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silversolitaireYou know... for the future I think it would be nice when people who are posting HP spoilers (and are very nice to cut them) would also include up to which chapter they're spoiling. Not that anyone will, but sometimes I really wish it was so. I read at a moderate speed. I have no interest in rushing through a book I waited for for two years, so I'm reading a speed that's comfortable for me and where I can already put things in my long-term memory. I've got a very good memory for books that I've read that way. I will admit right here and now that I've only read some HP books once and I still remember every single detail of them (of course that also makes it boring to reread something). So, no rush for me. At the same time I'm dying to read all the comments people are posting right now but I don't dare to click them because I don't know up to which point they're spoiling. Very annoying. Of course I could just save the links to these entries and read them later, but that's always a bit lame. LJ entries are best when fresh.
Other than that, what can I say about HBP. Somehow I don't like the mood of it at all. This is the trouble I've been having with the books since GoF. I liked about the HP series the magical mood, the cute details... just feeling nice and at home and being able to relax, knowing it's a pleasant series. But ever since GoF I can't relax anymore. I turn the pages, anxious about what else J.K. Rowling is going to do to the world I've grown to love for so many years. Which characters she's going to kill of. Which places she's going to destroy. It makes me sick in the stomach. I don't like the mood anymore. It's constantly threatened and angsty and dangerous. There's no more lighthearted niceness about this and I don't like it. I feel like Rowling is trying to be more adult, write more serious, but this is not what I want about HP. So yeah, I'm enjoying it, it's very thrilling so far, not nearly as boring as OotP was at the beginning, but still kinda meh. It's not what I felt about PoA and so on. It bascially stifled all urges for me to write fanfiction because I no longer dare to have my own thoughts about it because eventually J.K. will do something horrible and destroy it all and I will be left depressed and upset over it.
Oh well, but I started it, many years ago, and I will stick through it until it's over. And hopefully I won't feel like the love and devotion I felt for so many years was wasted.
Other than that, what can I say about HBP. Somehow I don't like the mood of it at all. This is the trouble I've been having with the books since GoF. I liked about the HP series the magical mood, the cute details... just feeling nice and at home and being able to relax, knowing it's a pleasant series. But ever since GoF I can't relax anymore. I turn the pages, anxious about what else J.K. Rowling is going to do to the world I've grown to love for so many years. Which characters she's going to kill of. Which places she's going to destroy. It makes me sick in the stomach. I don't like the mood anymore. It's constantly threatened and angsty and dangerous. There's no more lighthearted niceness about this and I don't like it. I feel like Rowling is trying to be more adult, write more serious, but this is not what I want about HP. So yeah, I'm enjoying it, it's very thrilling so far, not nearly as boring as OotP was at the beginning, but still kinda meh. It's not what I felt about PoA and so on. It bascially stifled all urges for me to write fanfiction because I no longer dare to have my own thoughts about it because eventually J.K. will do something horrible and destroy it all and I will be left depressed and upset over it.
Oh well, but I started it, many years ago, and I will stick through it until it's over. And hopefully I won't feel like the love and devotion I felt for so many years was wasted.
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Date: 2005-07-17 11:35 am (UTC)I completely agree. I thought it might be just me, getting too attached to certain characters and liking the status quo too much to be nonchalant about the change of mood; it's really a relief that you agree.
There were some amusing moments, but on the whole, I can't say I enjoyed reading HBP because it was too dark and serious altogether.
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Date: 2005-07-17 11:37 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-07-17 11:53 am (UTC)Ooooooh SAW icon! *licks it* Which reminds me I still owe you a review for yours! I'll just say it here. I thought it was really good! A bit short but that's just me *ish a sucker*. Okay wait I can't do it here because then I'll spoil the movie for others who might read this thread unsuspectingly ^^;. I'll try to remember it and dig up the link again later.
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Date: 2005-07-17 11:44 pm (UTC)Ooooooh SAW icon! *licks it*
*g* One of my LJ friends had a yell at me this morning because I used the Saw icon for my HP entry last night and she took the mood of the icon as a spoiler. Which, actually, it was, in a way.
Glad you liked the fic, overall. Sorry for the shortness. I wrote it the same night I watched the movie, I think, and just wanted to get off my chest before I headed off to bed.