The day has finally arrived, boys and girls! Two years of waiting has finally paid off in the form of the 607-paged Half-Blood Prince which I devoured in 5 hours yesterday and which I have mixed feelings about. So I am going to do what any hardened fandomer would do and I am going to review it. Spoilers ahoy! (No, seriously. If you read behind the
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I've written the same thing over...and over...and over...
I thought it was cool that JKR had the nerve to put the word "slut" into a children's book.
~Andrea
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I bet all the parents reading the book to their children had a "oh ... we won't read that word" moment and said "scarlet woman" instead.
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Gaunt: You-SCARLET WOMAN!
Merope: Ouch, you sting me with my words.
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I agree with you when you say that the amount of romance was nauseating. I couldn't believe the number of couples that suddenly appeared in this book. From Bill and Fleur to Lupin and Tonks and of course Harry and Ginny which I thought was rather badly written and unconvincing. The only successful maturations of characters in this book, I thought, were Harry and Malfoy who were both finally revealed to have more dimensions to their characters.
I can't wait to find out what happens to Snape and whetehr or not he was evil. i personally don't want to believe he was but I sense that JKR is going to further complicate the whole issue in the last book. I can just see it being all about divided loyalties.
Thanks for lending me your thoughts, they were really interesting!
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I think the same, and the book was made the richer for the extra information we were given. I was getting very frustrated with JKR's prolonged refusal to flesh out the characters of the Slytherins for so long and I really think that some expansion on the stereotypes was merited. She did it well, though.
I see what you're saying about Ginny being the best for Harry but I still can't bring myself to like the pairing. After the obvious prefernce of Malfoy I would have put Harry with someone like Luna who isn't so deeply enmeshed in so many aspects of Harry's life. Failing that I think it would be more plausible if he were to try to seize the day and become something of a ladies' man, thinking all the while subconsciously that he might not live to have to explain himself.
Thanks for your thoughts, and I'm sorry I took so long to reply to them!
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