Moody also says the DEs know the “the rough position” of 4PD. Since they’ve taken over Hogwarts and have access to student records, why don’t they know the exact address? For that matter, how crummy are their spies, if they don’t even know the home location of the one target it’s essential for them to destroy?
Another don't-think-about-it wave-your-hands plot hole by Rowling.
Fleur-as-Harry insists on going with Bill and gives him “a soppy, slavish look that Harry hoped with all his heart would never appear on his face again.” Because a look of hatred and rage directed at Snape, Draco, or whoever, is so much more becoming to the face of a young hero.
Aww, come on, that was actually *funny*! Well, amusing.
In one of the most gratuitous deaths in the entire series, Hedwig gets killed. I did and do find this really offensive. She was an innocent animal, not a combatant. She had no choice about being in this battle, and thanks to Harry’s stupidity and selfishness, no way to save herself. Her death does nothing to advance the story; it only provides cheap sentiment.
I never felt *that* bad about Hedwig. Not at the beat-one's-chest / 'offended' level. Maybe because, even at this stage of the book, I was already starting to disengage, the stupidity was just too much. Innocents *do* get killed in battles, you know. Even stupid battles.
Sure, Harry should have let Hedwig loose. But there are heaps of things Harry should have been doing, had he been a real hero or in any way proactive, rather than just waiting for his author to give him more 'get out of jail free' cards.
This is one of those things which the movie really highlighted and helped to prove nonsensical, isn't it? They way they rewrote Rowling's handling of Hedwig's death made for much better drama.
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Date: 2013-03-23 04:46 am (UTC)Another don't-think-about-it wave-your-hands plot hole by Rowling.
Fleur-as-Harry insists on going with Bill and gives him “a soppy, slavish look that Harry hoped with all his heart would never appear on his face again.” Because a look of hatred and rage directed at Snape, Draco, or whoever, is so much more becoming to the face of a young hero.
Aww, come on, that was actually *funny*! Well, amusing.
In one of the most gratuitous deaths in the entire series, Hedwig gets killed. I did and do find this really offensive. She was an innocent animal, not a combatant. She had no choice about being in this battle, and thanks to Harry’s stupidity and selfishness, no way to save herself. Her death does nothing to advance the story; it only provides cheap sentiment.
I never felt *that* bad about Hedwig. Not at the beat-one's-chest / 'offended' level. Maybe because, even at this stage of the book, I was already starting to disengage, the stupidity was just too much. Innocents *do* get killed in battles, you know. Even stupid battles.
Sure, Harry should have let Hedwig loose. But there are heaps of things Harry should have been doing, had he been a real hero or in any way proactive, rather than just waiting for his author to give him more 'get out of jail free' cards.
This is one of those things which the movie really highlighted and helped to prove nonsensical, isn't it? They way they rewrote Rowling's handling of Hedwig's death made for much better drama.