Eh, not especially - it's pretty well known by my f-listers that I like the PT, and no one really bugs me about it. I just meant bashing on my f-list in general.
The execution of Harry/Ginny (I so, so wish JKR had chosen to have them bond over their shared Riddle/Voldemort background instead of hormones and Quidditch)
Dude, thiiiiis. It would have redeemed the whole ship for everybody, honestly. And the whole hormones/Quidditch thing was temporary...whereas the bonding over Riddle/Voldemort could've made H/G a lasting relationship. But whatever.
(And yes, I agree. Molly is annoying..and she had no right to kill Bellatrix!! AHHHH.)
Bellatrix was Neville's. There's no getting around it.
I was never wild about H/G, but up to OotP there was still the chance that JKR could write it in a way that worked for me. I was so disappointed when all their shared Voldemort victimization got was a quickly glossed-over "Lucky you," and that it was only when Ginny became a total bitch that Harry decided he was interested in her. (I thought OotP!Ginny was a bit of a Sue, but she wasn't really a bitch, and I wouldn't have been too unhappy to see Harry fall for someone like her: assertive, but not without her compassion. But nope, Harry still couldn't care less about that Ginny.) I'm still convinced that so much of what JKR thought made H/G great remained in her head, and never actually made it onto the page.
I'm still kind of pissed about MOLLY of all people killing Bellatrix, too.
This. It annoys me to no end that everyone is going on about how awsome this was. (Heck, on tv tropes it is listed as a Crowning Moment of Awsome.) I guess to me it's because I don't like Molly, I don't think her doing this was a great strike for plump and caring little housewives, Neville had far better motivation to be the one to do it, and it was just Ginny once again getting to run away from a prime opportunity to show her "incredible power".
I really don't get why everyone thinks Molly is such an awsome mom, when she ignores her own kid over Harry, contantly play favourites and is just plain over bearing. In general the Weasley family is a dysfunction junction, and I wouldn't mind if people liked the family because of that. But most of the time people, just like the author herself, lauds Weasley as if it were a healthy and preferable kind of family.
I don't really have a problem with Molly taking out a DE and having a 'badass mom' moment - but taking out Bellatrix specifically? NO. Neville was the one with the history with Bellatrix, the one with the score to settle. It's like, say, if at the end of Return of the Jedi some random Rebel/disgruntled Imperial ran in and killed Palpatine instead of Vader. There's just no emotional climax/resolution
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The execution of Harry/Ginny (I so, so wish JKR had chosen to have them bond over their shared Riddle/Voldemort background instead of hormones and Quidditch)
Dude, thiiiiis. It would have redeemed the whole ship for everybody, honestly. And the whole hormones/Quidditch thing was temporary...whereas the bonding over Riddle/Voldemort could've made H/G a lasting relationship. But whatever.
(And yes, I agree. Molly is annoying..and she had no right to kill Bellatrix!! AHHHH.)
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I was never wild about H/G, but up to OotP there was still the chance that JKR could write it in a way that worked for me. I was so disappointed when all their shared Voldemort victimization got was a quickly glossed-over "Lucky you," and that it was only when Ginny became a total bitch that Harry decided he was interested in her. (I thought OotP!Ginny was a bit of a Sue, but she wasn't really a bitch, and I wouldn't have been too unhappy to see Harry fall for someone like her: assertive, but not without her compassion. But nope, Harry still couldn't care less about that Ginny.) I'm still convinced that so much of what JKR thought made H/G great remained in her head, and never actually made it onto the page.
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This. It annoys me to no end that everyone is going on about how awsome this was. (Heck, on tv tropes it is listed as a Crowning Moment of Awsome.) I guess to me it's because I don't like Molly, I don't think her doing this was a great strike for plump and caring little housewives, Neville had far better motivation to be the one to do it, and it was just Ginny once again getting to run away from a prime opportunity to show her "incredible power".
I really don't get why everyone thinks Molly is such an awsome mom, when she ignores her own kid over Harry, contantly play favourites and is just plain over bearing. In general the Weasley family is a dysfunction junction, and I wouldn't mind if people liked the family because of that. But most of the time people, just like the author herself, lauds Weasley as if it were a healthy and preferable kind of family.
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