OOP: Darker (wasDisappointing AND Excellent)

[mrs_monkeypen]

No: HPFGUIDX 66482

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "kiricat2001" <Zarleycat at a...> 
wrote:
> I thought OoP was a much darker book in tone throughout its entire 
> length.  From Harry's heightened feelings of isolation in the very 
> first chapter, through the oppressive atmosphere of 12 Grimmauld 
> Place to the insidious tightening of the Ministry's noose around 
> Hogwarts to Harry's ominous dreams of the hallway and the door to 
the 
> potential loss of personal privacy in communication between people 
> (intercpeted letters, fireplace lurkeers, etc.), the entire feel of 
> the book was darker to me. 
> 
Yes...it was darker because it was so much more INTERNAL than GoF.  
Harry was alone with his thoughts for much of the book. There was 
always a feeling of foreboding throughout the book, and much of the 
joyousness of the earlier books (Halloween, Christmas, end of year  
celebrations, for example) were either absent or just less cheery. 
Whereas JKR has been able to insert bits of lightness and laughter 
throughout most of the earlier books, there is a real effort with the 
Fred and George antics to provide breaks from the darkness. I felt 
like the sun never shown throughout the book.

kim