Your Mom's nitpicks...SO TRUE. lol. I love Anastasia sooo much. (Well, Meg Ryan. So. Yeah.) But there's just so much to love there because both the characters grow so much.
Um, the weather change is obviously because of the thematic moving from the gloom of the past to the spring of a new day (and I love Paris in the Spring time- moments), but, well, St. Peteresburg and Paris are also in a different climate and lattitude. I've always blamed the weather change on that. :)
What do you think they did after they eloped?
As for HP... knowing you are in a re-reading gives some of our discussions about HP more context. I LOVE book four. Its such abridge in tone, I think, which structurally I've always loved. I mean, there's foreshadowing and stuff in everything but I like the symmetery provided in her series and how later books corrolate to earlier ones so well. Like Book One and Seven are very closely connected both in that so much was foreshadowed in the first book, and thematically. Harry confronts Voldemort on his own again, his parents and their deaths are revisited (well, if you count the flashback, literally revisited!), and the forest. Books two and six connect closely both in terms of Ginny (and even the theme of crushes in general though that was also in others), and more importantly in terms of Voldemort/Riddle's past becoming important again, and, of course, we find out the truth that was foreshadowed in book two when Dumbledore says a piece of Riddle's soul was stuck into Harry by accident (when he explains the parsel tongue). Books three and five also corrolate closely, what with both having major arcs about James Potter's friends, Remus and Sirius. Interestingly too, both have strong arcs involving Fudge and the government. In book three Harry is well-beloved of the ministry and sees Fudge in person whereas in book five he turns on him, and the important lesson that not everyone will believe you or work with you (a major theme and point of frustration in book five) is first learned in book three when Dumbledore basically explains that the government won't just listen to Sirius or free Buckbeak. Up till that point, Harry et al had not seen that. In Book one they are rewarded for breaking the rules, and book two they right an old wrong in proving Hagrid's innocence. I'm rambling...sorry. I just love the symmetry in all this. :)
Hermione/Krum is awesome. Though, I'm wondering, since in the book we know they keep in touch as pen-pals, if Hermione has to deal with Krum still kinda liking her. I've had those where a dude who by all objective accounts should be a great guy but just didn't do for me wanted to "stay friends," but really was just trying to keep in the game. Sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind.....Anyway. Hermione is a catch and people should be all happy she goes to the one random dance the school puts on with them. :D
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Um, the weather change is obviously because of the thematic moving from the gloom of the past to the spring of a new day (and I love Paris in the Spring time- moments), but, well, St. Peteresburg and Paris are also in a different climate and lattitude. I've always blamed the weather change on that. :)
What do you think they did after they eloped?
As for HP... knowing you are in a re-reading gives some of our discussions about HP more context. I LOVE book four. Its such abridge in tone, I think, which structurally I've always loved. I mean, there's foreshadowing and stuff in everything but I like the symmetery provided in her series and how later books corrolate to earlier ones so well. Like Book One and Seven are very closely connected both in that so much was foreshadowed in the first book, and thematically. Harry confronts Voldemort on his own again, his parents and their deaths are revisited (well, if you count the flashback, literally revisited!), and the forest. Books two and six connect closely both in terms of Ginny (and even the theme of crushes in general though that was also in others), and more importantly in terms of Voldemort/Riddle's past becoming important again, and, of course, we find out the truth that was foreshadowed in book two when Dumbledore says a piece of Riddle's soul was stuck into Harry by accident (when he explains the parsel tongue). Books three and five also corrolate closely, what with both having major arcs about James Potter's friends, Remus and Sirius. Interestingly too, both have strong arcs involving Fudge and the government. In book three Harry is well-beloved of the ministry and sees Fudge in person whereas in book five he turns on him, and the important lesson that not everyone will believe you or work with you (a major theme and point of frustration in book five) is first learned in book three when Dumbledore basically explains that the government won't just listen to Sirius or free Buckbeak. Up till that point, Harry et al had not seen that. In Book one they are rewarded for breaking the rules, and book two they right an old wrong in proving Hagrid's innocence. I'm rambling...sorry. I just love the symmetry in all this. :)
Hermione/Krum is awesome. Though, I'm wondering, since in the book we know they keep in touch as pen-pals, if Hermione has to deal with Krum still kinda liking her. I've had those where a dude who by all objective accounts should be a great guy but just didn't do for me wanted to "stay friends," but really was just trying to keep in the game. Sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind.....Anyway. Hermione is a catch and people should be all happy she goes to the one random dance the school puts on with them. :D