ELEVENTH IN LINE




About This Blog
A blog about my life, universe, etc. At any given time you might find something endlessly interesting or just me ruminating on something else, which no one (not even myself) finds interesting. That's the way blogs go, I suppose. Anyway, I was eleventh in line, and you weren't. Hah!

About Me
Name:
Sarah
Age:
26
Residence:
Columbus, OH
Religion:
LDS
Political Score:
5.00/-2.15
Job:
Temp @ JPMorgan Chase
College:
Ohio State University
Majors:
Political Science, International Studies
High School: Home Educated
Hobbies:
Reading, standing in line for things, writing, research
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Email:
lloannna@gmail.com

About My Family
My mom is a
lawyer in Pickerington; my stepdad and dad are computer guys, and my stepmom (who works with my dad) is an engineer. My sisters are, in order of age, a photographer, an artist, and a person too young to have her own website. My brothers are, in order of age, living up north, and again, a person too young to have a website. At some point soon I'll be collecting links for my aunts, uncle, and cousins. ^_^

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Saturday, July 21, 2007
 
Harry Potter 7  
A few, mildly spoilerish thoughts about Harry Potter 7. Note: I received my book at approximately 12:20am, having woken up at 7am the previous morning, driven across three states, and not even stopped to go to the restroom before walking into the bookstore to claim my spot in line. I got home around 12:45, got the car unloaded and my PJs on by 1:15am, and finished the book at 7:15am. So, six hours again, thanks to not needing to stop to do the dishes. Now for some spoiler space.


SPOILERS!!

SPOILERS!!

IF YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW,

THEN YOU SHOULD GO AWAY!

SPOILERS!!

SPOILERS!!

HEREIN LIE DETAILS OF

THE LAST HARRY POTTER BOOK!

IF YOU LEARN SOMETHING YOU

DIDN'T WANT TO KNOW,

DON'T COME CRYING TO ME!!!

SPOILERS!!

SPOILERS!!


If you're still reading...

Apparently the 'shipping wars weren't only important to the fans. I have to admit, I didn't have a ton invested; the fact that she was careful to spell it out was... amusing. ^_^

I take back all the nasty things I thought about the people who thought Snape was good for reasons I thought were stupid. Snape-Loved-Lily people: it wasn't in the books, but it was in JK's heart. I commend your mind reading skills, and/or lucky joint wishful thinking with the author. If I'd written the books, I wouldn't have done it, but she did, and that's what counts.

However, I mock relentlessly all those who were convinced Snape was Evil From The Get-Go. Here I go, mocking you now: BWAAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!

Ahem, that wasn't very nice. And yet... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!!!!! On his own side, indeed!

At least "scar" was in the last line, right?

Fanfiction makes serial fiction much more difficult to stay in love with.

In particular, I kind of like the "Psychic Serpent" and "Roman Holiday" renditions of HP5-HP7 better than Rowling's. Sigh.

I find myself not needing things to be as prettily wrapped (with the satin bow, etc.) as I thought I needed them -- to say nothing of how much Rowling apparently wanted to provide them. Dude. 19 years later? I really didn't need to have the matter of who becomes a teacher at the school spelled out like that (by the by, it was who I suspected it'd be: she doesn't want to show married teachers, it seems, and there was one "good" kid singled out as inherently unromantic and unlikely to reproduce from the very beginning of the very first book.)

The Red Hen collection was more on target than I was, and deserves an A-/B+ (and that's only because she was so very far off on a Certain Ship, the matter of Grindlewald, and alas, the Battle of Hogwarts.) Dude, she even predicted the vision quest! I thought she was loony, but there it was!

My predictions, which I splashed all over the place, were about fifty percent right. I am particularly proud of my assertions at the Volokh Conspiracy, especially the bit about students not dying unless they got in the way of something they were told to stay out of (I'm going to get sniffly the next time I read Chamber of Secrets.) I was, however, unspeakably lousy at predicting the deaths of adults, and basically only got Dumbledore, Pettigrew, and Voldemort's eventual fates correct. On the other hand, every major character under 18 who I was *sure* would survive, did. And I don't follow birthday notice updates.

OH YEAH! And while my dream of Red Hen's Secret Agent Percy was totally ruined, he still came out all right in the end! WOOOOOOOOOT!

Sad about the lack of "good" Slytherin kids, though. Sheesh. And let's just not talk about how hard it would be to rebuild that society, given how it'd been ripped to shreds, because apparently JK Rowling doesn't much care about that stuff.

I bet the "last chapter" she'd had written up forever was that little short one (another of the Red Hen predictions, actually.) It makes sense, her saying she was trying to make the rest of the books "live up to" that.

Firefox doesn't know how to spell "Voldemort," "Pettigrew," "Dumbledore," "Snape," OR "sheesh." What the heck is up with that?

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