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Finished Book 7
"Random" is my word for this book. Extremely and excessively random.
All the death. I know it's a final battle, but holy crap. Way to kill characters, just to kill characters. Let's count the randomness, shall we?
1) Dobby. Wtf. Came out of nowhere and BOOM, dead. I was left looking at the page, scratching my head and wondering "what was the entire point of *that*."
2) Wormtail. Dude had it coming, I knew it was going to happen (because hey, apparently good always wins over evil, which is predictable and boring) but to strangle himself with his own hand? Why? I wanted a slow, torturous death for him. Not an easy way out.
3) Mad-Eye. Someone had to die in the chase, granted. Still. Randomness. And then to find his eye? Ew.
4) Snape. SO. RANDOM. AND SO LAME OMG. I'm so pissed off about the way he died. Dude deserved a better death than that. (I so knew he never turned against Dumbledore.)
5) Remus. Again, knew it was going to happen. He was too involved in this book, and once Wormtail kicked it, there was no way the last Marauder was going to escape alive. Still. To just be told that he died and he's in a pile of bodies..yeah. Random.
6) Tonks. What *happened* to this character? She was so awesome and then turned into..blah. Not to mention, like Remus, SO RANDOM. Yes, casualties of war, but still. Where's the action? Why didn't we get to see these TWO MAJOR CHARACTERS kick the bucket?
What else is random in this book.
Oh, yes.
Remus/Tonks and a kid? (Ted? LMAO. I texted mclachlan while I was reading the book and DIED when I saw that. The poor boy is going to have a hard, porn-king, drug-addicted, sexless life.) Am I the only one who cringed, not because I enjoy RL/SR and totally believe that Remus is 100% gay, but because it was just..you were just left going "what???" Random, man. I'm telling you. JK wanted this series done, and she wanted it done fast. I think that's why I was so unhappy with the book. Some of you will know how much I enjoy it when characters die. It's a hobby of mine, in both my reading and my writing. I love it when authors will *go there* and just off a favorite character. It shows courage, and the willingness to go where others fear, because they're afraid of upsetting the readers. But in Deathly Hallows, it was really over the top. War is war, there will be a lot of death, but my lord.
The writing, in my opinion, was sloppy. I was livid, when reading through some of the work, because if I had turned her writing into my professors, they would have burned it to pieces and lectured me for hours on what we do and do not do in writing. Summarizing is a HUGE no-no. It took away from the entire Harry Potterness of it all. Too much summarizing, too many semicolons, too much "this is the final book and I have to make it good and give the readers what they want and only so many more pages until I'm DONE!!" Not a great feel to have for a series ending, I think.
More randomness:
The Hallows. ...um. Ok.
Voldemort's death. LOL. So lame. Poor dude deserved a better death than "that's really my wand and it's going to backfire on you haha die bitch, die." The bad guys just have no luck with final scenes in this book.
"19 years later." HAKJDFHADFJA MELTED MY BRAIN AND MADE ME WANT TO CRY. I actually think I did cry. Horrible. Please, writers on my flist. If you ever write a massive series, DON'T DO AN ENDING LIKE THIS. It will, honest to Dumbledore, make some readers cry out in agony. So so so so sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo bad.
There's more, but this post is really negative and I haven't had breakfast yet. Overall, I thought the book was crap. The core characters had their moments, which I enjoyed, but other than that..I read this book not because I wanted to, but because I didn't want anyone spoiling me before I had a chance to sit down with it.
Meh.
(One good thing? SNAPE/LILY. BOOYA!!! AJFDKASHFADSJ YEAH.)
"Random" is my word for this book. Extremely and excessively random.
All the death. I know it's a final battle, but holy crap. Way to kill characters, just to kill characters. Let's count the randomness, shall we?
1) Dobby. Wtf. Came out of nowhere and BOOM, dead. I was left looking at the page, scratching my head and wondering "what was the entire point of *that*."
2) Wormtail. Dude had it coming, I knew it was going to happen (because hey, apparently good always wins over evil, which is predictable and boring) but to strangle himself with his own hand? Why? I wanted a slow, torturous death for him. Not an easy way out.
3) Mad-Eye. Someone had to die in the chase, granted. Still. Randomness. And then to find his eye? Ew.
4) Snape. SO. RANDOM. AND SO LAME OMG. I'm so pissed off about the way he died. Dude deserved a better death than that. (I so knew he never turned against Dumbledore.)
5) Remus. Again, knew it was going to happen. He was too involved in this book, and once Wormtail kicked it, there was no way the last Marauder was going to escape alive. Still. To just be told that he died and he's in a pile of bodies..yeah. Random.
6) Tonks. What *happened* to this character? She was so awesome and then turned into..blah. Not to mention, like Remus, SO RANDOM. Yes, casualties of war, but still. Where's the action? Why didn't we get to see these TWO MAJOR CHARACTERS kick the bucket?
What else is random in this book.
Oh, yes.
Remus/Tonks and a kid? (Ted? LMAO. I texted mclachlan while I was reading the book and DIED when I saw that. The poor boy is going to have a hard, porn-king, drug-addicted, sexless life.) Am I the only one who cringed, not because I enjoy RL/SR and totally believe that Remus is 100% gay, but because it was just..you were just left going "what???" Random, man. I'm telling you. JK wanted this series done, and she wanted it done fast. I think that's why I was so unhappy with the book. Some of you will know how much I enjoy it when characters die. It's a hobby of mine, in both my reading and my writing. I love it when authors will *go there* and just off a favorite character. It shows courage, and the willingness to go where others fear, because they're afraid of upsetting the readers. But in Deathly Hallows, it was really over the top. War is war, there will be a lot of death, but my lord.
The writing, in my opinion, was sloppy. I was livid, when reading through some of the work, because if I had turned her writing into my professors, they would have burned it to pieces and lectured me for hours on what we do and do not do in writing. Summarizing is a HUGE no-no. It took away from the entire Harry Potterness of it all. Too much summarizing, too many semicolons, too much "this is the final book and I have to make it good and give the readers what they want and only so many more pages until I'm DONE!!" Not a great feel to have for a series ending, I think.
More randomness:
The Hallows. ...um. Ok.
Voldemort's death. LOL. So lame. Poor dude deserved a better death than "that's really my wand and it's going to backfire on you haha die bitch, die." The bad guys just have no luck with final scenes in this book.
"19 years later." HAKJDFHADFJA MELTED MY BRAIN AND MADE ME WANT TO CRY. I actually think I did cry. Horrible. Please, writers on my flist. If you ever write a massive series, DON'T DO AN ENDING LIKE THIS. It will, honest to Dumbledore, make some readers cry out in agony. So so so so sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo bad.
There's more, but this post is really negative and I haven't had breakfast yet. Overall, I thought the book was crap. The core characters had their moments, which I enjoyed, but other than that..I read this book not because I wanted to, but because I didn't want anyone spoiling me before I had a chance to sit down with it.
Meh.
(One good thing? SNAPE/LILY. BOOYA!!! AJFDKASHFADSJ YEAH.)