you laugh until you cry, you cry until you laugh

[perilous]

I would so happily read Outtakes From Harry Potter: Pointless Scenes of Harry Potter, Ronald Weasley, and Hermione Granger Arguing, Joking Around, and Generally Being Adorable Best Friends.

Which is to say that I finished rereading Deathly Hallows yesterday afternoon and have mildly stunned even myself with just how desperately overinvested in the trio I am. Is this an unpopular opinion? I am unsure. But I love them so much. I totally cried, which is a bit weird since I don't remember crying at all the first time I read that book, except maybe when Hedwig died. This time around I probably cried at least a little every hundred pages.

Instead of doing anything productive with my life, this will be my cue to listen to Stephen Fry's audiobooks of the series. And also to pick up with reading a fuckload of fanfiction. How can I not want to find out why Draco Malfoy fled to San Francisco to become a stereotypically effeminate gay barista with a pierced ear and dyed hair?

Comments

[peridium.livejournal.com]

God, yes. /o\ I adore her and I don't care at all if it's because she's JKR's Sue or anything.

[myaurasmiles.livejournal.com]

She's not an awful Sue for a Sue. She's balanced out enough to be a likable character to me.

[peridium.livejournal.com]

Yes! I mean, male characters are unbelievably awesome all the time and they don't get called out on it. Just because she's a girl doesn't mean Hermione can't be as excellent as she is.

[myaurasmiles.livejournal.com]

I liked the fact that she still got frazzled, despite being very smart and talented, because I always get bored by characters that are just good at everything and never get bothered by anything at all.

[peridium.livejournal.com]

Yeah, definitely. And she was bossy and sometimes annoying and overbearing, but they'd have still all died tons of times without her.

[myaurasmiles.livejournal.com]

It's not her fault that she knows better. If they didn't let her be grate, they would be dead.

[peridium.livejournal.com]

She just wants them to be doper people, which starts with teaching them how to properly transfigure themselves into trains. :(

[myaurasmiles.livejournal.com]

It would be really dope to kill Voldemort. Just saying.

[peridium.livejournal.com]

HARRY'S TRUE MOTIVATIONS BECOME CLEAR.

[myaurasmiles.livejournal.com]

He just wanted to cement his position in Hermione's posse.