OOP: Hollywood Ending?

[medeacallous]

No: HPFGUIDX 62017

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "grlndgz" <grlndgz at e...> wrote:
> 
> Was anyone else as disappointed as I am in the big shoot-out at 
the OK Corral 
> ending?  I felt like I was reading a description of something that 
would look really 
> flashy on a movie screen, but was in fact just one more fairly 
uninspired ending to 
> your standard B-movie summer action flick.  "Oh, no!!!!  They're 
hopelessly 
> outnumbered and outgunned.  Oh look - more good guys, just in the 
nick of time." 
> I've come to expect better.  This seemed to just run on and on for 
no real purpose.
> 
> On the other hand, the insinuation of Umbridge into Hogwarts and 
her usurpation of 
> more and more power was so creepy and made me so uneasy and 
uncomfortable that 
> I almost couldn't keep reading.  That was really well done.
> 
> 
> Amy
> (one more of the long-time lurker first-time posters)


Yes, I was very disappointed by it, and I actually thought several 
times through the book that JKR seemed to me to be writing for the 
screen (putting in things that would have great visual appeal) 
rather than for readers.  Just MHO.

MC