Countdown to small gifts 5/7: Back to canon

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Hi, folks! If you're just joining us, we're on DAY FIVE of seven days of discussion before Small Gifts begins posting. Start off by introducing yourself (and meeting fellow participants and watchers) over here!

Day 4: Back to canon

What's your favorite book and/or movie, and why?

Comments

[magnetic_pole]

Wait, no OotP? Joint gifts? Grimmauld Place? "Sirius, sit down?"

I love OotP for the politics and for Umbridge and for Grimmauld Place as a setting more generally, and the fact that's it's also got (apparent) queer domesticity just makes it that much better. Queer domesticity must be my thing--that's how I started shipping Holmes/Watson back in the day.

(Wow--I've never put it that way before, and now I'm shocked by how accurate that is--queer domesticity is totally my thing. Hm. Good to know.)

Like others here, I'm not such a big fan of the movies--PoA was stylish and fun and my favorite among them. But I loved the queer sensibility of PoA. M.

[mindabbles]

Here’s an OotP fan! Where would we be without “Sit down?” The phrase that launched a thousand fics.

I read through OotP before I was involved in fandom and this is the one where I started to see Remus and Sirius as partners. Hooray for queer domesticity. For me, well the joint gifts are there of course, but I think it was the scene where Harry goes to Sirius for comfort about James being an arse and Remus and Sirus — all homey and domestic — reminisce and reassure Harry. That scene felt so loving, both between them and to Harry. In some ways, the fact that Harry is perplexed by how they can be so forgiving of James’ behavior made it even better for me because of the connection and happiness it showed between them. I have no idea if that makes any sense.

[mindabbles]

I read the books twice before I was into fandom. I was always so sad when Sirius died. I was heartbroken for Harry that he lost him so soon after finding him, I was sad that Sirius would never be exonerated in his life, I was crushed for Remus. I was sure at first that it was a misunderstanding and there was a way back through the veil (even thought I knew Remus must know). It was sad and felt it, but I was just sad for a character in a book. And then when I read it again after being in fandom, I sobbed like a baby, like uncontrollably. Once reading it with the kiddo he looked at me and said, “Are you really crying?” I am grateful for Bring Back Black fics and art and AUs. :)