Things that you wish were in the Harry Potter novels

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No: HPFGUIDX 192008



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bart at ...> wrote:
>
> There are a number of things that I really wish that JKR had included in 
> the Harry Potter novels which, for whatever reason, she didn't. I'll 
> mention a couple, and, more importantly, why I think that it was a mistake.
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Alla:

Fun topic. I dont really have any which I thought was a mistake - there were definitely things which I disliked or wanted to go other way, but thats just me wishing for fulfilment of certain wishes, anything JKR did, I mean major plot turnss anyway, made sense for me if I think about it in a grand scheme of things in her story. Again, not that I *liked* everything, quite the contrary, but I think she was pretty consistent in executing her story and her characters.

Anyway, so here is what I definitely would have loved to see, for Harry and Sirius to spend more time together and for Sirius to survive. For Dumbledore to suffer real consequences of his manipulations and at the end of the story to be seen in real pain and asking for real forgiveness and for Harry to tell him to go and jump in the lake. For Snape?  Hmm, nope that was quite good - he got everything I wanted for him to get ;)

Actually, no wait, I may have couple of things which I may not consider very consistent. I guess House Unity message she never wanted to convey. While I did not care for good Slytherins to appear (I mean I did not care either way whether they would  appear or not), the epilogue was kind of dissapointing in that regard. Albus still does not care to be in Slytherin - nothing seems to change.

And I cant believe I am saying  it, but as much as I hate Draco Malfoy, looking at it from the distance and not picking up books for about a year, I really do think that Tower was all for nothing and his character development which supposedly occurred in book 6 pretty much dissappeared in book seven.

Thats about it I think.

Alla