[OOP] - OOP = Empire Strikes Back

[zenchela]

No: HPFGUIDX 62242

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Dennis Grant" <trog at w...> 
wrote:
> 
> During my reading of OOP on Saturday, and doubly so after reading a 
bunch of
> the posts here, I was struck by the simularity between OOP and 
another famous
> story.

(long and thoughtful post snipped for brevity)

Oddly enough, the NYTimes review had the same idea -- OOP standing in 
as the ESB-chapter.  The books take a great leap of seriousness 
(terrible term, but I think you know what I mean) between GoF and 
OOP, and the stage must be set for the War that is beginning.  
Tolkien had to do the same thing between The Hobbit and The 
Fellowship of The Ring, but he had several years to do it in, 
unencumbered by a marketing/internet juggernaut.  And as a result, 
Gandalf went suddenly from a rather lightweight-seeming wizard "who 
never minded explaining his cleverness more than once" to Gandalf the 
Grey and the White, on whose shoulders the fate of Middle Earth 
rode.  (Is this from "Master of Middle Earth"?  I think so -- again, 
don't have the book at work.)  JKR hasn't got that kind of time or 
the freedom to simply rewrite the characters, so OOP must carry a lot 
of weight in the darkening and deepening of her characters.

Zen