A Sense of Betrayal

[Lee Kaiwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 172692

horridporrid03 blessed us with this gem On 25/07/2007 09:27:
> 
> Betsy Hp:
> Oh my gosh, I totally agree. We heard not hair nor hide about the
> Hallows in any of the previous books and suddenly JKR decides that
> what this great McGuffin hunt needs is... three more McGuffins. The
> hell?

Yeah, didn't make much sense in that way. At the end of HBP Dumbledore 
entrusts Harry with the sacred task of destroying Horcruxes, only to 
suddenly start lobbing excruciating hints of Deathly Hallows at Harry 
out of left field just to -- what? -- demonstrate some sort of sadistic 
streak? Harry rationalization was that maybe there were things he was 
supposed to learn, but not use. Come again? Smack in the middle of the 
Great Horcrux Chase hardly seems the proper time for Dumbledore to be 
distracting Harry with trivia lesson.

I think what JKR was going for was the Revelation, a "Wow -- Harry's 
Invisibility Cloak is is a Deathly Hallow? That's so-o-o KEWL!" kind of 
moment. In the end, however, the cost in terms of story line was just 
too high.

CJ