Good Writing (was Why now?)

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 110719

Laurasia wrote :
"If JKR is a good writer, the ending should feel inevitable and the 
only possible way in which the events preceeding it could ever be 
resolved.
(snip)
This, I think, is why Sirius's death was deemed 'sloppy writing' by 
some fans. Because, as yet, we can see dozens of possible ways out of
Sirius's death, and, as yet, not many ways it could possibly actually
benefit the story."

Del replies :
Yep, Sirius's death was exactly my objection to your former paragraph
: the events that led to it were *not* shown to be inevitable. There
were *so many* ways in which Harry could have done things differently
! My personal pet peeve being that if Harry could get his head at GP,
and if he didn't intend to take his friends with him to the MoM, and
if he was in such a hurry to get to London, then why on Earth didn't
he take *all of himself* to GP, and checked on his own whether Sirius
was there or not ??? And that's only *one* example of the kind of
things that seemed *logical* to do and yet Harry didn't do them, and
we are *not* given a good reason of why he didn't think of them. So if
Book 7 turns out the same way, then I can understand that some people
would be frustrated.

But personally, I just have to look at PoA and GoF, at how tightly the
plot was written, how logically the events were following each other,
and I regain my faith in JKR. I for now choose to decide that PoA and
GoF were the norm, and that OoP is the exception, and that HBP and
Book 7 will follow the norm :-)

Del