Did anyone else feel let down by OOP?

[Anita]

No: HPFGUIDX 64009

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I also felt the fifth book did not match the others. The plot twists 
and subtle hints in the previous books had kept me always trying to 
work out how they ended. I was never sure until the last page of how 
everything fitted together. In contrast, the fifth book seemed to 
offer two alternatives to me - either sirius was being tortured by 
voldemort, or harry was being lured to a meeting with a bunch of 
death eaters. From the hints given: Harry's occlumancing lessons 
(sorry can't quite remember the term now) being given such importane 
by Dumbledore, Dumbledore avoiding Harry, the untrustworthy elf being 
the only witness that Sirius wasn't safe and well,etc. I found it 
pretty obvious that there was going to be a battle scene, with half 
the DA. And like others, I found this battle dissapointing - I mean, 
for one thing it seemed unrealistic that these all-powerful Death 
Eaters should find a bunch of kids so hard to handle. It did seem 
like some dodgy film scene where you just know the good guys ocme out 
on top. And personally I wasn't at all moved by Sirius's death, 
possibly because I didn't feel sympathetic towards his character - 
and maybe also because I'd predicted Molly Weasley dying and am glad 
she hasn;t! One other critiscism is to do with the excursions into 
the Forbidden forest - it all just seemed a bit uneccessary - unless 
maybe grawp becomes important in the later books? But if not then 
that part also seemed fairly predictable and in a book 766 pages long 
perhaps in need of editing out.... 
Anyway, I enjoyed many things about the books, especially the 
Umbridge woman, I enjoyed sympathising with the undedogs in all her 
scenes! 
Hope I haven't offended anyone - I enjoyed reading the book, but the 
end I felt wasn't as good as the others. 
Jenny (new poster btw!)


ps please dont email me as this is my little sister's account!!







-- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "aunt_barb1958" 
<aunt_barb1958 at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ron_wizardchess_weasley" 
> <RonWeasley_is at m...> wrote:
> > I was just not impressed by OOP the way I was by the first four 
> > books. Maybe it was the lack of sleep between going to work and 
> > trying to stay up late when I got home to read it but... I was 
> > finding that eventually the only reason I kept turning the pages 
> was 
> > to find out who died. In fact the only part of the book that I 
did 
> > really enjoy was Neville. The way that he is finally starting to 
> show 
> > his true potential is a long time a comin'. Overall I felt let 
down 
> > and disappointed. Did anyone else feel the same way? Let me know.
> >                      -Ron_WizardChess_Weasley
> 
> Ron:  I absolutely agree.  I guess I have had enough Harry all the 
> time (in the lord of the rings they manage to tell 3 different 
> stories at he same time). I don't much like Harry as an 
> angry/arrogant young man.  I also thought there would be more 
details 
> about the battle between OOP and DE's.  I'm not saying I didn't 
enjoy 
> the book just I am not looking forward to 6 as much as I did to 5.