A few more thoughts on DH

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This time last week I was busy reading.

I did start the book at the beginning (my hands were shaking a little bit with excitement), but at about a third of the way through I couldn't bear the suspense and flipped open the epilogue. Then I sat on bed and giggled for about a minute.

A couple of things I was thinking.

How was Colin Creevey around for the battle at Hogwarts? He's Muggle-born, isn't he?

I would have liked to see one of the school aged Slytherins staying for the fight—Millicent Bulstrode or someone random. Or Harry telling Albus that the Slytherins weren't the Death Eater youth League any more.

Talking of Slytherins, those ficcers who want to emulate Cassandra Claire and write Harry/Hermione/Draco threesomes have now just been handed version 2.0 with Albus, Rose (who will be exactly like her mother and nothing like Evol Ron, natch) and Scorpius. By the laws of dramatic irony Albus has to be a Slytherin, or Rose marry Scorpius, or both.

When did Dumbledore work out that Harry was a Horcrux? And how does the Harrycrux work with 'neither can live while the other survives'?

Comments

[tartanboxers.livejournal.com]

Albus/Rose? But they're first cousins! Yeah, I know, this fandom doesn't shy away from twinscest, but still...

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First cousins doesn't bother me—Hermione and Lily should have provided some fresh genes from outbreeding. Not that it would stop this fandom, or the Blacks or Malfoys either.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

Albus/Rose is practically miscegenation by pure-blood standards.

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*giggles*

True! I'm not actually shipping it, just throwing out a suggestion :)

[sollersuk.livejournal.com]

Wizards are hardly likely to be more worried about cousins than British Muggles.

[owl]

This is true. Did you see nineveh_uk's comment?

[anthon1.livejournal.com]

Apparently cousins is healthy. I kid you not.

[owl]

Seriously?

[anthon1.livejournal.com]

Seriously. Apparently it somehow reduces the likelihood of certain genetic abnormalities. I can't remember where it was exactly that I read this, but the article said something about the Jewish community and using that as evidence - something to do with shtetls (sp?) or something. It was a while ago, but I'm pretty sure it was bona fide...

[connielane.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing Colin was around for the battle for the same reason that Cho, Wood, and other people (including Ginny) who weren't attending school at the time were there.

[owl]

Perhaps he was hiding out with some of the older Gryffindors who'd already left school. Poor Colin.

[anthon1.livejournal.com]

He was the same age as Luna and Ginny, so it's not quite as odd as he sounds; it's just that we all think of him as just a little kid...

[owl]

It's not his age, it's him being at Hogwarts in the first place as he's Muggle-born.

[leia-naberrie.livejournal.com]

You skipped to the end! Bad you! :p

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Harry walking to his death would have killed me if I hadn't.

[sreya.livejournal.com]

Are we sure Draco's son is really named Scorpius? I thought that was just Ron being snarky.

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Well, it would fit in with the daft names of the Blacks—constellations and stars.

[skywalker-child.livejournal.com]

1. Colin was in the DA, right? All the DA members showed up; they got "the call."

2. I think Dumbledore figured it must be Harry as soon as he figured out that there were Horocruxes. Also, Dumbledore says that because Harry doesn't fight his death, but goes to it with acceptance, it just kills the Crux of the matter (oh, pun totally intended) and not the Harry of it all.

[sherrilina.livejournal.com]

Actually, it's perfectly safe for people to marry their first cousins--there's only a 2% increased chance of risk of problems in children of two first cousins than of unrelated people--that's not much! Odds are the children of first cousins are going to be healthy--any laws against first cousin marriage predate modern genetics, most places actually allow first cousins to marry anyway, with approximately 20% of couples worldwide being first cousin-couples--and there were many marriages b/t first cousins in the past--odds are YOU are descended from a first cousin pairing! The social stigma against them is really unfounded, there's nothing wrong with it! Read up on the facts of first cousin marriage here:

http://www.cousincouples.com/?page=facts

Sorry, it's just that I'm a big A/R shipper and so I've been reading up on it--and considering how inbred the wizarding world is anyway, with those purebloods only marrying purebloods (like even the Weasleys), A/R's children would really be better off than say Scorpius and the like anyway genetically speaking!