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harry potter feelings post, part two
I actually did get up at 4:30 to rewatch Order of the Phoenix through Deathly Hallows I. And then half an hour after I finished it, I went off to see Deathly Hallows II. #AWESOME LIFE CHOICES
Deathly Hallows II! Let's deal with the obvious big wrong thing first: Dumbledore's backstory. I never expect the Harry Potter movies to make any sense to a casual moviegoer, because they are so, so terrible at actually explaining any character backstory. I am just sad here -- I love Dumbledore's amazing dickery, the full extent of which can't be understood without the backstory; the wand plot makes little to no sense if you don't know the Dumbledore links; and fuck, guys, I still want my actual, textual canon Dumbledore/Grindelwald.
That said, things that annoyed me in the book annoyed me a lot less in the film! I still find the Snape/Lily stupid and obvious, but I think I have enough distance from the bitter disappointment that I just felt ambivalent rather than annoyed. (My mother, meanwhile, cried during the Snape/Lily flashbacks. I don't even know.) I was also much more okay with the epilogue, possibly because it was entertaining to see the kids in aging makeup, and possibly because the way the films hacked up the books got rid of issues like house elf rights entirely, so I wasn't sitting there going, "Oh god, but it's just happy het family time, it's the same old thing, you haven't SOLVED ANYTHING, it's all going to happen again!" So, y'know, that was nice.
...On the other hand, they stuck the entirety of Slytherin House in the dungeons. Fuck interhouse unity, guys! Let's drop that theme EVEN HARDER than the book did!
I realize that some of this makes me sound like I didn't like it, but believe me, I loved it. The scene where Harry reveals himself in the Great Hall, and the Order's there, and the student body is great, and Snape flees, is wonderful. Everything Neville does is wonderful. Everything the Malfoys do is goddamn wonderful. Remus' pre-battle self-quotation was wonderful. The unexpected Ron/Hermione kiss (unexpected because I totally thought Harry would be there when it happened) was wonderful. The equally unexpected but GREAT hinting at Neville/Luna was wonderful. And ... fuck, seeing Hogwarts being defended like that, and destroyed like that, was beyond amazing.
I didn't really cry, despite having LOTS OF FEELINGS, but I did tear up a bit at the part where James and Lily and Remus and Sirius appear. It was way sentimental and overdone and I don't even CARE, because shut up, I'm a Marauders girl, and FEELINGS.
In conclusion, I think I need all the Harry/Ron/Hermione fic now. Like, desperately.
:DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD IT'S BEEN A GREAT RIDICULOUS DECADE OF HARRY POTTER, YOU GUYS.
Deathly Hallows II! Let's deal with the obvious big wrong thing first: Dumbledore's backstory. I never expect the Harry Potter movies to make any sense to a casual moviegoer, because they are so, so terrible at actually explaining any character backstory. I am just sad here -- I love Dumbledore's amazing dickery, the full extent of which can't be understood without the backstory; the wand plot makes little to no sense if you don't know the Dumbledore links; and fuck, guys, I still want my actual, textual canon Dumbledore/Grindelwald.
That said, things that annoyed me in the book annoyed me a lot less in the film! I still find the Snape/Lily stupid and obvious, but I think I have enough distance from the bitter disappointment that I just felt ambivalent rather than annoyed. (My mother, meanwhile, cried during the Snape/Lily flashbacks. I don't even know.) I was also much more okay with the epilogue, possibly because it was entertaining to see the kids in aging makeup, and possibly because the way the films hacked up the books got rid of issues like house elf rights entirely, so I wasn't sitting there going, "Oh god, but it's just happy het family time, it's the same old thing, you haven't SOLVED ANYTHING, it's all going to happen again!" So, y'know, that was nice.
...On the other hand, they stuck the entirety of Slytherin House in the dungeons. Fuck interhouse unity, guys! Let's drop that theme EVEN HARDER than the book did!
I realize that some of this makes me sound like I didn't like it, but believe me, I loved it. The scene where Harry reveals himself in the Great Hall, and the Order's there, and the student body is great, and Snape flees, is wonderful. Everything Neville does is wonderful. Everything the Malfoys do is goddamn wonderful. Remus' pre-battle self-quotation was wonderful. The unexpected Ron/Hermione kiss (unexpected because I totally thought Harry would be there when it happened) was wonderful. The equally unexpected but GREAT hinting at Neville/Luna was wonderful. And ... fuck, seeing Hogwarts being defended like that, and destroyed like that, was beyond amazing.
I didn't really cry, despite having LOTS OF FEELINGS, but I did tear up a bit at the part where James and Lily and Remus and Sirius appear. It was way sentimental and overdone and I don't even CARE, because shut up, I'm a Marauders girl, and FEELINGS.
In conclusion, I think I need all the Harry/Ron/Hermione fic now. Like, desperately.
:DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD IT'S BEEN A GREAT RIDICULOUS DECADE OF HARRY POTTER, YOU GUYS.
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I mean, I supported Luna canonically getting married, since apparently she had to, a) later to b) someone she didn't meet in school, but given how everyone was paired off
heteronormatively with schoolmatesin text, Neville/Luna makes a lot of sense and is made of awesome as far as I'm concerned!