CHAPDISC: DH36, THE FLAW IN THE PLAN

[eggplant107]

No: HPFGUIDX 185307

"montavilla47" <montavilla47 at ...> wrote:

> it's movie-ish 

Yes but you almost make that sound like a bad thing. For a book to
inspire visual imagery that rivals a movie (and in this case a very
good movie) is remarkable. 

> The problem for me is that it's so much an homage to "Aliens." 

Not just Aliens, in those last pages I also saw a homage to "Dirty
Harry", however I did not see a problem.

> JKR may never have seen "Aliens,"

I'd be willing to bet money that she had.

> it's as if Dumbledore (or Voldemort, hehe) 
> to have uttered the word "Rosebud" as he expired. 

Harry to Ginny at the end of book6: "If we don't part company you'll
regret it, maybe not now but soon and for the rest of your life; but
we'll always have Hogwarts. Here's looking at you kid." 

OK, maybe that would have been a little too much, but I think JKR got
the movie references just right. 

 Eggplant