I find Harry affectionately naming his child Albus Severus downright creepy
Before I start my own little whine, I'll just say a HELL YEAH to that. I saw that and was just like, what. The Christ. *sighs*
Thankfully, I had sort of washed my hands of the canon going anywhere near where I wanted it to go for a while before now, so it was more of a fun read than I'd expected. And though I'm not a rereader of these books, I'll likely be snipping a few quotes for icons and maybe rereading the last battle (did you think that was great but a little all over the place, or was it just me...? Eh). But most deeefinitely not for comfort.
As for interrogating the text, I don't think I really bothered, to be honest. But I definitely read this book in a far different state of mind than I did the last, mostly because so much has changed about how I think about stuff. And so many things jumped out at me that just read wrong- the house elf thing (on one hand, I liked Kreacher turning nice on everyone, but on the other hand, good frigging grief did I just not like how his interaction with everyone played), and the everyone-gets-married, cooks, and gets pregnant thing.
I don't know. I know I won't be recommending it, and some of the things I've thought and said about JKR feel kind of mean or mean-spirited, but still. There's just more I expect from books nowadays, and not very much was in this book.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2007-07-21 11:57 pm (UTC)Before I start my own little whine, I'll just say a HELL YEAH to that. I saw that and was just like, what. The Christ. *sighs*
Thankfully, I had sort of washed my hands of the canon going anywhere near where I wanted it to go for a while before now, so it was more of a fun read than I'd expected. And though I'm not a rereader of these books, I'll likely be snipping a few quotes for icons and maybe rereading the last battle (did you think that was great but a little all over the place, or was it just me...? Eh). But most deeefinitely not for comfort.
As for interrogating the text, I don't think I really bothered, to be honest. But I definitely read this book in a far different state of mind than I did the last, mostly because so much has changed about how I think about stuff. And so many things jumped out at me that just read wrong- the house elf thing (on one hand, I liked Kreacher turning nice on everyone, but on the other hand, good frigging grief did I just not like how his interaction with everyone played), and the everyone-gets-married, cooks, and gets pregnant thing.
I don't know. I know I won't be recommending it, and some of the things I've thought and said about JKR feel kind of mean or mean-spirited, but still. There's just more I expect from books nowadays, and not very much was in this book.