This reinforces my opinion that Rowling is a lousy closer. Maybe she just doesn't understand how important this is, or maybe I'm blowing it out of proportion, but you have to bring it on home. You're not blowing it out of proportion. She really is terrible at it, and what is worse, seems to think she's a better writer for it! The only explanation I can find is that she just spends so much space during the middle of the books in irrelevant crap that there is none left to deliver the goods at the end for the tier 2 plotlines.
I feel like Rowling deliberately avoided any obvious conflict in order to preserve the realism of the scenario. You totally get the same feeling in Deathly Hallows. The final non-battle is the fantasy counterpart of what you just describe.
I second your point about trying to finish all plotlines at the end, leaving readers with no payoffs in the middle.
It amuses me that the whole thing was supposedly written as a manifesto about social problems, and yet you feel that the "underclass" characters like Krystal were just there as a vehicle for other characters rather than someone whom we were supposed to care about in their own right. So Krystal and Robbie's deaths were only good for changing the lives of the middle class kids, a bit like the British version of the magical negro from old movies. Way to spoil your own aesop, Rowling.
Thanks for sticking through these reviews and eventually delivering to the end, even if we could tell your motivation was not very much there anymore. Are you planning to do the crime novel she wrote under an assumed name?
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You're not blowing it out of proportion. She really is terrible at it, and what is worse, seems to think she's a better writer for it! The only explanation I can find is that she just spends so much space during the middle of the books in irrelevant crap that there is none left to deliver the goods at the end for the tier 2 plotlines.
I feel like Rowling deliberately avoided any obvious conflict in order to preserve the realism of the scenario.
You totally get the same feeling in Deathly Hallows. The final non-battle is the fantasy counterpart of what you just describe.
I second your point about trying to finish all plotlines at the end, leaving readers with no payoffs in the middle.
It amuses me that the whole thing was supposedly written as a manifesto about social problems, and yet you feel that the "underclass" characters like Krystal were just there as a vehicle for other characters rather than someone whom we were supposed to care about in their own right. So Krystal and Robbie's deaths were only good for changing the lives of the middle class kids, a bit like the British version of the magical negro from old movies. Way to spoil your own aesop, Rowling.
Thanks for sticking through these reviews and eventually delivering to the end, even if we could tell your motivation was not very much there anymore. Are you planning to do the crime novel she wrote under an assumed name?
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