[HPforGrownups] Re: horcruxes

[Lee Kaiwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 179882

jaschenka blessed us with this gem On 15/12/2007 02:57:

> I think there's still room for another story about the hallows,

The Hallows should have been another story all along. JKR spent an 
entire book setting up the horcrux plotline, then all but abandons it in 
the seventh to the Hallows.  Harry spends half the book wandering around 
trying to decide between the one and the other and by the time he makes 
up his mind JKR has so little time left she has to locate half of them 
at Hogwarts just so the Trio can find them in time, and then she STILL 
has to destroy some of them off-page.

The whole of book seven would have been much better served had JKR 
simply chosen one plotline rather than trying to shoehorn in two. 
Especially since, in the end, the only thing the Hallows plotline 
contributed was Harry's hopelessly confusing Who's-the-Master monologue. 
The pacing would have been tighter, the storyline more focused, and we 
wouldn't have had to sit through the Trio's long, boring wanderings in 
the wilderness.

Just my opinion :-)

CJ