HP 7.2

I almost didn't make a post about this, and here's why: I read the book once, and quickly, and once I was done, I was, in many ways, done with Harry Potter. I no longer remember any details about the book, so seeing the movies was like meeting the story anew all over again. There's something they kept in the movie that made me wince (see below the cut for details), and I remembered it bothering me in the book too, so I went back to see if/how I talked about it at the time. Half the comments on that entry are people telling me I'm wrong, and I was surprised by how much that hurt. After thinking about it, I realized I was still upset about the first time people told me I was wrong about Harry Potter (even though it was ten years ago, and even though I turned out to be right after all). But then I thought about it some more and I decided (a) to hell with this; I'm an adult, and I can handle people disagreeing with me, and (b) I've decided that if last year's summer meltdown involved flashbacks to high school and this year's involves flashbacks to college, that must be progress. So here's a post with my four HP bullet points and my two recs requests.

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The State of My Writing Life (Plus a Meme)

If, in your reading of big bang summaries, you idly wondered which one was mine, you can stop wondering; none of them are. I probably could have finished the Leighton/Vicky-T story for it, but the mods declared the pairing unallowable (maybe bandgirlsbang will happen, and I can finish it for that this year), and the other thing I was working on that will be long enough when it's done still doesn't have an ending. So since I'm not putting energy into watching the claiming post - and there's no need to even pretend to secrecy - I thought I would do that meme where I tell you the name of my in-progress Google docs (in this case that means things I am still working on or things I have the intention to work on again). Comment asking about one of them, and I will tell you something about the story or post a line or two from it. Items in parentheses are actually part of the doc title. ( The List )