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pandonkeyFinally finished HP&tHBP.
It's minor, but my first thought here is that I don't buy Lupin and Tonks at all. I guessed that it was Lupin, not Sirius, that Tonks was pining for when her Patronus was described so vaguely, and I was irritated to find out later that I was right. I just don't buy it. (And not just because I liked the whole werewolf/gay analogy that was underlined in bright pink highlighter in the film version of Azkaban.) I just don't see those two personalities fitting together at all.
The Snape question -- the fact that Snape appears to be 100% evil just tells me that it's going to turn out Dumbledore wanted Snape to kill him. As others have pointed out before me, Dumbledore's "Please, Severus" was probably not a request for mercy. I'm not ashamed to admit that I don't want Snape to be evil, in part because I really do think Dumbledore must've had good reason to trust him, and in part because (again, as others have said before me) I liked having a nasty, unlikeable character fighting for the side of good.
Dumbledore -- I don't think he'll be returning from the dead, but I do think he'll be inhabiting his portrait. I was rather surprised Harry didn't attempt to go talk to it after the funeral; that'll probably happen sometime in book 7. I can't see Dumbledore somehow being the one Hogwarts headmaster not to continue on as an observer in his old office.
Harry/Ginny doesn't surprise or bother me, but I'm not particularly interested in it. Their conversation during the funeral was neither believable nor moving, though. C'mon, J.K., you can do better than that. (I think.)
That's all for now. I may have more once my thoughts have had a chance to percolate (and/or I get through a second reading).
It's minor, but my first thought here is that I don't buy Lupin and Tonks at all. I guessed that it was Lupin, not Sirius, that Tonks was pining for when her Patronus was described so vaguely, and I was irritated to find out later that I was right. I just don't buy it. (And not just because I liked the whole werewolf/gay analogy that was underlined in bright pink highlighter in the film version of Azkaban.) I just don't see those two personalities fitting together at all.
The Snape question -- the fact that Snape appears to be 100% evil just tells me that it's going to turn out Dumbledore wanted Snape to kill him. As others have pointed out before me, Dumbledore's "Please, Severus" was probably not a request for mercy. I'm not ashamed to admit that I don't want Snape to be evil, in part because I really do think Dumbledore must've had good reason to trust him, and in part because (again, as others have said before me) I liked having a nasty, unlikeable character fighting for the side of good.
Dumbledore -- I don't think he'll be returning from the dead, but I do think he'll be inhabiting his portrait. I was rather surprised Harry didn't attempt to go talk to it after the funeral; that'll probably happen sometime in book 7. I can't see Dumbledore somehow being the one Hogwarts headmaster not to continue on as an observer in his old office.
Harry/Ginny doesn't surprise or bother me, but I'm not particularly interested in it. Their conversation during the funeral was neither believable nor moving, though. C'mon, J.K., you can do better than that. (I think.)
That's all for now. I may have more once my thoughts have had a chance to percolate (and/or I get through a second reading).
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Date: 2005-07-21 02:49 am (UTC)The Lupin and Tonks thing interests me solely because I have been very fond of Lupin since book 3. He's one of my second-tier favorites (along with Neville, Luna, and some others).
I'm very curious as to how Dumbledore's portrait will be treated. She's shown us so many of them throughout the books that it'd be hard for her to try to claim this one's different. We shall see, I guess.
Yeah, Harry and Ginny reminded me excessively of Spiderman, too. That was part of what seemed so unconvincing. "Uh, Ginny, I have something to say...hang on, I've got to cue up the DVD..."
I thought the same thing about the false-imprisonment stuff. Doug thinks I'm crazy, but I read it as a very clear comment on US policy.
And finally... if only Harry Potter and the Motherfucking Zombies were going to be the title of book 7. I would love to be able to create a mock cover for that. ;)