IN THE NAME OF SCIENCE
Feb. 20th, 2009 02:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Today (or was it yesterday?)
shiiki made a post that happened to link to this "HP Companion" thing, and I decided to peruse the whole thing. I'm obviously not into Harry Potter like I once was, but the books -- especially Philosopher's Stone -- still give me a kind of warm squishy feeling (otherwise known as "nostalgia" but stfu, I like "warm and squishy") and so the site made me go "awww". Plus I actually read a thing or two I didn't already know, which is really saying something.
If I was more eloquent this might be a post about childhood and/or nostalgia or something, but I am not, so instead I bring you a POLL. For SCIENCE.
Somehow by way of Twilight and Doctor Who I gathered a lot of people on my flist who ship H/Hr. So I bring you questions. For science, and great justice.
[Poll #1352688]
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If I was more eloquent this might be a post about childhood and/or nostalgia or something, but I am not, so instead I bring you a POLL. For SCIENCE.
Somehow by way of Twilight and Doctor Who I gathered a lot of people on my flist who ship H/Hr. So I bring you questions. For science, and great justice.
[Poll #1352688]
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On a totally unrelated note, look a meme:
THINK POSITIVE MEME
I don't usually do these. I guess I was feeling narcisstic. Link me if you've got one!
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Date: 2009-02-20 07:46 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-02-20 07:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-20 07:55 pm (UTC)See, most of the people I actually met through HP fandom shipped R/Hr/liked DH well enough/etc, but then when I started poking around in other places I gathered all these friends who are like... massively scarred. It cracks me up.
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Date: 2009-02-20 07:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-20 07:57 pm (UTC)Then again I think she was behind "Rose" and "Hugo" and.... I dunno, those struck me as almost stranger than Albus/Lily/James. Because you kind of expect Harry to be a sentimental fool, but then it's like LOL RANDOM NAMES.
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Date: 2009-02-20 07:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-20 08:00 pm (UTC)I dunno, trying to think of what Harry and Hermioen would name their kids confuses my brain. This is partly because I had coming up wiht names for people's kids, though.
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Date: 2009-02-20 08:01 pm (UTC)Also just much-loathed in general. Idk.
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Date: 2009-02-20 08:22 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-02-20 08:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-20 08:02 pm (UTC)It wasn't at all what I was expecting. I was alright with it because I get what she was trying to do with the full-circle happy family blah blah, but yeah, not what I was expecting at all.
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Date: 2009-02-20 08:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-20 08:17 pm (UTC)I grew to like the epilogue just because everyone hated it! Poor, unloved, random epilogue.Okay, and. I kind of shipped H/Hr, but ended up shipping H/G even more because I have this deep and abiding love for Ginny, but I ... shipped Ron with Luna? Even though I shipped Luna with Krum or Neville more. I just didn't like R/Hr a lot, even though I'm okay with them now because if I'm going to be indignant over ships in Harry Potter it's totally going to be over how Neville and Luna didn't get together.
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Date: 2009-02-20 08:27 pm (UTC)I do that a lot too. I stayed indifferent towards th epilogue overall, though.Ron and Luna seems to be the only ship (besides ron/no one) that is taking a lead. Also, yes! Neville and Luna! I don't care much about HP ships but I feel like they would be cuter than Neville/Hannah and Luna/Random Guy.
Because everyone marries someone they knew in highschool, obvs. lirl.
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Date: 2009-02-20 08:44 pm (UTC)*awesome fangirl is awesome*
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Date: 2009-02-20 08:45 pm (UTC)They wouldn't have been Rose and Hugo because then the ~cute~ R/H thing wouldn't have worked. Harriet and Hugo, maybe. Or something of the sort.
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Date: 2009-02-20 09:28 pm (UTC)Yeah like I told Sara, the "cute" R/H thing totally sailed over my head and I have to be constantly reminded of it for it to even register.
The possibilities of crying children watching their parents argue can make for a very powerful (and common and canon) scene!no subject
Date: 2009-02-20 10:23 pm (UTC)I can't help noticing whenever I type "Rose and Hugo" because of...er, I don't know, the big R and H capitals are kind of glaring. Or something.
Do you not know that very (canon) essence of Ron and Hermione's relationship is bitterness and swearing?no subject
Date: 2009-02-20 10:26 pm (UTC)Apparently I need big bold capital letters. Also I rarely connect the name Rose with Weasley anymore.
Whatever, het is gross, all straight people want is marriage, babies and fences.no subject
Date: 2009-02-20 09:46 pm (UTC)and am also very excited because I just realized that this is for that whofic.....which means that I change my answer in the first question to Luna. DEFINITELY Luna.
And Hermione wouldn't be down for dumbass names.
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Date: 2009-02-20 09:48 pm (UTC)Also I am going to IM you about lulz in 3-2-1-go
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Date: 2009-02-20 11:29 pm (UTC)LULZY LULZ ARE LULZY
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Date: 2009-02-20 10:00 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-02-20 10:13 pm (UTC)Stupid Ron.
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Date: 2009-02-20 10:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-20 10:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-20 10:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-20 10:42 pm (UTC)I love that in DH they mention he grew a little beard too, cause Stanislaus had one in the movie. XD
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Date: 2009-02-20 11:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-20 11:35 pm (UTC)Yes me too, obvs. No one else mattered.
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Date: 2009-02-21 01:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-20 11:35 pm (UTC)I... don't think the epilogue was all that bad (except that out of all those people the deatheaters only got a few. Voldemort you prawn.)
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Date: 2009-02-20 11:37 pm (UTC)Also, Lily/James is made of win.
Alsoalso, I didn't mind the epilogue either. I was just sort fo 'meh' about it.
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Date: 2009-02-21 12:00 am (UTC)Lily/James should've gotten an overpriced spin-off (and more interactive than "ghosts from wands").
To be honest a lot of the last one was disappointing to me, but there were good stuff as well, like it being better the second time you read it. It's great that JKR didn't write the ending too happy.
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Date: 2009-02-21 12:07 am (UTC)Lily/James was great. Before I was wasting my life writing Doctor/Rose, I was wasting my life writing Lily/james.
I liked DH, but I've only read it once, so I dunno, much of that read was clouded by my OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG. Yeah I was huge into HP fandom once upon a time.
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Date: 2009-02-21 03:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-21 03:31 am (UTC)But yes, when it came to HP I was very satisfied with the canon ships because I was never in it for the ships and I liked that they took such a back seat to everything else. They were never about the romance and I loved that. That plus my ambivalence lead to a sort of "anything goes" attitude of mine when it came to ships, though I side with canon just... because I always have a hard time going against canon.
Lily/James was the only ship I cared about much though.
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Date: 2009-02-21 08:26 am (UTC)I hate that too. I blame fanartists who believe Ginny and Lily are zomg identical even though the only thing they have in common physically is red hair of entirely different shades...
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Date: 2009-02-21 04:35 am (UTC)Oh, look, my thread! 8D
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Date: 2009-02-21 05:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-21 06:49 am (UTC)also, LOL (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0EfD0WrxBc)