Harry’s grown a whole foot over the six weeks or so of summer holidays? Really? Come on, Rowling, I know people sometimes get growth spurts, but this is just ridiculous.
Well, she did the same to Ginny, who bloomed overnight from an insignificant nobody to a girl whom half the boys 'like' and who suddenly becomes the object of Harry's desire.
HBP is really the book where Rowling discovered that her 'plan' was up the spout, wasn't it? She'd spent *three books* fleshing out the Harry/Cho romance. Then, suddenly, she's at book 6. She couldn't spend her time setting up 'romances' and secondary storylines in the final book, because that had to be dedicated to bringing down the dark lord. So she only had the one tome, HBP, to set up the love interests for both Harry and Won Won.
And so she allowed herself to write a horribly hurried and accelerated mish-mash of puerile teenage romantic nonsense, just to set up her beloved OBHWF pairings for the series. HARRY IS SUDDENLY FANCIABLE, OVERNIGHT. GINNY IS SUDDENLY AWESOME, OVERNIGHT. HERMIONE LOSES HER BRAINS AND GOES GA GA OVER WON WON ALL OF A SUDDEN.
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Date: 2013-03-23 12:24 am (UTC)Well, she did the same to Ginny, who bloomed overnight from an insignificant nobody to a girl whom half the boys 'like' and who suddenly becomes the object of Harry's desire.
HBP is really the book where Rowling discovered that her 'plan' was up the spout, wasn't it? She'd spent *three books* fleshing out the Harry/Cho romance. Then, suddenly, she's at book 6. She couldn't spend her time setting up 'romances' and secondary storylines in the final book, because that had to be dedicated to bringing down the dark lord. So she only had the one tome, HBP, to set up the love interests for both Harry and Won Won.
And so she allowed herself to write a horribly hurried and accelerated mish-mash of puerile teenage romantic nonsense, just to set up her beloved OBHWF pairings for the series. HARRY IS SUDDENLY FANCIABLE, OVERNIGHT. GINNY IS SUDDENLY AWESOME, OVERNIGHT. HERMIONE LOSES HER BRAINS AND GOES GA GA OVER WON WON ALL OF A SUDDEN.
Such a horrible book.