Re: [the_old_crowd] Re: What’s the point of the Deathly Hallows? Not the book, but the Hallows?

[susiequsie23 at cubfanbudwoman.yahoo.invalid]

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Mandy:
>>> You know perhaps that's my problem.  I'm having a hard time just 
accepting a saccharine ending.  Perhaps I'm trying too hard to read 
things into the ending that just aren't there.

JKR always impressed me with her willingness to keep it real and show 
us the darker side to humanity when it was required. This book looses 
that. <<<


SSSusan:
But weren't there lots of us who weren't at all surprised at the saccharine?  I mean, she said this:

"The Little White Horse was my favourite childhood book. I absolutely adored it. It had a cracking plot. It was scary and romantic in parts and had a feisty heroine."

Anyone who's read TLWH knows that it has about as saccharine and cheesy and totally implausible ending, where EVERYthing that could possibly happen to bring about EVERY single character's happiness does happen.

While I had my wonderings (is that a word?) about whether JKR would kill Harry, whenever I recalled that that was her favorite childhood book, I suspected again that Harry would definitely live... and we might just get OBHWF.  

Siriusly Snapey Susan