The big Deathly Hallows reactions post
On Saturday, I experienced a thrilling story of flight, pursuit, redemption, and the power of love. I am, of course, talking about the Sacramento Music Circus's production of Les Miserables. I can't recommend this enough. The actors playing Valjean and Javert are amazing - the first has played Valjean nearly 2000 times, so you know he knows what he
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This is a COMPLETELY brilliant connection.
I love that Hermione's first thought was to go to a Muggle area. Smart and plays up that she really is Muggle-born - it's easy to forget sometimes, since she rarely mentions Muggle things.
Yes yes yes. About time she did something like this, too.
I also loved the tension in the woods and the Ravenclaw common room -- many of the same things you loved.
In the end, though, yes: plot holes lurk, and above all the book's ethics are all over the place. Put together Harry's unforgivable curses and the Slytherins' failure to get any moral complexity (with the possible exceptions of Snape and Regulus) and, well, I'm befuddled; the book wants to be about inclusiveness and unity but just doesn't quite get there. It's like Rowling has the theory of goodness down but can't bring herself to realize it fully in the heart and soul of her very considerable art, which lies always in people and never in abstractions.
Sigh. There's loads to love. I'm happy on the whole, and good GOD, the woman couldn't have created more opportunities for fic if she'd tried. But I had high hopes that Rowling would be able to pull off a real hybrid genre, high fantasy AND a character-driven coming of age story, and for me it didn't quite gel in the end
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I stopped so many times while reading, thinking, "There is going to be SO MUCH FIC about this." Like young Albus/Grindlewald. And the whole year at Hogwarts could be its own book.
But yes, things just don't quite gel the way they promise they're going to.
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