Don't listen to these idiots, Mike. Your introductory remarks before the essay itself were worth a dozen course in film/literary theory. Which is a polite way of saying they were free of bullshit. And the Rowling cabal takes itself too seriously anyway.
I agree with everything you've said so far. Honestly, the book was a let down. I do remember on finishing the book I was like 'the hell? This is it?'
At the rate we're going, Snape's probably R.A.B., too.
According to the fandom, everyone thinks that R.A.B. is regulus black, Sirius' (Harry's godfather's) brother.
Between that, and this Half-Blood Prince non-issue, I've really got nothing nice to say about this book at all right now. Seriously, this book should have STARTED with Snape killing Dumbledore, and moved on from there, because that's been the only meaningful development in this whole blasted thing. What is this book, after all, if not a 652 page advertisement for Book 7?
You have GOT to be SHITTING me, Pyle. So this whole book, which was devoted to tracking down these stupid Horcruxes, has all been a colossal waste of time, because some much smarter protagonist in some other book already took care of this a long time ago. The tragic irony of all of this is not lost on Harry, who starts crying, and that's the end of the chapter.
At the rate we're going, Snape's probably R.A.B., too.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix, p. 112, first two words. You've already heard the name and I believe another commentor already told you about Regulas Black, Sirius' brother.
Harry Potter and The Order of the Pheonix, p. 116, the last paragraph, the second sentence, after the ;. "...also a heavy locket that none of them could open..."
Just what some think acutally happened to the horcrux. And why Regulas was killed. And where it is now.
Oh and I liked your review. It was both funny and insightful. And I guess I should tell you I'm here from metaquotes. Someone there metaquoted one of the comments here.
Surely, if you can remember to look up the second sentence in the last paragraph of p. 116 of a book, you can remember that that book's title has the word "Phoenix" in it? And I assume the name's "Regulus", like the star. See, it's awesome you pay so much attention to the details, but in the long run, they may be the wrong details.
Ok, I spelled some words wrong. I noticed after I posted my comment, and as we all know, with LJ comments you can't go back and fix any mistakes.
I figured it was pointless to post a comment to my comment about my spelling mistakes. I figured that people would know what I meant and not be asses about a few spelling mistakes, something we're all prone to every once in a while.
I didn't make a comment about your mistakes per se (there were others), but about sloppy quoting from what is surely a book you care about, to know so well. It's just jarring to me to see someone go to all this trouble to hunt down a specific passage and not go to equal trouble to attribute it correctly.
But I'm probably just annoyed because I hate to see the word Phoenix misspelled. Feel free to ignore me, goddess knows it's misspelled at least half the time I run across it, I should just get used to it.
Yes, bingo. Now you see the reason for Snape fandom.
See, I buy HP fans turning on Harry and embracing Snape as the more useful character. What I don't get is why you don't also turn on Snape because he's also a moron. (cf. Snape getting pwn3d as no one has ever been pwn3d before in Chapter 21.)
I mean, your choices for a hero in these books is the Legendary Super Dumbass, his dopey friend, his smug other friend who knows everything except the mystery of the plot, the evil kid who spends all day crying in the bathroom, the morally ambiguous teacher who gets pwned by a Super Dumbass, and an assortment of dead people and adults who literally peaked in high school. (Also Lupin, whoever that is. I think I missed Lupin showin up and, well, existing. Isn't he the thief whose girlfriend has the enormous knockers?)
To hell with cultural literacy. If I hated all the characters and the plot and the writing, and saw no redeeming value at all, I'd stop reading. Just saying. Then again, this is coming froma girl who stopped reading in the middle of the the Illiad, so maybe I'm the moron here. At least I'm a moron who didn't suffer through a book that she hated.
BTW, isn't Snape called "a thin, ugly man" in book two?
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At the rate we're going, Snape's probably R.A.B., too.
According to the fandom, everyone thinks that R.A.B. is regulus black, Sirius' (Harry's godfather's) brother.
Between that, and this Half-Blood Prince non-issue, I've really got nothing nice to say about this book at all right now. Seriously, this book should have STARTED with Snape killing Dumbledore, and moved on from there, because that's been the only meaningful development in this whole blasted thing. What is this book, after all, if not a 652 page advertisement for Book 7?
Word.
100 per cent agreement with this post.
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At the rate we're going, Snape's probably R.A.B., too.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix, p. 112, first two words. You've already heard the name and I believe another commentor already told you about Regulas Black, Sirius' brother.
Harry Potter and The Order of the Pheonix, p. 116, the last paragraph, the second sentence, after the ;. "...also a heavy locket that none of them could open..."
Just what some think acutally happened to the horcrux. And why Regulas was killed. And where it is now.
Oh and I liked your review. It was both funny and insightful. And I guess I should tell you I'm here from metaquotes. Someone there metaquoted one of the comments here.
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I figured it was pointless to post a comment to my comment about my spelling mistakes. I figured that people would know what I meant and not be asses about a few spelling mistakes, something we're all prone to every once in a while.
I guess I figured wrong.
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But I'm probably just annoyed because I hate to see the word Phoenix misspelled. Feel free to ignore me, goddess knows it's misspelled at least half the time I run across it, I should just get used to it.
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See, I buy HP fans turning on Harry and embracing Snape as the more useful character. What I don't get is why you don't also turn on Snape because he's also a moron. (cf. Snape getting pwn3d as no one has ever been pwn3d before in Chapter 21.)
I mean, your choices for a hero in these books is the Legendary Super Dumbass, his dopey friend, his smug other friend who knows everything except the mystery of the plot, the evil kid who spends all day crying in the bathroom, the morally ambiguous teacher who gets pwned by a Super Dumbass, and an assortment of dead people and adults who literally peaked in high school. (Also Lupin, whoever that is. I think I missed Lupin showin up and, well, existing. Isn't he the thief whose girlfriend has the enormous knockers?)
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BTW, isn't Snape called "a thin, ugly man" in book two?
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