Grizzles on Goblet

[Tabouli]

No: HPFGUIDX 28274

Cindy:
> But PoA competes nicely with Book 4 for "best written" book in terms of the 
outstanding character development, subtle humor, crisp dialogue, and 
brilliant use of foreshadowing, not to mention the huge number of 
plot balls JKR has in the air at one time.<

Hmmm.  Now, it's a long time since I read stats on this subject, so I could be wrong, but IIRC the next most popular choice for "worst HP book" is GoF, which is the one that gets my vote.  I think both PoA *and* CoS are better written than GoF.  Much as I love the Yule Ball, find the Harry/Ron fight interesting and revealing, and enjoy Rita and the Moody/Barty performance, the plot of GoF is as holey as a Swiss cheese in a shooting gallery.

The Triwizard Tournament tasks 2 and 3 as spectator sports?  Yeah right.  Even HP4GU members were having to strain their imaginations to justify that one.  Shutting down Quidditch for a year?  How very convenient for JKR.  Did we really need those blasted Blast-Ended Skrewts?  Thought they were a bit pointless and unfunny, myself.  150 pages on the World Quidditch Cup?  I'll buy the defence that there are a lot of important issues raised in it, but JKR could have been *much* more economical about them (whittle those silly Veela scenes down for a start: all they seem to be doing is setting us up for Fleur, and that could be done in a couple of paragraphs).

Sofie:
> being 'nackered' is to be extremly tired. I forget that 
some english expressions never crossed over to America.<

I knew what this meant, but I always thought it was "knackered", with a K... isn't it??

Tabouli.




[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]