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[ladyhadhafang.livejournal.com]

Am I the only one a little bothered by Dumbledore? Not only with the fact he could end up in the Guinness Book Of World Records for "Most Incompetent Headmaster of All Time" (though I'm sure there's worse. :P), but also because...he just bugs me. I know JKR was trying to write him as the "flawed Yoda", so to speak (and to be fair, he's nowhere near Yoda. XD), but it's also how...preachy he gets. Towards Fudge, for example. You know, in Goblet of Fire, with, "You place too much importance on purity of blood, yadda yadda et cetera et cetera" -- which considering how he treated Tom Riddle and the Slytherins is...slightly hypocritical isn't it? Probably bad writing on JKR's part, though. :/

Anyways, sorry 'bout the rambling. Thoughts?

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Re: I agree

[ladyhadhafang.livejournal.com]

DEATHLY HALLOWS was really where she came undone, wasn't it? :(

Re: I agree

[urbanman1984.livejournal.com]

Yes - a part of it is that our highest expectations were set on the last book, because the last book was supposed to be the resolution to everything. And Deathly Hallows was by far the worst of the series even though it really needed to be the best. The first six books gave the impression that the series was a complex and elegant mystery just waiting to be solved in the seventh - but the seventh not only fails to do this, it even transmutes the gleams of gold we thought we saw throughout the first six books into dross retrospectively.

Re: I agree

[ladyhadhafang.livejournal.com]

*This*...just this. :(

Re: I agree

[charlottehywd.livejournal.com]

This.

Re: I agree

[oneandthetruth.livejournal.com]

it even transmutes the gleams of gold we thought we saw throughout the first six books into dross retrospectively.

That is very well put. Very elegant.

Re: I agree

[oryx_leucoryx]

The Deathly Hallows was where we got the proof that the series was atrain-wreck. It had really been one since, well, probably when Rowling discovered her major plothole in GOF and scrambled to rewrite the book, but readers kept hoping the last book will set things right. For instance I was hoping for a storyline where something Hermione plotted comes back to bite the trio, she realizes how badly she handled things and learns to be a better person - with the same passion and loyalty but with more self-knowledge, forethought and less self-righteousness. So when I read about mindwiping her parents I just wanted to give up on the whole book, because I knew Rowling would let her get away with it and everything else.

Re: I agree

[ladyhadhafang.livejournal.com]

"For instance I was hoping for a storyline where something Hermione plotted comes back to bite the trio, she realizes how badly she handled things and learns to be a better person - with the same passion and loyalty but with more self-knowledge, forethought and less self-righteousness. So when I read about mindwiping her parents I just wanted to give up on the whole book, because I knew Rowling would let her get away with it and everything else."

:(

I know, right? I mean...Jesus. >:(

Re: I agree

[charlottehywd.livejournal.com]

So when I read about mindwiping her parents I just wanted to give up on the whole book, because I knew Rowling would let her get away with it and everything else.

THIS. Rowling seems to let her favorites get away with a lot, and without having any of the negative emotional effects it ought to. I think it says something that by the end of it the unforgivable curses that everyone used to fear and shun are being tossed around like first year spells. I mean, what the crap, JKR?

Re: I agree

[ladyhadhafang.livejournal.com]

THIS. :(