I just keep telling people it's my perfect piece of fiction and seeing them not get it. I'm not saying it's flawless, I'm just saying that IT IS EVERYTHING I EVER WANTED TO SEE, ALL WRAPPED UP TOGETHER, AND OH YEAH, IT IS NEARLY THREE MILLION WORDS *AND* CONTAINS ONE OF THE MOST PERFECT EPILOGUES TO EVER LOG. Because my HP fic kinks are basically mentoring + plots + logistics + the DA + Parseltongue + the Chamber of Secrets + crazy wizarding traditions + comeuppance + socially awkward and/or abused Harry + revolution, and hey, guess which of these the SA has? THAT'S RIGHT, FUCKING ALL OF THEM (Harry's tutoring sessions basically = the DA).
I freaked in the comments so often around book six, even though lightningwave swore she wasn't going to kill *everybody* (but she was killing/torturing a BUNCH of people while innocently warning us that book seven would be much darker - I did a lot of reading through my fingers).
She is the BEST. Seriously, she kidnaps Achernar off the battlefield and holds her prisoner - and the book said Achernar stopped constantly trying to kill herself or escape after seven years, not that she stopped completely or was ever offered her freedom - and then they get married and become A FAMOUS EXAMPLE OF TRUE LOVE, what is that. But no, it is basically just several anecdotes.
I think the stories not told really are one of the series' strengths, because they do give you a very authentic feeling, that this world existed before, and will exist after, the explicit span of time. I'm not saying I wouldn't cheerfully punch somebody in the throat for that Calypso novel, or Lucius and Narcissa's Cheerfully Violent and Evil Teenage Courtship (he maims a dude for her! she and her sister flirt with murdering each other!), or the Morally Grey Adventures of Snape and [SPOILER], or the Spooky True Love of a Necromancer and the Red Death. ALL OF THE BACKSTORIES/AUs/HISTORIES, basically.
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I freaked in the comments so often around book six, even though
She is the BEST. Seriously, she kidnaps Achernar off the battlefield and holds her prisoner - and the book said Achernar stopped constantly trying to kill herself or escape after seven years, not that she stopped completely or was ever offered her freedom - and then they get married and become A FAMOUS EXAMPLE OF TRUE LOVE, what is that. But no, it is basically just several anecdotes.
I think the stories not told really are one of the series' strengths, because they do give you a very authentic feeling, that this world existed before, and will exist after, the explicit span of time. I'm not saying I wouldn't cheerfully punch somebody in the throat for that Calypso novel, or Lucius and Narcissa's Cheerfully Violent and Evil Teenage Courtship (he maims a dude for her! she and her sister flirt with murdering each other!), or the Morally Grey Adventures of Snape and [SPOILER], or the Spooky True Love of a Necromancer and the Red Death. ALL OF THE BACKSTORIES/AUs/HISTORIES, basically.