wah.

[reenka]

I have pretty much one thing I need to say now, though I've got tons of comments--

This book, pretty much, is the one thing I've read after OoTP that fully satisfies every single desire or requirement I had in mind for the Big Bang Challenge and sixth year fic in general. Nothing came close, and-- after all-- that is only how it should be.

This is something I should've realized, since I enjoyed the three previous books so much. I should've known JKR wouldn't let me down. I should've trusted her.

This isn't what I wanted as an H/D shipper, because that's way too narrow, way too rigidly 'romantic' a viewpoint. This is because I wanted some real follow-through, some accounting for sins and some facing of truths.

I literally could not have asked for more.

And the funny thing is, at this point, all my shippy glee is pretty much banked. I'm just satisfied that this book answered the questions in my mind, gave me a Draco I can get behind and a Harry I could love, a Luna I smiled self-consciously at, a Dumbledore I learned to trust, a Snape I truly engaged with, a new Potions professor I was intrigued and relieved by, a McGonagall to further admire, a Hermione that finally made me empathize with her, a Ron to cheer for, a Remus to ache for, and a Ginny who is quite starting to remind me of Lily, but not in a bad way.

I love canon.

Comments

[ex-ella-bane358.livejournal.com]

I think the problem is that I was expecting genfic-type conventions and/or resolutions from slash.

That could be very true. I mean, sure I love h/d, but honestly, I love Harry just the way he is in canon and now we have the Draco that I thought might be there. And I really don't want h/d to be a couple, couple in canon (any more than you do, I believe), but I'd like to see them both come to an understanding about the other. And with this book, the seeds of that were planted, and it's just wonderful.

Canon is huge and in the end, the trio relationship is the most important of Harry's life.

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

and in the end, the trio relationship is the most important of Harry's life.

That's exactly it; exactly what I was thinking at the end of the last chapter. That it -is- all about Harry, Ron & Hermione in the end, and I think this book was about that as much as or more than it was about Draco or Snape or horcruxes (which actually seem relatively minor; and I also find it amusing that everyone claimed this'd be the 'war' book, whereas really it's less so than OoTP was). I think I -forgot-, somehow, that it -is- about the three of them; somehow forgot where Harry draws his strength from, what really really matters more than anything else-- this bedrock that he'd be lost without. Yes.

I do love Harry just the way he is, of course, and that applies to all the characters (except mebbe Voldy, I like him more with his whole soul, hardy-har-har). And yes-- I love what you said about planting seeds, because that implies that it's book 7 that'll really see the fruition of this implicit change between Harry & Draco :D