and now back to the Count...
Jul. 25th, 2007 07:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tsukikageFinished Harry Potter at about 10:20 last night. I enjoyed it a lot, except the epilogue. Didn't hate it, didn't love it. Just sort of "meh"d it. It reminded me a lot of the FMA kids OVA. And when I have kids, I'm definitely NOT naming them after others. ><;
About Snape... At first I thought we were going to watch Snape die with no redemption. No change of heart, no revelation, and not even a final re-assurance that he was evil. I loved those last moments with Snape, though: "Look...at...me...." I swear, my intense wondering about why Snape wanted Harry to look at him so badly almost got me to feel a bit of a slash moment there. ^^; But seriously... was it wanting Harry to suffer watching the last moments of the teacher he reciprocally hated? Snape wanting someone to remember his last moments? Snape just wanting someone there with him in his last moments? *blubbers a bit*
I will admit that the only time I actually started crying was as Harry was approaching his death. Having the "ghosts" of his family with him was an excellent touch. I mean, it's certainly not the same, but anyone who's had family or loved ones go in with them for some medical procedure they were really afraid of (even something small like getting blood drawn) can understand how much courage that can give, even while at the same time bestowing a little extra sadness. But yeah: Hedwig, Dobby, even Remus, Tonks, and Fred: didn't cry. For Hedwig and Dobby, I just wasn't that attached. They were both pretty "meh" characters for me.
On the topic of Remus and Tonks, why didn't Harry raise Teddy? I mean, isn't that what godfathers are for? To raise the kid if their parents die?
And what the hell kind of a name is "Scorpius" anyway? That seriously made me laugh out loud.
What else... I really liked how no-one was really good in the end. Like, despite my gratitude that Snape was good in the end, it really worked for me that he wasn't loyal to Dumbledore because he thought the cause of Wizards ruling over the Muggles was mistaken: it was because Voldemort killed Lily.
Finally, for some reason I really loved that the final battle between Harry and Voldemort (ooh, and I love how at the very end Harry finally started calling Voldemort by his actual name) happened at daybreak. I mean, maybe it's kind of... obvious... that at the end of a huge war would be the new day, but at the same time, he didn't kill Voldemort, and then the new day came. The new day had already come. The war was over. Ending Voldemort in one way or another was easy, because it was tying up the loose ends. And there was hope for Voldemort, if he had decided to take it.
[EDIT: I think![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
joeyheartbear got it when he said "I like the fact that when Snape met his end he told Harry to look at him. I think he wanted to look into those eyes that are so much like Lily's one last time . . .".]
[EDIT 2: I've decided that I'm gonna name my first-born child Scorpius. :-P]
So yeah, that's my train-of-thought on book 7.
Especially since I've only read each of the books once so far, I'd definitely like to re-read them now that I know the whole story. ^_^
About Snape... At first I thought we were going to watch Snape die with no redemption. No change of heart, no revelation, and not even a final re-assurance that he was evil. I loved those last moments with Snape, though: "Look...at...me...." I swear, my intense wondering about why Snape wanted Harry to look at him so badly almost got me to feel a bit of a slash moment there. ^^; But seriously... was it wanting Harry to suffer watching the last moments of the teacher he reciprocally hated? Snape wanting someone to remember his last moments? Snape just wanting someone there with him in his last moments? *blubbers a bit*
I will admit that the only time I actually started crying was as Harry was approaching his death. Having the "ghosts" of his family with him was an excellent touch. I mean, it's certainly not the same, but anyone who's had family or loved ones go in with them for some medical procedure they were really afraid of (even something small like getting blood drawn) can understand how much courage that can give, even while at the same time bestowing a little extra sadness. But yeah: Hedwig, Dobby, even Remus, Tonks, and Fred: didn't cry. For Hedwig and Dobby, I just wasn't that attached. They were both pretty "meh" characters for me.
On the topic of Remus and Tonks, why didn't Harry raise Teddy? I mean, isn't that what godfathers are for? To raise the kid if their parents die?
And what the hell kind of a name is "Scorpius" anyway? That seriously made me laugh out loud.
What else... I really liked how no-one was really good in the end. Like, despite my gratitude that Snape was good in the end, it really worked for me that he wasn't loyal to Dumbledore because he thought the cause of Wizards ruling over the Muggles was mistaken: it was because Voldemort killed Lily.
Finally, for some reason I really loved that the final battle between Harry and Voldemort (ooh, and I love how at the very end Harry finally started calling Voldemort by his actual name) happened at daybreak. I mean, maybe it's kind of... obvious... that at the end of a huge war would be the new day, but at the same time, he didn't kill Voldemort, and then the new day came. The new day had already come. The war was over. Ending Voldemort in one way or another was easy, because it was tying up the loose ends. And there was hope for Voldemort, if he had decided to take it.
[EDIT: I think
joeyheartbear got it when he said "I like the fact that when Snape met his end he told Harry to look at him. I think he wanted to look into those eyes that are so much like Lily's one last time . . .".][EDIT 2: I've decided that I'm gonna name my first-born child Scorpius. :-P]
So yeah, that's my train-of-thought on book 7.
Especially since I've only read each of the books once so far, I'd definitely like to re-read them now that I know the whole story. ^_^
