Not actually dead yet...

[lesbiassparrow]

...but might get there soon if I have to read more essays. Not that they're bad just that I begin to twitch after about 10. In about 2 1/2 weeks I will be off to Ireland for Christmas; I just have to hold on till then without going mad from lack of sleep.

About a week ago I saw Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Ron grows more uncomely by the film, doesn't he? (Or is that me?) He is beginning to look like a deranged and pasty second-rate Romantic poet.

My new big passion is Hermione and Viktor Krum, because the actor they cast for the role was seriously rather fetching in a brutish, might leave you behind in the dacha with 5 children under 7 way. I normally am not attracted to this look, but it was tempered by his youth so I was smitten. And Hermione looked so cute with him until the heavy hand of Ron-jealousy ruined it all in a teen angst way.

Like many a foolish person before me I went looking on fanfiction.net for stories about this pairing (or even the characters). The horror! The Mary Sues! (Based on Krum lusting after other women) The improbable plots where Krum or Ron (or both - I didn't check) were abusive bastards from whom Hermione had to be saved by some unlikely hero.

And as I still don't get the Draco Malfoy love - he's an incompetent little upper-class git in my opinion - I am always astonished with the amount of stories that feature that overbred twerp.

Comments

[writingpathways.livejournal.com]

First of all, thank you for the link to Amazon.UK. Watching Robin of Sherwood right now -- alas I have plans to give it away to my mother, but I'm enjoying it while I can ;-).

Second. I love Rupert Grint as Ron. I love him. He's just Ron to me and therefore LOVES madly.

Third. Never ever, ever go to FF.NET. Not even with a gun to your head.

Fourth. The Draco thing baffles me completely.

[meret.livejournal.com]

Ron grows more uncomely by the film, doesn't he?

ITA! He desperately needs a hair cut. I haven't seen the movie yet, but the commercials made me drool over the actor who plays Cedric. I was very relieved to learn he was over 18. *g*

[k-julia.livejournal.com]

was seriously rather fetching in a brutish, might leave you behind in the dacha with 5 children under 7 way.

::is dead:: Yeah, that's pretty much it. :-)

And I think I had a similar reaction; not usually my thing, and I wasn't too happy with him in the promo shots because I like Viktor in the book, but he had something on screen.

I read a Hermione-looks-back-on-her-life story once that featuredl Viktor that I really liked, but one computer crash and one computer buy later, I have no idea where it was... um, making this a bit pointless

[spidey-88.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I really don't get the Draco love. He's a wimpering Mama's boy who can't possibly follow through on his claims. People think that the actor who plays him is cute and therefore project all those feelings into the character, who even Rowling has said she thinks is really just an evil little brat.