PyroGamer
Banned
Okay, I know we have a Harry Potter discussion thread, but it's alot of specultation and folk-lore discussion, I'd much rather use this thread to discuss the quality of the seventh and final book in this epic series.
First off, I'd like to say the book was fantastic, eminently fantastic. Rowling has crafted the most compelling universe of magic and characters and emotions and enchantments I've ever had the pleasure to be lost in. These books have captivated me like no others, carrying me away to such a vivid land of magic and myth I feel slighted to have to return to reality.
First off, I'd like to say the book was fantastic, eminently fantastic. Rowling has crafted the most compelling universe of magic and characters and emotions and enchantments I've ever had the pleasure to be lost in. These books have captivated me like no others, carrying me away to such a vivid land of magic and myth I feel slighted to have to return to reality.
That being said, I was rather dissapointed with how Rowling finished the thing. The final battle between Harry and Voldemort did not have the captivating effect of the Tombstone ritual in book 4, the Quirrell confrontation in Book 1, or the Basillisk fight in Book 3. Instead, it was a drawn out conversation between Harry and Voldemort that seemed rather... unbelievable. The over-explaining of everything that had happened (and we had so brilliantly discovered throughout the preceding chapters) was far too heavy-handed. And coming right off of the long Dumbledore/Potter discussion... which also seemed to over-explain everything we already knew... it was just a little too much dialogue and not enough compelling fascination.
The whole Hogwarts fight before that, brilliant, even the confrontation between Harry and Voldemort was great. But the dialogue-heavy final battle between Harry and Voldemort was a bit too heavy-handed.
And I'm also under the impression that the epilogue was rather corny. I didn't need to know Harry marries Ginny or Ron marries Hermione. And I definitely don't need to know the names of all their kids (or Fluer and Bill's kid, for that matter, if I surmised it appropriately). I mean, it's fun to see the whole thing go adventurously full-circle, but Harry Potter isn't about normalcy, even of the Wizard variety, it's about living under a cupboard with invitations knocking down your door, and three teenagers fighting alone against the forces of evil while trying to avoid detention.
I'm not saying Harry Potter shouldn't have ended happily, but we didn't need to know all about it.
The whole Hogwarts fight before that, brilliant, even the confrontation between Harry and Voldemort was great. But the dialogue-heavy final battle between Harry and Voldemort was a bit too heavy-handed.
And I'm also under the impression that the epilogue was rather corny. I didn't need to know Harry marries Ginny or Ron marries Hermione. And I definitely don't need to know the names of all their kids (or Fluer and Bill's kid, for that matter, if I surmised it appropriately). I mean, it's fun to see the whole thing go adventurously full-circle, but Harry Potter isn't about normalcy, even of the Wizard variety, it's about living under a cupboard with invitations knocking down your door, and three teenagers fighting alone against the forces of evil while trying to avoid detention.
I'm not saying Harry Potter shouldn't have ended happily, but we didn't need to know all about it.
