The List update

[pippin_999]

<snip Neri's estimates>
> Final total: 39 chapters 
> 
> This is even longer than OotP (38 chapters) and yet it's only my
> *minimal* estimation. That is, The Story Of Severus Snape or The
Final Battle of the series *can* be summed up in just three chapters, 
but I think most of us would like something grander. I mean, there's
should be some epic plot development and satisfying resolution in 
there, not merely ticking check marks.

Pippin:

If  JKR shifts to the epic scale, I would expect some characters to
meet their fate in a sentence or two, each "but a drop, though a 
shining one, in a vast and sparkling sea" . That's the nature of
the beast.

But the real artistry would be the revelation that the plot elements
which seem disparate now were woven together all the time, the way 
the Marauders Map and Scabbers turned out to be related to Sirius, and
the solution to the mystery of Hermione's mysterious appearances
and disappearances was also the way to rescue Sirius. It seems like
we haven't seen that kind of clever plotting lately, but then we
didn't know we were seeing it in PoA until everything came together
all at once.

Pippin