Re: Spoiler: HP 7 weird and unexpected
- From: Tim Bruening <tsbrueni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 22:18:50 -0700
"Marco@xxxxxxxx" wrote:
Spoilers for HP 7 Deadly Hallows
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1. Ron could fake parseltongue and get into chamber of secrets? WTF???
2. Mrs Weasly out duels Bellatrix? Right. Very believable.
3. What the necessity of the whole Gwarp and Giants Saga that wasted
so much space in Book 5 - their role was throw away and incidental in
HP7?
4. All the major deaths - school mates and teachers were not very
moving at all. I was more shocked by the death of the pet than Snape,
George, Creevy or Lupin/Tonks. Sudden death is great for shock value
once (Cedric) or twice (Dobby). For the others you need a buildup and
investment in tension to make an impact. Here most people we would
care about mostly died off-screen.
I don't recall George dying. I do recall Fred dying. When did George
die?
5. A desperate voldemort who is racing against time to save his
remaining horcruxes declares a ultimatum and gives harry an extra hour
to run around finding/destroying horcruxes?! Is LV a congenital idiot?
6. The way each of Ron, Hermione and Neville get a horcrux each to
destroy seemed forced rather than natural. Specially the Hermione one.
7. Lupin was really loony in this book. What the hell happened to the
reserved, flawed and wise Lupin from Book 3? A great character was
turned into a melodramatic idiot.
8. It was so trivial to infiltrate Gringotts. All you need was to
confound and imperious a few people. Gringott security hype no longer
lived up to the reality. Griphook seemed to make no real contribution
to the breaking so don't know why he was needed (other than to give a
token representation to Goblins).
9. The way people (McGonagall) were throwing around forbidden curses
was surprising. They made such a big deal out of it. It seemed out of
character that McGonagal would not have moral objections to their use
(if not legal ones).
10. No explanation was gives as to why hogwarts sided with OOTP in the
battle of hogwarts rather than the DE who were actually running the
school. Hogwarts can make moral judgments?
11. The cavalry finally making up their minds and fighting against LV
*after* harry had been killed made no sense at all. What prompted this
now suicidal change of heart?
12. Why didn't voldemort make a run for it when he was cornered and
all his horcruxes had been destroyed. He never seemed to have problem
running away before. What kind of idiot would cast a killing curse for
a third time after it had backfired twice already.
13. What's with the 'do you feel lucky punk?' speech from Harry to
voldy at the very end?
PS: The leaked version of HP7 is the correct version after checking
the book reviews at NY Times etc.
PPS: Personal disappointment. Hagrid didn't take a dirt nap.
PPS: Personal disappointment number 2. Not one slytherin sided with
Harry against Voldemort. Slytherins are portrayed as uniformly
supporting/condoning evil till the very end (except the three faculty
members).
Snape, Slughorn, and who else?
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