Harry's DADA skill was Re: Albus and Gellert/Voldemort's Power

Jerri/Dan Chase danjerri at madisoncounty.net
Mon Apr 28 15:00:43 UTC 2008


No: HPFGUIDX 182702

Montavilla47 said:

>I quite agree, Carol. Which is why I wish--partly from a storytelling
>view, partly from the commonsense one--that Dumbledore had
>put someone on the Horcrux-Destroying team who did have some
>of that "flashy magic."  Or advanced skills in D.A.D.A.
>In a sense this is a silly thing for me to be bemoaning.  The story
>wasn't about being clever.  It was, like all the plots, about
>manipulating things so that Harry is in certain places at certain
>times, and experiences certain things.  But, really, having
>a former D.A.D.A. teacher with Death Eater connections, who spends
>his summers entombed with Dark Arts' books... and an already
>ostracized former D.A.D.A. teacher with plenty of Dark Arts chops,
>AND a curse-breaker who works for the bank that is safeguarding
>a Horcrux and never using them...
>
>It's like having a roomful of guns onstage and never having one go
>off in the third act.

And it isn't only these three skilled DADA folks who are left on the 
mantelpiece, so to speak.  There are so many other concepts that she 
created in the early books and never allowed to "go off".

I felt the giants were underutilized for all the build up we received.

And, why not have any other werewolf but Lupin appear on the good 
side?

I could go on and on.

Jerri








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