Slapstick Comedy - was Deathly Hallows Reaction

[Kathryn Jones]

No: HPFGUIDX 172489

Johnbowman19 writes:

 Imagine the fortitude and strength
it would take to kill probably the closest person to a friend you
have had in your life, simply because your friend told you it was
necessary for the "Greater Good."

KJ writes:

   Personally, I think that Snape found it much easier to kill Dumbledore
when he found out that he had been lied to all those years about 
protecting Lily's son
in her memory so he could be killed at a convenient time to further 
Dumbledore's plan.


  Also, I found Dumbledore to be critical, spiteful, and often sarcastic 
when he spoke to Snape.
Other than his constant crocodile tears, he showed no empathy or true 
friendship for Snape
that I recognized.  When he told Harry that he trusted Snape, it was 
because he knew Snape
would have to find the opportunity to speak to Harry and live long 
enough to tell him what he
needed to know.  He also told Snape that he did not put all his secrets 
in one basket, particularly
one hanging on Voldemort's arm. 


Stupid stuff:

   Why teach the kids to say Voldemort's name out loud to prevent it 
being more feared, when
   you turn the name into a Deatheater magnet in the last book?  Harry 
must have had a real hard time biting his tongue.

   Voldemort AK's Harry in book 1 and blows himself up.  He AK's Harry 
in book 4, and screws up his wand, and Harry's wand,
   and looks like an idiot in front of his servants.  He AK's Harry in 
the forest, as Harry does a Lily and gives it all for Dumbledore.  The
   blast knocks him on his arse and out cold.  Does he learn?  No!  Is 
it the only spell that Voldemort knows?  What is with this?

   Why is Dumbledore, who isn't afraid of the next great adventure still 
hanging around in the train station to make sure Harry
   doesn't stuff up at the end?  He just has to make sure?

   Throw the sword in an ice covered pond? Dumbledore said"....."  It 
probably could have been thrown in the tent.

   Hermione, who apparently was a boyscout in a previous life has 
everything they need to survive winter except food?

   Harry wears a soul piece in his head for 17 years, hardly bothered 
him at all, but one on a necklace tries to drown him?

   Hermione breaks Harry's wand when Voldemort changes his wand just to 
let us know that the wand doesn't mean
   anything and then turns up with a wand that Harry accidently ends up 
owning which saves Harry's butt.  Again  Covenient?

   Dumbledore telling Harry that he has to go back and maybe die again, 
suggesting that it's no big deal now.  Of course, now it's
   a little more permanent.

   A deadly curse in the Gringott's vault that makes treasure multiply 
itself twenty times and is "hot."  Oh please!

   Why the Hell did Voldemort send the spiders to catch Hagrid.  Was it 
only so Hagrid could carry Harry back to the school?

   By the end of the book, I liked Voldemort better than Dumbledore.  He 
knew Voldemort was going to look for the Elder Wand.
   He knew Snape was going to be thought the owner of the Elder wand.  
Did he warn Snape?  No! Then he says "Poor Severus..."
   Even Aberforth hated his brother.  The white faced-look on Snape's 
face was not the fear of death, it was the knowledge that
   Dumbledore had screwed him over.    Again

   Neville whipping another Godric's sword out of a burning hat as has 
been mentioned by others.  How many are there?  We shouldn't
   have to come up for explanations of how this might come to be.  They 
can't put that in a movie!

   Aberforth's eye in a piece of magic mirror that Sirius had.  Explain 
that if you dare!

 


Funny stuff:

    Snape said that Harry got by on luck, mediocre magic, and more 
talented friends.  Truer words were never spoken.

    Throwing a Deatheater in the house with Kreacher and having Kreacher 
show up triumphant. I wonder what happened to the Deatheater?

    Every time one of the faithful called Voldemort to tell him that 
Harry was captured, he escaped.  Voldemort killed more of his
    Deatheaters than the Order did.  Considering that he only started 
with less than thirty, they must have multiplied like rabbits.

    Picking the wrong people to turn into when they drank the polyjuice 
potion.  Typical HP clusterf...

    Doing the same thing again, expecting better results at the bank.  
Took a chapter out of Voldie's book.  Even better clusterf....

    Climbing on a half-blind dragon and managing to escape by the skin 
of his teeth.    Again

    Grawp throwing Hagrid through the window.

    Snape jumping out the window leaving a "Snape-shaped hole"  Nice 
mental picture.

    Mad-eye's magic eyeball stuck in a door like a peep-hole.  Harry 
reveres it so much, he buries it under a tree. I wonder if he buried
    it looking up or down?




Was JKR on anti-depressants while she wrote this book?

KJ