Face it, there is a reward for being nice (was Re: Sadistic Snape)

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 140418

Lupinlore wrote:
 
> It really is tiresome, boring, and often very poorly written.  Up 
> until book 5, these unfortunate weaknesses were largely in 
abeyance, 
> covered by periods of humor, fabulously quirky episodes, an 
overall 
> sense of wonder, and a sense of confidence that the story was 
headed 
> toward a delightful, creative, and well-written climax.  However, 
> unfortunately it appears that near the end of GoF the story 
> completely jumped the shark and became a ham-handed morality tale 
> slavishly enthralled to exhausted formulas in which Harry must be 
> completely alone and unsupported except for a few friends (and, of 
> course, the love of his life!) and beset at every side by 
corruption, 
> incompetence, treachery, evil, and strict boundaries fenced with 
> thorns and enscribed with the Gospel according to Joseph Campbell -
- 
> because all of that makes him THE HERO, you see.  If the seventh 
book 
> isn't a spectacular rescue of the series, I suspect in the future 
a 
> very prominent theme will be wonder at how four such triumphs (the 
> first four books) could be followed by three thunderous disasters 
> (the last three books, if the seventh book doesn't manage to avoid 
> the trainwreck set in motion by books five and six).

Just out of curiosity, why would anyone want to spend literally 
*years* in discussing something so utterly tedious? For what sin do 
you undertake this public penance? There must be so many other and 
more satisfying things to do, books to read, languages to learn.  
Why punish yourself so much? 

a_svirn