I wish that I could take it all away
Utter shit. I just finished Harry Potter about 4 hours ago (spent about 2-3 serious hours reading it, not including when I was half asleep, or pausing every paragraph to check on the baby I was watching). I am tres sad. I shouldn't feel that way about a work of fiction but when you've grown to love most aspects of the world (except for horrible angsty teenagers), some things just can't go away too easily. I got over OotP pretty fast because you saw that one coming for a while but not this.
Go ahead and read the book, but I warn you - if you've liked any of the five before it, you may hate this one. It's a lot less angsty, and you learn a lot more, but it shouldn't have had to work out like that. The ending may be logical when you go back to it, but it's just not how you'd picture anything happening.
For those of you who will never read the books, the beginning is kind of fast "WTF @_@" conversation and backstory. The middle is a bit slow - usual nonsense, but the ending is where the real action is. Everything adds up. And also, for those of you who remember the beginning of Goblet of Fire in Little Hangleton, this book definitely clears up what happened.
Also, JK Rowling may have taken a bit too much from her readers on all the romances. A lot of this book is about forming those romances and how they seem to appear out of thin air - except for the inevitable one that a lot of people have been waiting for. Harry is a lot less angsty in this one. He's trying to be mature but he's still kind of an idiot. What pisses me off is that none of the students doing N.E.W.T level classes actually practice their shit so they fail, get detentions, or do other avoidable crap just to move the story along.
I really have no questions about this book. It cleared up a lot. 8/10
-2 simply because DEATH IS NOT THE ANSWER, JK ROWLING.
I'm not a perfect person
There's many things I wish I didn't do
But I continue learning
I never meant to do those things to you
And so I have to say before I go
That I just want you to know
I've found a reason for me
To change who I used to be
A reason to start over now
and the reason is you
Go ahead and read the book, but I warn you - if you've liked any of the five before it, you may hate this one. It's a lot less angsty, and you learn a lot more, but it shouldn't have had to work out like that. The ending may be logical when you go back to it, but it's just not how you'd picture anything happening.
For those of you who will never read the books, the beginning is kind of fast "WTF @_@" conversation and backstory. The middle is a bit slow - usual nonsense, but the ending is where the real action is. Everything adds up. And also, for those of you who remember the beginning of Goblet of Fire in Little Hangleton, this book definitely clears up what happened.
Also, JK Rowling may have taken a bit too much from her readers on all the romances. A lot of this book is about forming those romances and how they seem to appear out of thin air - except for the inevitable one that a lot of people have been waiting for. Harry is a lot less angsty in this one. He's trying to be mature but he's still kind of an idiot. What pisses me off is that none of the students doing N.E.W.T level classes actually practice their shit so they fail, get detentions, or do other avoidable crap just to move the story along.
I really have no questions about this book. It cleared up a lot. 8/10
-2 simply because DEATH IS NOT THE ANSWER, JK ROWLING.
I'm not a perfect person
There's many things I wish I didn't do
But I continue learning
I never meant to do those things to you
And so I have to say before I go
That I just want you to know
I've found a reason for me
To change who I used to be
A reason to start over now
and the reason is you