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Originally Posted by jdramj
looks like Los Angeles gets the Knight Bus for at least 4 stops over a couple of days! |
Yeah, but those days were in early July. Bah.
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Originally Posted by keith - SuPeR K!
I found the whole death of Dumbledore in 6 to be much more sentimental than any of the deaths in 7. I cried through the whole end of 6 and for some time after. Dobby and Fred dying did make me tear up a bit, but it was no comparison to the sentiment I felt when Dumbledore was gone.
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Yeah, I found the writing in this book to be very dry. I can't quite put my finger on why, with all the action, it was oddly uninvolving. I actually sat around for a while last night and tried to think of other ways the series could have ended, being that - yeah - there had to be a showdown between Voldemort and Harry Potter, and, yes, some action-packed stuff and maybe even lots of character deaths were de riguer.
I dunno, I was just unimpressed and meh about the whole story of being on the lam while sorta hunting down horcrux McGuffins and deathly hallow McGuffins, while racking up a mortality score of one character snuffing it after another, with one close-call escape from Death Eaters after another and a pair of polyjuice-aided infiltrations and, yawn, a big big battle at Hogwarts.
Hmmm, it sounds better to me in that synopsis than it was to read it. Not that it was horrible, but I somehow wish the final chapter was a completely different story.
The only bits of writing I found involving were Harry's travails in the aftermath of Dobby's death, his Limbo time with Dumbledore, and his walk to the gallows with all his dead loved ones for company.
In that interview someone linked to in this thread, Rowling says that last bit had been part of the story since forever ago - and that finally writing it was cathartic or something. It was a moving scene, as were the other two I mentioned.
I just got the feeling she had those few end points mapped out, with no real story to get there. I think she pulled this McGuffin-hunt tale out of a hat, and I wish there were others she could have sorted through.
This book wasn't as dry as the last one .... but I have to say I don't like the turn the series took after
Order of the Phoenix. Oddly, now that the series is no longer "alive" (
i.e., no more books), the last two movies that will come out are the ones where I'd rather the story had died.
Oh well, I still love me some Harry Potter (and, currently, some Ron Weasley) ... but I think J.K. Rowling ran out of steam some time ago.