Disappointed with GoF

[harrietmwelsch]

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From: harrietmwelsch
Subject: Disappointed with GoF
Date: 8/10/00 9:04 pm  (ET)

I am a huge Harry Potter fan but must confess that I was sort of
disappointed with GoF. Does anyone else feel this way?

I worry that JKR is being pressured to write the books too fast now and
they're not being edited carefully, either by herself or by her UK/US
editors. I mean, did the book really need to be 700+ pages long, just
so Harry could face Voldemort in a duel?

I thought there were interesting plot elements that were introduced
but never developed: the whole thing with SPEW, for example, and the
international exchange among schools (we only met two foreign students
and neither of them was really fleshed out.) The Triwizard Tournament
bits were compelling but they didn't really amount to much more than bits.

In each of the previous volumes, Harry has learned something important
about his past which is linked to his destiny. What did he learn in GoF?

--Harriet