Disappointment Was: Deaths in DH WAS: Re: Dumbledore (but more Snape)

[allthecoolnamesgone]

No: HPFGUIDX 177468

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Cathy Drolet" <cldrolet at ...> 
wrote:
>
> va32h said:
> >>At some point we're just talking in circles...I'm glad you like 
the 
> book, really.  I just don't, and the more I think about it, the 
more 
> disappointed I am. <<
> 
> And that is my problem as well.  The further I get away from my 
first reading (I have not even attempted to read it again....uggh) 
the more disappointed I am and the more just bloody horrible it is.  
I am glad I am not the only one to be suffering at the moment.  
> 
> In fact, I've mostly quit reading and posting to this list because 
it just makes me more and more disappointed, frustrated, and angry 
all the time.  
> 
> CathyD
> 

It seems to be a common reaction. Perhaps we were all carried along 
at first by the hype and the need to know the end. I was disappointed 
at the end of the book and as others have said missed the 'catharsis' 
chapter. But it's absence sent me on a search for it which was 
eventually met by Newsgroups,Fan Fiction and other literature. It was 
a painful process though which did leave me somewhat emotionally 
disturbed for some weeks and that to seems to have been a common 
reaction from reading others experiences. 

I feel now that the biggest impact that HP has had on my life is to 
get me reading more widely than I did before. I have also dipped into 
areas of knowledge such as Philosophy and Psychology that I had on 
the whole not visited before. Those outcomes are good even if I now 
find the series less satisfying than I did on July 22nd.

allthecoolnamesgone