I can't help it, Book 5 is my favorite forever. I fucking love OotP, even though I can see how Harry has grown, and needed to grow, since then. GOD, OOTP.
Hahaha, I think it's because I've been thinking about those essays that talk about how the seven tasks in PS/SS parallel the seven books, so the seventh book is all about immortality and death and the Mirror, in metaphorical ways. It is creepy/sad, his parents and dead loved ones being there, but at the same time they're what give him strength just as much as Ron/Hermione, you know? It's stupid but I think of the PoA movie and how Harry tells Remus about the one memory he has, of his parents, and how it's both a happy and sad memory, but it's the best he's got. :(
Well, I don't think Harry chose to be who he was, either, but it's not just his mum - it's also having Ron and Hermione, and Hagrid (and Hedwig, hahaha) and Dumbledore, and Sirius, etc. I mean. The choices he makes regarding friends (not taking Draco's hand) but also how having friends and loved ones influence his choices. And he is different, and he does get the family JKR gives him in the end, unlike the rest of the lost boys - Riddle, Snape, Dumbledore, Hagrid. Remus, I thought, but I guess in her scheme of things, him getting a family too makes sense.
I was never fascinated with Blaise or Regulus! I did read a lot of fics about Blaise, though.
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Date: 2007-07-27 12:31 pm (UTC)Hahaha, I think it's because I've been thinking about those essays that talk about how the seven tasks in PS/SS parallel the seven books, so the seventh book is all about immortality and death and the Mirror, in metaphorical ways. It is creepy/sad, his parents and dead loved ones being there, but at the same time they're what give him strength just as much as Ron/Hermione, you know? It's stupid but I think of the PoA movie and how Harry tells Remus about the one memory he has, of his parents, and how it's both a happy and sad memory, but it's the best he's got. :(
Well, I don't think Harry chose to be who he was, either, but it's not just his mum - it's also having Ron and Hermione, and Hagrid (and Hedwig, hahaha) and Dumbledore, and Sirius, etc. I mean. The choices he makes regarding friends (not taking Draco's hand) but also how having friends and loved ones influence his choices. And he is different, and he does get the family JKR gives him in the end, unlike the rest of the lost boys - Riddle, Snape, Dumbledore, Hagrid. Remus, I thought, but I guess in her scheme of things, him getting a family too makes sense.
I was never fascinated with Blaise or Regulus! I did read a lot of fics about Blaise, though.