Okay, I finally bit the bullet and came back. I expected it to be hard but not this hard. I was just way too emotionally invested, I suppose, and it breaks my heart to wander 'halls' of Portkey. Seeing the usernames and topics, it brings back great and awful memories. I took DH HARD and it is so much more raw and agonizing as I write this here. I'm not going to cry, oh wait, yes I am. I just wanted to say hi and you all deserve better than cowardly little me. Hopefully I'll be back soon. I do miss it, badly.

- Malinda/AH!

Welcome back!

I've always wanted to meet you here. I imagine it must have been great fun back during the earlier days of HP fandom and I can see you were one of the reasons why it was so. It's great to see you here now.

Newyn

i cannot believe that i'm coming back on the same day as mommy malinda! geez idk if you remember me, but i remember you and ate anna but i just can't remember her username but she was the one who wrote foreverknight (i know i'll remember her name later lol!). but it's good to be back. and like most of us, DH was just hard to stomach! i didn't even get to finish the book i sold it right after i read the epilogue. but i still have my PoA and my OotP. and no i didn't watch HBP i still can't do it. but i never stopped believing. i still tell people i ship harmony, it's on my fb and my other accounts on social network sites. people still call me delusional, but now they also say i'm sour graping and bitter. but i love harmony i can't help it! so it's good to be back here. good to know that there are still people who are as delusional as i am.

to the moderators and administrators and all the members, THANKS FOR KEEPING PORTKEY GOING!

malinda, i was really surprised that you were away for awhile too. but iunderstand how hard it is!

Welcome back Malinda and harmonyinlove! I'm cakeandmilk. I'm a long-time lurker who delurked and is now an active member of PK.



People call me delusional as well but I don't mind. I'm proud of it!!
Hey, harmonyinlove you don't happen to be a Filipino, do you? Well, you just referred anna as 'ate anna'.


I took DH hard, too. I almost cried and barfed at my computer while reading it. But I didn't. Thank God I didn't! That would be really disgusting.

So, anyway, welcome back to PK!

I know what you mean. I went into a period of mourning following DH and pretty much rejected the fandom. It was almost two years later when I returned to the forums, and it hurts a lot to see the topics I used to post in with gusto still around and know my hopes were dashed. I still haven't posted much since returning. Ugh. Before DH came out, I felt righteous and justified in my opinions on H/Hr. Now I just feel....deflated. I don't think it's cowardly; I'm sure there are tons of old PK-ers that feel the same way.

Wow Melinda,

I remember back in 2007 when I was merely a lurker here at PK, I remember reading a lot of posts by you. I was one of the lucky ones out of us Harmonians, who took DH hard, but was fortunately able to laugh at the sheer stupidity and shallowness of it all. I remember when the book leaked online, this place was crazy that night over two years ago. I remember being sad, but laughing with a few other shipmates at how lame the book was. There were comments like "Hu-can-go to hell." But I too left fandom for a long while, and still consider myself gone for the most part. I simply like PK and still come here. Your not cowardly at all, in fact you have so much courage to come back here. After HBP, the IoD, and DH its a wonder PK is still here at all.

*tackle glomps*

I guess aside from taking DH badly, RL's been a pest for you too? I'm gonna ask you soon about something -- I gotta have lunch first though.



*points at your data: Joined: 13-August 09*

harmonyinlove - did you have an older PK account but forget your password? This might help.

I think I know what your RL name and old PK name are, but it's safer that I don't say what they are.

Wow!

*bites lip* I was a lurker back in '07 so I'm a bit 'starstruck' to say , well Welcome Back!

I remember being so shocked by the way how DH ended, it still hurts me to think of that horrible ending.

And no, you're not cowardly, it must have been extremely hard to do this, and *claps* you're extremely brave for doing it! What a lovely thing when I saw this post