[HPforGrownups] Half blood prince disappointing

[Kathy King]

No: HPFGUIDX 146281

Harry snipped:



What a disappointing book! I think JKR spent to many pages on unneeded
details. I mean did we need page after page watching how harry
convinced Slughorn to come back to Hogwarts? Could not dumbledore
simply have introduced Slughorn and then later told harry that the
reason he (DD) suspects that slughorn took the job was so that he
could add harry to his club?

Often I got the impression that JKR was simply trying to fill pages.



Snow:



I can relate but did you honestly think she would…or better yet could give
us too much? Every aspect of every book has been gone over with a fine-tooth
comb by doctors, lawyers and Indian chiefs, so how much could JKR give away
in this book that wouldn't have allowed for us to beat her to the punch?



I, not unlike you, was a bit disappointed at first read-through because I
didn't see anything on the surface (blazing me in the face) as far as
answers I had expected. But when I viewed all of my expectations, I realized
that the bigger answer is a tangled web of information. If she allowed one
obvious answer, at least to my expected queries, then there could be a fair
possibility of figuring out the rest because it's so intertwined.



I think we need to work at the puzzle backwards to go forewords. What
information did she leave out that we expected to be answered…i.e. the
two-way mirrors, Etc, etc, etc. Remember that everything important that was
left unanswered in HBP is intertwined so that giving away one portion of
that information would have led to another revelation thus there were many
unanswered queries.



All I may suggest to you would be to look deeper into HBP to find the
significance in what may have appeared to be mundane at first…I know that I
am.



Snow


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