You Never Forget Your First

[redbrunja]

It's apparently Harry/Hermione vs. Hermione/Ron time on my tumblr.

Again.

A decade later.

*sits back and enjoys the pretty*

ETA: but what prompted this? Does anyone know? I feel like there is a story I'm missing.

Comments

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

To be honest, the series peaked with POA. Goblet of Fire was decent enough, but the series took a sharp downturn with OoTP and never fully recovered, imho.

[sharkflip.livejournal.com]

I vividly remember reading Sorcerer's Stone in 11th grade math class, and being so immersed in the world that I was actually disoriented when the period ended. The whimsy of the series has always irritated me, but there's something about it that's, well, spell-binding.

I read Order of the Phoenix in basically one sitting my senior year of college (it was winter, it was my first or second menstrual cycle after getting an IUD, and I was cramping like I'd never cramped before). It was still spell-binding, but also no longer the series I'd started reading. And the movies were mostly disappointing -- they cut out too many scenes that made the story work for me.

But the fact that I just devoted this much time just now discussing it (which is cutting into my last Sunday off when I can go down to the F Sunday Market guilt-free) is evidence of how special the series is despite its flaws.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

But the fact that I just devoted this much time just now discussing it (which is cutting into my last Sunday off when I can go down to the F Sunday Market guilt-free) is evidence of how special the series is despite its flaws.


*nods* As everyone's reaction to this interview show, HP has a place in a LOT of people's hearts.

And the movies were mostly disappointing -- they cut out too many scenes that made the story work for me.

I feel like the HP movies are a good example of when over-faithfulness to a source can really hamper an adaptation. Because there were just too much source material and the movies don't stand on their own at all.

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

My only argument to that is that Luna's first appearance is after what you consider to be the peak. The series reaching a point at which it contained Luna is a point at which it can't be considered all bad.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Sadly, I just never loved Luna the way other people love Luna. It didn't help that her intro was my least favorite book.

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

The thing about Luna is, she's calmly unconcerned about the things that make other characters act like idiots thorough the back half of the series. She calls Dobby 'Sir' because she's polite and sees no reason not to; she keeps herself open to possibilities and thus doesn't accept rumors that Harry's crazy when he isn't acting crazy, and she has the ability to let insults flow past her like water over a river stone.