Showing posts with label harry potter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label harry potter. Show all posts

Saturday, January 29, 2011

unpopular opinion.

A lot of people don't like Ginny or her relationship with Harry. This may be because compared to how perfect Ron and Hermione are for each other (OTP! OTP!) Harry and Ginny seem very blah and underdeveloped.

BUT

I don't understand why people hate Ginny. Okay, I understand movie!Ginny because she is very blah and she and Harry are very blah. But come on, in the books, she is so badass! And if you don't like her, at least have some sympathy for her! Try seeing it from her point of view.

The guy she is freaking in love with is targeted by one of the most twisted, evilest wizards! He is his number one enemy! At school, he is surrounded by fervent admirers that only like him because he's famous. Only reason. Okay, Ginny's like for Harry may have started like that but it grew into so much more. She sees how he struggles with his fame, she sees past the fame, and likes him for his generosity, his kindness, his personality, unlike those other girls. And, still, he does not notice her. But he might notice those other girls like Cho and Romilda Vane (Even though he never really liked them). Do you know how heart-breaking and painful that must be for Ginny?

Plus, this guy is Voldemort's enemy, Voldemort, a ruthless,evil wizard who thrives on creating pain and murder. This despicable wizard wants to murder the guy with whom she is in love and he and Voldemort meet up on average, once a year. Can you comprehend any idea of how much pain and fear that must bring Ginny? Almost every year, the guy she is in love with comes so close to death, so close to dying because he faces off with Voldemort, an evil wizard who would kill in a heartbeat. She comes so close to losing her love to death so often. Can you imagine how much worry and pain that would cause for Ginny? She lose the one guy she fell in love with so easily anytime he gets into danger. And he gets into danger a lot. He could be alive one minute and dead the next.

She loves him and he has the same feelings for her. But they still can't be together. He will not risk it; he does not dare put her in danger. She cannot be with her true love because Voldemort poses a threat. She would put herself in danger; she would put her life on the line for him. She does not want Voldemort to gain a victory by not allowing Harry to be with the one he loves. But Harry is protective of her. He wants her to be safe and does not want her to stand up blatantly to Voldemort. Do you know what kind of courage that takes? Ginny has to be so brave to risk her own life; to fight against Voldemort her own way because her family and Harry are protective of her and will not let her put her life in danger.

So she has to fight against Voldemort in her own way. She has to rebel for herself, for her family, and for Harry. That is why she continues Dumbledore's Army. She refuses to let Voldemort win. Therefore, she rebels against the Carrows and rallies up the members of the D.A. despite how she might get punished. He doesn't care if they torture her or threaten or harm her, she continues to rebel because it's all that she can do to help in the war against Voldemort. She might get tortured, but she has to play her part in the war. She can't let Voldemort win. She does it for her family. She does it for Harry. She does it so Voldemort can't break up any more people, so he will not be able to harm anyone ever again.

All this time she is fighting against the Carrows, she has to live with the fact that the people she loves are in danger. First, her brother, one of her closest friends, and her true love all put themselves in danger by going off on their own. Sure, they know the dangers, but they are still young and not that experienced. But there they are, going off somewhere she does not know, doing something that she does not know. All she knows that it has to do with defeating of the darkest, evilest wizards. They are trying to do something that she isn't even sure is possible.  All she knows is that they are putting themselves in so much danger, that they will probably get hurt and that there is a possibility that they might even get killed. But she can't think about that. It's hard to acknowledge that people she cares so much about might die. So she keeps trying to do as much as she can.

Meanwhile, while three of the people she cares about the most go ahead and put themselves in danger, more people that she cares about are in danger. Her family is also targeted by Death Eaters and Voldemort. Her family is being watched and threatened for their beliefs in equality. The Death Eaters also expect Harry to return to the Burrow and keep a close watch on her family because of that. As a result, they end up going into hiding.

Do you know how much stress that would cause for Ginny? But for the people she loves, she does not fall apart. She is strong and grits her teeth. She is brave. She does not back down. Instead, she fights for the people she loves. She does not change her beliefs just because of possible risks. No, she stands her ground. She has to live with all these uncertainties, all these possibilities of injury and death. But she keeps fighting. She fights for the ones she loves. She fights to make the world a safer place. So she can be with the ones she loves without worry or fear of separation. So everyone can be with the ones they love without worry or fear of separation

July, even though I want you to get here now, please take your sweet time

I don't want Harry Potter to end obviously for a lot of reasons. But my biggest one is that I'm afraid that I'll forget about it. That after there all the books and movies are released, I will not pay attention to it anymore and I'll forget about it and stop loving it. It scares me so much. Especially because Harry Potter is such a big part of who I am right now and it was a big part of me growing up. I don't ever want to let it go, but I'm afraid I will grow up and will let it go. I want to love it for as long as I live as much as I love it right now. I want my future children to read it and to love it. But first I have to wonder if I'll even love it as much then when I grow older.

I really do not want to let it go. This whole series, the characters, the movies, the actors, they are all so important to me. I want to treasure them forever and always.

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

It's okay, you can all laugh at me because I get emotional when it comes to Harry Potter.

I can't even appreciate the R/Hr when I watch this video because I'm too busy crying for Hermione. The first time I saw this video I cried so hard when it shows Hermione putting a Memory Charm on her parents and when she screams while she is being tortured by Bellatrix. I couldn't even pay attention to the whole R/Hr thing because I was crying too hard. And even now, watching it for a second, third time I still start crying when those clips come on. The part where she's about to Obliviate her parents, I cry and I want to give Hermione a huge hug. And when Hermione screams, I can't stop myself from shuddering and covering my eyes and ears. I legit have to turn away.



in other shtuff, new design for mah blog!

Sunday, November 28, 2010

HARRY FREAKIN POTTER

Okay, so diehard Harry Potter fan coming through.


I spent all of Thanksgiving weekend reading Harry Potter. Except today, because I was like CRAAAAP, HOMEWORK. But yeah, I got through Harry Potter 1-4 and the first 100? pages of OotP. While I was reading, I got excited whenever I understood something British. Being an American makes this kind of stuff exciting. So when Hermione mentioned wine gums in GOF, I was excited to know that I knew what she meant thanks to Charlieissocoollike. (THANK YOU CHARLIE AND I LOVE YOU.) And then when I understood the British slang, it made me happy. I noticed more things and felt what the characters felt in greater intensity this time too. There was this one part in the 4th one where Harry and Ron are trying to get dates for the Yule Ball and Ron says how this was all stupid and Harry should just go with Ginny. But then Ginny says how she can't go with Harry because she already agreed to go with Neville and then there was one sentence saying that she looked miserable. I FELT SO BAD FOR HER RIGHT THERE. She definitely still really liked Harry there and reading those words, I was like CAN I PICK UP THESE WORDS AND HUG THEM? I wanted to give Ginny a hug really bad. Poor girl, she could have almost gone with Harry. AND WHAT IF SHE DID AND HE PAID ATTENTION TO HER AND IT TURNED OUT TO BE AN AMAZING NIGHT. GINNY WOULD DIE INSIDE. LIKE I WOULD IF THAT HAPPENED. Ah well. A fangirl can't always have what she dreams of.


I cried a lot while reading of course. Especially during the 4th and 3rd ones. My little sister saw me and asked me why I was crying. And my reply to her question was, "I'M NOT CRYING." Yeah, biggest lie ever. I had not read the first four in a while and since I had read them, I grew up a lot, I think. And by grew up a lot, I mean became an even more emotional girl who is more prone to crying. I think seeing the characters all grown up and then going back to when they were young affected me greatly too. So sometimes I'd be like "Harry had to go through this and he's only FOURTEEN?!" I guess that also had to do why I cried so much.


Reading the third book was kinda...weird. It is my favorite one out of the series and it still is. But whenever they would be hatin on Sirius, I'd be thinking NO SIRIUS IS A GOOD GUY. STOP BEING MEANN. There was this one part in the book when Harry has a dream with Sirius and Pettigrew in it and he says how Pettigrew resembled Neville. And I got so mad. I was like SKDFJD DO NOT COMPARE AT ALL. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU HARRY. Because of course, NEVILLE IS SO FREAKING AWESOME. I LOVE HIM SO MUCH. And Pettigrew is the one character in all of characters that I have ever read that I hate the most. No lie. Peter Pettigrew is the fictional character that I hate the most out of all fictional characters.


Last night, after I finished GOP, I went on the Internet for a little while and experienced what I call Harry Potter withdrawal. Symptoms including feeling really bummed out, craving anything HP-related, and difficulty finding something funny unless it was HP-related.


So I gave in to my cravings and found these on the Internet. THESE VIDEOS ARE AMAZING AND THEY MADE ME CRYYY.






My tears and smiles are forever when it comes to the Harry Potter series.


These characters, they are like my brothers and sisters. This series has impacted me so much, it has been a huge influence on my childhood and I hope I treasure it as much as I do now when I'm older. The characters are not just characters. Harry Potter is not just a book. It's a world that I wish was real. Even if it is not real physically, it is real inside of me. The troubles, emotions, experiences of the characters. I've been there with them going through the same things. They will forever be a part of me. It has had as much of an impact on me as actual things have had on me. I don't love them like I love other characters. They have been a huge part of my life for ten years and after these years, I am not going to let them go. They have a huge place in my heart. And they always will have.

When one door closes, another one opens

That title is just me trying to justify quitting NaNoWriMo. Yeah, yeah, I know I suck. I quit halfway through the month. I am just terrible at putting my life on hold. So now, I am free to do catch up on my AP classes and continue my Harry Potter fangirling. Because that is all that I did this Thanksgiving. But more on that later.

Right now, I feel bad that I quit. I don't really regret it because I don't think I could have achieved the word count. I wasn't really motivated. I didn't have a huge desire to write this novel in a month. Sure it would have been cool, but it wasn't important enough to me. But I had a lot of the story outlined and I'm sad that I didn't get to some of the characters. I really wanted to write about them.

Okay, I think I'll make my Harry Potter fangirling the next post. Because I have a LOT to say on that. :)