Hopes for Book 5

melclaros melclaros at yahoo.com
Sat May 31 20:10:08 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 59051

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Chuck" <chuck_richie_99 at y...> 
wrote:
> 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 RitaSkeeter 
be the ast one.  Time to move on to a new plot device.
> 
> No time travel.
> 
> Tighter writing.
> Book 4 was a real downer for me when I got to the end > 
> 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.


Will I get in huge trouble if I just yell real loud DITTO!!!!!
I couldn't have said it better myself. I want a nice, tight, finely 
tuned like PoA page turner. I think I skimmed half of GoF. I was also 
disappointed by the GLARING wand order error. That was not just 
rushed writing--it was rushed editing as well.

(Neville the fish! <snort>)

Mel, looking forward and dreading at the same time.





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