Mordack wrote:I agree with a lot of what you said, Deathshotshooter.
The deaths were poorly handled. In fact, I'd go so far as to say I hated the way in which Rowling handled her secondary characters in this book; by robbing them of their roles and reducing them to cannon fodder. I always liked the way in which many of the secondary characters were so vibrant and distinctive, but in this book they were reduced to the level of props to be killed off-screen. I think we could have done with a little more than a paragraph on the death of a character like Moody or Lupin.
The whole "Deathly Hallows" plotline was utterly ridiculous. It wasn't foreshadowed at all in previous books, and feels like it was stuck-on in a last ditch attempt to make things more exciting. No wonder many people who read the online leak of this book thought it was a fake. I heard a lot of people saying the leak couldn't be real because so much of the meat of the story seemed to come out of nowhere.
I also hated the stupid bit at the end. That whole "Where are they now" premise was stupid. And if she simply had to include something like that, why couldn't she have included more significant details? I wanted to see what happened in the immediate aftermath of Voldemort's death. At the least we should've gotten an epilogue set a couple of months after Voldemort's defeat. The jump years and years into the future wouldn't have been bad if we would've learned more than the fact that Harry married Ginny and Ron married Hermione. What's Harry done with his life since Voldemort's defeat? How was the wizarding community put back together after institutions like the Ministry of Magic were decimated? We didn't get any answers.
I guess the best way to sum up my feelings about this book is to say that it felt like Rowling approached this book in a very workmanlike fashion. She had a checklist of things she needed to cover and she made it very obvious when she was checking something off the list.
I gotta agree with Mordack, the chracters were so breif, like in times, she would introduce something new about a chracter, and right when you get to something good about him, it would end, not explining how, why, etc.
Also, about the characters she seem to forget the whole point of aurors, and even the main chracteres such as Hermione, and Ron, she just lack what made them who they are.
I agree with Mordack for his last comment also, i think by the time she wrote Deathly Hallows her only motivation was the money, no matter what she would earn a ton of money on the first day of sales, which is good enough for her.
Throughout the majority of the book she gave methe feeling that she didnt even want to write this. There were parts where you got the feeling from Rowling, like she just said, **Filtered** this, im gonnaget rich, lets just bs.
As for the leak, when i read parts of it, i personally thought it was fake too, for one, the leak didnt seem like Rowlings writting in the past 6 books. But only till i got Deathly Hallows did i realize it was real. Quite sddening cause she missed the whole point of Harry Potter. With his adventures, quest, friends. And even those who werent importnat, like Kreacher, there way no detail in it. She just decided harry should suddnely be nice to kreacher, and tada, kreacher loves him now.. like WTH? Same with the new and old minister, we never knew anything about them, what thir personality was like, nothing, like in chamber of secrets i feel like i knew Fudge better then the ministers in Deathly Hallows. This also happened with the death eaters and the dementors, and even with voldemort himself, i remember in book 4 -6, Rowling gave use this "evil" feelling of voldemort, death eaters and dementors, we could feel that they were evil. That they were the truly "bad" guys in the story, but in Deathly Hallows, i found that Rowling made the Death eaters and even the dementors more like **Filtered**. Like when Ron, Hermione and Harry, sneak into the Minestry of Magic, and when they have to go trough half a dozen of demontors to get away. I found it lame, all harry did was cast his patronus, and the dementors left. In the fifth book, we learned that even with a patronus, the dementors still tried to attack the casters. They seemed evil. In Deathly hallows, all they do is run. Same with the death eaters.
The ending was lame, i have to agree with that, Harry marrying Ginny? like WTH? cant you be a bit more imaginative then that? come on. And their children names? wow...i got the feeling Rowling just didnt care at the end, all she wanted to do, was get it over with, and get her final money by selling the book
This book could be alot better
Deathshotshooter