i feel like there should be some momentous titling here but nothing comes to mind

[dessrata]

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[psychedelic_aya]

But--and there really is a but--everything else was pretty great. I am a sucker for underground rebellion stories, and if Rowling had allotted more of the book to expand on their activities, I would have probably bumped my rating for the book up another star. Enough about Harry and his Teen Insecurities and Hard Knock Life! Give me more Luna Lovegood cheerily messing with people's heads, more unexpected Neville Badassery, more Hogwarts Life Under the Snape Regime! (Kindly leave the Ginny behind because she's fucking boring and whatever romance sprouts up between her and Harry is flimsily contrived. He'd be a better match with Luna, of all people, and if I hadn't heard about the epilogue beforehand, I might've thought it'd have been them. Ginny was nothing more than a swooned-over two-dimensional footnote of Angst in this book.)

THIS PARAGRAPH. I CONCUR. WITH EVERYTHING.

Also no mention of Ron? /loves Ron :))

[dessrata]

Whoa you read it O: I am awed!

And I actually like Ron! He's way more of a hero to me than Harry, possibly because of all the flaws he has, and how he's just a regular guy, kind of like the Xander of the group (Hermione can rely on her Insane Amount of Brains and Harry on his Ridiculous Deus Ex Machina Protagonist Luck, but Ron? Ron's got pluck and no particular reason to stick around when he's in so much danger, but still he's there). It sucks that he sort of started to vanish towards the end of the book, which was a seriously poor move on Rowling's part.