Why down on all the characters?

[susanmcgee48176]

No: HPFGUIDX 179340

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "montavilla47"
<montavilla47 at ...> wrote:
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> So, what didn't I like?  I didn't like how inconsequential the
Malfoys
> were, given the build-up we'd had.  I didn't like how absurdly
> inconsequential the life debt from Peter Pettigrew was, given how
> much Harry's mercy towards him cost.  I didn't like how everyone
> in the Wizarding World (with the exception of Neville) sat on their
> butts for nine months and allowed Voldemort to take over without
> any effective resistance.  I didn't like that Harry basically sat
on
> his butt for months without even sending  a word of encouragement
> to the people who believed in him.

Susan responding:

Thought the Malfoys were quite central to the whole book -- showing
what happens to even the most faithful DEs UNLESS THEY ARE
SUCCESSFUL...demonstrating that even the most evil people can have a
shred of good in them....in HBP, Draco cannot kill DD and his mother
is willing to do whatever to save Draco, and in the DH both parents
are actually more concerned about their son than about the triumph of
Lord Voldemort..... Here's where JKR's skill as an author becomes
apparent; I would never have thought I had anything good to say about
the Malfoys....WW sitting on their butts? Except for Neville? What
about Ginny, Luna, Xenophilius, was it Michael Corner who was
tortured for setting loose a first year?, all of the Potterwatch, all
of the Order of the Phoenix....all the people who were trying to save
Muggles?....and perhaps Harry had a few things on his mind,
struggling to survive, figure out the incomprehensible, find the
horcruxes, etc. etc. etc....?


 I didn't like Harry's quip about Crucio
> and Molly's callout to Bellatrix, because they sounded like bad
> lines from action movies.

Well, here we agree, in part..I hated Molly calling Bellatrix a
bitch, it's straight from Aliens! (the first movie)..I don't like
anyone using that word, it's the reflex derogatory word about women,
and it's even more distasteful coming from another woman (imho)

re: Crucio.... Actually one of MY pet peeves is that here LV is
trying to take over the WW, and the Muggle World, and your friends
and family are dying, and you keep using stunning spells? Full body
bind curses? So that the Death Eaters can recover 15 minutes later
and kill another member of your family? I think I may be in a
minority here, but when attacked with deadly force, I use deadly
force in return..


>
> I didn't like that--despite having assured us that not *all*
> Slytherins were Death Eaters or the children of Death Eaters--
> *all*the Slytherins deserted the school, thus proving themselves
> *all* cowards and traitors.

What about Professors Snape and Slughorn?


> I didn't like the absence of Snape's portrait in the Headmaster's
> office.  That struck me as petty.
>


But doesn't JKR say that Harry will be instrumental in ensuring that
his portrait will be in the Headmaster's office? I thought it was one
of those automatic things, if the Headmaster abandons his post, then
his portrait isn't there?

Susan