[HPforGrownups] Draco's Hand of Glory (was: Re: Half-Blood Prince)Somewhat spoilerish for Dresden Files

[Lynda Cordova]

No: HPFGUIDX 183924

Carol responds:
The difference is that we're *told* what little we know about
Hermione's parents. (We don't even know their real first names.) they
appear in only two scenes, at Diagon Alley in CoS and at King's Cross
in OoP, and they don't have even one line in either scene.

Lynda now:
That's because Hermione's parents aren't part of the WW that Hermione is
becoming more and more a part of throughout the series. Yes, its sad to see
a girl who loves her parents distancing herself so much from them, but even
in real life, this happens.

I did read the series for Harry Potter's story, not Draco's, Ron's
Hermione's, Neville's or Snape's, so the lack of emphasis on their stories
doesn't bother me as much as it does some others. If the story wasn't so
lengthy to begin with (7 books, most of them well over 300 pages
individually) maybe I would be griping a bit more about the "dropping" of
storylines. I was happy to learn more about Snape and more about Dumbledore,
as we did in the last book, but every time I check the titles of the books
they start "Harry Potter and the. . ." so I expect to be reading about
someone named Harry Potter. Same when I'm reading a Dresden Files book. I
expect the story to be mostly about HD, not Bob the Skull or Michael
Carpenter the Archive, who are all supporting characters in their own right,
and with regard to the Archive have some especially intrigueing and
promising stories coming up unless the hinst deceive me.

Lynda


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