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

[prep0strus]

No: HPFGUIDX 173299

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "va32h" <va32h at ...> wrote:
>
> I've seen many complaints about the Worst Camping Trip Ever! (on this 
> and other forums) and while I can't disagree that those parts were 
> boring, I wonder if there was a reason for them to be boring?

> va32h
>

Prep0strus:

Meh.  I agree with a lot of the thoughts as to how our boredom mimics
their boredom, but... no.  It's a book.  I'm sure it was meant to be
engaging the whole time.  We should be engaged in their boredom.  And
I wasn't. I think it went on too long, not enough happened (though I
did enjoy some of the dialogue in that part), and mostly, I hated the
Ron storyline.  We've seen it enough through the books, how Ron gets
frustrated, how Ron is the weak one.  I like Ron, and yet I'm
constantly disappointed by how he is written.  I thought, in this
book, maybe they would have grown up.

The put-outer was cool, but really random for Dumbledore to predict
something that specific.  I feel if that storyline were removed, the
whole book would've been tighter and less frustrating.  And for them
to not know what Harry was getting them into, and to be mad at him for
it... blah.  And, the one thing he WANTED to do that he thought would
be productive (go to the burrow), they wouldn't do... but then did
when Ron was gone.  It all felt stretched.

If she WANTED us to be bored and frustrated because the trio was, she
succeeded, but I don't think that's a writing technique many should
emulate.

~Adam (Prep0strus)