Improving the series

[eggplant107]

No: HPFGUIDX 148860

I love the Harry Potter series, it's a masterpiece, but there is
always room for improvement. Although I feel a little silly, like
lecturing Leonardo da Vinci about how to improve the Mona Lisa this is
what I would tell JKR. 

1) "Don't use so many adverbs in describing dialog", he said furiously.

2) In book 1 have Marcus Flint the Slytherin Quidditch Captain be in
his fifth year not his sixth, that way in book 3 poor Marcus won't be
in his 8'th year.   

3) Eliminate that part in book 2 about 1492 and the 500'th
anniversary; in 6 books that is the only place you can fix an exact
date and I think it the stories would age better if it were more
ambiguous about the era. I mean, would it really make much difference
if it were set in the 1920's or 50's? I don't think so, just don't
talk about Playstations and wide screen 
TV's.

4) In book 4 during the astronomy final exam don't have Harry looking
at Venus and Orion because Venus can only be seen near sunrise or
sunset and this was about midnight, and Orion is a winter
constellation and it was June. Have him looking at Sagittarius and
Jupiter or Saturn. 

5) Also in book 4 when Harry asks the Sphinx a question she just
smiles, but this is THE SPHINX, the queen of puzzles, it's the perfect
time to engage in a little word play. Instead of just smiling how
about she say something like "I couldn't fail to disagree with you
less".     

6) I'd like to see a little of Harry's dark side, and I'm not just
talking about raising his voice at his friends and being a little rude
from time to time like he did in book 5, I want to see him do
something REALLY controversial. I don't want to see Harry kill
Voldemort with love, I want to see Harry get medieval on Voldemort's ass. 

Eggplant