HP sigh

[jedi_of_urth]

So, because I could I wound up reading the TWoP HBP photo show and well...it reminded me why I hate that book.


All they seemed to talk about was the Hogwarts 90210 aspects, which I was really hoping they would tone down from the book. The plot of the book, though kind of thin, could have made up a good chuck of a movie length story without it having to give so much weight to the crappy ships of the book.

It was only my ability to hope that the 90210 aspects would be played down that had me all that interested in the movie, now that I'm back thinking they're going to make sure to sell that, and reminded of how much I hated it the first and only time I read the book, I'm back to not caring.

I will say that DH redeemed the series somewhat after the dren of HBP, but my love affair with the HP series died with HBP the first time around. Still, somehow I'm still worried the movie will manage to kill it more dead.

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[tsukara.livejournal.com]

It was the books that made me a shipper too, on my own as well. (Ron/Luna would have actually been really cute, and, yeah, it was fandom that got me to look at that.) And, yeah, I read the books through a lens of H/Hr from about book three onward. R/Hr always, always confused me. I get some of the reasons people like the ship, but the evidence I found in the books was always overwhelmingly H/Hr, in my opinion.

We'll see how it goes, eh?

[jedi_of_urth]

H/Hr pretty much only hit me upside the head in OOTP, but I'd probably always been leaning that way, I just hadn't checked in with it on a shipping level until then. It hardly came out of nowhere it just grabbed me and *made* me ship it there and woke me up to all the details that had lead up to it being so glaringly *obvious* in OOTP that H/Hr was total true love.

Funny story, I went to go see GoF with a friend of mine who shipped canon couples, she came out thinking the movies had a decided H/Hr leaning, I came out thinking they cut out the most awesome H/Hr moments in the books. I'm not sure what this says about either of us, but I always remember it.

[tsukara.livejournal.com]

OotP was the big H/Hr book. I think that's the point where she let the story get the furthest away from her, regarding the shipping, though it had been going on all along (without her realizing).

Haha, I think both are true. They did cut out some of the best H/Hr moments--but they also gave it quite a strong H/Hr slant, curiously. Funny, that.

[jedi_of_urth]

I think I agree with you. Without realizing she wrote such a beautiful friendship ship which in OOTP converted a lot of people like me who weren't committed to a ship before, especially in a book which implied that the power of love was Harry's greatest weapon against Voldemort (has always bugged me that that really wasn't such a big deal afterward). But there are several noticeable and sudden character changes after that, which is sad since I really liked the characters in OOTP and not really in HBP.

You're also right there. There is a fair H/Hr leaning in the movies, it just isn't because they kept the same reasons for it as in the books.