Umbridge, detention, scars, and plotlines, oh my!.

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Phoenixgod:

I have to lean more more towards the Lupinlore side of things. I 
don't think it was quite as flawed as he, but I think JK made a few 
bad decisions. My opinion can pretty much be summed up like this--
Too many people acted stupidly.

The author needed the characters to get to a certain point by the 
end of the book and I think she had many of them act with a level of 
poor judgement that I found difficult to believe. I don't think that 
DD would make the decisions to act in OOTP the way he does. I cannot 
imagine a wizard of his power and wisdom thinking that way. It goes 
beyond showing him to have human falability and stretches 
believability. I don't believe Fudge would be quite so incompetent 
or stuff his head so far into the sand. And I definitely don't think 
Harry would ever really have forgetten the mirror. Aside from the 
mirror though, I pretty much think he acted about as on target as he 
could have with the lack of information he possessed.


Alla:

I am starting to think that you are my long lost twin. :o) That IS 
indeed the main problem that bothered me with OOP. I have no problem 
with Harry's journey so far ( unless indeed his OOP issues will be 
dropped under the rug in HBP, which I doubt), but overwhelming 
stupidity of many , especially Dumbledore was too much to swallow 
for me. Yes, we learned that he is human, NO I don't think that he 
should be drawed as perfect, but I just did not believe that he 
would  have made as MANY mistakes as he did. It is NOT the first 
time he leads the war against the Dark Lord. I did not expect him to 
act as he did, not at all. I did not expect him to forget the human 
psychology that much.

I have to say though, I had no problem with Fudge's 
characterization. Very annoyed, yes, but pretty much expected it 
after GoF.

Phoenixgod:
Spot on with Hermione though :)

Alla:

Well, very true that is, but I happen to agree with those who think 
that JKR set Hermione up for huge lapse of judgment in the next 
books. It is about time that she learned that she can NOT be right 
all the time. Yes, if she is going to be always right in the next 
books, always, always, always, I am afraid I will stop calling her 
Hermione and start calling her "Mary Sue"- Hermione. For now, I am 
willing to wait.
   


Phoenixgod:
Before OOTP I didn't have a dog in the Harry/Shipping wars other 
than my dislike of HG and HHr but when I met Tonks and Luna I 
decided the ultimate Harry ship would be some sort of 
Harry/Luna/Tonks threesome. Although I would settle for just one of 
them ending up with Harry :)   

Alla:

LOLOL! Somehow I don't think JKR will go for threesome, although I 
can enjoy any one of those girls with Harry, I would just like to 
see more development for Luna first.

Just my opinion,

Alla.