Hopes for Book 5

[Chuck]

No: HPFGUIDX 59021

Things I hope to see and not see in book 5

Enough with the Animagi.
So there's this registration thing we're told.  So being an Animagi 
is very rare we're told.  Keep it so.  No Neville the fish.  No Snape 
the vampire. No Mrs. Figg the Crookshanks.  Let Rita Skeeter be the 
last one.  Time to move on to a new plot device.

No time travel.
Having been a Star Trek fan, the dangers of messing with time travel 
for a writer are nasty.  As a lurker here, I'm not about to reopen 
old debates. But that plot device has been used once before and let's 
ignore it.  Even if it means not learning how the twins learned about 
the QWC outcome.

Tighter writing.
Book 4 was a real downer for me when I got to the end due to the whole
Portkey / specific activation time issue.  Not because the 
whole "Catch an early portkey" line was ignored, rather because it 
didn't need a lot of effort to make it work.  All that was needed was 
that a portkey have an activation command instead of an activation 
time to make that work.  Additionally, all that was needed was a line 
from Voldemort that Harry's blood was no good to him unless he had a 
certain level of skill as a wizard for his rebirth spell to work and 
the purpose of having Harry in the Tournament is validated.

That smells of rushed writing to me (and validated IMHO by the Lily / 
James emergence issue).

The book is later than was planned.  Let's hope that means quality 
control was turned up a notch.

Back to my lurking ways.

Chuck

PS - My guess is that "Order of the Phoenix" is not a rank or 
organization.  "Order" can also mean "Command."  And there was a lot 
of Phoenix song at the end of book 4.  Maybe Fawkes was "Ordering" 
the wands to do something.