DONE

My Harry Potter reread is now concluded! Or, well, mostly concluded, unless I dust off Fantastic Beasts or Quidditch Through the Ages or Tales of Beedle the Bard. And I didn't read the epilogue. BUT MOSTLY CONCLUDED, ANYWAY.

There is definitely something to be said for reading these books when my brain isn't cluttered with fanon and speculation and the immediate memory of a hundred fics that did different things with the canon pairings or Voldemort's return or the Horcrux hunt. I used to have the weird and definite feeling that nothing after Goblet of Fire was quite properly canon, but I have enough distance, or have had enough time to acclimate myself to that canon, or maybe it's that I've since picked up TV fandoms where the constant acclimation is necessary -- whichever. Anyway, I loved a lot more about the last three books than I ever have before.

( And then this gets long and full of FEELINGS, so it is under a cut. Things I still have massive issues with, things I really love, &c &c. )

My paragraphing about things that bother me is much longer than my paragraphing about things I love -- and I realize that in my "things that bother me" I left out any elaboration on the epilogue, and my feelings on Gaunts/Voldemort's backstory generally, and probably a whole lot of other things -- but honestly, on the whole, the reread was wonderful. There aren't, in fact, that many books that make me tear up and clutch at my face. It was a great ride at the time, and I think in some ways I enjoyed it a lot more this time through, so -- I'm really glad I have Harry Potter in my life.

fic! ginny fic!

So ... of all the things to bang out the day after finishing my Harry Potter reread, I wasn't really expecting this. I am fairly sure it should be subtitled "A Vindication of Ginny Weasley," or perhaps "Reasons to Ship Harry/Ginny, Haters to the Left," or perhaps even "In Other News, Aria Is Still Easy For Evil Overlords."

In any case, it is a remix of feverbeats' Tom Riddle Is a Stupid Vampire. My version is a bit longer -- because, as usual, I can't really write short things, but hell yes this one came in under 4000 words -- and it is:

Tom Riddle Will Take Your Soul (The Waking Dreams Remix), Tom/Ginny, Harry/Ginny. Pour your heart out to a Horcrux, and it will pour itself out to you.