I know. I've got so many gripes with DH I don't know where to begin. I like HP, but not to the point of jumping anyone whose opinion differs from mine in the slightest. (Which is what many of the obsessive fans are doing. Seriously, what law dictates that just because you don't like something you shouldn't read it?)
HP is like this mindless read when you're bored. No lengthy plots and no flowery words. But what annoys me the most (about ANY story, mindless or not) is that where there's a plot, there's a plan. Planning should always precede plotting. Planning = plotting.
And therein lies my biggest problem with HP. It lacks planning. It has no structure. Read book 1, then read book 7 again. The story is so disjointed; the books are like individual personalities lumped together as a pathetic excuse for a 'plot'. As one reader said, you wouldn't have a clue on how to kill Voldemort until you read Book 6 and 7. Such an important plot point - Horcruxes - is only introduced in the later books. I don't buy the whole "but book 2 has all the clues!!!" crap. No it doesn't. Not when the 'plot points' can be so easily substituted with something else. I mean, I can say that Voldy likes to READ, and for every book you destroy a part of his soul dies and AHA! That's the clue to killing Voldemort! Setting fire on libraries!
It's like JKR decides one day after a cup of tea and a trip to the loo that oh shit, she doesn't know how she's going to kill Voldemort either (Let's ignore the fact that ways to destroy Harry Potter was GLARINGLY OBVIOUS because we all know that after exterminating his entire family tree Voldy is the sentimental sort who would rather stash his soul in historical artifacts of SIGNIFICANCE as opposed to putting them into random objects all over the world. I mean, his strength and idiocy is so 3L1+3 no?!!??!!?!111) and decides to randomly string together plots of no relevance and call it "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince".
I agree. I mean, book 6/7 (from what I've kinda read), are so... distanced from the other books in the series that it's like an entirely new HP series completely. I hate to say it, but I was expecting the final battle of Hogwarts to be this huge, Lord of the Rings-type epic... but when you get down to the nitty-gritty, maybe only about 200 people (I'm pushing it too) die in the ENTIRE series, including the first war in the 70s.
That's... kinda... well... who cares? Oh, poor wizarding England, they have civil war, says France/Germany/America/Timbuktu. We won't help them, let them figure it out, yar.
Anyway - personally the whole Elderwand (power of three, yo!!!) thing is stupid. Horcruxes = good original idea of nastiness, making Voldemort a great villain. Elderwand/invisibility cloak/amazing stone!!11!!!11 = yawn
And if Voldemort was so powerful, he travelled the world to study Dark Arts... why would he limit himself to placing his Horcruxes in England? That's so... predictable.
At this point, Deathly Hallows is just a huge plot let down. I don't know how students who weren't in the DA before, or who stopped their training could suddenly take on Death Eaters, or people like Molly -- who we never had any idea of skill before -- could go batshit (oh, wait, precendence set with Ginny the amazing technicolour super girlfriend! the skillz!!!).
I'll read it, sell it, and then probably use wikipedia or the Lexicon if I really want to use canon. But Christ, I have better ideas for a final battle, and Hallows -- pssfh.
HP was a letdown. I guess that's why a part of me doesn't care about it anymore. :(
HP is like this mindless read when you're bored. No lengthy plots and no flowery words. But what annoys me the most (about ANY story, mindless or not) is that where there's a plot, there's a plan. Planning should always precede plotting. Planning = plotting.
And therein lies my biggest problem with HP. It lacks planning. It has no structure. Read book 1, then read book 7 again. The story is so disjointed; the books are like individual personalities lumped together as a pathetic excuse for a 'plot'. As one reader said, you wouldn't have a clue on how to kill Voldemort until you read Book 6 and 7. Such an important plot point - Horcruxes - is only introduced in the later books. I don't buy the whole "but book 2 has all the clues!!!" crap. No it doesn't. Not when the 'plot points' can be so easily substituted with something else. I mean, I can say that Voldy likes to READ, and for every book you destroy a part of his soul dies and AHA! That's the clue to killing Voldemort! Setting fire on libraries!
It's like JKR decides one day after a cup of tea and a trip to the loo that oh shit, she doesn't know how she's going to kill Voldemort either (Let's ignore the fact that ways to destroy Harry Potter was GLARINGLY OBVIOUS because we all know that after exterminating his entire family tree Voldy is the sentimental sort who would rather stash his soul in historical artifacts of SIGNIFICANCE as opposed to putting them into random objects all over the world. I mean, his strength and idiocy is so 3L1+3 no?!!??!!?!111) and decides to randomly string together plots of no relevance and call it "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince".
To sum it up: HP is sorely overrated. Period.
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That's... kinda... well... who cares? Oh, poor wizarding England, they have civil war, says France/Germany/America/Timbuktu. We won't help them, let them figure it out, yar.
Anyway - personally the whole Elderwand (power of three, yo!!!) thing is stupid. Horcruxes = good original idea of nastiness, making Voldemort a great villain. Elderwand/invisibility cloak/amazing stone!!11!!!11 = yawn
And if Voldemort was so powerful, he travelled the world to study Dark Arts... why would he limit himself to placing his Horcruxes in England? That's so... predictable.
At this point, Deathly Hallows is just a huge plot let down. I don't know how students who weren't in the DA before, or who stopped their training could suddenly take on Death Eaters, or people like Molly -- who we never had any idea of skill before -- could go batshit (oh, wait, precendence set with Ginny the amazing technicolour super girlfriend! the skillz!!!).
I'll read it, sell it, and then probably use wikipedia or the Lexicon if I really want to use canon. But Christ, I have better ideas for a final battle, and Hallows -- pssfh.
HP was a letdown. I guess that's why a part of me doesn't care about it anymore. :(
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