me and hp

[lobelia321]

The Book and spoilers!

Well, anyone who knows me at all also knows that I'm obviously not going to read Deathly Hollows (Hallows? Harrows? Harrods?), *g*. But I have read spoilers! People die! Some of them are called Weasley! Some of them are Evil Lords! Some of them are Evil Lord's minions! Some of them are thuggish Draco-fuckbuddiessidekicks! Some of them are snarly sneery Teachers Much Beloved Of Fandom! Some of them are people I've no idea who they are because they appeared in canon once I'd stopped reading the books! Some people survive! And get an Epilogue! 20 years later! And Have Babies!

Babies!


The Movie and no spoilers!

Well, I'm also not going to see the movie although t'sons are seeing it this afternoon and will fill me in. Perhaps. I have read Spoilers but I couldn't understand them because I haven't read the book this film is based on.

Hm. Do I even qualify as a fan??? Is there such a thing as Fan of Fanon and Highly Selective Canon???


What Ursula Le Guin thinks of Harry Potter:

I have no great opinion of it. When so many adult critics were carrying on about the "incredible originality" of the first Harry Potter book, I read it to find out what the fuss was about, and remained somewhat puzzled; it seemed a lively kid's fantasy crossed with a "school novel", good fare for its age group, but stylistically ordinary, imaginatively derivative, and ethically rather mean-spirited.

Hee hee.

Comments

[msilverstar]

Dudley appears in the beginning of DH, he's not his usual caricature of a boor, has a little brain to him!

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

*hearts Dudley*

I love that man.

[msilverstar]

Oh! Read this http://ncp.livejournal.com/95405.html !!!

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

omg, I loved that story! Thanks so much for reccing!!!

[ukcalico.livejournal.com]

But...but... in DH there is a whole Dudley SCENE, where he STARS, and stuff! Whilst reading it I was thinking 100% of you! I would seek it out. Then put the rest of the book away.

(I loved it. But I am not so selective, canonically!)

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

A whole scene, eh? Hm. Do I need to go to that sekrit version? Or hang around in Borders, reading in one of teh armchairs? Can't you type it all up for me???

Go on. Go on.

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

It should have been called The Deathly Harrods!!!

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

The Deathly Horrors. The Deathly Horlicks. The Deathly Titles That Are Difficult To Pronounce!!

I'll stick to what you do: HP7.

This comment contains a spoiler for Draco's hair

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

Harry Potter and the Deathly Horlicks


Harry was sitting up in bed, reading a copy of 'Socks and Villainy - the life and times of Lord Voldemort'. He yawned.

"I suspect," he said to his companion, "this book was ghost-written."

"It was," said Harry's lover of fifty-plus years, Pointy Pointy Draco Malfoy. "I met the ghost wot done it, in the pub."

Harry sighed. "I do wish you wouldn't keep trying on that stupid accent, Draco."

"I just want to be like common people," said Draco. "I want to live like common muggles do!"

"No you don't."

"No, you're right, I don't. But..." Draco looked wistful. "It would be nice to fit in, now and again, with the admittedly loathsome residents of Crawley."

Harry put his book down and looked at Draco. "Sometimes," he said, "I feel I barely know you."

"You've known me for over 60 years, Harry," replied Draco, scratching his receding hairline. "And we've been buying Horlicks together for most of them."

"True." Harry nodded. "I still wonder, you know, whatever happened to Ginny and the kids."

Draco shrugged. "Probably just got bored. You know how witches are. Drink your Horlicks, Harry."

"I'm sure you're right, Draco." Harry sipped from his mug, smiling fondly at his elderly lover. "And I do love Horlicks!"

"Yes... yes, you certainly do, Harry." Draco's eyes lingered on Harry's scar, now almost lost among the liver spots and wrinkles. He laughed half-heartedly. "It'll be the death of you one of these days, as mother would have said."

"What on earth can you mean by that, pumpkin?"

"Nothing, sweetums. Nothing at all." Draco reached over and turned out the light.

Re: This comment contains a spoiler for Draco's hair

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Bwuahahahah!

Wow, you're fast.

I immediately started a fic called 'The Deathly Horlicks' but had to put it on hold while I went to see The Simpsons Movie. So you got in before me!

Harry's scar, now almost lost among the liver spots and wrinkles.*rolls on carpet*

Oh, Draco and your receding hairline. BUT WHERE IS DUDLEY?? *stomps foot*

Hang on. Dudkins could be shacked up with Mr Wainthropp who by now is 154 years old!!!

Re: This comment contains a spoiler for Draco's hair

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

Hang on. Dudkins could be shacked up with Mr Wainthropp who by now is 154 years old!!!

This is obviously true! And I look forward to your Horlicks fic.

Draco's receding hairline is, of course, now canon.