[HPforGrownups] Re: BPoM*

[k12listmomma]

No: HPFGUIDX 179803

 "Mike" <mcrudele78 at ...> wrote:
>
> *Best Piece of Magic
>
> What was the Best Piece of Magic JKR put in the books?
>
> Not necessarily the strongest, but it could be. It can be a spell,
> a potion, a magical object, or some magical rule/result. Whatever
> strikes your fancy.


Shelley:
At first, I adored Molly's clock. But by the end of the series, I thought 
Rowling had castrated it (always stuck on Mortal Peril, rendering it 
effectively useless!) But in the early books, I just loved it.

The Marauder Map, certainly. Loved that it retained a personality to insult 
Snape.

The worst piece of magic for me is better described as the "worst described 
magic" of Harry's suddenly better than the usual Invisibility Cloak, while 
all along just having been another Invisibility Cloak. Seems like it was 
just a Johnny-come-lately thought of Rowling's, otherwise, she would have 
thrown in a single line earlier that the spell on Harry's cloak was still 
going strong, or that it seemed not to have faded yet, or something to 
indicate that it was special, from one of those that had and used cloaks 
often, such as the realMoody. It's the worst described piece of magic for me 
because it just contradicts the whole scene where the fakeMadEyeMoody saw 
right through it, and it became useless to hide Harry, but now we're 
suddenly supposed to believe that it's this extra-special item that 
outstrips the power of all other Invisibility Cloaks. Nah, not working for 
me as a Hallow. Let me revise that, the whole "Hallow" idea to begin with 
just seems like a sudden, last minute invention that didn't work for me, so 
I'd have to include all three Hallows in the "worst" category.