[HPforGrownups] Re: Why down on all the characters?

[k12listmomma]

No: HPFGUIDX 179888

From: <SnapesSlytherin at aol.com>

>I know that I'm terribly late on this topic, but I had to respond:
>
> I *hate* DH.
>
> I think that JKR took the easiest possible route with every single loose 
> end left.? What was Severus' motive?? LOLLIPOPS.? I put the book down for 
> twenty minutes after I read about that.? I was so incredibly disappointed 
> by it.? Lupin's not happy?? Kill him!? Kill him like she killed the rest 
> of his generation.? No one likes Slytherin House?? Let's not have anyone 
> learn any kind of lesson and just have them be ever so evil.
>
> What was the point of that?? She spent 6 books writing incredibly and 
> making beautiful plot lines (I could ignore all the holes til DH), but 
> honestly, DH feels like she gave up.? I feel like she rushed through DH to 
> give the readers a product.
>
> The epilogue?? I could write an entire other email about how awful that 
> thing is.
>
> I think JKR learned a thing or two from her fan Stephen King.? That man 
> can write a story but endings escape him..."and the sun came up and the 
> monster was dust!? Yay!" is his style.? JKR gave us an incredible story 
> but had no idea how to end it.
>
> Oryomai

Shelley:
You are far from alone in your thinking. DH gets the most criticism of the 
series because it is the worst in the series for many people, myself 
included. Yes, I hate DH for all the reasons you mentioned, and more. I 
still stand by the argument that I think initially she had certain endings 
planned, and then wrote this book with those endings in mind, but then 
didn't go back and edit it to match the actual story that she had told 
in-between that initial beginning and those pre-planned endings. Had she 
gone back and reread actually what she wrote, I think she would have edited 
the book to be more consistent with the rest of the series, and we wouldn't 
be arguing about the inconsistencies in polyjuice potion rules and other 
obvious errors where she's twisting things to meet a goal without the common 
sense of does it read well that way. Harry's cloak can't have been ordinary 
for 6 books and suddenly a Hallow in this book. The polyjuice potion 
couldn't have lasted for only one hour for 6 1/2 books and then suddenly get 
to be a one-shot deal. Editing would have caught those errors, and things 
could have been fixed if she has just taken more time to reflect back on the 
series to catch herself before final publication. I think she was unwise 
with this one to stick with a publisher deadline, and instead she should 
have taken a month off and then edited herself for content on all the major 
plot points. Certainly, the fans gave her plenty of checklists of things 
they wanted to see resolved.