Wednesday, July 25, 2007

DH SPOILERS!

Ok, I will most likely get shouted at for this...but I really need to do this rant. For me the most disappointing thing about Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was, I dunno...LIKE TWO THIRDS OF IT. There were so many things about the book, that were either incredibly dumb, or just flat-out boring. THE ENTIRE MIDDLE PORTION of the book, where they're just disapparating out of places and travelling the country doing nothing, almost put me to sleep, until JK seemed to realise that these parts were boring as hell, and randomly inserted two chapters "Bathilda's secret" and "Malfoy Manor" in an obvious attempt to keep her readers' interest, cause they're the only times when there's action. The action comes from out of nowhere (a woman turning into nagini?? come on). The ending was incredibly long and drawn-out, and interrupted with chapters that seemed completely out of place (a)The war's about to resume, but excuse me while I stick my head in a sink and go over some memories, and b) lets go to a train station and talk to dumbledore, and i'll come back to life to finish off voldemorrt when I feel like it) The final confrontation was overly dramatic. The whole 7th book cover gave the idea that Harry was alone in facing Voldemort, but in the end, when he does, they are surrounded by people who are watching it like they would watch a soccer/hockey game. What the hell? And the aftermath of the fight should not have been celebratory, (yay, Voldemorts dead, lets party!) it should have been emotional for Harry, with the realisation that it was all over, with some self-reflection. But the biggest problem with the book was that, without hogwarts as a sort of boundary to contain the plot, the story was completely all over the place and a real mess, with everything happening randomly and without explanantion (this is shown perfectly in the chapter "Magic is might", when JK spends exactly one sentence explaining how "over the past month, Harry et. al had been planning an infiltration of the ministry) The plot was overly complicated and random (lets go to the MOM, lets go to see Lovegood, lets go to Godrics Hollow, lets go to Gringotts, lets go to Bill's cottage, and on and on) In fact this confusion pretty much summed itself up when JK introduced the whole concept of the Hallows. While Harry was searching for the horcruxes, then spent like 5 chapters in limbo DOING NOTHING, because Ron and Hermione wanted to find horcruxes, and harry wanted to find hallows, and as a result...NOTHING HAPPENED during these sequences...
So, in conclusion, suffice it to say that I was incredibly disappointed in the book.

I'm not an HP or a JK basher, I love Harry Potter, perhaps too much, cause it seems I clearly expected too much from the book, and I really wanted a great ending from the series.

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