Epilogue (was Re: Ron and Parseltongue)

[montavilla47]

No: HPFGUIDX 183417

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Lynda Cordova" <sweenlit at ...> wrote:
>
> By the way Montavilla, thank you for your response to my post. I understand
> your disappointment with some of those things and how they have hindered
> your enjoyment of the story, just see things a little differently than you
> in some cases.
> 
> Lynda
> 

Montavilla47:
Thank you, Lynda.  I posted a reply and I tried to keep my tone... um...
positive. :)

I may be disappointed with the last book, but my beef is strictly with
the book, and not with anyone who did enjoy it.  And, that disappointment
is because of the expectations I had for it.

I'm just not sure if I was being silly to have high expectations--or
silly to have the expectations I had.  Or whether JKR was better 
at the setup than the delivery.  

Not always, I think the resolutions of PoA and GoF were highly 
satisfying.  And I can forgive the logical holes <cough>portkey<cough> 
because the endings of the books were great.

Since the endings of GoF onwards were setups for the next book--
and since those setups were usually dashed in the next book*, it 
created a lot of tension going into that last.   Maybe that added
to my feeling let down.

Montavilla47

* To explain what I mean:  GoF ended with the idea of Dumbledore
gathering troops for an impending conflict.  Like Harry, I was quite
nonplussed to find out in the next book that everything was in a 
holding pattern until the Ministry acknowledged Voldemort's 
existence.

OotP ended with the knowledge that Harry was going to have to 
kill Voldemort.  Okay, we knew that from the beginning, but it was
now real--and we'd need to deal with that in the next book.  We also
left Harry grieving over Sirius and with that Occlumency problem, and
hating Snape more than ever.  

But when HBP started, Harry was done grieving, Voldemort was 
conveniently  blocking Harry (no need for Occlumency after all!) and the 
hatred for Snape just kept simmering along with the only development 
being that Harry hated Snape MORE at the end.

So, going into DH, the big question was--what was going to happen
when Harry and Snape met up?  But then Harry started obsessing
about Dumbledore instead.  So, when Harry met up with Snape he 
felt... nothing much.