BBAW, Hush Hush, & The Epic Harry Potter Meme (PART 1)
Firstly, I want to pre-emptively apologize to all the amazing Book Bloggers whose blogs I did not get to thoroughly peruse before the voting ended for Book Blogger Appreciation Week. It was a combination of poor time management on my part and also failure to realize just how HUGE the list of nominated blogs was, and how much time I would want to spend reading each of them. I was up til something like 3 am last night and I still only managed to really read and rate about half of the entrants. I’m at a disadvantage because most of the blogs I read regularly didn’t nominate themselves, so I had a fun time reading and exploring new bloggers and following them on twitter. 
Thanks to anyone who sent a vote my way, and especially thanks to everyone who dropped by to check out my post on YA and Rape Culture, which is the real reason I entered to begin with. Good luck to you all! 
Secondly, I want to note that Raych at Books I Done Read has an amazing, fully accurate, hysterical take-down/summary of Hush, Hush, that’s worth reading. The WTF MY BRAIN IS BLEEDING factor never gets old with this book, seriously.
And thirdly…
(Part 1)
I love this meme so much that I’m putting all the questions together at one time, which I know defeats the purpose–but dude, I seize the moments to talk about Harry Potter, because they are increasingly fleeting in my life. (Even at Infinitus, with all that talking about fandom, we never spent much time talking about the books themselves–except that we all talked about our reactions to reading Book 5, because it was one of those seminal ‘I remember exactly where I was when I finished it’ kind of moments.)
Also I want to say, I’m having a great time reading everyone’s answers. OH, FRIENDS. OH LAST DECADE OF MY LIFE. ♥
Read MoreProtected: UGH stupid polls *tries again*
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Harry Potter & the Hair-Brained Plot p. 1 (no, really, David Yates is awesome ILU DAVID YATES)
a very spastic list of things I love about Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the movie. I was going to insert ~smart commentary~ but it’s basically a free day here at work, i have back eps of Leverage to watch (Leverage! ) and i’m feeling lazy, lazy like the writing staff of True Blood, and so incoherent list format it is!
Harry Potter & the Hot-Blooded Prince of Slytherin ™
Have seen Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 3 and 3/4 times now, in theatres. Not counting the skim-throughs of the avi while I screencap moments where Harry and Draco GLARE! At! Each! Other! to show sjkf;asd;j in order to convince her that
a) yes, Harry and Draco are still snarling and angry and obsessed
b) yes, Harry and Draco are still in love
c) yes, Harry Potter and HP fandom and HP canon is still is KIND OF AMAZING AND IT’S OKAY TO LOVE IT
(look, i am telling you, those are some powerful screencaps.)
fine, don’t take my word for it! HERE IS
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Read MoreToday’s HP fic rec!
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Cathy nails post-series meta on the head once again, and leaves me breathless in the process.
There is an unspoken custom that Headmasters of Hogwarts are chosen from different houses in turns, to encourage “a spectrum of views” and discourage “unwanted favoritism”. After Dumbledore’s death, it should be a Slytherin’s turn.
Which is why in 1998, the Hogwarts Board of Governors appoints Minerva McGonagall as Headmistress.
Beautiful, thought-provoking, and brilliant.
By the way, if any of you have any recent canon-based HP fic that you’ve found and loved, please let me know! I’ve been stalking delicious, but you can only run across the same draco-is-a-werewolf-and/or-has-amnesia!fics over and over again so many times before you lose the ability to tell what not to click on. :/
Read MoreSO I MAY HAVE JUST BEEN LURKING AT FICTION ALLEY…. AT SCUSA… AT THE GUNS & HANDCUFFS THREAD
ASKFJSKLSKL BUT ENOUGH ABOUT ME ACCIDENTALLY JOINING HARRY/DRACO FANDOM, LOOK LOOK OH MY GOSH
Oh, folks, have you looked at the interview with Tom Felton about Draco? There is this lovely quote. The best bit is:
quote:
Q: What’s your take on that scene [DH, when Harry & Co. are at Malfoy Manor]?
A: I spoke to Jo [Rowling] literally two days ago about where she wanted to go with it, and she said she wanted to leave it open to interpretation. There’s so many bits that go unanswered, like why does he choose not to recognize Harry to the Death Eaters? And David has this vision: Draco wants to help Harry, and he even wants to befriend him…
Q: But he can’t…
A: And he almost doesn’t recognize that. He knows it, and he doesn’t. He’s a child, not like Harry, who has the foresight of someone more mature. Draco is still a little boy at heart.Q: Will you play the older Draco for the epilogue scenes?
A: Yeah, Brad Pitt’s busy, so I’ll do it. Sorry, cheap joke. But that will be a great moment. And I think David Yates is a little bit infatuated with Harry and Draco. He loves their relationship. He finds it intriguing.
“DRACO WANTS TO HELP HARRY, AND HE EVEN WANTS TO BEFRIEND HIM”
BRB HEART EXPLODING WITH LOVE. Or, as Cathy said, “TOM FELTON, WRITE US SOME H/D” ♥____♥
Read More“it’s hard to find good h/d writers these days.” – Sam, TheWhiteProphet, on 7/10/2002
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I have been thinking about Harry+Slughorn (NOT ACTUAL SEX OK) since the movie 
samenashi: now all i can think of is that one fic involving slughorn, and pineapple, and someone’s anus
bookshop: remember marysia’s fic with draco and the cucumber
loftily: I will never forget Harry and the flobberworms
samenashi: ME NEITHER. SOME THINGS CAN NEVER BE ERASED.
I DON’T EVEN CARE, H/D FANDOM REVIVAL PARTY RIGHT HERE.
