Book Five would have had a purpose if it had been followed up properly. It should have been ‘Harry’s Difficult Adolescence,’ in which he started learning there was more to life than pranks and crushes and perfect trust in his designated father-figure. He was starting to have to deal with the world as an adult, and doing the usual bad job of it.
Book Six should have been about Harry starting to learn from and handle the situations that were throwing him for a loop so badly in Book Five. Then in Book Seven, when he learned how he’d been manipulated by Dumbledore (just like Snape!), he should have grown beyond both Dumbledore’s manipulations and Snape’s protection and become, not Dumbledore’s Man, but an adult hero in his own right.
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Re: Better Than James, Albus, and Sev
Date: 2015-02-01 06:27 pm (UTC)Book Six should have been about Harry starting to learn from and handle the situations that were throwing him for a loop so badly in Book Five. Then in Book Seven, when he learned how he’d been manipulated by Dumbledore (just like Snape!), he should have grown beyond both Dumbledore’s manipulations and Snape’s protection and become, not Dumbledore’s Man, but an adult hero in his own right.