Two days!!!

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Flist! I need help!

See, it's like this. I got Half Blood Prince at midnight, read the entire thing straight, sobbed my brains out at the end, but overall just didn't like the book. Thus, I haven't even picked it up since, and it's been an entire year. So my memory is a wee bit fuzzy on some stuff, and I was helping you could fill in the gaps.

So these are the things I remember:

• Snape kills Dumbledore!!1!!1 And something about Dumbledore asking him to? And then Snape escapes into the night. Er, something like that. There was also an epic battle with Death Eaters and stuff, and I vaguely remember the name Fenrir, but not how he plays into the story.
  
• Hermione shoots birds at Ron, and this is supposed to be some kind of romantic tension. I try not to gag. (They do get cuter later on though, when they're not trying to KILL EACH OTHER. Fancy that! Like there was a scene in Herbology class or something? I went "aww" a bit, I'll admit.)
  
• There's an old potions textbook with nasty spells in the margins? Written by the Half Blood Prince, who turns out to be Snape. Yeah, that plot bored me rather a lot. I suppose it's important? If there's any important details there I should remember, do tell.
  
• Ginny flings herself into Harry's arms and lays one on him, and suddenly they're in a relationship, never having had a real conversation "on page." The gag reflex is really hard to resist at this point.
  
• Tonks looks tragic and consumptive, and it turns out to be lovesickness. For Remus. At this point it took all my strength not to engage in intestinal pyrotechnics, and/or fling my book out a window.
  
• Horcruxes - there are, um, seven of them? And Voldemort like, split himself up between them? And Dumbledore and Harry did... er something, in a cave, with a rowboat, and scary things, and did they actually destroy the Horcrux? And there were lots of flashbacks to wee Voldemort getting various things (like a Hufflepuff teacup? something like that?) to be his Horcruxes (Horcruces? Horcruxi?) and this is where my memory gets a bit fuzzy. Halp!
  
  
  I'm so glad OOTP the movie reinvigorated my love for HP, because OMG SO EXCITED FOR SATURDAY!!! *flailyhands* SO SOON SO SOON.

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You know of course that I'm a huge Ron/Hermione fan. So I was happy at the developments. But before HBP, I was quite a big Harry/Ginny fan as well. And I just... really disliked the way it was in the book. It could've been so much better. They could have had the same plot, just portrayed a bit differently, and it would've worked. I am still a bit bitter about it. And I wasn't happy about Remus/Tonks, either. Nnngh. I understand that you don't like R/Hr, but at least it wasn't so horribly portrayed as H/G. GRRR it just makes me angry. I'm gonna go read good fic. :P

Maybe we'll get some decent slash in this book (I'm still rooting for Oliver/Percy, LOL) and we can all forget our differences! XD I WISH!