I'll have to check that out before November rolls around in, oh--6 hours or so. Yikes! I haven't written extensively on Harry Potter, but the harry potter tag has a few things you might find of interest. Though a lot of it is also present, one way or another, in this story and the postmortem.
I was disappointed in DH from the first-- some lovely moments, but the shape I was led to expect-- heck, the themes I was led to expect, were obviously not there. And yeah, I admit, I was reading fast to find out what happened to Snape, and her waste of themes and characters in that regard alone was unbearable. But even so, the writing here was more uneven than the earlier books, which is hard on me as a former teacher. I always used to mark students down when I knew they could do better, and I have a similar feeling here.
But I have a bit of sympathy for someone whose vision gets away from them like this. It's such an amazing world, and it's a lot to keep control over. I had trouble keeping this one in order (and let's not even Talk about last year's Nano Novel) and it's small scale and highly derivative. Coming up with it all-- wow. Whatever else we may say, until we've done the same thing, we really have little room to criticize.
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Date: 2007-10-31 10:00 pm (UTC)I was disappointed in DH from the first-- some lovely moments, but the shape I was led to expect-- heck, the themes I was led to expect, were obviously not there. And yeah, I admit, I was reading fast to find out what happened to Snape, and her waste of themes and characters in that regard alone was unbearable. But even so, the writing here was more uneven than the earlier books, which is hard on me as a former teacher. I always used to mark students down when I knew they could do better, and I have a similar feeling here.
But I have a bit of sympathy for someone whose vision gets away from them like this. It's such an amazing world, and it's a lot to keep control over. I had trouble keeping this one in order (and let's not even Talk about last year's Nano Novel) and it's small scale and highly derivative. Coming up with it all-- wow. Whatever else we may say, until we've done the same thing, we really have little room to criticize.