--- “I don’t need to point out that, if people can be their own Secret-Keepers, then James never needed to trust Dumbledore, Sirius, or Peter, right?”
How can you ask this so casually? The ENTIRE PREMISE, on which this pile of POO is based, is blown apart here - all for nothing. Bill could have said that he and Arthur were each other’s Secret Keepers. He could have just said that the security had been taken care of. He could have said nothing at all. JKR deliberately contradicted everything she’d written (I admit, not for the first time) for a throwaway line. Did she notice? Did she care? It can’t be blamed on not re-reading earlier books, ( inexcusable enough) because how on earth can she have forgotten the basis of her ‘Lily is great’ mythology? Aaaarrrggghhh! Still, I suppose as a re-capper, you can’t afford to let these things get to you - otherwise your head would explode.....
--- “You know, it isn’t time that pushes Harry into the decision he’s about it make. It’s the death of an elf that does it. Harry obsessed for three months over the Hallows. If Dobby hadn’t died, he’d have been obsessing for the next ten years about it.”
I hear you! I know that JKR’s plot suffered during Book Four and she apparently never recovered, but why can’t she write any more? Boredom with the series isn’t enough reason for this to all be so inadequate. It’s not *just* the basic plot that is the problem here, she could have stuck to it and still produced a far better book. Why would she let a pointless need to have the story take a school year f*ck up the pacing of her story to such an extent? Harry wasn’t the only one acting in a foolish way in this book. Why not end the plot as it is by Christmas and have a couple of chapters to cover the survivors back at Hogwarts up till June and finding out what happened to their world? Then we could have found out exactly what happened to Remus and Tonks. (At a funeral, we’d have a chance to mourn, and indeed to give a f*ck). We could have heard the plans for Teddy’s future (Andromeda I presume, Harry was a petulant toddler himself). If we knew how all the minor characters were after the Battle, the Epilogue concentrating only on a few characters wouldn’t be so jarring. Apart from the silly writing style. And Albus Severus. We know she didn’t re-read the earlier books, but did she not even bother to re-read the DH manuscript before submitting it?
--- “By the way, Griphook says ,“You buried the elf” in a “strangely rancorous” way. Since he’s actually complimenting Harry, I can’t help wondering if JKR knows what the word “rancorous” means.”
Maybe she means he’s unwilling to praise any Wizard, so acknowledges Harry’s efforts* with some reluctance. Personally, I’d use the word ‘grudgingly’ instead, but I’m no world famous author.
*Come on, Harry is the hero - for him to make time in his busy schedule of brooding and being an arse, is far more praise worthy than the efforts of any second tier character.
--- “Wand allegiance, Ollivander explains, is a complex thing.”
What a pile of sh*te.
Also, why on earth didn’t JKR state that the Elder Wand was *different* to other wands in terms of allegiance? It’s different in other ways, so why notin this one? That way, everything she’d already written about wands could stay as it was. No, for the *second* time in *one* chapter, the silly woman had to ensure that she directly contradicted lots of other things she’s written throughout the series, because she’s a consistencyaphobe.
DVD Extras – Poor Snape! Even Voldemort is more aware of and concerned about Snape’s miserable existence then his own creator. I don’t think Snape would settle to 2.4 children in a cottage in the Hogwarts grounds, but he deserved a comfortable middle-age with a happy, er, arrangement with a nice, sophisticated (and not long dead) woman. He didn't deserve bleeding to death in the company of at least two of the people he despised more than anything. One of whom could have made a good effort at saving him. What about Madame Hooch? Unless she's also gay. After all, the whole 'all female sports teachers are gay' is exactly the sort of cliché that JKR would buy into.
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Date: 2009-10-20 12:45 pm (UTC)How can you ask this so casually? The ENTIRE PREMISE, on which this pile of POO is based, is blown apart here - all for nothing. Bill could have said that he and Arthur were each other’s Secret Keepers. He could have just said that the security had been taken care of. He could have said nothing at all. JKR deliberately contradicted everything she’d written (I admit, not for the first time) for a throwaway line. Did she notice? Did she care? It can’t be blamed on not re-reading earlier books, ( inexcusable enough) because how on earth can she have forgotten the basis of her ‘Lily is great’ mythology? Aaaarrrggghhh! Still, I suppose as a re-capper, you can’t afford to let these things get to you - otherwise your head would explode.....
--- “You know, it isn’t time that pushes Harry into the decision he’s about it make. It’s the death of an elf that does it. Harry obsessed for three months over the Hallows. If Dobby hadn’t died, he’d have been obsessing for the next ten years about it.”
I hear you! I know that JKR’s plot suffered during Book Four and she apparently never recovered, but why can’t she write any more? Boredom with the series isn’t enough reason for this to all be so inadequate. It’s not *just* the basic plot that is the problem here, she could have stuck to it and still produced a far better book. Why would she let a pointless need to have the story take a school year f*ck up the pacing of her story to such an extent? Harry wasn’t the only one acting in a foolish way in this book. Why not end the plot as it is by Christmas and have a couple of chapters to cover the survivors back at Hogwarts up till June and finding out what happened to their world? Then we could have found out exactly what happened to Remus and Tonks. (At a funeral, we’d have a chance to mourn, and indeed to give a f*ck). We could have heard the plans for Teddy’s future (Andromeda I presume, Harry was a petulant toddler himself). If we knew how all the minor characters were after the Battle, the Epilogue concentrating only on a few characters wouldn’t be so jarring. Apart from the silly writing style. And Albus Severus. We know she didn’t re-read the earlier books, but did she not even bother to re-read the DH manuscript before submitting it?
--- “By the way, Griphook says ,“You buried the elf” in a “strangely rancorous” way. Since he’s actually complimenting Harry, I can’t help wondering if JKR knows what the word “rancorous” means.”
Maybe she means he’s unwilling to praise any Wizard, so acknowledges Harry’s efforts* with some reluctance. Personally, I’d use the word ‘grudgingly’ instead, but I’m no world famous author.
*Come on, Harry is the hero - for him to make time in his busy schedule of brooding and being an arse, is far more praise worthy than the efforts of any second tier character.
--- “Wand allegiance, Ollivander explains, is a complex thing.”
What a pile of sh*te.
Also, why on earth didn’t JKR state that the Elder Wand was *different* to other wands in terms of allegiance? It’s different in other ways, so why notin this one? That way, everything she’d already written about wands could stay as it was. No, for the *second* time in *one* chapter, the silly woman had to ensure that she directly contradicted lots of other things she’s written throughout the series, because she’s a consistencyaphobe.
DVD Extras – Poor Snape! Even Voldemort is more aware of and concerned about Snape’s miserable existence then his own creator. I don’t think Snape would settle to 2.4 children in a cottage in the Hogwarts grounds, but he deserved a comfortable middle-age with a happy, er, arrangement with a nice, sophisticated (and not long dead) woman. He didn't deserve bleeding to death in the company of at least two of the people he despised more than anything. One of whom could have made a good effort at saving him. What about Madame Hooch? Unless she's also gay. After all, the whole 'all female sports teachers are gay' is exactly the sort of cliché that JKR would buy into.