Sorry for the Rant - PU to DH2

[Geoff]

No: HPFGUIDX 191284

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lkotur" <lkotur at ...> wrote:

Larry
> I am amazed at how many people I've talked to that have not read the books, have no idea of what the heck happened in the movie.

Geoff:
I share your annoyance, Larry, certainly with the way in which the ending 
was handled but I would like to make an observation about your last 
sentence.

Supposing you had not read any of the books and I gave you a copy of 
DH with the early section taken out so that you began reading from, say, 
Chapter 25 "Shell Cottage" onwards, I think that you would find it difficult 
to have any idea of what the heck happened in the book anyway.

What I am trying to say is that, if anyone tries to come into any big story, 
be it film or book, halfway or further into it, they will have problems in 
following it. Personally, I think that the people who have come off worst 
are those of us who know the story intimately and are finding ourselves 
seriously underwhelmed with what has been presented to us as the climax 
of the saga. 

I shall get the DVD because, as I have said previously, there is much in the 
film which has satisfied me - up to the last twenty minutes or so.