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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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Oh, Accio!Alan. Nostalgia is so shiny. I think I still have Hufflepuff!Jimmy somewhere on my hard drive.

Ahhhh, I hadn't gotten to the epigrah yet, so. HAHAHAHA. JKR was totally showing off her mad tragedy skillz. Plus, all those off-screen deaths, bah. They weren't even "senseless deaths of war" deaths, they were just poorly executed (badum, psh).

I love Mrs. Weasley and her special mom brand of crazy. A+, Mrs. Weasley.

I was so bored by them wandering in the forest. She could have at least pulled a Boxcar Kids or a My Side of the Mountain and made it interesting, but nooooo. They wandered around like headless, whiny chickens from August until March. LOL WHAT.

There needs to be some account of what happened at Hogwarts, because by the end of the wandering, I didn't care at ALL what happened to the trio. Fuck 'em. Let's talk about Neville's genius DA and how freaking awesome the Ravenclaws are. Man, I would so be a proud Ravenclaw.

Which brings me back to Accio!Alan. Good times, man. I was sad to see he and Accio!Ray did not get it on as they should have at the time. That 'verse really needed to be played around in more before it died. Fucking assholes who ruined it. *fistshake*

I had a reply ALL TYPED UP yesterday and then LJ died just as I was about to post. Grrrr.

Someone argued that they liked the way the deaths were done, the reason being that in war not everyone dies in a meaningful and dramatic way. To a certain extent, I agree, but...Jesus, Tonks and Lupin's death had little to no impact. I don't think limiting their death scene to a single sentence (possibly more; I've lent out my copy of the book) was an act of great artistry.

I don't get Mrs. Weasley. Clearly. SHE SEEMED POSSESSED TO ME. And continues to frighten me. (Also, I think JKR has problems writing anger convincingly. Hence all the capslock.)

As someone who has been on family camping trips, OMG. That could have been so much shorter. There are few things that are more boring. And I love how they made absolutely no progress the entire time. And yes! *points up* I want someone to write fic about the year at Hogwarts. ~~Although I could do without Ginny.~~

He never even got to meet Jimmy or Caleb, did he? (He probably would've just made fun of Jimmy, the snob.) Ahahahahaha, Alan and Ray would've been a disaster--Alan would've been in denial for a good several months, then he would've been all, "Look, we can't tell anyone about this because you're a Hufflepuff *much nose-wrinkling* and--"

And at this point Ray would probably have punched him. Anyway, for a while Ray was making out with Fraser on the quidditch pitch.

It was kind of a fun mix for a bit, but yeah, it totally imploded. >:O I like how all the Hufflepuffs were the first to leave. So abused.

That is exactly how I felt about their deaths. They were so perfunctory that they didn't even register, and I was once a die-hard MWPP fan, so it should have. The one-sentence throwaway felt more like an act of boredom. "Oh, blah blah, they died." The person with the best death was Dobby, and that goes for the whole series. I cared more when Cedric/Dumbledore/whoever died in the movie than I did in the book. Sirius' death just put me off of the series because it was so pointless, and my favorite pairing (yes, with Remus; they are so gay for each other, whatever) was destroyed.

GINNY. UGH WORST ROMANTIC INTEREST EVER. I mean, Rowling just sucks at romance in general, but. Tonks/Remus? Didn't feel plausible. Ron/Hermione? Saved by fandom, really. Harry/Ginny? A total WTF. Ginny was only awesome for that brief period of time where she wasn't intereted in Harry, and she acted like her own person, rather than someone trying to get Harry to fall desperately in love with her.

Haha, Alan met Jimmy! They chatted at breakfast. It might actually be in Jimmy's memories... LOL IT IS. I am so amused I mem'd it. Okay, well, yeah. Jimmy and Caleb met, and went off on an adventure, and Ray and Jimmy were supposed to be good friends. Oh, man. We Hufflepuffs were freaking IGNORED. And then everyone else was doing makeout scenes in the dungeons and getting into the dark arts in the Slytherin house and Karly and I as mods were just fed up and abandoned it. Which we shouldn't have done! We totally should have re-conquered it and proclaimed a 'PG-13' rating or something. Get rid of all the BDSM that was fucking it up.

Dude, did you just make me a maintainer? HAHAHA.

OH SHIT YOU CAN TELL?

LOL I did it on a whim. (Anything to delay actually writing these fucking papers.) Can you tell when your maintainership has been removed from a community, too? 'Cause, hahahahahaha, I did a little of that, too.

Yeah, LJ sent me a notif. I dunno about being removed, though.

You dork! Get to work!

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