In a post-DH world...
Jul. 31st, 2007 12:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kiki_eng...so much is AU, which is sad and tragic.
There have been so many wolfstar fics about telling Harry and all I can think now is "and then there were none." Lupin will never tell that story. There will be no quiet, serious, Sirius-tinged dusty memories between the two. ...and I mourn that loss, because I think he should know. I want Hestia Jones -someone -anyone, to race in there and tell the story because I think it needs telling.
There should be laughter and a bottle of butterbeer on a kitchen table when it's told. I don't see that now. All I can see is forgotten photos, and letters, a quiet "oh", a quiet revelation, and all I can think is and this is where they launch into that story about that time when... and it ends in laughter.
All the marauders are gone, Severus and Lily, too. There is no future. ..and those have to be some of the four most depressing words in existence when uttered alone.
There have been so many wolfstar fics about telling Harry and all I can think now is "and then there were none." Lupin will never tell that story. There will be no quiet, serious, Sirius-tinged dusty memories between the two. ...and I mourn that loss, because I think he should know. I want Hestia Jones -someone -anyone, to race in there and tell the story because I think it needs telling.
There should be laughter and a bottle of butterbeer on a kitchen table when it's told. I don't see that now. All I can see is forgotten photos, and letters, a quiet "oh", a quiet revelation, and all I can think is and this is where they launch into that story about that time when... and it ends in laughter.
All the marauders are gone, Severus and Lily, too. There is no future. ..and those have to be some of the four most depressing words in existence when uttered alone.
Lupin was so tragic here. He wanted to die. Why else do you track down the Boy Who Lived and offer him your services? (...ah. He wanted to help, I see.) ...just: it shaped his life, the lycanthropy, and in some ways he was so alone at the end. When you start climbing up in the years, getting older, everyone around you, all your chums start dying, so that if you live long enough you are utterly, utterly alone. He was friendly without having many true friends and by the time of his death every known friend of his had died.
...and he didn't even get a death scene. That was so callous. Please, let me have somehow missed it, and tell me where it is.
I loved what JK did with Severus, which is to say that my thoughts on finishing might have been slightly homicidal if she'd done anything else. There was no way he could have been on Voldemort's side, not with his actions toward Harry in the earlier book being what they were. I got my byronic hero, and he was perfect; she didn't leave him half-drawn like she did a lot of her other characters, and she explained. I look forward very much to reading new Severus fics. I think he got absolution in death, but his dying seemed so pointless.
They all did and none of them seemed real. It started with Moody and now why did you go and do that? They felt obligatory. There's a war going on and someone has to die. Something should happen to set the twins apart, and then you can't have a mis-matched pair, now can you? Lupin was getting depressing and we can't have that, can we? She showed a horrible intolerance for misery. There is misery in the world and miserable people - killing them off because you don't like writing it is bad sport. Tonks was a pre-emptive strike. This was not appreciated.
Nor was Luna. She took a fascinating character and made her boring. With a different parent she could just as easily have been a Death Eater. JK made her un-original and originality was what I loved about her. She made Luna closed minded and a follower.
Neville was wonderful, if somewhat random and un-expected. There is a whole story about 7th year that has not been told. I'd like to see the evolution - not just the end result. My favorite Neville moment by far is his telling about his gran - that was lovely. That Neville and Luna kept in contact was hopeful, but I haven't quite decided what to make of Luna these days yet.
I think that Percy really could have gone in any direction, though I must say that having him as Voldemort's right-hand man would have been surreal - he's a bit too organised for slaughter in it's basest form. That said, though, I ship Percy/Oliver, and "Harry thought he heard Percy discoursing loudly on broomstick regulations..." He was at King's Cross in the midst of parents all sending their kids off to Hogwarts again and for the first time and he was going on about broomstick regulations. Who do you imagine was with him and why were they there? (It was definitely a fist in the air moment.) I can just see him standing there with Oliver, arguing either with him or their kid. It's the happiest ending for Percy I could possibly imagine. He came back to his family, he stood up to the corrupt ministry, cracked a joke in the midst of war, shocked a twin with humour, and fought, along with Oliver, in the last battle. ...and they all lived happily ever after.
I don't think Jo's "All was well." fooled anyone.
...and he didn't even get a death scene. That was so callous. Please, let me have somehow missed it, and tell me where it is.
I loved what JK did with Severus, which is to say that my thoughts on finishing might have been slightly homicidal if she'd done anything else. There was no way he could have been on Voldemort's side, not with his actions toward Harry in the earlier book being what they were. I got my byronic hero, and he was perfect; she didn't leave him half-drawn like she did a lot of her other characters, and she explained. I look forward very much to reading new Severus fics. I think he got absolution in death, but his dying seemed so pointless.
They all did and none of them seemed real. It started with Moody and now why did you go and do that? They felt obligatory. There's a war going on and someone has to die. Something should happen to set the twins apart, and then you can't have a mis-matched pair, now can you? Lupin was getting depressing and we can't have that, can we? She showed a horrible intolerance for misery. There is misery in the world and miserable people - killing them off because you don't like writing it is bad sport. Tonks was a pre-emptive strike. This was not appreciated.
Nor was Luna. She took a fascinating character and made her boring. With a different parent she could just as easily have been a Death Eater. JK made her un-original and originality was what I loved about her. She made Luna closed minded and a follower.
Neville was wonderful, if somewhat random and un-expected. There is a whole story about 7th year that has not been told. I'd like to see the evolution - not just the end result. My favorite Neville moment by far is his telling about his gran - that was lovely. That Neville and Luna kept in contact was hopeful, but I haven't quite decided what to make of Luna these days yet.
I think that Percy really could have gone in any direction, though I must say that having him as Voldemort's right-hand man would have been surreal - he's a bit too organised for slaughter in it's basest form. That said, though, I ship Percy/Oliver, and "Harry thought he heard Percy discoursing loudly on broomstick regulations..." He was at King's Cross in the midst of parents all sending their kids off to Hogwarts again and for the first time and he was going on about broomstick regulations. Who do you imagine was with him and why were they there? (It was definitely a fist in the air moment.) I can just see him standing there with Oliver, arguing either with him or their kid. It's the happiest ending for Percy I could possibly imagine. He came back to his family, he stood up to the corrupt ministry, cracked a joke in the midst of war, shocked a twin with humour, and fought, along with Oliver, in the last battle. ...and they all lived happily ever after.
I don't think Jo's "All was well." fooled anyone.
