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[3pipeproblem]

OMGWTFEPIGRAPH? The Libation Bearers? Do any of the other books have these, or did JKR suddenly get really pretentious/become overwhelmed by the need to prove her knowledge of Greek tragedy?

Also (and related to Greek tragedy), so many deaths were either lame or just...not shown. Snape's not in the book for like 500 pages and then he promptly dies? There must have been a better way to structure that.

HAHAHA, I seriously thought Mrs. Weasley was possessed. Throughout the book. Her shouting, "THAT'S MY DAUGHTER, YOU BITCH!" at the end did nothing to dissuade me of this notion.

JKR totally stole my nose-is-broken-at-a-funeral idea. Which, ok, I did sort of steal from Roger Dodger.

OMG Ron has a driver's license!! Forget everything else, there needs to be fic about this.



The closest thing I have to a HP icon depicts James Spader. Nice.

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[3pipeproblem.livejournal.com]

Yeah. And the thing is--there was a lot going on during that time, but Ron, Harry and Hermione couldn't have much knowledge/awareness of it, since they were on their extended camping adventure. There were glimpses of what a horrific and oppresive place the wizarding world had become, but I wish we'd been able to get a better sense of it (of course, this is me just having finished ASoUE, which is all about how horrific and oppresive the world can be). I'd definitely read a (decently written) fic about Neville, Luna and Ginny's year at Hogwarts. Especially if it had a chapter or more devoted to Neville's gran.

To a certain extent, it was nice to break from the pattern. I didn't have to care who the new DADA teacher was or hear about the sorting or the school rules. But the camping wasn't exciting, and a lot of it focused on Ron and Hermione's lurve. And then they just went and broke into every high-profile place they could conceivably break into. I wish they'd gone to live among Muggles or something. Something exciting. Josef Kavalier's stint in Antarctica was inifinitely more interesting.

I did like the Dumbledore backstory, though. Regardless of how it was presented (and also regardless of Harry's reactions to it).

She says her next project won't have anything to do with HP. We shall see.

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Like I say, most of the important stuff in this book happened offscreen, either twenty or more years in the past or anyplace in the world except the Woods with the Tent of Convenient Comfort and No Refrigerator.

I still don't buy Ron/Hermione. What the hell are they going to talk about once the sex gets boring? Books? Quidditch? I'd like to see the Ron/Hermione dysfunctional marriage and drinking problem fic.

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I dunno, I wouldn't write them off just because their interests aren't exactly the same. They've managed to tolerate each other for 7 years without any sex, and Ron probably finds a lot of the Muggle stuff Hermione knows about fascinating and I just thought about them experimenting with sex toys...why?.