HP7 Revelation

[piasharn]

Eureka!

I just realized something very significant about the last Harry Potter book! Of course, since it contains spoilers, I'm putting it

Okay... fairly early on in the book, Harry, Ron, and Hermione set off on their own and live in the woods for months on end, right? They eat berries and mushrooms and fish and whatever else they are able to scavange. And they get irritable from lack of sleep, and Ron bitches about the quality of their food. (Or lack thereof.)

It's the mushrooms that caught my attention.

See, unless you are skilled in woods-lore, it can be difficult to tell the various species of mushrooms apart. (At least this is true for the ones in North America.) Some are edible, some just taste nasty, and some will give you vivid hallucinations.

No offense meant towards Hermione, but something tells me that she (or, for that matter, Ron or Harry) could not tell the difference. I've done quite a bit of reading on the various mushroom species myself, and it can be very tricky to tell a poisonous (i.e. hallucinogenic) mushroom from an edible one.

This means that most of the DH book was one long mushroom-induced hallucination.

So Remus and Tonks and Snape and Colin and all the other characters-who-were-killed-off are still alive!

...and so is Voldemort, I suppose. Damn.

Still, I don't need to be depressed any more, because none of that stuff ever happened! Isn't it brilliant? ^_^

Hey, you're talking to the girl who is still convinced that Sirius and Remus had something going on. The fact that Tonks hooked up with Remus a year after Sirius died proves nothing, I tell you! Nothing!

(Except that Remus is bisexual.)

So I can damn well believe that almost everything that occurred in Deathly Hallows was a hallucination brought upon by too many magic mushrooms if I want to.

On a somewhat related note, I made it into the the_eighth_day RPG as Lee Jordan! Whee... I haven't RPGed in ages, and that was in an Advanced Dungeons & Dragons setting, so I'm very excited (and afraid that I'll lower the quality of the setting with my unskilled writing abilities). I'd really recommend reading the bits that have been posted so far; it's a wonderful story.

Comments

[lyria.livejournal.com]

"This means that most of the DH book was one long mushroom-induced hallucination."

WIN.

[iron---bridge.livejournal.com]

I am totally subscribing to this.

[hiyami.livejournal.com]

*g*

Well I didn't dislike DH, quite the contrary :D
It's my favorite HP book after Goblet of Fire, which is my top fave.

But to each their own.

[grey-eminence.livejournal.com]

Having lived in Norway for three years the mushrooms that grew there were rather different than those found in the places I lived in N.America. For one thing the "fairy 'shrooms" grew in the woods, the mushrooms with a red cap and white dots. Needless to say eating one of those would be most inadvisable.

Who knows, maybe they covered it in herbology. Although I don't see them covering the survival aspect of living off the land.