Who Wants To Reread Harry Potter With Me?

[redbrunja]

[Poll #1459459]

Comments

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

if by "five chapters a week" you mean "more like two or three maybe four," then yes. (woooo college.)

also clearly you should name it something like hp_revisited. alternatively, whydidmychildhoodhavetoend or whymustyouhurtmeinthiswayharry or thisbookissoawesome. XD

(THIS BOOK IS SO AWESOME
I CAN DO ANYTHING
THIS BOOK IS SO AWESOME
I AM THE HOLY SHIT DRACO'S BLEEDING.)

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Oh, I really like hp_revisited! That sounds quite nice.

whydidmychildhoodhavetoend

Of course that has a particular grace and subtlety...

[sureasdawn.livejournal.com]

Sadly, all of my books have passed into other hands I'm sure others are enjoying them much more than I did.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

That is sad (meaning, your not going to reread with us -waily, waily- or you'll have to borrow one of the local library's five billion copies?

[sureasdawn.livejournal.com]

I could do it - actually I can borrow a HC copy from work for free. I'm just not sure I want to read the books again. All the characters I like (except for Neville) die. T__T

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Oh, TOTALLY UNDERSTANDABLE.

[sureasdawn.livejournal.com]

When Sirius died, it was like a real person had died. I went through the whole grieving process. I've never had a character death hit me that hard before. I was in denial until the last sentence of the last book.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow, poor baby.

I'm lucky that by the time characters I were really invested in died (Lupin, Tonks, Snape) either a.) the character rape had made their actual deaths an anti-climax or b.) I was consoled by the epic romantic backstory I never ever thought would be canon.

That icon is perfect, by the way.

[sureasdawn.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Even now I can remember my exact reaction when it happened Did he just- He didn't- no way. NO NO NO NO NO NO Not him- this can't be happening... ad infinitum. It's a moment frozen in time in my mind not unlike the Challenger explosion when I was in fourth grade weirdly enough.

I'm glad I don't have to use her very often, but yeah.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Wow. That sounds intense.

Honestly, I found the death scene so anti-climatic that I read past his death and then flipped back because I wasn't sure if he'd died or not.

[sureasdawn.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking about what I said earlier, and I also find it kind of strange that it hit me so hard.

I'm not good with things that are unexpected or surprises - I read a lot of the same types of things and have the tropes down, and like to have little hints and things thrown at me - and maybe there were, and I didn't pick up on them. I think once he was gone, I realized anyone and everyone was fair game for her to kill off in the story, so the next two books didn't bother me at all, except in the arbitrary way she chose who made it. Like she picked names out of a hat (I guess there are worse ways to plot).

[castalyne.livejournal.com]

While it wouldn't be a re read for me (I'm finally giving the series a chance now... AFTER the whole series is done) It might be interesting to do it in a group like setting.

Besides, I've heard it's a good series (despite the character rape I've heard so much about, particularily towards the end of the series.) If I can actually give Twilight enough of a chance to read (though reading the Twilight series didn't change my biased opinion.) I'm pretty sure I can sit through 7 books that have a little character rape and not a... well... sparkling vampires.

... I was going to write more here, but it seems as if I have a store to close.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

It is a good series - especially the first four books.

[chomiji]

I can't guarantee I'd have anything to say.

Then again, that fic held my attention ever so much more than I expected, so who knows?

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Exactly.

And even if you don't call dibs on chapters to meta on, I'm sure you'd have something to say about other people's meta.

[wicked-seraph.livejournal.com]

I've been meaning to reread HP for some time now - this does seem like quite a good way of kicking me in the ass to do it already :D

I can certainly aim for five - thankfully my classes haven't been too harsh yet.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think it would be a really fun way to go about rereading the series.

[okroginator.livejournal.com]

Name it "reread_leviosa." Or something comparable. >.>

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I settled on hp_revisited.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've decided not to have a schedule because this should be fun - I do NOT need another have-to in my life.