IMMA RAMBLE RIGHT BACK. PoA and OotP are totally my favorites too. love my Marauders. I think OotP wins, though. My feelings about Snape are kind of a wash. I recognize that there's a lot going on with him and I find fan-stuff that pulls back the surface intellectually engaging, and he has a lot of characteristics that normally would get to me, but overall, he just doesn't do it for me.
The thing that pissed me off most in the last movie was all the Slytherins being completely evil. LIFE DOESN'T WORK LIKE THIS. ELEVEN YEAR OLDS ARE NOT DOOMED TO BE EVIL. UGH IT MAKES ME SO MAD. I really wanted to see more Slytherins turn out to be good people. AND I WANTED THE MOVIE NOT TO TAKE THEM ALL TO THE DUNGEON BECAUSE THEY'RE ALL EVIL.
so much yes. Even if Sorting were appropriate at age 11, what the what? Ambition is not evil! Ambition is as ambition does, same as brains or courage or work ethic.
Andromeda Black Tonks and her relationship with her sisters and her struggle to break free of this horrible world she was born into and also about Ted Tonks and how the war being fought over people like him affected him and how they fell in love and were wonderful
♥! I love this idea.
OotP, which made me think that we were ACTUALLY GOING TO GET A WAR NARRATIVE AND TALK ABOUT CHILD SOLDIERS AND THEN WE DIDN'T REALLY....I would commit murder for some really good information on what the wizarding world is like outside of Britain. DO THEY KNOW ABOUT VOLDEMORT? DO THEY CARE?
I wonder how much the whole HP phenomenon works as like a...cultural wish-fulfillment to post-WWII generations. What if someone had successfully intervened in time? We didn't see a war in the books like we might have expected because the plot presented what's probably an on-the-ground best-case-scenario in terms of real-world conflict, with the DE faction neutralized quickly by domestic forces. And whether or not that works for people plot-wise (I liked the last couple books, but totally subjective, I know), I wonder if that's not part of the massive appeal on some level, is this very comforting answer to the hypothetical.
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The thing that pissed me off most in the last movie was all the Slytherins being completely evil. LIFE DOESN'T WORK LIKE THIS. ELEVEN YEAR OLDS ARE NOT DOOMED TO BE EVIL. UGH IT MAKES ME SO MAD. I really wanted to see more Slytherins turn out to be good people. AND I WANTED THE MOVIE NOT TO TAKE THEM ALL TO THE DUNGEON BECAUSE THEY'RE ALL EVIL.
so much yes. Even if Sorting were appropriate at age 11, what the what? Ambition is not evil! Ambition is as ambition does, same as brains or courage or work ethic.
Andromeda Black Tonks and her relationship with her sisters and her struggle to break free of this horrible world she was born into and also about Ted Tonks and how the war being fought over people like him affected him and how they fell in love and were wonderful
♥! I love this idea.
OotP, which made me think that we were ACTUALLY GOING TO GET A WAR NARRATIVE AND TALK ABOUT CHILD SOLDIERS AND THEN WE DIDN'T REALLY....I would commit murder for some really good information on what the wizarding world is like outside of Britain. DO THEY KNOW ABOUT VOLDEMORT? DO THEY CARE?
I wonder how much the whole HP phenomenon works as like a...cultural wish-fulfillment to post-WWII generations. What if someone had successfully intervened in time? We didn't see a war in the books like we might have expected because the plot presented what's probably an on-the-ground best-case-scenario in terms of real-world conflict, with the DE faction neutralized quickly by domestic forces. And whether or not that works for people plot-wise (I liked the last couple books, but totally subjective, I know), I wonder if that's not part of the massive appeal on some level, is this very comforting answer to the hypothetical.