The obligatory HBP post
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iharthdarth's latest. Though you should just check it out, regardless.
Mayara13 said it most concisely - OMFG. The first OMG moment came when Harry cursed Draco with the spell whose name I cannot remember. The fact that Harry got almost nil punishment for using some very dark magic grated a bit, but still a very dramatic scene. I felt for poor Draco, something I have yet to do in any of the previous books.
And Snape - dear God, this book is as much his at it is Harry's. The fact that he was a half-blood (well, *the* Half-Blood) came as a bit of a surprise, but it does make sense, and you see how Voldemort could have won him over. And given what we had seen of Snape's childhood in the last book.. And while I hate to seem like a Lily/Severus shipper, I do think he had a friendship with her at some point until it was torn apart. I can just see them, two bright Potions students, finding some kind of common thread that grew into something more until it could no longer exist. Because otherwise Dumbledore's explanation of Snape's turn from the dark side makes no sense. Snape wouldn't care if the Voldemort was after James - hell, he'd probably help kill him off. But Lily and her child - I don't think he'd let that happen.
And in agreement with cygna_hime, I don't see Snape as evil - I think he killed Dumbledore according to Dumbledore's own plan. The argument Hagrid overheard, the fact Snape had saved Dumbledore's life numerous times before, the digust on his face while doing the deed and the rage afterwards, which had to be self-directed - Harry, I know you will realize, likely towards the end, that Snape was Dumbledore's man, too.
Now for everything else - Slughorn I liked, very much. Nice to have more three-dimensional Slytherins! I liked the bits with Luna, especially with her as the Quidditch announcer. The romance was as expected, though Hermione seemed to be almost out of character at times with her attempts to make Ron jealous. Then again, maybe she's just being a teenage girl. And the explanation of the prophecy, on how it was self-fulfilling, like most prophecies are - thank you, thank you, thank you. The prophecy never quite sat right with me, and this made me feel much better. I actually let out a little sigh of relief after that chapter.
And so, now another two to three years before book 7, two to three years to speculate and theorize until another Friday evening in a bookstore, eagerly awaiting the opening of the boxes.
iharthdarth's latest. Though you should just check it out, regardless.Mayara13 said it most concisely - OMFG. The first OMG moment came when Harry cursed Draco with the spell whose name I cannot remember. The fact that Harry got almost nil punishment for using some very dark magic grated a bit, but still a very dramatic scene. I felt for poor Draco, something I have yet to do in any of the previous books.
And Snape - dear God, this book is as much his at it is Harry's. The fact that he was a half-blood (well, *the* Half-Blood) came as a bit of a surprise, but it does make sense, and you see how Voldemort could have won him over. And given what we had seen of Snape's childhood in the last book.. And while I hate to seem like a Lily/Severus shipper, I do think he had a friendship with her at some point until it was torn apart. I can just see them, two bright Potions students, finding some kind of common thread that grew into something more until it could no longer exist. Because otherwise Dumbledore's explanation of Snape's turn from the dark side makes no sense. Snape wouldn't care if the Voldemort was after James - hell, he'd probably help kill him off. But Lily and her child - I don't think he'd let that happen.
And in agreement with cygna_hime, I don't see Snape as evil - I think he killed Dumbledore according to Dumbledore's own plan. The argument Hagrid overheard, the fact Snape had saved Dumbledore's life numerous times before, the digust on his face while doing the deed and the rage afterwards, which had to be self-directed - Harry, I know you will realize, likely towards the end, that Snape was Dumbledore's man, too.
Now for everything else - Slughorn I liked, very much. Nice to have more three-dimensional Slytherins! I liked the bits with Luna, especially with her as the Quidditch announcer. The romance was as expected, though Hermione seemed to be almost out of character at times with her attempts to make Ron jealous. Then again, maybe she's just being a teenage girl. And the explanation of the prophecy, on how it was self-fulfilling, like most prophecies are - thank you, thank you, thank you. The prophecy never quite sat right with me, and this made me feel much better. I actually let out a little sigh of relief after that chapter.
And so, now another two to three years before book 7, two to three years to speculate and theorize until another Friday evening in a bookstore, eagerly awaiting the opening of the boxes.
