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userj

Double Post #2 - Potter

Jul 26, 2007 22:37

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 ( Read more... )

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Comments have spoilers too userj July 27 2007, 04:30:16 UTC

Here's a great reader review of the ending I found that says it better than I could:

" "20 years later and everything is perfect"?! How about, "20 years later and all the characters are so stuck in the past, they must name all their children after dead characters and allow old house rivalries to remain even after they presumably grew up partly by discovering the good in those they despised"? I wonder what J.K. means by showing us a world where, if nothing is worse than when Voldemort was alive, absolutely nothing is better than before he reappeared on the scene?"

gildeddawn July 27 2007, 19:42:36 UTC

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 July 28 2007, 04:43:38 UTC

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 July 28 2007, 12:53:26 UTC

Maybe it was supposed to be infuriating.

userj July 28 2007, 14:45:23 UTC

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.

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Hufflepuff? They should make everyone Ravenclaw! chlorinegoddess July 30 2007, 14:09:53 UTC

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 ( ... )

But what's the point of being smarter than everyone then? userj July 30 2007, 21:49:44 UTC

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.