The best chapter by chapter breakdown of DH I've seen yet

[gillieweed.livejournal.com]

"Dan Hemmens says a lot of hilarious (and very true) things about DH."


Thanks to valis2 for this!

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[cressida0201.livejournal.com]

*nods* I read those articles a couple of weeks ago, nodding along all the way. I think there's a lot of interesting stuff there, but somehow I feel like they still don't quite get to the bottom of the problem. Unfortunately, though, I can't figure out what's still missing, and it's driving me nuts.

[baeraad.livejournal.com]

I love this article! :D

I hate Potter now. Genuinely, vehemently hate it. I hate it precisely because I used to love it, and it angers me no end that the books I enjoyed, about a boy wizard and his boarding-school adventures, have been swallowed by this "phenomenon."

The Harry Potter books aren't "books" any more. They're events.

Yes! Yes, my opinion exactly, and stated better than I could have! That's really what it all boils down to for me. The first three books were, well, stories. You could see JKR sitting down and saying to herself, "I'm going to write the story about how Voldemort tried to steal the Philosopher's Stone." Or "I'm going to write the story about how Voldemort's diary possessed a girl and made her unleash a basilisk." Or "I'm going to write the story about how a murderer broke out of jail and terrorised Hogwarts."

After that it became "I'm going to write Harry's fourth year at Hogwards," "I'm going to write Harry's fifth year at Hogwards," "I'm going to write Harry's sixth year at Hogwards" and "I'm going to wrap up the non-plot from the last three books," respectively. She stopped sitting down to write a new story and started sitting down to write more Harry. And by then she had hordes of fans who didn't care about stories, because it was more Harry they wanted.

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

I love that site--if you go back there's a few other articles about Potter that are interesting too, even before DH. He's currently getting anonymously flamed on Mike_Smith's lj for some reason!