Structural Flaws? Perhaps, but judgment is premature.

[bawilson at citynet.net]

No: HPFGUIDX 146726

LaGatta:
"The first two books really are children's books--wonderful children's books, 
but children's books. I never really got off on _Goblet of Fire_, I think 
because I find competitive sports such a dead bore, ditto teenage angst, and 
_Half-Blood Prince_, though it has many wonderful moments, has serious 
structural flaws (like the back end sort of fell off the loading dock)."

That last remark isn't really fair; JKR herself has said that books VI and VII 
are really a two-parter--just as in British schools years six and seven are 
regarded as the two parts of the Sixth Form (although she didn't say that in so 
many words); hence, any criticism of the structrure of HBP is IMHO premature.

BAW