How DEPRESSING! (convaluted spoilers)

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Karen Barker" 
<karenabarker at y...> wrote:

Karen:
> I've just finished it and I'm devistated.  Apart from the obvious 
> (which I thought I'd be OK about if it was that person but have 
> discovered that I'm anything but!) I'm really upset about the thing 
> that Harry right at the end says he won't do (that Hermione says 
she 
> knew he was going to say).  I cannot believe that that is the case 
> and feel as bereft about that as much as the obvious.  
> 

Geoff:
It doesn't follow that he will. This is a bit of a knee-jerk 
reaction. How often do we think about making snap decisions when 
something drastic happens and then backtrack on them when we've given 
it more time?

He's obviously in a similar sort of mood to that at the end of OOTP 
but that seemed to have lifted a bit at the beginning of HBP.

I have to say that I have enjoyed the book more than OOTP. I found my 
first read of Phoenix was very heavy going but this one, with a whole 
raft of new characters and a number of revelations, an easier passage.