[HPforGrownups] Reacting to DH (was:Snape Reduced LONG(was: Re: Villain!Dumbledore...

[Lynda Cordova]

No: HPFGUIDX 177954

Pippin:

See, the more I question, the more interesting answers I find.
Partly, I think there's a cultural difference going on in that
European novels tend not to have triumphalist endings with
everything resolved. I think Americans tend to expect that sort
of Hollywood ending, and may either feel cheated of it or assume
that it's meant to be wholly triumphal and that it's evil of
JKR to ask us to celebrate such a less than ideal state of affairs.

Lynda:

Perhaps you're right to an extent.  Although, being from America, I had no
problem with the ending of the book
and no problem with the camping segment that some seem to find so
offputting. Perhaps its that I read a lot of fantasy and I'm somewhat used
to characters camping, wandering, questing, etc. so it didn't seem odd to
me. And as for the happily ever after, I wasn't hoping for that in the first
place.

Lynda


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