[HPforGrownups] Did anything in the HP series make you roll your eyes a bit?

[John Walton]

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cynthiaanncoe at home.com said:

> The diction of house elves grates on my ears, particularly Winky (PA,
> GoF).

But house elves is supposed to be talking funny! Otherwise they is not being
house elves! And they is sounding a lot less dangerous this way. I is
thinking that house elves is going to be playing a bigger part in the next
books, I is.

> The deathday party. (CoS)

Nope, didn't make me roll my eyes.

> Moaning Myrtle and Gilderoy Lockhart. (CoS)

Lockhart didn't make me roll my eyes. As someone said recently, the really
evil thing about Lockhart is that he is willing to let a child (Ginny) die
to save his own skin.

> The Quiddich World Cup (It's a tall order to make us care about
> Ireland vs. Bulgaria). (GoF)

Not if you're Irish or Bulgarian. I loved the QWC, and I'm neither.

> The flying car sequence. (CoS)

I really enjoyed that. Of course, the actual act of taking the car did make
me roll my eyes at Harry and Ron's stupidity -- why not just wait for Molly
and Arthur and get them to drive to Hogwarts? Or Floo Powder it? Of course,
that wouldn't allow for...

> The "Here Comes The Calvary" rescue of the flying car in the
> forbidden forest. (CoS)

I liked that bit.

All of these things rely on that good old literary tool, suspension of
disbelief. JKR, like George Lucas, creates a universe and sticks to its
rules. We just have to stop thinking like Muggles for long enough to be able
to enjoy it :)

--John

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There is no such thing as a moral book or an immoral book. Books are well
written or badly written. That is all.
--Oscar Wilde
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