In book seven, a lot of that stuff was right out of fanfic, it felt like. Some of it my own fanfic, too. It was very odd. I guess us fans just wrote about everything, didn't we?
If Snape was put in place at Hogwarts under Dumbledore's cunning scheme to protect the children, why were the children getting crucioed? I can see him letting bullying slide, but DE-teacher induced punishment such at that makes Snape into a bad hero figure.
Yeah, that was a real stumbling block for me as well. It was around that time that I started to wonder if I'd been wrong after all and that Snape really was a baddie. In the end, I think it was just lazy writing to blame.
As I mull it over, Bbook seven has its great moments, like all the HP books do, but it has a whole hell of a lot more flaws that can't be excused as it's the last book.
Word. There was so much wasted potential for this book - I wrote a huge long post on my lj about it. I liked the book, generally, but I LOVED the others. There's a huge difference. I'm so sad that this is all we get. It really could have done with another year of editing - the plot was so messy, the exposition so heavy. It was clumsy. The things she'd been so good at before just weren't there.
-If Snape was put in place at Hogwarts under Dumbledore's cunning scheme to protect the children, why were the children getting crucioed? I can see him letting bullying slide, but DE-teacher induced punishment such at that makes Snape into a bad hero figure.
I think that, in some twisted way, maybe he was protecting them there more than they would have been out in the "real world". If they weren't at Hogwarts, then anyone and everyone would have been vulnerable. Snape could keep his eye on the Slytherins, pretending to be Voldemort's right hand man, pretending to be on their side. He could prevent anyone from falling into Voldemort's hands, from either joining him or fighting him. All of the brave Gryffindors, all of the Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs would only have to suffer, at worse, the Cruciatus, rather than the Killing Curse if they had rushed headlong into battle.
*shrugs* It's a stretch, but there it is. And if you ever, EVER talk bad about Snape again. *shakes fist* XD
Good BSing *g* Snape seemed wasted in the book, to me, though. He felt almost like an extra character instead of the second main focus of the story, like he has been since the beginning. Sniff. An unfitting end.
I liked that he jumped out the window and started flying around. That was fucking awesome.
I have to say that I liked this book the best. Yeah, he wasn't the second main focus in this book, but I think everyone was kind of pushed to the side in favor of the Harry Potter trio. The sacrifice he made, the story his life told, that was good enough for me. That the fact that he and Dumbledore were BFF.
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Having stopped at book 1, amen.
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In book seven, a lot of that stuff was right out of fanfic, it felt like. Some of it my own fanfic, too. It was very odd. I guess us fans just wrote about everything, didn't we?
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Yeah, that was a real stumbling block for me as well. It was around that time that I started to wonder if I'd been wrong after all and that Snape really was a baddie. In the end, I think it was just lazy writing to blame.
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Word. There was so much wasted potential for this book - I wrote a huge long post on my lj about it. I liked the book, generally, but I LOVED the others. There's a huge difference. I'm so sad that this is all we get. It really could have done with another year of editing - the plot was so messy, the exposition so heavy. It was clumsy. The things she'd been so good at before just weren't there.
It makes me sad, is all.
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I think that, in some twisted way, maybe he was protecting them there more than they would have been out in the "real world". If they weren't at Hogwarts, then anyone and everyone would have been vulnerable. Snape could keep his eye on the Slytherins, pretending to be Voldemort's right hand man, pretending to be on their side. He could prevent anyone from falling into Voldemort's hands, from either joining him or fighting him. All of the brave Gryffindors, all of the Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs would only have to suffer, at worse, the Cruciatus, rather than the Killing Curse if they had rushed headlong into battle.
*shrugs* It's a stretch, but there it is. And if you ever, EVER talk bad about Snape again. *shakes fist* XD
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I have to say that I liked this book the best. Yeah, he wasn't the second main focus in this book, but I think everyone was kind of pushed to the side in favor of the Harry Potter trio. The sacrifice he made, the story his life told, that was good enough for me. That the fact that he and Dumbledore were BFF.
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*pouts*
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