Yes to the responding to and paralleling OotP foreverrrrrrr.
Cathy wrote Albus/Gellert, did you know?
I wonder if this is why he never gave Tom enough of a chance, as some people have said. I really like this point.
Your drawings <3
Book 4 and the second task! SDKFJSDKFSSLDKJFS I LOVE THIS POINT. LSKDJFS. HIS WHEEZY :(( I think this is my favorite parallel from past books aside from the obvious Mirror of Erised wanting the stone but not wanting to use it parallel.
The thing is that Harry and Dumbledore just really want to spend time with their dead loved ones, and keep leaping at the hope there's a way to bring them back - from Harry thinking he saw his parents in the Mirror of Erised, to hoping it was his dad casting the Patronus in PoA, to seeing them come out of the wand in GoF and asking Dumbledore hopefully what it meant, to desperately dashing after Nearly Headless Nick to see if Sirius could come back as a ghost. I think it is fitting that he finally does use the Resurrection Stone, but in a way wholly motivated by his love for them and their love for him, when he's going to his death anyway. The fact that he would just want to sit and talk to them for awhile :(( How he looks at his mum like he never wants to stop :( I don't think he ever thinks about it as, "I can trick death," but just as, "I can see my mum and dad? Even for a little, even if it's weird and wrong?"
I mean, the whole thing is that he is like Riddle, so very much, but he's also so very not. Their paths, how much he likes Tom Riddle when he reads the diary at first, because he understands Tom's desire to stay at Hogwarts with no other home - like he likes the Half-Blood Prince when he reads the book. The Seven Potters / the seven horcruxes. The abandoned boys. But his other choices that make him who he is. But he understands where they're coming from and doesn't run from that comparison (the abandoned boys line just gets me every time) anymore, because he knows how he is different, too. I think :-?
That Harry ignored the unbeatable wand and Voldy invading Hogwarts for it-- because he trusted Dumbledore-- I have no words. I love Harry very, very much right now. And I'm very, very proud of him. This is the most heroic thing he's yet done, no contest. <3.
Yes. LSKJS I loved that a lot, it was such a twist and such a difference from every other time he's gone recklessly running, and -- just, him being strong, and -- yeah. Yeah, oh, Harry. You remind me how much I love him and will always, forever. Why do people want to write about Al instead, I don't get it.
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Date: 2007-07-26 01:40 pm (UTC)Cathy wrote Albus/Gellert, did you know?
I wonder if this is why he never gave Tom enough of a chance, as some people have said. I really like this point.
Your drawings <3
Book 4 and the second task! SDKFJSDKFSSLDKJFS I LOVE THIS POINT. LSKDJFS. HIS WHEEZY :(( I think this is my favorite parallel from past books aside from the obvious Mirror of Erised wanting the stone but not wanting to use it parallel.
The thing is that Harry and Dumbledore just really want to spend time with their dead loved ones, and keep leaping at the hope there's a way to bring them back - from Harry thinking he saw his parents in the Mirror of Erised, to hoping it was his dad casting the Patronus in PoA, to seeing them come out of the wand in GoF and asking Dumbledore hopefully what it meant, to desperately dashing after Nearly Headless Nick to see if Sirius could come back as a ghost. I think it is fitting that he finally does use the Resurrection Stone, but in a way wholly motivated by his love for them and their love for him, when he's going to his death anyway. The fact that he would just want to sit and talk to them for awhile :(( How he looks at his mum like he never wants to stop :( I don't think he ever thinks about it as, "I can trick death," but just as, "I can see my mum and dad? Even for a little, even if it's weird and wrong?"
I mean, the whole thing is that he is like Riddle, so very much, but he's also so very not. Their paths, how much he likes Tom Riddle when he reads the diary at first, because he understands Tom's desire to stay at Hogwarts with no other home - like he likes the Half-Blood Prince when he reads the book. The Seven Potters / the seven horcruxes. The abandoned boys. But his other choices that make him who he is. But he understands where they're coming from and doesn't run from that comparison (the abandoned boys line just gets me every time) anymore, because he knows how he is different, too. I think :-?
That Harry ignored the unbeatable wand and Voldy invading Hogwarts for it-- because he trusted Dumbledore-- I have no words. I love Harry very, very much right now. And I'm very, very proud of him. This is the most heroic thing he's yet done, no contest. <3.
Yes. LSKJS I loved that a lot, it was such a twist and such a difference from every other time he's gone recklessly running, and -- just, him being strong, and -- yeah. Yeah, oh, Harry. You remind me how much I love him and will always, forever. Why do people want to write about Al instead, I don't get it.