And the Potter was good.
Yay for all of us being on a Harry Potter crack binge, especially when SOME OF US *cough*me*cough* have much more important things to be doing than A) reading Potter or B) talking about Potter. But Oh Well.
First of all, I would like to mention for everyone who doesn't read her journal, Khirsah's little idea on why dear Harry is all angsty in this book. Aside from the whole "hey I'm 15 WOW are those hormones?!" bit---and this is fairly accurate, as my younger brother is Harry's age---she also proposes this bit: Since Harry is all in tune to Voldemort's emotions and feelings and thoughts, kind of like the empathetic link from hell, perhaps all of the darkness in Voldemort's personality is causing the darkness buried in Harry, that normally never sees daylight, to surface? Thus causing all sorts of nasty, OOC thoughts to manifest, like over-whelming irritation, jealousy, rage, and everything else that we don't expect from him. There's also the fact that Harry, who is still a good kid, has been to hell and back three or four times now IN ADDITION To having to live with the Dursleys, and that's enough to make just about anybody crabby, unless your name happens to be Belldandy.
On to Sirius. Just read the whole "beyond the veil" crappola today (finished the second half of the book in one sitting, GO ME! despite the fact that my butt went numb) and after mopping up my tears and sniffles, got to thinking. Yes, it really does sound like a "Gandalf," as everyone has been calling it. Sirius 'falls into darkness' only to return EVEN MORE POWERFUL! Or at least sexy as hell (not that he wasn't already). While the veil stuff *does* have serious potential to let Rowling bring Sirius back to life, the whole coming back more powerful thing just doesn't fit with the storyline. Harry is the central character, and Sirius (despite being an Animagus) is otherwise just an ordinary wizard, so it wouldn't make sense for him to come back as the Biggest Badass On the Block. Even more so now with the prophecy shtuff, it just doens't work. I think Rowling, despite having the plot worked out in her head and all that, also wanted to leave herself some wiggling room to see fan's reactions. Yes, she'll do whatever the hell she damn well wants to her characters (within reason) but she also probably wanted to see if she was going to be absolutely crucified by the fans when she kills off one of the most beloved characters. I guess, that aside from writing her (intelligent!!) letters pleading Siri's case (if you wanted to, which I am considering, actually) the best we can do is just wait. And write lots of fan fics. Moving on...
Am I the only one who wants to know more about THAT DAMN VEIL!? All we know about it is that the room it's in is called the Death Chamber, when you fall through the veil, you apparently don't come back, and that you can hear whispers if you stand next to the blasted thing and listen. I'm assuming that the whispers are voices of people who have either died or gone beyond the veil. Also, since it's in the Department of Mysteries, they're obviously not 100% what exactly it is that it DOES (other than do a Magical Vanishing Wizard act). When you fall through, do you actually die---death as in the Killing Curse, where your heart stops and life ceases to animate your body? Does your body disintegrate, or is destroyed, like falling through some kind of nasty vaporizing force-field? Do you fall into a different dimension, some kind of weird-ass pocket plane? Is it a gate that takes you directly into the "next world" or whatever it is that happens after death? What happens when you lift the veil up to take a peek at the other side---does your hand die *snort*? Do you see ghosts? Or...something worse? Or nothing at all? Obviously we don't know. But that means that the wizards don't know, either. It kind of bugged me that Harry didn't try to find out more, considering how upset he was that Sirius is seemingly gone. I'd try as hard as I damn well could to find out completely what happened to someone near and dear to me, if they went off like that.
Let's assume for a moment that whatever the veil does, Sirius is either dead or completely out of our reach (one-way ticket to hell theory). I still think that judging from some of the clues left in the book, we will see another visit from Padfoot, in some shape or form, even if it's only to tell Harry that he loves him and to give Voldey a black eye for him, or something to that effect. Prime evidence: Luna Lovegood's comment about "it's not as if I'm never going to see Mum again" thing. And the voices behind the veil... what would happen if you tried to talk to them? Or you had some sort of... I don't know, like a magical string attached to you that could pull you back wherever you went, like a leash, and you went into the veil? Yes, I spent waaaaaaaay too much time thinking about this. But I don't know what else you expected from an English major.
Wow, I really suck. I spent like half an hour typing that. So... um.. yeah. Fishcakes.
Tools. It's Ohio State UNIVERSITY, not college.
Arrr, must be constructive. I'M OFF!!!
First of all, I would like to mention for everyone who doesn't read her journal, Khirsah's little idea on why dear Harry is all angsty in this book. Aside from the whole "hey I'm 15 WOW are those hormones?!" bit---and this is fairly accurate, as my younger brother is Harry's age---she also proposes this bit: Since Harry is all in tune to Voldemort's emotions and feelings and thoughts, kind of like the empathetic link from hell, perhaps all of the darkness in Voldemort's personality is causing the darkness buried in Harry, that normally never sees daylight, to surface? Thus causing all sorts of nasty, OOC thoughts to manifest, like over-whelming irritation, jealousy, rage, and everything else that we don't expect from him. There's also the fact that Harry, who is still a good kid, has been to hell and back three or four times now IN ADDITION To having to live with the Dursleys, and that's enough to make just about anybody crabby, unless your name happens to be Belldandy.
On to Sirius. Just read the whole "beyond the veil" crappola today (finished the second half of the book in one sitting, GO ME! despite the fact that my butt went numb) and after mopping up my tears and sniffles, got to thinking. Yes, it really does sound like a "Gandalf," as everyone has been calling it. Sirius 'falls into darkness' only to return EVEN MORE POWERFUL! Or at least sexy as hell (not that he wasn't already). While the veil stuff *does* have serious potential to let Rowling bring Sirius back to life, the whole coming back more powerful thing just doesn't fit with the storyline. Harry is the central character, and Sirius (despite being an Animagus) is otherwise just an ordinary wizard, so it wouldn't make sense for him to come back as the Biggest Badass On the Block. Even more so now with the prophecy shtuff, it just doens't work. I think Rowling, despite having the plot worked out in her head and all that, also wanted to leave herself some wiggling room to see fan's reactions. Yes, she'll do whatever the hell she damn well wants to her characters (within reason) but she also probably wanted to see if she was going to be absolutely crucified by the fans when she kills off one of the most beloved characters. I guess, that aside from writing her (intelligent!!) letters pleading Siri's case (if you wanted to, which I am considering, actually) the best we can do is just wait. And write lots of fan fics. Moving on...
Am I the only one who wants to know more about THAT DAMN VEIL!? All we know about it is that the room it's in is called the Death Chamber, when you fall through the veil, you apparently don't come back, and that you can hear whispers if you stand next to the blasted thing and listen. I'm assuming that the whispers are voices of people who have either died or gone beyond the veil. Also, since it's in the Department of Mysteries, they're obviously not 100% what exactly it is that it DOES (other than do a Magical Vanishing Wizard act). When you fall through, do you actually die---death as in the Killing Curse, where your heart stops and life ceases to animate your body? Does your body disintegrate, or is destroyed, like falling through some kind of nasty vaporizing force-field? Do you fall into a different dimension, some kind of weird-ass pocket plane? Is it a gate that takes you directly into the "next world" or whatever it is that happens after death? What happens when you lift the veil up to take a peek at the other side---does your hand die *snort*? Do you see ghosts? Or...something worse? Or nothing at all? Obviously we don't know. But that means that the wizards don't know, either. It kind of bugged me that Harry didn't try to find out more, considering how upset he was that Sirius is seemingly gone. I'd try as hard as I damn well could to find out completely what happened to someone near and dear to me, if they went off like that.
Let's assume for a moment that whatever the veil does, Sirius is either dead or completely out of our reach (one-way ticket to hell theory). I still think that judging from some of the clues left in the book, we will see another visit from Padfoot, in some shape or form, even if it's only to tell Harry that he loves him and to give Voldey a black eye for him, or something to that effect. Prime evidence: Luna Lovegood's comment about "it's not as if I'm never going to see Mum again" thing. And the voices behind the veil... what would happen if you tried to talk to them? Or you had some sort of... I don't know, like a magical string attached to you that could pull you back wherever you went, like a leash, and you went into the veil? Yes, I spent waaaaaaaay too much time thinking about this. But I don't know what else you expected from an English major.
Wow, I really suck. I spent like half an hour typing that. So... um.. yeah. Fishcakes.
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Tools. It's Ohio State UNIVERSITY, not college.
Arrr, must be constructive. I'M OFF!!!