[HPforGrownups] 7 reasons why - The Glass is Half Empty.

[k12listmomma]

No: HPFGUIDX 174676

> Steve <bboyminn at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>People keep saying that there is no explanation for
> >that letter being there, yet when explanations are
> >suggested, they are written off as fan-fiction and
> >fantasy. Well, you either want an explanation or
>>your don't; apparently, many don't.


Steve, I guess I will have to explain my take on this. (Sorry for answering 
late- the are too many posts to sift through!) We, as readers, shouldn't 
have to be looking for ways to plug the holes in Rowling's story for the 
FINAL BOOK. Ok, in other books, it was fine, and even FUN, because it lead 
to all sorts of theories of the story to come to have a hole not filled in. 
But here were are, at the end, and people expect there to be no major plot 
holes. It's not that I don't want the fans to come up with some creative 
explanation, because I know they always will, but I don't want the fans to 
have to help her write this final book after the fact. To have to do so only 
points to bad writing- and as I look back, I think this book shows some of 
her inexperienced writing that she had in Book One, possibly because she had 
parts of it written before and was too damn sentimental of that material 
written years ago to rewrite it. when she really should have in light of the 
rest of the ideas that had taken shape in the middle of the series. Snape's 
desire for Lilly isn't a small plot point- in fact, it's supposed to be the 
driving answer to the Snape question that has been bugging us for the 
previous 6 books. Such a major plot answer should be fully smooth and 
believable, but it's not. Such an abrupt turn around in Snape should be 
fully understood by the readers WITHOUT the fans having to explain to one 
another how it happened.

Rowling at the end almost throws it all away with her "happily ever after"- 
saying to the readers that she's satisfied, but if she left glaring holes, 
then most readers would have gladly waited another month or so for the book 
to have all those rough edges smoothed out before we got it in our hands to 
critique. It's not just this hole that bugs me, it's a whole host of points 
that could have been better done. The epilogue leaves far too much to be 
desired. Her simple one liner of Harry of thinking Snape was brave for me is 
one of those points that I really wished that she would have taken more time 
on, and really fleshed out Harry's feelings, so that we got to see the 
vision that was in her head of Harry's new view of Snape. We've spend 6 1/2 
books thinking Snape was a slimy git- that abrupt turn around to "brave 
hero" isn't something that one should go light on when writing it, because 
it's such a HUGE about-face! The letter is just one transition point to help 
us see this new Snape.

Shelley