until the very end

[dahlia_moon]

Ugh, I hate now how your gmail and youtube accounts are both linked. Because I have a gmail address but I also have a separate University email address that I only use for school but that's now linked to Google as well. The first year of college, all the student emails were on the campus server or whatever but now it's on the Google server, which before I didn't have any feelings either way. But now to log into YT you have to use your gmail address - or at least I do - they don't accept just user names anymore and so to use YT, I have to sign out of my univ address and into my Gmail address and ugh, it just makes things so much more frustrating.

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I went and saw Deathly Hallows Part II last night with my brother and his fiancee (twin brother, Monkey, is off at summer camp teaching little kiddies lacrosse).

I cried when Ron finds Fred's dead body; I also surprisingly cried when Snape found Lily dead and cradled her in his arms. I cried when Harry meets Voldemort in the Forbidden Forest even though I knew Harry was not really going to die and was just going to fake it until the right moment came. I cried because...because it meant he was accepting death, when Voldemort raised his wand and Harry just closed his eyes, and it was strangely poetic and sad and I don't think the moment would've captivated me as much as if Harry had just stood there and hadn't closed his eyes. And I think I cried the hardest when Lily, James, Remus and Sirius appeared.

The audience clapped when Neville sliced off Nagini's head and when Mrs. Weasley killed Bellatrix - I clapped along with them. And these two characters were such BAMFs and I was so proud that they shined here, as they did in the book. Truly, this story was as much about them as it was about Harry. (There was no question that Harry was brave and strong, but I think being brave came more easily to Harry than it did to Neville or Mrs. Weasley - not that I mean to say that Harry didn't have to muster up bravery and courage but more that bravery and courage were expected of him, but Neville and Mrs. Weasley were the underdogs; they weren't the chosen ones.)

Ah Snape. I loved "The Prince's Tale" and in the movie young!Snape was so very cute and adorable. I'm still not as big a fangirl of his but at least I sympathize with him now and don't hate him.

The ending/epilogue was a bit weird, not that I didn't enjoy it but I think I loved it more reading it than watching it. Just seeing them aged up was a bit disorienting, cool in a kinda freaky, fascinating way of course.

In regards to what TPTB changed/did't include, I'm pretty OK with most of it, but I would've loved to have seen Draco, Ginny, Ron, Hermione, and Harry's epilogue interaction, you know the little nod they give at the station when he sees them staring at him at the end. I dunno. That was a pretty memorable thing for me in the book. I also would have loved it more if they mentioned Grindelwald, and more about Dumbledore's history, but no, they didn't. :(

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[loki-onyx.livejournal.com]

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