Thoughts, observations and questions on HPB

[Mindy]

No: HPFGUIDX 133219

 
 Hi, it's Mindy from Brooklyn, NY checking in.

There are eleven digests for me to wade through to discover if any of my
questions have already been answered. So forgive me if they have. I am
posting this now, then will read the digests as quickly as humany possible.

My observations on the book as a whole:

The book was great, but definitely lacked the usual JKR touch. I did not
have the feeling as I read it that I was reading a bona fide Harry Potter
book. It felt like a romantic murder mystery with some magic thrown in for
good measure. There was no interaction between Snape and Harry throughout -
where was his usual taunting? We saw very little of the classrooms, zero
interaction between Harry and the other students of the other houses. There
was so much missing. It wasnt a usual "year at Hogwarts" - it was a
harry/dumbledore book. There was no Voldemort. I expected much more wars and
deaths, but it was relatively calm. The book felt weird, different. Missed a
lot of magical touch.

The Half-Blood Prince was just a red herring. It was just a title, a small
part of the plot. I kept waitin for it to be a main plot in the book, but it
never was. That was bothersome too.

In typical Mindy fashion, I read the last chapters first and was so
thoroughly disgusted I wanted to throw the book down then and there! But I
did read it and did enjoy it. I am not so disturbed by Dumbledore's death
and there has to be a real reason for JKR doing it - which we shall have to
hang tight for two years to discover.

What I did like about the book though:

* Draco has become more human and I actually feel sorry for him now.

* I was so happy that Dumbledore and Harry got to spend so much time
together the entire year - it was a really fitting goodbye. It would havve been
awful had Dumbledore gotten killed in the fourth or fifth book when they
didnt spend that much time together.

Did anyone else notice that:

* Harry never got his wand back at the end of the book?

* Slughorn referred to Ron as RUPERT in Hagrid's shack - isnt that
hysterical? It was probably intentional by JKR, no?

Unanswered questions I have - if these have not yet been answered can
someone try answerin them for me please? thanks.

* Why did Dumbledore finally give Snape the DADA job if he refused to give
it to him each year? Did he have a feeling there would be no school the next
year or Snape would have to leave somehow? Wasnt Snape afraid to take a
jinxed job?

* Why did DD look for Snape so urgently when he got back from that cave?

* Dumbledore appeared to already know about about horcruxes since he kept
running around looking of them. So - why drive harry nuts to find the memory
if he knows what a horcrux is?

* why didnt Harry take the Felix Felicis before setting out for the cave? how
did dd know where the cave is?

* DD didnt get smashed and bloodied from such a high fall? He looked whole..


*What really happened to his hand? It got injured when he picked up the
ring?

* I'm finding it very hard to believe that Lord Voldemort really entrusted a
16 yr old underage wizard the task of killing the biggest wizard ever- didnt
he think he'd chicken out the way he did?
arent there enchantments in the castle to prevent things like the vanishing
cabinet to be used?

* Where is this mysterious house that Snape was in? Isn't he in Hogwarts all
summer?
How was polyjuice potion so readily avialable in the potions class? Whose
hair was in it, and how could Crabbe and Goyle be 2 different girls if it
was one polyjuice? Too farfetched to me...

anyone feel free to answer, I'm going to read 11 digests...


Mindy
 

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