Comments | aloysiusweasley: 175 reasons why I HATE Deathly Shallows!

aloysiusweasley

175 reasons why I HATE Deathly Shallows!

Aug 21, 2007 02:17

Make sure you guys get your drinks and snacks before one sits down to read, as this is gonna be a long 'un, filled with the delightful combination of snark, sarcasm, rage, bitterness, and all that shiny stuff!! :D

We'll go (mostly) chapter-by-chapter, then at the end I've got a running list of more general issues with the book. After that, perhaps ( Read more... )

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Comments 9

arethinn August 22 2007, 21:32:30 UTC

Hey there, this was linked in some Snape community I think...

59.) (323) "He was not even sure whether he would be able to see the cottage at all; he did not know what happened when the subjects of a Fidelius Charm died."

Harry doesn't know?! What about when Arthur Weasley FREAKING TOLD THEM on page 90! *throws hands in the air*

Arthur told them about when the *Secret-Keeper* dies (although I personally am not satisfied with "so everyone who they told now becomes one")... the *subject* of a Fidelius Charm is the person it's meant to protect. What Harry is asking is "if that person is no longer around to need protection, what happens then?" Although I suppose this brings up the question of whether it is really the *person*, or just the information itself (i.e.: the address); could this charm conceivably be used to hide other bits of knowledge? But now I'm thinking too hard. ;)

aloysiusweasley August 23 2007, 18:19:43 UTC

Hmmmmm...I think it's comparable to the wierdness surrounding Hermione's Memory Charm difficulties. They know part but apparently not all - how confusing.

I'd say one could never think too hard with HP, but that was before DH came out. D:

I'm linked up in a Snape community now, too? Cool! :D

eyesofbyakugan August 26 2007, 05:00:21 UTC

Since when does Polyjuice change your voice, too?! Is this Polyjuice 2.0, because when Harry and Ron had to imitate the deeper voices of Goyle and Crabbe in CoS it didn't work this way!

Actually, and I remember this because I just finished up CoS the other day, Harry and Ron didn't have to change their voices, in a matter of saying. They had to change the way they spoke, as in not too smart or polite, but thick and stupid like Crabbe and Goyle.

It was more like Harry changing his "how do you do?" to "I wonder how many first years I can dangle upside down in one hand?".

aloysiusweasley August 27 2007, 06:29:52 UTC

Wow! I think you actually busted me getting the movie canon confused with book canon! *smacks self with rolled-up newspaper repeatedly*

Thanks! Also, last line = FTW! ;D

macey_muse October 21 2007, 17:34:37 UTC

40) Besides, on any street I know, wouldn't 11 be next to 13 anyway? Alright, Grimauld 'Place,' but I don't think it's ever been described as a square...

85) I always thought of "three up, two across" as directions to the one brick - like coordinates, I guess.

But seriously, -amen- to the 154 Pages of Intermission - or more. I almost quit partway through that pointless tedium of camping.

aloysiusweasley October 23 2007, 04:22:10 UTC

True - I didn't even think of that! I just kind of figured more on there being no 13 just because so many think it's unlucky, since there's lots of buildings with no 13th floor, ect.

I'd always thought of it as tapping those specific bricks! :D
Hmm, I tried applying your logic, but I hit a *new* problem - how would they know which bricks, if the whole *thing* is a brick wall? Magic intuition? *is even more annoyed about the slip-ups, now*

Exactly! I got pretty deep into it, and actually considered putting the book down and going to bed! But then I thought "Dude - this is the last Harry Potter ! Can't fail now! Gotta be on top of the game for the coming wank!". I really wish I had, in retrospect - I can't think of a worse 32 hours of being awake, after 8ish hours of reading and spending the rest alternating between sobbing and cruising the internets to add my rage ( ... )

gehayi December 6 2007, 23:27:46 UTC

Nurmengard?!

I'm pretty sure that's a rip-off of Nuremberg, where the Nazis were put on trial. This is supported by the suffix. When the Bolsheviks took over, they changed the name of St. PetersBURG to PetroGRAD. It means the same thing--St. Peter's city. I can see Rowling thinking of Nuremberg and believing that "berg" and "burg" mean the same thing--they don't; "berg" means "mountain," not "city"--and misspelling "-grad" as "-gard."

sari_malfoy January 16 2008, 17:41:52 UTC

"18.) (101-102) "Accio Horcrux books" ?!?!?! Puh-leeese! Yea, if that worked, why did Hermione always spend so much time looking for things in the library?! And how about getting Dumbledore's Pensieve while she was at it?! THIS farce was definitely one of the biggest cop-outs of the book, WTF!"

I don't agree you with every single point, but on many I do. And THIS really killed me as well. Accio Horcrux books? What, no need to know the specific titles (assuming there were no wards in place etc etc plotholes)?