtales.livejournal.com]

I AM ALIVE WITH THE JOY OF LIVING.

...at work. Where the distressed children can see me.

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

I AM AT WORK AND MY WORK IS READING :D :D
(Well, I mean. ME TOO. hee) <333333
(...I take it you like canon again, ehehe.)


....you work with children, you say? o_0
well, they should understand about Harry Potter, at least. I'm not so sure about his perverse-yet-blindingly-obvious obsession for the sensitive boy in the toilet, though. :D

[sarahtales.livejournal.com]

I always liked canon, but never as much as now. I was just afraid canon was going to hurt me. But then it came with FLOWERS.

Yeah, but my kids are all disturbed and on Ritalin already. I think I get fired if I scar them with slash. :)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

Oh yes, these bits got the red-coloured stickies attached. I did not take notes. And you still need to read faster.

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

I can't help but take notes; it's a filthy habit I first cultivated reading fic online ^^;;;

...I'm sort of... cringing at the amount of book left over shrinking. I'm sort of enjoying this :))

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

It's a bad habit I, too, cannot escape. Even while reading or watching something I try to phrase it into reviews. It's the sign of something gripping if I don't, but if it's too gripping I have to stop yet again and make notes. I've already got the post-book blues, nothing left to read anymore.

[notrafficlights.livejournal.com]

You know what makes it even more canon?

Draco playing around in closets.

*RIMSHOT OMG!!!1one*

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

Him & Harry should make a nice closet nest home together :D

[balfrog.livejournal.com]

Harry leering at Draco's "girlfriends" is tricky though - hee hee. that's a whole new SHIP I'm sailing.
:D
:D
but love how Harry just thought Draco had "girlfriends," plural. hahaha. Boy needs a harem.

Reading at work, are you? best job ever!

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

Ah, but he wasn't leering, he was staring them down, 'infuriated' :D

I think Harry had always thought Draco had a 'harem' or a 'court' and would never really believe Draco was lonely or... um, human. Though I definitely snorted mightily at the bullied!sensitive!crying!Draco bit.
...Sometimes I think I'm really not a nice person. ^^;; Well, definitely not when it comes to Draco ^^;


...Nah, I'm reading -for- (instead of?) 'work' :> I take it v. seriously, y'know :>

[balfrog.livejournal.com]

not nice to Draco when you're using the cutiepie icon? Never!
The whole book is just H/D all the way, but who cares! Draco's in it. He can sleep with Harry or Snape or Goyle if he wants to, now that our boy's a real boy!

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

Draco was in all the books, wasn't he :>


I really am mean to Draco :P Not when it counts, I guess, but. I feel like an older sister who loves to torture her younger brother to tears, sometimes -.- Not so that I'd enjoy his misery, of course, but definitely so I'd enjoy his annoyance, frustration and discomfort. And I also have quite harsh views on whom he should be playing around with, and tend to get quite pissed if he's seen with anyone but my chosen companion for him. After all, if he went to someone I didn't approve of (anyone but Mr Potter), that'd make him an ungrateful brat, wouldn't it, & I might have to give him a piece of my mind and/or torture him with visions of Harry mooning over Ginny & making happy red-headed children with her and forgetting all about him, now wouldn't I~:))

[balfrog.livejournal.com]

OMG you're perving over your younger brother, OMG... whatever, the fandom loves incest and voyeurism, so have at it.

And Draco's a masochist - why else would he run after Potter? But didn't you already torture him with cute red-headed babies and Harry forgetting all about him? Or was that some other mean sister?

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

Ahaha, well, that's why I said -sometimes- I feel like his older sister :> :> Usually when I perv it's from Harry's pov, though. I've got an excuse, they can't get me!!1 :D

And yeah, him being a masochist was actually what drew me to him at first, in fanfic. Otherwise the whole thing kind of loses its lustre for me; setting him up with someone to make him -happy- makes me as bored as fluffy!H/G. Hahah, I think I've written a number of triangular-type H/D/G fics in my time, though all I can think of you meaning is this one (http://www.livejournal.com/users/reenka/192638.html) :-?

you had this coming

[malafede.livejournal.com]

I might have to give him a piece of my mind and/or torture him with visions of Harry mooning over Ginny

He wouldn't be tortured, he had bigger things on his hands than Potter! Like Myrtle.

Re: you had this coming

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

Ahaha, don't start what neither of us would want to finish. :P

Re: you had this coming

[malafede.livejournal.com]

God I can't believe you like the Harry/Ginny Sue.

Actually, I can.

I guess it's good Harry has someone whose hair he likes?

If you start shipping H/S you're dead to me.

Re: you had this coming

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

I don't like it, it just makes sense to me on a meta level, plus... I can't stop liking Ginny no matter what. Once I wrote her with Pansy in my long fic (prolly the only successful romance I'd ever written), that was set in stone. And I can see how she's good for Harry in an archetypal sense, though it wasn't written well in actual canon, which is what I said, pretty much. It's like, well, -most- things (even the Draco bits) weren't actually written that well and/or were predictable (to me). I only liked the Tom bit in the orphanage, the cave & the last confrontation of Dumbledore & Draco and the funeral as far as execution, so.

And I've always liked Harry & Snape's dynamic, not really in a sexual way. But even if I sexualize H/D, I don't necessarily like -them- in a sexual way either. Agape rules all.

Re: you had this coming

[malafede.livejournal.com]

I think Snape is Harry's Dark Father.

[pinkrhapsody.livejournal.com]

It is funny because the Harry/Ginny fans spent five books finding hints to how and where and why Harry and Ginny were meant to be. I think it is our turn now. We shall see who laughs last. :P

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

Haha, I'm pretty sure the H/Gers have nothing to worry about from JKR~:)) But at least now it's a lot less likely she'll kill off Draco, and we know that Harry's just in denial no matter what :>

...Of course, I always knew H&D were meant to be, but it feels nice to know that JKR sekritly agrees :D

[shatterglass.livejournal.com]

Yes. Yes yes yes. :)

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

:D :D
This doesn't quite compare to sensitive!crying!bullied!Draco, of course~:))

[shatterglass.livejournal.com]

Ahhh, JKR, how I love thee.

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

Even Snape & Tom (sorta) have their tragic sekrit woes :D Well, Snape moreso than Tom, but, uh. I like Tom more, though that's neither here nor there.

...I laughed at the sensitive!bullied!Draco bit. I am a bad person :( :(

[shatterglass.livejournal.com]

I didn't laugh so much as stare at it and wonder if I was on crack. Because. I didn't expect that AT ALL.

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

Man, I meant the initial bit where Myrtle was just telling them that Draco came over & was a sensitive boy. The whole sensitive!Draco thing has always made me laugh in fic, though I see how it was always canon (just non-verbalized).

When the whole bathroom scene -with Harry- happened, yeah, I was just... staring. Though it wasn't... like I wouldn't expect it of -Harry-, or Draco, per se, just-- yeah. Um. Wow. :D

[shatterglass.livejournal.com]

I LOVE THAT IT IS INARGUABLE CANON.

-going through HBP mood swings at this point-

Wheeeeee.

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

:D :D :D :D *whoops along with Draco*


...do you think, um, it's too much to hope for that this kills ice-prince!Draco dead? heh.

[shatterglass.livejournal.com]

AHAHAHA.

Dunno, fanon is teh stubborn. Especially about a certain someone. -giggles- I'm sure there can be excuses made--it's ALL AN ACT--and that sort of thing. Alas.

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

HARD TO EXCUSE HIM CRYING IN THE BATHROOM WITH MYRTLE AT AGE 16 NOW ISN'T IT :D :D :D :D :D MUWAHAHAHAHAHAH.

...sorry -.- am ...slightly smug.

[shatterglass.livejournal.com]

AHAHAHAHHAH You are TOTALLY entitled. Do some funny little dances. Toast Draco. Laugh at strangers. Etc.

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

I think mebbe a third of my paper notes involve me gloating and/or being smug :)) I was surprised by a number of things, but I was smug about those, too, 'cause usually those were the things no one came up with in fanfic :>

And me, I wrote an unfinished post-OoTP novella with a horcrux in it >:D

[two-if-by-sea.livejournal.com]

Have you got to the part where Harry is like "I want to know what Draco does inside you" or something? that one's my favorite. XD

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

No,though Aja was already telling me about it for days, and I'm still pretty WTF??! at it :))

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

.....oh that.
I just finished the book & was like, um, wtf, and then I realized that was the Room of Requirement thing ^^;; *laughs* I'd totally sailed right past that, my mind not being given to puns at the best of times :>

[two-if-by-sea.livejournal.com]

it was completely the one part where I had to put down the book and calm my laughter.

That and the part where Seamus is forced to write "I am a wizard and not a baboon brandishing a wand". JKR is sometimes millions of times better than we are.

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

I totally laughed a number of times :> ...Though usually not at the puns, which either zoom right past me or make me groan. There were lots of cute little moments which made me giggle, anyway. Heheh, Crabbe & Goyle as 11 year-old girls >:D

And really, this book drove home to me that JKR is -often- millions of times better at we are, at plot-twists & characterizing her own characters, that is. Somehow, I feel we shouldn't really be surprised~:))