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Hello. Two things. First, pimpage for my anti-R/Hr community: http://community.livejournal.com/anti_rhr/
You're all welcome to come and join.
Second, to be on topic, a HBP rant.
You know, I think my biggest problem with the book was characterization. While I destested most of the romances and how all of them were written, the characters were what bothered me the most. Almost none of them seemed like themselves. They changed with little or no explaination.
Harry goes from being angsty over Cedric's death to not caring at all about Sirius', someone who mattered a whole lot more to him. Hermione goes from being a somewhat emotional but level headed girl who cares about school, her friends and about the rights of others to someone who only cared about Ron and her feelings for him and completely lost control of her emotions. She went from someone who, though she loved rules, would put her friends first to someone who put rules before everything else. Ron went from someone who was totally aqward with girls to someone who dated a random girl to make another girl jelous. Harry also became good with girls all of a sudden. Ginny went from a girl who had spunk but was nice and who had finally gotten over Harry to someone who was just plain nasty and who really had never gotten over Harry and was not above using others to get what she wanted and who was basically a little brat. Luna and Neville went from interesting, maturing characters, to people who were not there at all and in Neville's case were back to where they were before OOtP.
It felt like all the gains the characters had achieved in GOF and OOtP were lost and they had new, romantic, gains that seemed pointless and out of the blue.
You're all welcome to come and join.
Second, to be on topic, a HBP rant.
You know, I think my biggest problem with the book was characterization. While I destested most of the romances and how all of them were written, the characters were what bothered me the most. Almost none of them seemed like themselves. They changed with little or no explaination.
Harry goes from being angsty over Cedric's death to not caring at all about Sirius', someone who mattered a whole lot more to him. Hermione goes from being a somewhat emotional but level headed girl who cares about school, her friends and about the rights of others to someone who only cared about Ron and her feelings for him and completely lost control of her emotions. She went from someone who, though she loved rules, would put her friends first to someone who put rules before everything else. Ron went from someone who was totally aqward with girls to someone who dated a random girl to make another girl jelous. Harry also became good with girls all of a sudden. Ginny went from a girl who had spunk but was nice and who had finally gotten over Harry to someone who was just plain nasty and who really had never gotten over Harry and was not above using others to get what she wanted and who was basically a little brat. Luna and Neville went from interesting, maturing characters, to people who were not there at all and in Neville's case were back to where they were before OOtP.
It felt like all the gains the characters had achieved in GOF and OOtP were lost and they had new, romantic, gains that seemed pointless and out of the blue.