When I was reading DH it often felt contrived and the emotions never really connected with me. JKR had a lot of stuff that Harry needed to do before she could end the book and it all unfortunately had to be done by Harry & co. I just kind of trudged through all that writing so that I could get back to reading fanfic.
I found myself on several occasions comparing this to OotP. Specifically, if whoever wrote the screenplay for OotP could cut out a lot of the story and make it interesting (or so I've heard), what parts would they cut out of this book to make it move quicker?
I was disappointed by how little Snape and Draco were in the story, since I think they had a lot of potential that was built up in the previous books and not used here. My hopes were rasied (and crushed) after I read James mention that he'd leave if he was sorted into Slytherin.
Also, I'm trying forget the epilogue. There was no need for it, any reader with a spark of imagination could figure out what was going to happen. I only was comforted by the fact that Draco was not imprisoned or anything (and I completely reject that Draco's hair would recede, especially in his late thirties).
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Date: 2007-07-22 04:58 am (UTC)When I was reading DH it often felt contrived and the emotions never really connected with me. JKR had a lot of stuff that Harry needed to do before she could end the book and it all unfortunately had to be done by Harry & co. I just kind of trudged through all that writing so that I could get back to reading fanfic.
I found myself on several occasions comparing this to OotP. Specifically, if whoever wrote the screenplay for OotP could cut out a lot of the story and make it interesting (or so I've heard), what parts would they cut out of this book to make it move quicker?
I was disappointed by how little Snape and Draco were in the story, since I think they had a lot of potential that was built up in the previous books and not used here. My hopes were rasied (and crushed) after I read James mention that he'd leave if he was sorted into Slytherin.
Also, I'm trying forget the epilogue. There was no need for it, any reader with a spark of imagination could figure out what was going to happen. I only was comforted by the fact that Draco was not imprisoned or anything (and I completely reject that Draco's hair would recede, especially in his late thirties).