this is not a review

[slumber]

I'm reserving final judgment for OotP after I've read each book, seen their adaptations (except for the Philosopher's Stone, which I'd done reading by the time I got the idea), and then read HBP as well, in time for Deathly Hallows, to get a gist of what was alright in OotP and what bothered me about it, because initial feelings are basically, I can't wrap my head around the logic behind turning the longest book of them all into the shortest film.

But enough of that. I've been reading flist reviews, plenty of which have squeed and woed over certain scenes and stuff, but.

how powerful they're making Ginny? She got an exceptionally bright Patronus, for some reason. It was her spell in the Room of Requirement, during that scene when they were all taking turns casting spells, that made the mirror shatter, or something, and she was the one who cast that Protego (Was it the Protego?) that essentially turned the Department of Mysteries upside down.

Back in the FAP boards--ooh, who here remembers them? :P--I think I remember someone mentioning something about how Ginny, being the seventh daughter (of the seventh daughter, supposedly, but Molly seems to have only two older brothers whom we know) in seven (which is a guess--JKR said in several, which is clearly a few letters off) generations is Important and signifies Great Powers and perhaps An Important Role. :| Well, JKR says something about it too, over here, about more than halfway down, but here's the bit:

Does she have a larger importance; the Tom Riddle stufff, being the seventh girl —

The backstory with Ginny was, she was the first girl to arrive in the Weasley family in generations, but there's that old tradition of the seventh daughter of a seventh daughter and a seventh son of a seventh son, so that's why she's the seventh, because she is a gifted witch. I think you get hints of that, because she does some pretty impressive stuff here and there, and you'll see that again.

That was, of course, before the fourth movie came out, and a little after the sixth book was released, but still. They were actually making note of it in OotP, perhaps as some form of foreshadowing?

Oh, and while we're at it. If there's any more doubt that Harry's the last Horcrux, let me point you to Chamber of Secrets (bold mine):

"[sic] Unless I'm much mistaken, he transferred some of his own powers to you the night he gave you that scar. Not something he intended to do, I'm sure..."

"Voldemort put a bit of himself in me?" Harry said, thunderstruck.

"It certainly seems so."

From Chamber of Secrets, chapter 18, page 333 in the Scholastic paperback edition

You really can't get any more blunt than that, can you?

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[miss-charmed.livejournal.com]

I think I remember someone mentioning something about how Ginny, being the seventh daughter (of the seventh daughter, supposedly, but Molly seems to have only two older brothers whom we know) in seven (which is a guess--JKR said in several, which is clearly a few letters off) generations is Important and signifies Great Powers and perhaps An Important Role.
I remember that! I was at FAP! For liek, 3 threads, I think. :| Anyway. YEH! The mighty number 7. XD

Um. Ginny. When I saw those scenes, I was mostly 0_o because I fail at recalling important details from the book, clearly.

If there's any more doubt that Harry's the last Horcrux
I've never doubted, come to think of it. I haven't read a lot of meta, but yes, that's one very huge point.

7 DAYS. T_T

[mijan.livejournal.com]

Hehe... many smileys.

And Ginny used "Reducto". Very well, might I add. Dunno if I like her as powerful as all that, but meh... it's their film. And yes, they should have made it longer.

And Horcrux!Harry... I don't want to believe anything until I've read the book. Too many possibilities. But that would seem both plausible and probable.

[dark-eyed-amy.livejournal.com]

"Voldemort put a bit of himself in me?"

Am I the only one who burst out laughing at the inappropriate nature of that? lolololololool.

Alsoooo... oh yeah, I went on FAP YESTERDAY. Pumpkin Pie was on the second page, wahahaha.

[miss-charmed.livejournal.com]

You're a bad host, slumber. I'm taking over your journal and your friends. :p

[miss-charmed.livejournal.com]

ALSO, I CHANGED MY MIND ABOUT FERGIE. HER MUSIC SUCKS.

[heliopath.livejournal.com]

If there's any more doubt that Harry's the last Horcrux

Nooooooo! DENIAL: Not just a river in Egypt, etc etc.

Tbh, despite evidence to the contrary, I can't get past the fact that if Harry = Horcrux, Dumbledore would've at least suspected and hinted at it during the pensieve scenes. Then again, this could well be wishful thinking :\ Nooooetc.

It's weird that I hate super-powerful Ginny in canon, but quite like her in the movieverse.

[wenelda.livejournal.com]

JKR said harry is not a horcrux in some interview or other. and to be honest, i'd be a little pissed if he were. besides, you have to go through a lot of preparation to make a horcrux, it doesn't just happen automatically, and voldemort was there that night to kill harry, not make a horcrux out of him.