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kwpdb8

Harry Potter

Jul 21, 2007 19:17

Made the terrible mistake of not going to Border's until 11:45. Didnt get my book until 2. Came home and read until 5, at which point I could not stay awake any longer, and slept until 11:30. Woke up, resumed reading, Finished at 5pm or so.

( my thoughts, cut for those not in the know * * * MAJOR SPOILERS UNDER CUT, DO NOT READ UNLESS FINISHED )

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nebulinda July 22 2007, 22:47:39 UTC

I agree about the deaths. They didn't have any impact. Though I did cry a little when Dobby died. Which was weird, because I never really liked Dobby. But I thought his death was really well done.

And I think my favorite part of the book was when Harry was seeing Snape's memories. I'm so glad that Snape didn't turn out to be evil, that his character had some depth.

kwpdb8 July 22 2007, 22:56:22 UTC

Yeah, the pensieve chapter was really good, and I'm glad Snape had some depth too...but I hate that Harry just chose to ignore all the other sketchy shit Snape did (like taking off George's ear, for example) and started waxing poetic about how Snape was the bravest man he ever knew.

rainbowaster July 24 2007, 20:18:27 UTC

yeah, but the taking off george's ear was an accident, because he was trying to get a death eater, right? did I read that wrong?

kwpdb8 July 24 2007, 20:31:09 UTC

No, Snape WAS one of the death eaters, trying to chase down a decoy Harry. (Though it does make sense that he'd use sectumsempra, because it's a non-fatal spell, and if he thought George was Harry he obviously wouldn't want to kill him.)

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bohemaiden August 14 2007, 23:05:16 UTC

God you are so much better at articulating things than I am. I agree 100% with EVERYTHING you say. I could not figure out what was bothering me so much about DH but you're right, it's the total lack of emotion I felt during it because everything was just breezed over. And the backstory stuff, UGH, you're so right! It was too much in one chapter--it needed to extend over a long period of time. And yes, the sudden Snape+Harry=love was completely ridiculous.

Still, the worst for me was the epilogue. It was retarded. Just fucking retarded.

I don't know if it's my least favorite HP book--it's been a long time since I've read the first three--but it's down there.
I really didn't like the fact that they weren't at Hogwarts. I enjoy reading about Hogwarts, their schoolmates, the ghosts, the Great Hall, the passwords, the paintings, EVERYTHING about Hogwarts so much and all of that was just gone.

I totally think you should make this post public so I can link it to my journal and be all like "What she said."

kwpdb8 August 14 2007, 23:11:55 UTC

Haha, okay, I will public-ify it. But yeah, this book reminded me a lot of Goblet of Fire (except less interesting) in that it was SLOW AS FUCK and had a ton of backstory and strange little plot culs-de-sac that don't go anywhere.

I mean, I think it had a lot of redeeming qualities, but overall it was just frustrating to realize that this is the last book that we waited so long for. Maybe anything was going to fall short of expectations, but seriously, this book had problems.