Double Post #2 - Potter

[userj]

I wanted to post my biggest thoughts about Potter before reading other people's...  So here goes!

I was right about Snape for the first time!

I totally ate up the Snape / Lily flashbacks.

Ron and Hermione yay.

I really hate James Potter, arrogant bastard.

I'm not cool with what happened to Lupin!  At ALL!!  Any of it!!!

As I've thought since Book 5

Comments

[gildeddawn]

Did you pay attention at all to the part where Harry was explaining that Slytherin was a perfectly respectable house to be in? I mean, I don't know what you want. It's not all going to go away that most of the evil people came from Slytherin, and I think it's pretty realistic that kids wouldn't want to be in it.

[userj]

The whole epilogue was annoying, not just that part. But Harry Ginny and all the others should have been at least somewhat capable of instilling some values in their children about respecting other kinds of people - apparently not.

I think the quote I posted expresses my feelings pretty well. The sorting hat should have stayed burnt when Voldemort burned it leaving Hogwarts united. One of the big messages of all the books was how it was really damaging and divided more than it united - and it was infuriating to find that those divisions were as strong as ever after 19 years.

[gildeddawn]

Maybe it was supposed to be infuriating.

[userj]

I have a hard time believing that Rowling intended to leave the series on an "infuriating" note. Everything about that scene screamed "Aaren't my characters cute? Look they all had kids! Go write fanfiction about them!"

Nah, however I feel about it, she meant it to be happy/positive.

[gildeddawn]

It's true. I just thought I'd be all devil's advocate.