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Saw Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 this afternoon with my brothers and my older brother's girlfriend. My older brother doesn't read the books, just watches the movies (or in this case just one movie before this one) so he came into the story not knowing a lot of the stuff. On the way home, it was my twin brother and me talking over each other, explaining things to older brother. (My twin does not summarize things too well and I meticulously try to summarize from beginning to end.)

And, regarding the movie, I cried during the graveyard scene when Harry's at his parents' grave but didn't cry during Dobby's death. Which I don't find too surprising. I always cry whenever something about Harry's parents are mentioned but not during any of the deaths (didn't cry when Sirius died either and he's my favorite character so I have no idea why death doesn't make me cry in this movie but mention something sad and I weep like a baby).

Remus and Tonks were awesome in the beginning too, even if I don't ship them. And Bill was hot! I think he and Fleur make one hot couple. George and Fred continue to be awesome, as always. :D

The Ron and Hermione scenes were awkward in the best possible way. He so loves her! But can't tell her without being an idiot about it! And making her be mad at him all the time. I so seriously wanted her to hug him when he came back after destroying the locket. What a missed opportunity! But I also think it's in character that she hits him so *shrugs* I love Ron & Hermione both in the movies and books while I'm mostly a Harry/Ginny shipper in the books. Yeah, their scenes don't make me giddy like Ron's and Hermione's but I still totally love them. (Maybe Rowling just writes their romance better than the producers can show it on the screen? That's my theory.) And when the locket showed him that Harry-and-Hermione-kissing moment, I wanted to hug him.

Everyone in the theater laughed at Fleur's "Look away, Bill, I'm hideous" and I thought it was funny too, how he comes to stand behind her and looks kinda distraught at his wife-to-be polyjuicing herself into a man.

The one thing that shocked me was how old everyone looked. Not like old-old but older than they were in previous films - at least to me. (And Rupert Grint really filled out nicely into a muscular but not too buff young man - yeah, there were a lot of shallow thoughts throughout this movie).

So yeah it was AWESOME and felt way too short and I didn't want it to end.

Oh and, I loved the previews of The Green Hornet and The Green Lantern and The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader (still need to watch Prince Caspian - guh! so many movies, so little time~!)

As this is so late, it won't get posted to 31_days.

Title: You Can Always Be With Me
Day/Theme: January 16/It’s sane enough what I’m asking.
Series: Harry Potter
Character/Pairing: Ginny/Harry
Rating: G
Notes: Probably AU as this happens sometime before DH, but after the end of HBP.
*****
( (To be frank, she had always believed her older brother greatly exaggerated everything.) )

This is an alternative to hpgw100's theme 'Flying.' I tried it a second time to try to challenge myself to only 100 words. The alternative drabble can be found here. It's different from this one, but I like it all the same. ^^

Title: Girl versus Broom
Words: 557
Rating: G
Other characters/pairings: none
Warnings: none
Author's Notes: I always thought of brooms in the HP'verse as being kind of like cars; they have all these brands and models... Also, this is more of a vignette than a drabble. The alternative drabble can be found here. They're different fics, but both are based on the flying theme at hpgw100

( Girl versus Broom )

You know, the hardest part about being a twin is separating yourself from your twin individually.

I love my brother, truly I do but it's really hard to be my own person and to be independent because every time I turn around, he's there. Not that I'm complaining. But since he's my brother, he has the tendency to kinda be controlling when he's around me because he feels like he has to protect me.

I just want to feel like I can have one thing that's my own because he has his sports and his guitar and I don't have anything that's my own. We both have the same things- we are both great students. We both go to the gym. I like this part because it's the only fairness a twin can get (what he has, I have, what I have, he has) but besides that I am the same as my twin.

Well, there is one thing that separates us, and that's my love for fandom and Japanese music and shows. Yet, he still makes fun of me for that.

It really is hard being a twin. =<

(I know there are also perks to having a twin, but I just wanna dwell on the downside for a while.)

P.S. I envy all of you who have DH and are reading it/finished reading it. I would love you forever if you spoiled me. I like getting spoiled. ^^

So, it's already February and my brain hasn't squeezed out any writing. Well, it has squeezed out something, but not anything even remotely good. I'm working on a sequel to another one-shot of mine. I have the whole plot, the characters, and their interactions all formed in my head, and all ready to go...but it just won't come out well, and pretty, and readable! And if it's not up to my standards, then I usually abandon the whole thing, but with this story, I really want it to work out because it has the potential to be a good fic.

Oh, it'll drive me up the wall, I swear it will.

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On another unrelated note, JK Rowling's site has some good news: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows will be released on Saturday July 21, 2007, which I'm not too excited about since this is the end. The end of Harry Potter (not literally in the book though, who knows what'll happen there).

The one thing (the one thing?!) that I'm wondering about is if HP will ever be thought of as a classic book? You know how the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Scarlet Letter, The Grapes of Wrath, etc are all classics? Well, it would be interesting if, say fifty, or a hundred years down the road, kids read this book in their classrooms, and discuss it. Harry Potter could be thought of as an intellectual book since it's filled with good Latin (that's what my Latin teacher says anyways), but, than on the other hand, it's the kind of book you read just for fun. You know?