Curse of Harry Potter ;-)

[calzephyr]

I'm going to be crashing pretty soon - I only got about five hours of sleep because I stayed up all night reading the last HP book. I was all like...just one more chapter...and then something exciting would happen and just one more chapter became more like just seven more chapters. I finally had to put it away around 1:30 AM. The sixth book was really breathtaking, and as with all the other books, I didn't see a lot coming...nor the violent beginning to the seventh, and when Snape's past is revealed. I'm just a wee disappointed though. I found the epilogue just so cheesy, it seemed to be something just to satisfy hardcore fans!

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[frith]

The epilogue was there to say see, life went on, nothing to see here, move on, show's over. That and the "I'll-never-do-magic-again" thing. Now, this might be a treat: look up Elder's Crossing dot com. There you will find a fan-fiction sequel, the author of which was interviewed on the CBC. Tell me how it goes.

[calzephyr77.livejournal.com]

Neat! Thanks for the link, I downloaded the first chapter, but I probably won't read it for a while. I'm a little Pottered out at the moment!

[wolfebyte.livejournal.com]

The original epilogue she wrote was longer and cheesier, but they ended up decided it was too much, so cut it way down. There was an interview when the book came out where she pretty much laid it all out for how she imagines things went on after.

[wolfebyte.livejournal.com]

And my grammar is gooder today. :)

[calzephyr77.livejournal.com]

LOL good to know that gooder grammar is not unpossible!

[calzephyr77.livejournal.com]

Ah, I think I found it, with Wikipedia's help. It's nice to know all that detail, I guess, but I don't know, it would be nice to leave some endings to the reader's imaginations too. I was always pretty sure that Harry would marry someone else besides Ginny.

[wolfebyte.livejournal.com]

Because honestly, the number of 'childhood sweethearts' that go on to marry and be happily ever after is pretty low? I know of two.

[calzephyr77.livejournal.com]

Yup, I don't know of very many that go on for very long either. Maybe at the Hoggwarts 25th reunion Harry will feel like lip wrestling Cho or something...ah, some fan fic person has probably done that already :-)

[theredrage.livejournal.com]

Now you've read them, there's something that bugged me about Voldemort.

Now is it just me, or was Voldemort, one of the most dangerous wizards ever, a bit of a dumbass when it came to killing Harry? I mean, how many times did he try to Avada Kedavra him and it didn't work? Why did he keep repeating his own mistakes? Argh it really took away from his bad guy image for me!

What did you think? Did you find Voldemort intimidating or did the above annoy you too?

[calzephyr77.livejournal.com]

I'll have to digest that question a little more, but I can agree, Voldemort was more scarier when less was known about him and people just freaked out at the sound of his name. There was certainly a lot more mystery to him anyway! He was definitely the most scariest in book 4, but not as much in 7. It was pretty cool to find out he could fly, but I couldn't quite be convinced that he wouldn't realize his Horcruxes were being destroyed. It could be chalked up to arrogance and blind ambition I guess and lackluster henchmen :\ Fenrir Greyback was much scarier. Maybe the movie version will menace things up a little more. I still have to see movies 2-5.

[wolfebyte.livejournal.com]

I pretty much wondered why nobody in the Harry Potter universe ever discovered that the best way to do in a wizard is to catch them by surprise with a big f'n stick. Or a car, while they're crossing the road. Or whatever.

All that cursing seems so needless if a .45 could do the same thing without any chance that some little shield charm would get in the way... Which means I'd be a scary wizard, because I'd have a wand AND a gun (and perhaps a big stick too, hey, it worked for Gandalf...).

[calzephyr77.livejournal.com]

LOL, that's a good question. I found the lack of computery gadgets in the series to be noticeable too, except for the odd mention of Dudley having a computer. Quills and parchment are so low-tech! Perhaps Muggle means of death are just unacceptable.

[wolfebyte.livejournal.com]

Oh, and as for Voldermort's scare factor, well... They are intended for kids, right? In our culture, we don't do the original Grimm's fairy tales, so I don't imagine anyone would want Voldermort being too scary. Or at least that's what I chalked it up to.

[calzephyr77.livejournal.com]

I liked Bellatrix as a villian, she had that definite touch of crazy! Who would you consider to be a more villianous villian, either from a book or movie?