Observation(s) on CoS

[Mindy, a.k.a. CLH]

No: HPFGUIDX 25352

Hey guys and gals. I am 21 digests behind schedule, so I have some
serious reading for tonight! However, I reared CoS over Shabbos
(Saturday) and I have a coupl'a minor observations to make.

Firstly, I am puzzled over why many of you say that you liked CoS least
of all books. I happen to have liked it. GoF has the worst ending of all;
it ends in a very depressing way, while CoS has a jubilant ending. PoA is
full of scary dementors and I dont like it. So I do like CoS. 

However, the entire premise of CoS is the most unrealistic one. Voldemort
meeting up with Quirrel and attaching himself to him, you can understand.
Sirius Black escaping, makes sense. The whole Triwizard Fiasco, while a
bit wild, can be possible. But CoS deals with a really unrealistic
premise; even magically, it's highly unlikely. Tom Riddle is just a
memory, a phantom. I mean, what would have happened had he managed to
kill Ginny and Harry? Would the 50-year-younger Tom Riddle have morphed
then into Voldemort? Or would he have clambered up the pipe and resumed
the old Tom Riddle form? Him communicating with Ginny and Harry via the
diary almost sounded like emailing to me! The whole plot, while
excellently developed, is too skeptical, even in magical Hogwarts,
because the whole thing is fantasy.

I did catch another timeline problem in CoS. When Ginny tried to tell
Harry about the diary and Percy cut him off, Percy was afraid Ginny would
tell them about him kissing Penelope Clearwater. However, Penelope had
been petrified for months! She had been the first person to be attacked
by the basilisk -- and Ginny herself -- back in January! This is June --
surely that was not still on Percy's mind. "She walked in on me the
*other day*" -- sorry, it was 5 months earlier, surely that was not what
Ginny wanted to tell Harry?

anyway, gotta go read the 21 digests!

Robyn, where are you? Did you get overwhelmed with digests too?

MINDY
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