[HPforGrownups] Re: what surprised you the most?
Susanne Schmid
pigwidgeon37 at yahoo.it
Thu Aug 9 05:03:11 UTC 2001
No: HPFGUIDX 23928
--- prefectmarcus at yahoo.com ha scritto:
<The biggest surprize for me had to be Quirrell.I
<hadn't realized that Rowling was that good on
<springing twists on us. Since then I was not
<surprized at being surprized.
<Does that make any sense?:)
Marcus
Of course it makes sense ("She looked into Marcus'
eyes, deep and fathomless, and felt that he had seen
everything, that nothing could surprise him any more"
wild cackle ;P)
OK now, seriously: This is something that has being
bothering me for a while- How long will she be able to
keep it up?
Explanation to enigmatic question: In PS/SS, the big
surprise was that the evil guy turned ut to be
Quirell, not Snape. CoS didn't offer a great deal of
surprise in that sense, as from Lockhart you could
easily expect *anything* and Ginny was being
controlled but not evil by herself(frankly, CoS is my
least favourite of the four). PoA returns to the logic
of no.1, only reversing it- bad guy turns out to be
good guy, bad cat is good cat. GoF presents us with a
double twist: for a brief moment, it seems that good
guy is bad (when fake Moody takes Harry up to his
office, until Dumbledore & co. arrive) and I admit
that at that point I thought "Oh no, not another
Quirrell!". Then, we discover that good guy was
impersonated by bad guy, which is surprising enough.
So, what can possibly be next without repeating
patterns too often or becoming too artificial? Future
will tell us.
Hope *that* made sense
Susanna/pigwidgeon37
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