OOP: Hollywood Ending?

[nb100uk]

No: HPFGUIDX 62033

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "medeacallous" 
<medeacallous at y...> wrote:
> --- 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

I think what we get when we read JKR is her imagination on the page.  
If she imagines this huge shoot out in her head, then she describes 
it in the intricate detail on the page.  HP probably always plays 
like a movie in her head, she just has the ability to describe it 
brilliantly.

For massive action sequences, we're always going to have to deal with 
description palying catch up to the action.

For the record, I loved that section - I needed to read it twice, but 
it worked so well the 2nd time round.

Nina