Harry Potter and the Endless Camping Trip (a new perspective)

verosomm verosomm at yahoo.com
Fri Jul 27 16:50:32 UTC 2007


No: HPFGUIDX 173283

 va32h:

I confess I was disappointed
> with JKR - I thought this book had been planned for 17 years, why all
> the filler? The trio are frustrated and bored, the readers are
> frustrated and bored. In short - the camping trip is a metaphor for
> our experience of reading DH.
>
> Now is that an interesting coincidence or utter brilliance on the
> part of JKR or neither?
>
>

I think utter brilliance... we readers are getting listless
with "nothing" happening, frustrated the trio is cold and hungry,
annoyed with those things affecting Ron so readily, etc. etc.  We are
really in the tent with them, imo.

Veronica





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