CHAPDISC: DH20, Xenophilius Lovegood

[Jerri/Dan Chase]

No: HPFGUIDX 182918

Carol responded:
>However, I don't see a problem with Harry's being introduced
>to new concepts, such as Horcruxes in HBP and Deathly
>Hallows in DH, that are not familiar to the average Wizard on
>the street.

I didn't mean to say that I objected to the introduction of Horcruxes 
in HBP or Deathly Hallows in DH, although I do see that my post 
probably looked like that.

What I was thinking was that in DH the Deathly Hallows were one MAJOR 
new concept, necessary for the way JKR wanted to end her series. 
Harry and the reader had to learn about them, as well as learn a lot 
more about Horcruxes than DD had taught Harry back in HBP.

I was objecting to the introduction of so many relatively minor 
(compared with Hallows or Horcruxed) new magical concepts in this 
final book.  And that is most especially true when those concepts 
would have logically come up in earlier books if JKR had already 
invented them.  The Taboo and the Trace are two examples of this.

And, when types of magic to which we had already been introduced are 
made to behave in ways that seem inconsistent to the ways that they 
behaved in the earlier books, this is similar to introducing a new 
type of magic.  And, I agree with Carol's long list of seeming 
inconsistencies.

The Hallows and additional new information about Horcruxes, as well as 
new information about the after life in HP land, and other new 
concepts that the book required were enough.  These other issues we 
have been discussing were a bit too much to allow me to be truly happy 
with DH as a book, and thus the entire series.

Jerri