Story arc in three acts?

[bboyminn]

No: HPFGUIDX 111993

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Rob" <robkristjansson at h...> wrote:
> Has anyone thought of these books as episodes within a three act 
> dramatic structure?  ...edited... If I'm correct the third act, 
> usually pretty quick in the movies, should also be a pretty straight 
> forward affair where a lot of the mysteries ... are wrapped up as HP 
> and LV duke it out in a classic G vs. E climax.
> 
> Or am I begging the question here?

bboyminn:

I think you are pointing to a very important fact (or possibility, if
you prefer). We are in the Third Act, it's time for resolution, not
expansion. It's time for the story to end. True it's going to take 2
more books for that story to end, but none the less, the end has begun.

As many of us (myself included on occassion) imagine new great and
complex theories, conspiracies, and exotic potential plot lines, we
must remember that although there is still room and time for the story
to grow, the overal effect must be contraction not expansion. I think
we are running out of time, in only two more books with so many
existing mysteries to be resolved, there simply isn't room for new
interesting but pointless story lines. There simply isn't enough story
left to support more Lockhart and Umbridge like characters. 

There is still plenty of room for fun and simple subplots, but overal,
from here on in, what happens must count for something toward the
resolution of the greater story.

Conclusion, yes indeed, we are entering Act Three in two parts.

Steve/Asian_lovr2/bboyminn (was bboy_mn)