Okay, so I've read a lot of reviews, and everyone's comments to my reviews, and that sort of thing, and I just want to say that I'm really touched by how many people said that they thought of me when Remus and Tonks died. As in, oh no! Poor Vi! I think that's the sort of thing that non-fandom people just can't understand, but that really makes me feel like I'm part of something special. Because there's a difference between reading a book and having your favorite characters die, and having characters die who you've invested so much of your life and creativity and passion into.

Actually I think I will quote fernwithy, who said re: R/T dying, "I have no rational reaction to this circumstance, just a primal keening about having wasted three years, two months, and twenty-two days developing the relationship of people whose apparent purpose was to be redshirts. Which is not JK's fault, or any actual aesthetic reflection on the book."

I feel pretty much the same way. Aside from the fact that I think their deaths were passed over to quickly, and that the thematic significance of Harry being Teddy's godfather should have been WAY more emphasized than it was, I have no complaints about the deaths in terms of the book itself. And if I were just a reader and they were just my favorite characters, then I would be sad, but it wouldn't really matter so much because the books are done.

But... yeah. Let's just say I'm going to learn to be a lot more comfortable with AU and the phrase "a glimpse at how things could have been."

LOL I'm afraid to use anything but my default icon as I make posts like this.

Also, I should point out that I am obviously going to be talking about HP a lot for a while. Most of this talk will be behind cut-tags obviously, so it will be easy to scroll through. I make no apologies for this for those of you who read my journal for non-HP things. But you know... things will spread out back to normal. I've still got some wicked Heroes plotbunnies, for one thing.