Okay as many of you know, i have been an avid HP fan for many MANY years... It was one of the few things that supported me through not only a lack of friends in elementary and parts of middle school but also the books and Harry Potter Fandom with their wild theorys and fanfictions helped me to survive the deaths of both grandmothers, the loss of several pets and many supposed heartbreaks before i met my beloved mason... However i regret to inform you all that my inner Harry Potter fangeek chose to have a very well timed demise at the completion of my reading the 7th and thankfully final book. I was severely dissapointed in the scarcity of entertaining plot twists, the gaping hole where any sort of surprise might have resided, the just overall LACK of stimulating material in this book. She could have done SO much with it... There were SO many pathways, theorys, spinny-go-roundabouts that she could have taken in this final addition to the great series, that i want to take the finished copy and throw it at her demanding that she try again because she failed... And the just complete and utter lameness and impossibility in the story is overwhelming. It was like reading a poorly written and badly thought out fanfiction... I keep waiting for someone to jump out and say "PSYCH! heres the real copy that was just a hoax!" I mean for gods sake they have RON speak parsletounge at one point!!! Wasn't it thoroughly stressed in book 2 that only a fair few DESCENDENTS OF SALAZAR SLYTHERIN possesed that ability? And yet during the final battle we have RONALD WEASELY breaking into the bloody CHAMBER OF SECRETS to wrest basilisk fangs from the snakes dead body... ITS REDICULOUS!!!! I mean at the end HARRY DIES!!! He DIES!!! and goes to what i assume is ment to be limbo... AND THEN COMES BACK! He goes to limbo talkes to dumbledore for a bit and then COMES BACK!!!!!!!! And then if that isn't bad enough... The final standoff after harry returns from the dead? IS SO ANTICLIMATIC! Harry gives the "look at how insignifigant you are" speech, Molly weasely finishes off Bellatrix and then just as the sun comes up Harry and Voldie both cast spells and Harry wins... I am so pissed... I mean up until this point the books have at least maintained a small line of credulity... some small bit of rules that at least let the most wistful of us believe that there MIGHT be a chance that it could happen.... BUT NO! She completely destroys any idea of capability in this book... I was happy to be right about some things... like R.A.B. was sirius' brother and yeah he used Kreacher to get the locket snape wasn't really evil, and was in love with lily... (no he wasn't harry's real dad much to my dissapointment but HELL even that would have been a better more realistic twist than some of the s**t she put in it) And yeah draco turned out not to be so bad either though he never did openly declare himself good... and his son 19 years later turns out to be named Scorpius... SCORPIUS!!! what is his family? Obsessed with the Zodiac much?!?! Rawr... I mean not even the humor was up to snuff in this one and usually she has some pretty decent jokes... but the funniest part that i was able to find was when by some miraculous event involving harry showing a bit of compassion. Kreacher was transformed into the perfect servant houself... but even that lost some of its shine after a couple of pages... I personally give J.K. two thumbs down for this pathetic attempt at a close for one of my favorite series ever... And i don't reccomend any true Harry Potter fan read it... Keep your illusions, suggestions, and theories... I can GUARENTEE you that they are better, more credible, and just all around more likely, exciting and enticing than what she's trying to pass off as the real ending... Maybe she's gone mad in the years of Pottermania, maybe she was just tired of it all and wanted to rush to the end, maybe she just lost her touch... i don't know and probably never will, but whatever the reason J.K. was certainly far off the mark with this one... and i for one am extrodinarily dissapointed. evil
 mistress_of_insanity · Sun Jul 22, 2007 @ 09:24am · 0 Comments |
