[HPforGrownups] Re: Wasted potential in Pettigrew and my overall disappointment with DH

[Lee Kaiwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 174022

melrosedarjeeling blessed us with this gem On 31/07/2007 06:45:

> and the horcruxes basically abandoned as a plot line

This is the one that struck me the most: after all the build-up in book 
six, along come the Deathly Hallows to derail them as a major plotline. 
It was almost like trying to listen to a radio tuned halfway between two 
radio stations. And neither plotline resolved satisfactorily. Harry 
abandons the Hallows, and in the end, after all the build-up over how 
difficult the horcruxes were to find and destoy, they just start popping 
up and dropping like flies. With only three or so destroyed (I didn't 
keep strict count), Harry and Co. dash madly off to Hogwarts in search 
of the diadem where all the rest of the Horcruxes a bit too conveniently 
turn up to be destroyed (one, as you pointed out, off-page).

The whole story would have been tighter without the Hallows plotline at 
all (the whole wandering-in-the-wilderness stuff could have been pared 
way down, for one thing), as in the end they didn't contribute much; or 
was I the only one who just didn't track with the whole 
Evil-Wizard-Desparately-Seeks-Better-Wand theme?

And was I the only one who thought Harry, instead of rambling on and on 
during the climactic duel about "Guess the Wand's True Master", should 
have just said, "Look, Voldy, you idiot -- *I'm* the Seventh Horcrux. 
Kill me and your dead."?

As to Pettigrew, I always cringed whenever the sniveling little weasel 
he popped up, so I didn't personally feel disappointed over his 
resolution, although the hand Voldy gave him had some intriguing 
possibilities.

And, yes, Lupin and Tonks dropping off-page was a bit disappointing. 
Without the Hallows plotline, there might have been room to resolve some 
of these arcs more satisfactorily.

CJ, Taiwan