OoP:Re: Family Trees, disappointment, and other things

[stardancerofas]

No: HPFGUIDX 66154

SPOILER SPACE LINE: Like we still really need this, I can't imagine
anyone hasn't finished by now, (except maybe my friend in Poland :) )




First thing, Family Tree: Has anyone considered that the reason Snape
wasn't mentioned in Sirius' (who IS NOT DEAD! Stop saying it) family
tree, is that he, like Peter Pettigrew (if he's a Pureblood) is
related to James Potter? That's one family lineage I would like to
see.

Two: I don't believe (and I really don't care if anyone agrees with me
or not) that I have ever been more disappointed in a book in my life.
Nor, did I like the total turn around of Sirius' character (in case
nobody figured it out, he's one of my favorite characters). In 2 books
his primary concern was his Godson. He broke out of prison to get
Scabbers because he was at Hogwarts, He was on the run (but still
managed to keep in touch with Harry in GoF in which he keep telling
Harry to be careful. ) The man could take 12 years of Dementors but
not a few months in his Family home? Please. And that Portrait of his
Mother? Dumbledore couldn't get it off the wall? Nope, something is
muggle in the WW, and so off it ain't funny.

Third: The MWPP are bullies? No, just insensitive, immature 15 year
olds. How can I so overlook the things they did to Snape? Easy. I was
the long haired misfit in a expensive school. Kept to myself, actually
very Snape like. But, I take alot of the blame for the picking I
received. I never attempted to make friends, I was too shy. I didn't
bring it up to my 'Head of House' I handled it myself. I never
attempted to fit in with others. Which brings me to another point. A
few people have said that James, Remus and Sirius didn't treat Peter
as well as they should have, that that's the reason he betrayed Lily
and James, and framed Sirius for it. That's BULL! I don't know about
anyone else, but my friends, (my 'brothers' / 'sisters') and I say
things to each other that if anyone else said them they'd get the
stuffing beat out of them. There are alot of ways the word "Bitch" can
be conveyed, especially if done with a smile. Friends talk to each
other in ways that an outsider may consider insulting, that's what
makes them outsiders. People don't know what's bbeing said underneath
the sarcacism*(made up word).
I suspect that Jame's hatred ('because he exists") was that James came
froma Gryffindor family, much like Black came from a Slytherin family.
Mrs. Black seems to have blasted all the Gryffindors off the chart, I
suspect James' family tree has a few 'blots' on it as well.

Now for the Fourth: Don't tell me that by reading Oop four or five
times I'm going to like it better. I understood what it had to say
quite well the first time, thank you very much. I was left with many
more questions than I had before I started it, and some of the answers
I'm coming to I don't like. (I don't like Molly Weasely nearly as much
as I did, and Albus Dumbledore, I have a few words for you, which I
shan't inflict upon polite company). Harry should have been told in
CoS what all this was about or at the very least GoF. Not to have done
this, not to warn Harry speaks of betrayal. And sending Sirius beyond
the Veil wasn't just unkind, it was cruel. A lesson in how your friend
can be there one minute and gone the next. Two Words JKR...CEDRIC
DIGGORY! We got that lesson. Harry didn't need it again. 

I waited for Oop in breathless anticipation. I was out there as many
of you were at Midnight, anxious, not to see just who died, but how
the story progressed. I didn't like what I found . Life is unfair. We
all know this, that's why alot of us read. To escape, to cope, to
simply leave our worries behind.
Will I read Books 6 & 7. Right now I can honestly say I don't know.
Maybe. Maybe my curiosity will be so overwhelmed as to how this series
is going to end I won't be able to help myself. Will I be out there at
Midnight to do it again? No. The magic has been tarnished for me. I'll
just have to wait and see how I feel about it then.

I know this has rambled, and I'm sorry for that. A reader who has been
disappointed can't always make their brain overspeak their heart, no
matter how hard we try. Sometimes it's just not possible.

Lorrie (member U.S.S. SAD DENIAL)