*grumble*
Oh, apparently my book is somewhere in the front office. I hate that sometimes I get things delivered to my door, while other times they go to the frikkin' front office. Pick one, people! I guess I shouldn't complain though, not like I didn't read the book.
Let's see.... cry for Snape, check. Roll eyes at obvious subplots, check. Cry for Dobby's manipulative death scene, embarrassed check. Be bored at the ultra long camping scenes, check! Barely notice the various deaths at the end, check.
Now, okay, I knew there were parts I wasn't going to like. I never got the whole Harry/Ginny thing (not that I really felt Harry/Hermione or Harry/Draco or whatever were particularly more palatable), so his thoughts were really quite jarring, but I expected that. And the overemphasis on romantic attachments was, IMHO, annoying, especially because I don't think JKR really does romance well. But I know lots of people like romance and the threads needed tying up, so I knew I'd have to chalk that up to taste. But on reflection, I disliked quite a bit of it. I mean, who needed a year's worth of camping scenes? Maybe instead of the camping trip, JKR should have polished up the death sequences, so that Lupin, Tonks and Fred's deaths were more emotional.
Incidentally, who was supposed to die that didn't? Hagrid? I'm guessing Lupin and Tonks were the ones who did that weren't going to... I mean, considering they barely got mentioned and no one apparently mourned for them.
Really, what the hell? Why were the deaths such un-emotional experiences? Now, I'll grant you that HP fans have had Sirius, but where's the emotional immediacy of the deaths in the war? Were we supposed to be shell-shocked or something? It seemed to me just like... you know, "and then XXXX died, and YYYY died, and ZZZZ died." I've seen plenty of fanfic authors manage better death sequences in various fandoms. If you're not going to make me emotionally involved in the deaths of characters... then don't bother killing them, right? Just make it nameless, faceless people if you're going to do that.
And what was with that epilogue? It screams fanfic-- and not just any fanfic, oh no, it screams bad, Mary-Sue fanfic.
Oh yeah, and can anyone answer: 19 years after what? It can't be after the final battle. Is it 19 years after Harry Potter turned 11?
Let's see.... cry for Snape, check. Roll eyes at obvious subplots, check. Cry for Dobby's manipulative death scene, embarrassed check. Be bored at the ultra long camping scenes, check! Barely notice the various deaths at the end, check.
Now, okay, I knew there were parts I wasn't going to like. I never got the whole Harry/Ginny thing (not that I really felt Harry/Hermione or Harry/Draco or whatever were particularly more palatable), so his thoughts were really quite jarring, but I expected that. And the overemphasis on romantic attachments was, IMHO, annoying, especially because I don't think JKR really does romance well. But I know lots of people like romance and the threads needed tying up, so I knew I'd have to chalk that up to taste. But on reflection, I disliked quite a bit of it. I mean, who needed a year's worth of camping scenes? Maybe instead of the camping trip, JKR should have polished up the death sequences, so that Lupin, Tonks and Fred's deaths were more emotional.
Incidentally, who was supposed to die that didn't? Hagrid? I'm guessing Lupin and Tonks were the ones who did that weren't going to... I mean, considering they barely got mentioned and no one apparently mourned for them.
Really, what the hell? Why were the deaths such un-emotional experiences? Now, I'll grant you that HP fans have had Sirius, but where's the emotional immediacy of the deaths in the war? Were we supposed to be shell-shocked or something? It seemed to me just like... you know, "and then XXXX died, and YYYY died, and ZZZZ died." I've seen plenty of fanfic authors manage better death sequences in various fandoms. If you're not going to make me emotionally involved in the deaths of characters... then don't bother killing them, right? Just make it nameless, faceless people if you're going to do that.
And what was with that epilogue? It screams fanfic-- and not just any fanfic, oh no, it screams bad, Mary-Sue fanfic.
Oh yeah, and can anyone answer: 19 years after what? It can't be after the final battle. Is it 19 years after Harry Potter turned 11?