Defend OOTP against my horribly Muggle mind!

[sleepingblyx]

No: HPFGUIDX 76487

 
> It makes me wonder if Rowling has always written so badly, but we 
> never realized it until now because this is the first time she's 
> been able to get a book in print without having to submit to an 
> editor's demands.
 > Wanda
> 

In any of the novels, whenever I read, "He yelled at her, angrilly" 
or ",abruptly" or ",shockingly" or anything else in that sense for 
the hundreth time, I can't help but roll my eyes, mockingly. <g>

As for the tone and theme of the series-- I think she has always 
known where the books are going and where they will go. She has been 
scribbling down what will happen in the latter books since she was 
writing the first one-- I think that OoP was a needed transitionary 
piece-- more of an explanation to get from point a to point 
b. "Filler", if you will. I have a notion that on the next book, she 
will be sure of her direction and wont be able to write it fast 
enough. 

If she could have witten a short story to cover the death of Sirius, 
or to have condensed year five into year four, then possibly she 
would have. 

I think the HP books will remain a big statement in childrens lit-- 
they are, after all, reguarded as the books that got kids to read 
again. Times are difficult in the world, and the culture embraces 
escapist books and such in those times. I don't think it is by 
accident that HP, Tolkien, and the like are what is "in" right now. 

Perhaps things _are_ cyclicle-- after HP fades from mainstream for a 
while, and becomes the novels of "geeks," kids, and "fanatsy buffs", 
perhaps something else will happen that will throw the world back 
into a love afair with Mr. Potter-- and not a lot of novels, however 
great or horrible, get that second life.

^v^Blyx^v^