This moment
doddiemoemoe
doddiemoemoe at yahoo.com
Tue Aug 14 07:18:28 UTC 2007
No: HPFGUIDX 175358
"potioncat" <willsonkmom@>
> > wrote:
> Is there a moment in DH where you really identify with a
> > character, or
> > > the character's situation? It doesn't even have to be a
character you generally identify with---just a moment that
particularly speaks to you.
*snip*
I forgot a couple of moments which I thought was absolutely
superb...Neville's gran showing up, moth eaten vulture hat on her
head to join her granson to do her bit..(FINALLY...Gran gets on
Neville's bus rather than Gran chiding Neville to get on his parents
bus.)
Loved how she greeted Harry but didn't fawn over him...just headed
out to meet Neville(grans true hero in her eyes and rightfully so).
(I refuse to delve into the whole Neville's boggart scene on this
one)!
It makes one wonder what type of owl McConogal may have sent to
Neville's gran in HBP (which was the last commentary we heard from
Neville about his Gran)..
I also loved the fact that despite Luna's imprisonment and Ginny not
returning to Hogwarts after the Easter Holidays that Neville still
kept up the fight.(remember when he first went into hiding(not at
home, but at Hogwarts no less) there was only one hammock in the
ROR..perhaps it may have been the room more than harry that taught
patronus charms to the DA..most likely a combo of both.
I had so many moments in the book with ALL the characters....all
representing something in the end--hope, rebellion, freedom,
redemption, forgiveness, grief, and understanding. It will take us
longer to get to the understanding point I think(several hints at
that--not sure if DD, ever got there, but we do know that Voldy
never did)..I'm guessing that a few years from now, most will get
what JKR was telling us. I think the fact that she had outlined said
book shortly after she envisioned the story...yet she never did
tell her Mum about it before she passed had a massive impact upon
the character development more than the story-hence the holes. I
imagine JKR shared more of herself in these series than she ever set
out to do...simply makes sense when we look at REACTIONS
to "significant deaths"..which could turn into a whole other post
that I wouldn't tarnish this thread with.
Although I do have to add one more thing....when JKR first said Luna
ended up with some naturalist...then reconsidered and thought well
perhaps she ended up with Neville...I thought that Luna and Dean
were a good match because they actually had something in common that
was mentioned in the books...they were both good artists.(Dean
making those banners...and Luna and her ceiling and
all...*shrug*..not upset just saw a match that wasn't out of the
blue or out of question....)
Doddie
(who cannnot quite imagine Luna and Olivander imprisoned in the
cellar--poor Ollie..he probably thought he was having
illucinations....because the only thing he could hear was someone
talking about gurdyroot infusions followed by gulping plimpie
broth..inbetween the crucio curses he had to endure. )
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