Jul 25, 2007 00:46
My only problem, literally, only problem with the book:
They're seventeen years old.
Now, that's a pretty broad statement, so let me clarify.
At the beginning of the book, when they are all at the Burrow, shit is getting hot and heavy with Ginny.
Then... nothing.
What the fuck?
I don't want to sound like a weirdo or anything, but after all this time, reading all of the books, right when things start getting good, Rowling quits on me.
The point is, he's seventeen, and as far as we know, only had his first kiss at fifteen.
Fifteen fucking years old.
Two years later, at most, he's feeling a girl up when her brother walks in.
The only reason he broke it off with her in the first place is to protect her from Voldemort.
Basically, to fuck her, he wouldn't have to be in a relationship with her.
I mean, if he can go make out with her in her room then why couldn't he have simply taken her clothes off?
He's a wizard for Christ's sake!
Anyways, at risk of sounding like a complete weirdo, I'm going to cut it off there and move onto the next point.
After seven years of magical schooling, during which all of the teachers believed that the Dark Lord was going to rise again, they never learned any sort of destructive spells.
Period.
They only learned defensive spells, and very few of those.
Even Lupin said, "Don't let Expelliarmus become your signature move, Harry."
The only person who even attempted some real dueling magic was Hermionie.
She was a fucking badass.
It just seems to me that they would have wanted to teach the young wizards to duel, so that when, not if, the time came, they could defend themselves.
All of that said, it really was a fantastic book, with a good sense of closure.
and death...
lot's of death.