Camping and Despair - loving the trio

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 173735

---  "dan" <severussnape at ...> wrote:
>
> Rowling finally gave us the ecstatic, but made us 
> travel through despair to get there. I had been hoping
> for a downward arc, I felt the series required it, and
> I had not yet come to love the trio truly. It was in 
> their weakest moments, when nothing was left to them 
> but what they could not give up, having given up 
> everything else, that I finally came to not only 
> identify with Ron, Hermione and Harry, but to love 
> them. ...edited several good observations...
> 
> I've heard many talk about the camping trip as boring,
> as pointless, but I don't understand this at all. The 
> camping trip was the most fun, and the most despairing,
> the novels have ever gotten....
> 
> Then, with the silver doe and the sword and the 
> horcrux of hopelessness finally destroyed, the story 
> begins its slow upward journey, now in the deepest 
> authentic sense, toward light.
> 
> dan
>

bboyminn:

I'm inclined to agree, Dan. I never really understood
what people's problem with the 'Camping' section of
the story was.

First, they claim it was 'endless', but upon reading 
these comments and then reading the book a second time,
I realize the 'camping' section was actually pretty
short. True in the book, it spans months, but in terms
of pages and story time, I really didn't think it was
that long.

They claim it was boring, yet it contains some very
action-packed, as well as some thematically significant,
sections of the book. 

As far as Ron leaving, he simply said what they were all,
including Harry, thinking. Further Ron only reacted that
way under the influence of the Horcrux, and regretted it
the instant it happened. That actually sounds pretty 
normal to me. 

Personally, I found this section of the book to be 
thoroughly captivating and engrossing. 

Steve/bboyminn