Black’s not going to be caught by a 13-year-old wizard, Arthur says, a line that sounds incredibly silly given that you’d think a world war wouldn’t be fought and won by a 17-year-old wizard and his idiot friends, and yet it will.
I know that stuff like that is actually pretty standard in children's book, but I feel as if HP series reached a new lame... I mean, she came up with dozens of adult characters that were *called* knowledgable, skilled, powerful and so on, and so on... And then they just sit there and do nothing while kiddies run around pretending to be heroes. Seriously. There is at least fifty seven ways to engage others and still have Harry where she wanted him.
George is revolted at the idea of being a Prefect, because it would take all the fun out of life, and Ginny giggles. I guess there’s our Big Clue to the firecracker within.Actually, I think that's a good enough clue given that all I got from Ginny's awesome personality was the fact that she turned out to be a really mean, ill-natured girl
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It's true that the kids saving everything is a children's book staple, but I think it's fair to say that the end of the series stretches it far past the breaking point. I mean, if you want it to come down to Harry and his friends pretty much doing what they did back in PS/SS, don't go to all the trouble of saying it's WWII only in this version everybody just sits around and trembles until the kid saves them! The stakes were both too high and never high enough in DH.
In the children's adventure books I recall, while the protagonists caught the spy, criminal or whoever that chose to take residence in their neighborhood, it was pretty obvious that the police, military or other relevant organizations were tackling the bulk of the situation. OK, so with Harry being a Horcrux and all the various ways he was connected to Voldemort he had to be the one to face him, at least once, but there was a lot more going on in the meanwhile - the country was swarming with dementors, Muggle-borns were being captured, their wands taken away, some killed or soul-sucked, Muggles attacked without knowing by whom - there was plenty for the Order to do even if they were instructed not to take on Voldemort himself. One can't even argue this was going on in the background and Harry's isolation prevented us from hearing of it because even the father of an Order member had no support but other refugees he ran into by chance, and neither did the underground radio station give any information that might help those in need.
Indeed, it doesn't make sense for the entire population to sit on its laurels and wait for a teenager to save the world whilst they bunk down in the cellar with tinned food and biscuits and wait for it all to blow over. It does make me wonder whether Dark Lords popped up throughout history all the time and whist people were scared, they knew it would all be ok in the end because, hey, it always will be. Maybe this is why in GoF people seem to have forgotten about Sirius entirely; the problem just "blew over". In reality too many people did too little; I always thought it astounding that the Order knew that the trio were off on some vague orders from Dumbledore, yet only Lupin volunteers to help (and then only to escape his marriage).
I know that stuff like that is actually pretty standard in children's book, but I feel as if HP series reached a new lame... I mean, she came up with dozens of adult characters that were *called* knowledgable, skilled, powerful and so on, and so on... And then they just sit there and do nothing while kiddies run around pretending to be heroes. Seriously. There is at least fifty seven ways to engage others and still have Harry where she wanted him.
George is revolted at the idea of being a Prefect, because it would take all the fun out of life, and Ginny giggles. I guess there’s our Big Clue to the firecracker within.Actually, I think that's a good enough clue given that all I got from Ginny's awesome personality was the fact that she turned out to be a really mean, ill-natured girl ( ... )
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I'm with you on that.
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