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Harry Potter books reread
Dec. 13th, 2018 06:45 pmI finished the second Harry Potter book today. I like Chamber of Secrets much more on this reread than I did before. I think it's the weakest movie, and I think that was coloring my memory of the book (although I liked the movie much more the last time I watched it as well, so I guess I'm just finding more to appreciate now).
I always wish we got some of the narration from Ginny's perspective because it's so scary and horrible. The books just drop the fact that she was possessed and forced to do really terrible things by Voldemort, and I think she would be traumatized for a very long time by that experience. I've read some good fanfic that deals with that, but it's not really addressed in the books at all (unless I've forgotten something).
I adore the Weasley twins walking down the halls proclaiming Harry is the Heir of Slytherin, make way, make way.
Malfoy is so much pettier and less clever than I remember him.
I love how Hermione goes whole hog into the rules breaking when something as horrific as the expulsion of Muggle-born from Hogwarts (and the wizarding world as a whole) is at stake.
I also had forgotten Malfoy's motive for giving the diary to Ginny (to have the daughter of Arthur Weasley, a pureblood on the side of light, responsible for killing Muggleborns). I also had forgotten that he didn't know the diary was a Horcrux and was just acting on his own without direction as far as giving it to her.
Very interested to see how I perceive Lupin when I start the third one.
I always wish we got some of the narration from Ginny's perspective because it's so scary and horrible. The books just drop the fact that she was possessed and forced to do really terrible things by Voldemort, and I think she would be traumatized for a very long time by that experience. I've read some good fanfic that deals with that, but it's not really addressed in the books at all (unless I've forgotten something).
I adore the Weasley twins walking down the halls proclaiming Harry is the Heir of Slytherin, make way, make way.
Malfoy is so much pettier and less clever than I remember him.
I love how Hermione goes whole hog into the rules breaking when something as horrific as the expulsion of Muggle-born from Hogwarts (and the wizarding world as a whole) is at stake.
I also had forgotten Malfoy's motive for giving the diary to Ginny (to have the daughter of Arthur Weasley, a pureblood on the side of light, responsible for killing Muggleborns). I also had forgotten that he didn't know the diary was a Horcrux and was just acting on his own without direction as far as giving it to her.
Very interested to see how I perceive Lupin when I start the third one.
