HBP (with spoilers)

[rabidsamfan]

There are so many things going through my head right now...

Snape is still right on the border... You can't quite decide that he's evil. Alan Rickman is laughing with cruel delight somewhere...

There are a lot of young actors in Britain reading this and thinking, "I've got to kiss who?"

There's a great comment here which points out that the books are in identifiable genres... Now I have to go read again.

Fairy tale

Horror/mystery

Adventure

Victorian novel

Tragedy

Bildungsroman

Quest


Oddly enough, after looking at the deluxe cover on Scholastic the other day, I guessed that Dumbledore and Harry would be traveling in a memory together. And I'd guessed a while ago that the battered Potions book on the cover of ther British adult version was Snape's. (It doesn't matter when the book was printed, Harry you dolt! Snape probably had it at second or third hand.) So I'm feeling quite smug tonight. Exhausted, but smug...


More tomorrow...

Comments

[gayalondiel.livejournal.com]

You can't quite decide that he's evil. Alan Rickman is laughing with cruel delight somewhere...

Oh, he must be a happy happy camper! How perfect for him...

Pity the kids, though. They're still a bit young to appreciate the joys of, *ahem* snogging. It must be wierd reading the books knowing you'll have to *do* all of this in a couple of years.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Strange indeed. And there must be a scriptwriter out there going "HELPME!"

*grin*

[(Anonymous)]

Snape makes me think of stories I hear of either deep undercover cops or deep undercover informers. You can't just "show up" with the bad guys. You have to convince. And sometimes it gets so overwhelming that the line becomes thinner and thinner and then begins to blur so badly that the one undercover doesn't even know for himself where he stands. And let's face it. Snape just disposed of the only rock he could be sure to cling to. Now he has nothing on either side. Good God.

What did Dumbledore say to Harry at one point? It's the choices we make in life that define who we are. (Parapharsed.) I think that Snape still has the *big* choice still in front of him. Even now. Even if he doesn't think he does have a choice. And I'm willing to bet that he feels like he's never had a choice.

Oddly enough, I now doubt Snape the most, but I also have the most hope for him.

Enough wittering.

R- (PS. I know who R.A.B. is!)

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Me too!

[allisona.livejournal.com]

Ah, can't wait to see Alan Rickman in the sixth movie! :) Yeah, it must be interesting for those actors to pick up Rowling's books and see where their cinematic career is going to take them in the next few years. In the HP books, Rickman's drawn the golden ticket, for sure, along with Daniel Radcliffe. (speaking of golden tickets, now that I'm coming down from the initial HP high, I have to check out movie times to go see what Johnny Depp and Tim Burton have done with "Charlie and The Chocolate Factory"- bad luck to have opened that movie on the same weekend as the new HP book!)

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

I can't help but thinking that Charlie's box office has to have suffered from the coincidence. Half the audience is reading!

[allisona.livejournal.com]

Could be, but you'd never have known it from the theatre audience I was in Sunday afternoon. The place was packed to the rafters. I ended up having to sit much closer to the screen then I normally ever would at a movie, because I really didn't expect such a crowd.

And the child beside me kept up a running commentary throughout the entire movie, while his father encouraged him. But I've ranted enough about theatre ettiquette in my journal already this year...

[elendiari22.livejournal.com]

I've been wondering about this for a few days: that list says that Book 4 is a Victorian novel, but I'm confused as to how it could be seen as such. This is probably because I don't read enough Victorian novels, but there it is. Do you feel like enlightening me of my ignorance? Please?

*feels sheepish*