Finished book
Jun. 23rd, 2003 03:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kbkOverall? left feeling... kinda pissed, actually.
No, maybe not, just... grr. stuff. Snape's memory left me incredibly pissed, because they were such fucking bullies and I just... it really got to me. for reason at end of post. and Lupin sitting back was just the way I would have been, and with Lily and... And Harry was a little bastard doing that in the first place. and. stuff. oh, fuck it. the denial is an ingrained response - no body = no death. just. really. absolute instinctive reaction, was, no. don't believe it. and it's supposed to be pivotal, and the only way I can see that is if he comes back and maybe brings some other folk with him from the world of the dead. Was pissed at Dumbledore, really, very much so. And Harry. and... right, Sirius told him not to open the present right then, but you would open it later, find out what it was, not leave it till the end of the fucking book! but, of course, if he had, then the whole plot wouldn't have worked - so it feels like something JKR thought up and was too attached to for her to ditch it when it fucked with the plot, so she did that instead.
other stuff that bugged me: Thestrals - did Harry's parents not count as him seeing death? and the Pensieve is supposed to be his memory so how does it have all that stuff that he couldn't possibly know?
but she does have a gift for scenes, and inducing emotion, and the writing is clear and easy to follow and descriptive but not overtly and... I'm not making sense, am I? but I really do admire her writing, it's just that I feel the plotting sometimes lets her down, and maybe the depiction of minor characters though that's probably the ficcer in me talking.
but some stuff, like Fred and George flying off - and wasn't that such a WWII flying ace sort of thing, "Give her hell for us, Peeves," and so on... that was grand, and there are others, like the DADA OWL... Ron and Hermione sniping at each other was sometimes fun, I loved the entrance of Firenze, the overall reaction to the interview (though, twelve kids? doesn't really sound fun to me). and oh yeah. "a long letter from a witch in Paisley."
I came out of it absolutely loving McGonagall and the twins, with an option on Remus.
But. My big problem that I forgot would occur? I hate schoolkids. Especially boys. Especially mid-teens. Absolutely detest 'em.
Didn't really help with the experience of this book.
No, maybe not, just... grr. stuff. Snape's memory left me incredibly pissed, because they were such fucking bullies and I just... it really got to me. for reason at end of post. and Lupin sitting back was just the way I would have been, and with Lily and... And Harry was a little bastard doing that in the first place. and. stuff. oh, fuck it. the denial is an ingrained response - no body = no death. just. really. absolute instinctive reaction, was, no. don't believe it. and it's supposed to be pivotal, and the only way I can see that is if he comes back and maybe brings some other folk with him from the world of the dead. Was pissed at Dumbledore, really, very much so. And Harry. and... right, Sirius told him not to open the present right then, but you would open it later, find out what it was, not leave it till the end of the fucking book! but, of course, if he had, then the whole plot wouldn't have worked - so it feels like something JKR thought up and was too attached to for her to ditch it when it fucked with the plot, so she did that instead.
other stuff that bugged me: Thestrals - did Harry's parents not count as him seeing death? and the Pensieve is supposed to be his memory so how does it have all that stuff that he couldn't possibly know?
but she does have a gift for scenes, and inducing emotion, and the writing is clear and easy to follow and descriptive but not overtly and... I'm not making sense, am I? but I really do admire her writing, it's just that I feel the plotting sometimes lets her down, and maybe the depiction of minor characters though that's probably the ficcer in me talking.
but some stuff, like Fred and George flying off - and wasn't that such a WWII flying ace sort of thing, "Give her hell for us, Peeves," and so on... that was grand, and there are others, like the DADA OWL... Ron and Hermione sniping at each other was sometimes fun, I loved the entrance of Firenze, the overall reaction to the interview (though, twelve kids? doesn't really sound fun to me). and oh yeah. "a long letter from a witch in Paisley."
I came out of it absolutely loving McGonagall and the twins, with an option on Remus.
But. My big problem that I forgot would occur? I hate schoolkids. Especially boys. Especially mid-teens. Absolutely detest 'em.
Didn't really help with the experience of this book.
