Six Months of DisHarmony - How do they endure?
On Portkey, FALSE-S1GNS created the thread How do you endure?, The anxiety is unbearable to mark six months since JK Rowling sunk the H/Hr ship.

JKR ruined his life that day, and he doesn't want anyone to forget it.

Well folks, it's been a very strenous and difficult journey over the last few months. It's been about six months (half a year) since the sixth book was brought upon like a heavy load. The implications drawn up after the book was read and put aside (quite easily) have created a spiteful and regretful tolerance of a series that at least for me, was highly cherished. The vehemency of the humiliation from opposing shippers is remarkably still strong. The iffy-ness of the current situation is indicative of causing migraines. The consistency of having no response from the horse's mouth is getting dull. The arguments and debates (for those brave enough to endure) are becoming redundant and stressful. Either by this time you are commited to believing 'til the end or you've decided the potential has become lost, or really, not there anymore.

For me, even though the Potterverse is just a small part of my life, the aftermath of the content of book six has created further fuel upon fire because my life became/is coincidentally more stressful and unpredictable concurrently with the upsetting conclusions set in place after HBP was read and digested. In addition to the issues surrounding my personal life, the political atmosphere in the US, and in the world has become a nagging reminder that the life I'm leading these days has all together become depressing and basically a downward slope. Truthfully, I believe that if H/Hr was set in stone in book six, my life would not have changed much, but at least there would have been this satisfaction of seeing something that you believe in with all your heart come into full actualization. Even after saying that, it does leave me with a feeling of being selfish because something so small, yet big enough has the potential to be such a determinant upon the minds of those who support this beautiful relationship. This topic was not to rant about my personal problems and how my life has literally turned upside-down in the past year and a half, but just a suggestion to share your feelings if you may feel the same way.

Sometimes life does throw bouts of strange cycles of failures and disappointments. Most of the time, it's a person's attitude that determines whether or not he/she has a good outlook about their life. Although I'm willing to think that the events of the past that disappoint me greatly surpass those that make me happy, which in effect has led me to believe I'm in a sort of slump at the moment, I'm also positive that there's an end.

Anyway, I've ranted far enough. I just want to leave you all with these words: This too shall pass.

And everyone else agrees, but then assures him that H/Hr is going to happen in canon, anyway. I don't want to make this report *too* long, but if you want a laugh to see how people's very psyches have been shattered by Rowling, check out the thread yourself.

ETA: I can't resist quoting this either. From a certain Detritus

...And sometimes, when it is quiet and the hurt becomes unbearable, one find oneself reciting parts of Boromirs description of Minas Tirith.

"banners wafting in the morning breeze..."

"the clear ringing of silver trumpets..."

"The tower of Ecthelion... glimmering like a spike of pearl and silver."

Then you begin humming the three-note refrain of the Gondor theme.


For I have seen the white city... long ago.

or

"A pumpkin... there was a white pumpkin... in a courtyard of stone. It was dead. The city was burning..."

Wait a minute... thats ME!