My life and more HBP thoughts.

[jlh]

I'm not late for work. I'm not on vacation. I never have to go back there again. (Well, actually, I have to go back today and get a few things that were in my office and were too awkward to carry, but that's it.) Expect me to keep saying this, in this same sort of dazed way, likely until I actually start school.

I didn't actually purchase a new computer yesterday because I want a bigger hard drive so I have to buy it online. So I'll do that today, and it will be here when I return which is pretty awesome. August will be all about getting ready, getting organized.

One non-spoilery thing I love about new canon is that people come out of the woodwork and post again, or people who have been posting about not much other than various manga and television shows suddenly make a huge HP canon post. It's so much fun to just keep hitting refresh and see what someone else has to say, to watch the theories floating around, the initial reactions. And it's also so fun to have had fun with an HP book again, to have regained my trust in JKR.

I love that deamus is the only shipper comm I'm on; someone's already posted about that one ickle shippy moment. I also have the best fucking fellow H/H shippers on my flist. No drama, no woe, just steady on, which is as it should be. More on that later.

Speaking of which, hurrah for AUs. Hurrah for what-ifs. Hurrah for the separation of canon and fanfic. Hurrah for fanfic that gives us what canon doesn't.

I can't wait for the book 6 movie to see Alan Rickman play those final scenes. (I hope that Dan is up to the Harry of 5 and 6; hell, I hope that Dan was up to the Harry of the end of 4.) I also can't wait for Maggie Smith to kick ass in movie 5, for the casting of Umbridge and Slughorn and all those aurors (Kingsley OMG so hot he will be).

I can't believe that this is all going to be completely over, books and movies, in what, six years tops? I can't wait for book seven, and yet, I wish this could be never over.

Comments

[jlh.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad this is a better experience for you than OotP! I feel like for the entire fandom is having a lot more fun with the speculation and all of that than with book 5.

Tom had better be up for it, is all I'm sayin'. We sort of rolled the dice with these kids some years back and I don't really think recasting is in our future, do you?

[mahoni.livejournal.com]

I feel like for the entire fandom is having a lot more fun with the speculation and all of that than with book 5.

I wondered why this is?

We sort of rolled the dice with these kids some years back and I don't really think recasting is in our future, do you?

It does seem as though all talk of recasting has ceased, so Dan and Tom in particular are going to have some really tough material once they get to HP6. *fingers crossed*