Late last night I finished my second trip through Volume 7 of Harry Potter, having started from book one and slogging through.
General comments:
It's hard to know if it's truly what she had planned, but boy the books expand almost exponentially in their scope and grittiness during Book 3. Nothing new there, but it is remarkably evident reading them one after another. The first two are completely stand-alone, the third somewhat so, but three through 7 are pretty much one big 3000 page novel. If you edited them to eliminate the inevitable Privet Drive recap at the beginnings, they would happily exist in one giant tome. Also, nothing especially new there.
Lots of little details going through that find there way into the plot along the way, all the way back to Book 1. Impressive given the audience, and given the overall length. And also adding proof that the thing was thought through.
The wizarding family tree appears to be straight out of Appalachia. Thank god Fleur crossed the pond and injected some new blood, Hermione too for that matter. No wonder the Weasley clan is so recessive gene expressive. They've married cousins for like 10 generations.
Most wizards our age and older are not very good at magic, as most of the death eaters match up against teenagers and don't fare particularly well, and Bellatrix seems to handle all comers right up until Mrs. Weasley goes postal. As the author I might not have had her call Bellatrix a bitch, but having Mrs. Weasley take out the frustrations of seven years of constant family peril seems appropriate. Generally, the students fare as well as The Order. I guess all the recent practice made a difference.
Accio - too much. Although, I wouldn't mind ACCIO BEER right about now.
Are Harry and DD the only glasses wearers? Need to work on magical LASIK, or are H and DD allergic to Retnox 5? (serious doubling down on the nerd stakes there)
Filming the Battle of Hogwarts is going to take some serious work. I barely understood all the shit that was happening.
Not sure just dropping the Ressurection Stone in the woods was a good idea. Flinging into the lake maybe a better choice.
Would have been nice to know what Harry et all were doing for employment.
I would seriously consider using two wands. One for PROTEGO, and one for everything else.
I may add to this as things occur to me over the rest of the afternoon.
6 comments:
Yeah, my thoughs exactly on the glasses... anybody else have vision problems? Or is it a stab at connecting the two characters? And what are the adults doing these days. Potter's not working at Hogwarts, which was one of my presumptions. I suspect this was a door left open by Rowling, not for a new novel necessarily, but a blank to fill in somehow later on a side project.
Also...again...FUCK the Slytherins. One good Slytherin does not justify their attendance. Send 'em to Durmstrang, rotten fuckers.
Agreed agreed on all points. And nice, obscure Star Trek II reference.
Also, 'splinching' taken WAY too casually. Another ST reference makes the easy comparison between that and 'they're forming' (spoken in slow mo) from ST1.
Wizards, unlike technologically sophisticated humans, seem to be able to put Humpty Dumpty back together again.
Wizards should be FAT. Super fat.
They don't have to walk anywhere, nor get up and go get things.
wow - so you read all seven books again!
the glasses thing only happened twice didn't it? but yes why not lasik - a little laser action right out of the wand - and to echo Dan Dan Dan - do like the The Wrath of Kahn entering the equation
Slughorn is fat - I guess the other wizards take a metab potion or something to compensate for all the accios and floating arounds
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