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

Hufflepuff? They should make everyone Ravenclaw!

[chlorinegoddess]

I totally agree with you about the epilogue. It didn't add anything to our understanding about any character or the wizarding world. (Although, I felt Luna got the shaft at not even being talked about in the epilogue.) I did hear that she wrote an extended epilogue, but then condensed it down in the book. I wonder if maybe there was more (interesting) information in that which was cut for brevity? But, yeah, in that case - don't even bother.

I was most upset about the deaths of Hedwig and Dobby. Something about innocent creatures, and how quick and unexpected the deaths were. I was really anticipating either Ron, Ginny, or Hermione dying in the end, but I guess she made up for not having one of the really primary characters die by instead bumping off several main characters. Which, you have to give her credit, is how war goes.

Ditto about Ginny, Neville, and Luna. Although that's another thing I really like about the way she tells her stories: the reader is just as in the dark as Harry. The whole period they're wandering around in the woods of England... anything could be happening in the world, and they wouldn't know.

But what's the point of being smarter than everyone then?

[userj]

I heard that indeed JK originally intended a much longer epilogue but her editors wanted to cut the whole thing. So they allowed her to do an extremely brief one as a compromise. The result ended up being both too much and too little at the same time...

Yeah, you're right about the whole Harry-centric thing being essential. Still, though. Neville and Luna rock. :)

When it came to deaths, I was most disappointed that we didn't hear something like how Lupin and Tonks took out like 10 death eaters before finally being defeated. I mean, they were highly skilled aurors. Surely there was some kind of story there... but again, as Harry didn't see or hear about it, neither did we. Oh well.