[HPforGrownups] JKR answering fan concerns/correcting impressions (was: My Reaction)

[Angel Lima]

No: HPFGUIDX 134112

SSSusan:
Just picking this one little bit of Lupinlore's post to respond to.  
I also felt this, to some degree.  Chapter 2, especially, and a 
couple of other places in the book felt to me like JKR crossing 
items off a list.  "Fan complaint #1?  Yes, took care of that.  Fan 
misinterpretation #2?  Yep.  Fan concern #3?  Got it."  I mean, when 
Bella asked all those questions in Spinner's End, and Snape provided 
answers -- BING BING BING -- to them all, didn't anyone else feel 
like JKR had created a list of most-often asked or complained-about 
points and just got them out of the way?



Angel Lima:

I had been trying to bite my tongue on this. But yes! YES BING BING BING YES!
HBP was a dastard disappointment. I remember putting the book away, shaking my head and picking it up again to see if there were any pages left unread. It felt as if JKR spent more time putting to rest rumours and miscontruals than on what's to come. The red herring on HBP was an utter shocker too, I remember feeling disgusted by that and the lack of Sirius angst. Still, it had its moments.

Luna OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOODNESS! I spat coke on the bed...

Mollywobbles

Horntail...kinda made up for Harry and Ginny being such a hurried affair.

Slughorn - whoo! A delight reading a true cunning Slytherin sans evil. Felix too was a scary but exciting additive.


And I didn't need the extra trauma to LOUURRVE Snape all the more after HBP but I did, poor poor Princey... 

Dumbledore! Well we knew he was a definite gonner, but what exactly does his death add to the battle? Why did he have to die?

And reluctantly I add myself to the sniffy list to such lines as 'I'm not afraid Harry, I'm with you'

All in all its moments seem to redeem the book on a whole, esp given time.

Angel Lima