Did my texts not get through? I did offer to read again, but I assumed you’d gone to lie down after getting dizzy.
Potter: (see my list of plus signs, just like Carla likes) + I was effing right! I knew there was a horcrux in the room of requirement. Go me! + Luna. So much love for every single thing she does. Evah. + Neville. See above. Only he, not she. *grin* + Tonks and Remus. Bad writer! From the very first mention of Tonks I got she was pregnant. I kept waiting for them to turn up in the actual story, instead of being side-notes. Was disappointed. + The Malfoys. WTF? She spent six books building them up, then just had them running around, being scared, and not really doing anything. Bleh. + Snape. Unimpressive. I thought that he wasn’t actually evil, but this is kinda dull. “I would be evil, but I fancy someone who isn’t, so I’ll stay here in the grey area being miserable”. + The twins. I was pissed off at Fred’s death (but fair enough, they were at war), but fuming that we never saw George’s reaction (or Molly or Arthur’s, for that matter). + Epilogue. Bleck. I suspect it was written to starve off the pleas to write more Potter, what happened before, what happened after, or whatever, but still... didn’t care. Didn’t care that everyone got married and had kids. Would have rather known: -what jobs they took -whether the trio got honours for their bravery -whether they started to instigate new policies post-war -what happened politically to the Wizarding World -what happened to the rest of the Death Eaters -it seems apparent that Draco Malfoy did not go to Azkaban (after all, he has a child at Hogwarts the same time as Harry), so what happened with him?
All the same, enjoyed the book, but it did feel very rushed, and so much was left unanswered (did I miss it, or did she still not answer the whole Harry having Lily’s eyes thing? – I never thought it was actually a plot point until JK herself started making a big deal out of it) or simply glossed over (Tonks and Lupin: married, pregnant, dead). It could have done with a chapter after the end of the war, before the epilogue.
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Date: 2007-07-22 02:43 pm (UTC)Potter: (see my list of plus signs, just like Carla likes)
+ I was effing right! I knew there was a horcrux in the room of requirement. Go me!
+ Luna. So much love for every single thing she does. Evah.
+ Neville. See above. Only he, not she. *grin*
+ Tonks and Remus. Bad writer! From the very first mention of Tonks I got she was pregnant. I kept waiting for them to turn up in the actual story, instead of being side-notes. Was disappointed.
+ The Malfoys. WTF? She spent six books building them up, then just had them running around, being scared, and not really doing anything. Bleh.
+ Snape. Unimpressive. I thought that he wasn’t actually evil, but this is kinda dull. “I would be evil, but I fancy someone who isn’t, so I’ll stay here in the grey area being miserable”.
+ The twins. I was pissed off at Fred’s death (but fair enough, they were at war), but fuming that we never saw George’s reaction (or Molly or Arthur’s, for that matter).
+ Epilogue. Bleck. I suspect it was written to starve off the pleas to write more Potter, what happened before, what happened after, or whatever, but still... didn’t care. Didn’t care that everyone got married and had kids. Would have rather known:
-what jobs they took
-whether the trio got honours for their bravery
-whether they started to instigate new policies post-war
-what happened politically to the Wizarding World
-what happened to the rest of the Death Eaters
-it seems apparent that Draco Malfoy did not go to Azkaban (after all, he has a child at Hogwarts the same time as Harry), so what happened with him?
All the same, enjoyed the book, but it did feel very rushed, and so much was left unanswered (did I miss it, or did she still not answer the whole Harry having Lily’s eyes thing? – I never thought it was actually a plot point until JK herself started making a big deal out of it) or simply glossed over (Tonks and Lupin: married, pregnant, dead). It could have done with a chapter after the end of the war, before the epilogue.