Hello. You don't really know me, except that I once read your essay and you once read my fic, and that's never a good way to introduce self, but I was very curious about what you thought about DH, and drifted here...
I think I must agree with you, in general. And I'm curious about what you think, in turn, about this: Have you read The Little White Horse? Someone pointed me to it as one of Rowling's favourite books. At the end of it, the heroine invites everyone - everyone in the book - to a tea party. And the smallest details become important; they all join together, like puzzle pieces into one picture.
This is the impression I had after DH. I've grown to Rowling writing like this before, combining the details into a tapestry, but in this book, it was especially visible; and especially in the final battle.
But I felt that... well, to Rowling different details were important than they would have been to me. To me, things like - 1/4th of a population cannot be evil!; House reconciliation; Snape's life debt; Unforgivables are evil! - these pieces were the important ones. To her, it was that Harry's Quidditch team should be present in the final battle - I was reading the chapter, and this one inclusion just... jumped at me. WTF the Quidditch team? What are they supposed to do?! Fly around people?!
I was just gearing for different pieces of the puzzle, I think. (And I so wanted Draco to be that dragon on the cover, too, going with the Trio on the Quest as the Slytherin representative...)
And I also thought that it's odd how that first part of the story is so very adult - not that I don't have my issues with that, mostly the taking off WWII ones someone talked about above - while the last one is about the importance of children's tales, with copious references to PS/SS. I just think that this part, as a whole, was planned long ago - not only the Epilogue. And while her writing moved on, this part sort of stayed behind. It really reminds me of The Little White Horse. Snape's Patronus reminds me of it, too. (And, to me, as a Snape fan, Prince's Tale was just... atrocious. I knew that, the way his tale went, he was slated to die. But the melodrama of the process, I could have done without.)
Then, obviously, I wrote a scene which, although it doesn't right all my personal grievances, goes a long way towards doing so. It's 200 words long, and it's fairy tale-ish, too... but it's a fairy tale from *my* world. There is House reconciliation included, sort of. It's on my LJ, if you want to have a look at it...
...but, mostly, I'm just curious what you think. If you read that Little White Horse book.
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I think I must agree with you, in general. And I'm curious about what you think, in turn, about this: Have you read The Little White Horse? Someone pointed me to it as one of Rowling's favourite books. At the end of it, the heroine invites everyone - everyone in the book - to a tea party. And the smallest details become important; they all join together, like puzzle pieces into one picture.
This is the impression I had after DH. I've grown to Rowling writing like this before, combining the details into a tapestry, but in this book, it was especially visible; and especially in the final battle.
But I felt that... well, to Rowling different details were important than they would have been to me. To me, things like - 1/4th of a population cannot be evil!; House reconciliation; Snape's life debt; Unforgivables are evil! - these pieces were the important ones. To her, it was that Harry's Quidditch team should be present in the final battle - I was reading the chapter, and this one inclusion just... jumped at me. WTF the Quidditch team? What are they supposed to do?! Fly around people?!
I was just gearing for different pieces of the puzzle, I think. (And I so wanted Draco to be that dragon on the cover, too, going with the Trio on the Quest as the Slytherin representative...)
And I also thought that it's odd how that first part of the story is so very adult - not that I don't have my issues with that, mostly the taking off WWII ones someone talked about above - while the last one is about the importance of children's tales, with copious references to PS/SS. I just think that this part, as a whole, was planned long ago - not only the Epilogue. And while her writing moved on, this part sort of stayed behind. It really reminds me of The Little White Horse. Snape's Patronus reminds me of it, too. (And, to me, as a Snape fan, Prince's Tale was just... atrocious. I knew that, the way his tale went, he was slated to die. But the melodrama of the process, I could have done without.)
Then, obviously, I wrote a scene which, although it doesn't right all my personal grievances, goes a long way towards doing so. It's 200 words long, and it's fairy tale-ish, too... but it's a fairy tale from *my* world. There is House reconciliation included, sort of. It's on my LJ, if you want to have a look at it...
...but, mostly, I'm just curious what you think. If you read that Little White Horse book.