Hi Goddesses
POA is my favourite book in the entire HP series. If I only had time to read 1 of the books again, it would always be this one. Rich, layered and no padding whatsoever, this is JK Rowling at her best.
For me, as someone who lost my mum 10 years ago, part of the emotional pull of Harry Potter is the way Rowling speaks so evocatively of loss and longing. For me, these are always the moments that have the most impact, and here, reading of Lily's sacrifice, we start to understand the love, loss and loathing that drives the entire series.
POA is also rich with anthology. This is the book where it really starts to add up to more than the sum of its parts, from Lupin to the Marauders Map to Sirius to Patronuses to time turners .. wow, this book is soooooo rich.
I also distinctively remember how this was the first HP that literally made me go "wow". The way the ending knitted together was utterly perfect, though as one fantastic poster on pinterest puts it, you used a time turner to attend classes but NOT to kill Voldemort on the night of Lily's death? Lol.
As you are no doubt seeing by now, I went very plain with the nails. I've written recently of my depression, and its embodiment in the form of the Dementors was an opportunity that (for personal reasons) I didn't want to miss.
So here are my dementors - black drags on a background of SH Wet Cement. A dank, miserable colour scheme, an incoherent form, the bleakness of black .... the dementors really are one of the best expressions of depression a writer has ever given.
Hopefully this mani hasn't sucked the joy out of you, and we'll be back tomorrow for a very colourful Goblet of Fire :) I'll leave you with Beth's cuter version :)
Enjoy xx :)
Wow this looks amazing, abstract but perfect at the same time. The Dementors are the most scary things in the whole series and are really overlooked. The bleaker colours really show how bleak the books suddenly turn as you start book three! Great work *hugs*
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DeleteWHOA Debbie, this is amazing!
ReplyDeleteDid you use needle marbling for this? They look awesome! Even just for a regular day mani they would be beautiful!
ReplyDeleteyes - first time i've done it and felt it really worked xx
DeleteA Potterthon!!! I need to do this one day!!! I'm a huge fan of the HP books!! I even read them before they were published in spain, that's how I learnt english haha!
ReplyDeleteYour dementors are amazing and they look like I imagined them when I read the book, better than the ones in the movies!! I like them more abstracts, like pure liquid evil...
OH my gosh. An amazing mani to represent my favorite book! LOVE IT!!!
ReplyDeleteWow! Really cool!
ReplyDeleteThese are amazing!!!!!! (yep they deserve that many exclamation points!)
ReplyDeletethank you angel !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! x
DeleteThis was awesome. I knew what it was before I opened the post. Phenomenal work.
ReplyDeleteI love that your daughter is just as into this as the rest of us lol
ReplyDeletecould you be any cooler? seriously these nails are givin me chills! They are just perfect. I think dementors have actually given me nightmares before. These were always the scariest things to me in the books, even in the movie when they first make an appearance, that window gets all frosty and my arms get goosebumps..
Also, I totally agree with you on this one, this was always my favorite book. Book five was another really great one (snape has a heart, who knew?) But I loved the introduction of sirius, and the fact that finally harry had the hope of a parental figure in the making.
Wow, those Dementors are really scary!! Though flawless.
ReplyDeletethank you everyone. I'm thrilled so many people have enjoyed this mani. It was a very different style of post for me. Glad you felt it captured the bleak chills of the Dementors. Thanks xxx :D
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