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caramelsilver) wrote2007-10-08 02:34 am
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The Gigantic DH rant or all the things that bugged me during Deathly Hallows.
Many people ranted on all the things they didn't like about DH right after the book came out. I didn't do that, but I'm doing it now. I just finish reading it for the second time and I have a few um….. issues that bothered me with this book, now that I’ve read it in a regular pace. This is really long so I'm putting it under a cut.
Under the cut are many things that irked me, be so warned. Lots of acclamations marks ahead:
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - or Harry Potter the boy who survived on luck and his friends skills.
When I was half way through, I started getting worried. Half way through and they have just found one horcrux! How the fuck are they going to find them all before the book is through, I thought!? And then we get introduced to hallows!
How convenient that, after Harry screws up and they end up at Malfoy Manor (I loved that we got to go there btw!) and suddenly they know were to go next. Seriously, they finish four (if we include Harry) horcruxes in 24 hours! Did you know that by the way, that from the chapter 'Gringotts' and 'A flaw in the plan' it's only 24 hours?
Everything they do through this book was luck, or Hermione being clever! Harry hadn't thought out anything. It's Hermione that can all the nifty spells and packs all the things they need. Harry says so him self in the second chapter: Maybe I should learn a healing spell. This kid know nothing and still he wants to go out by him self (remember how many times he said that Ron and Hermione shouldn’t come with him) to find pieces of Voldemorts soul. Funny how Dumbledore lived long enough to take out the hardest horcruxes with the most protections and left all the easy ones for Harry.
How angry did you get when Harry was getting all mad at Dumbledore? What makes Harry think he’s so special that Dumbledore would sit him down and tell him his life story? Dumbledore was a general in a war and he had to think about the rest of the world. Harry was a pawn, a very important pawn, but a pawn none the less that Dumbledore used to his and the war’s advantage. I also got pretty angry when Harry got obsessed with the hallows. You were told that you had to destroy all the horcruxes or else Voldemort can’t die! The Hallows has nothing to do with that. No matter if you did own all the Hallows and were ‘master of death’, Voldemort still wouldn’t die because he has the horcruxes that anchors him to the earth.
But why did Voldemort think that he was the only one that’d found the Room of Requirement? When he walked through the room piled with hundreds things of junk, how could he think, ‘hmm… I must be the only on who have found this room.’ And they say Tom Riddle were a brilliant kid. *shakes head*
I was sure that Ginny was going to die (If only so she wouldn’t marry Harry). I was thinking that that would be the last trigger so Harry could use the Avada Kedavra curse. But no, Wonder Boy goes and kills the Dark Lord of all time with an Expeliarmus. I mean, seriously?
I hear that people cried when Dobby died, but I only cried a few tears when Harry used the Resurrection Stone and Lily and people came back in ‘The Forest Again’. Who thinks Lupin died only so he could be in that scene? I was sure that all the Mauraders would die, and I was right!
Crabbe! Have we ever heard him talk before? Suddenly can these difficult spells and curses. Poor Draco, can’t control his minions. Draco Malfoy was a sad figure in this book. I really didn’t like that he couldn’t decide which side he supported. All the Malfoys really, I really felt for them, being ridiculed in your own home.
This book is really about mothers, Lily who died for his son, Molly and Narcissa who only want to protect their child(ren). Narcissa is really brave; I think she decided long a go that the only thing that matters is her son. Her allegiances are with her family.
Not my daughter you bitch! Best. Line. Ever!
Believe it or not it actually was things I loved with this book:
The Taboo!! What a brilliant thing! I love it!
Neville! This was his book. I loved the chapter we met up with Neville again and he is this bad-ass resistance leader of the DA. Neville killing Nagini must be my favourite scene by far. With a single stroke, and Nagini is dead!
I really liked that the battle were at Hogwarts. I was really surprised when Voldemort said he didn’t want to kill them, but I guess it makes sense, who wants to rule a deserted world?
McGonagall kicked ass. The scene with Snape and her duelling I could really see it in my head. I hope they will keep that scene in the film, ‘cause that is how real wizards and witches duel!
On the epilogue:
I didn’t like it!
I am glad we didn’t get paragraphs on how happy Harry and Ginny are. I hope Albus Severus ends up in Slytherin. I think James middle name is Sirius. I think it was bad of JKR not to tell us anything. We didn’t get to know what they do for a living or who married who. We didn’t get to know how the wizarding world is doing or who is minister? And we never got to know what Harrys parents did for a living!
All in all: You might not believe it after this rant, but I really liked this book. I really enjoyed reading it and it really is on the top after Goblet of Fire and Chamber of Secrets.
Under the cut are many things that irked me, be so warned. Lots of acclamations marks ahead:
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - or Harry Potter the boy who survived on luck and his friends skills.
When I was half way through, I started getting worried. Half way through and they have just found one horcrux! How the fuck are they going to find them all before the book is through, I thought!? And then we get introduced to hallows!
How convenient that, after Harry screws up and they end up at Malfoy Manor (I loved that we got to go there btw!) and suddenly they know were to go next. Seriously, they finish four (if we include Harry) horcruxes in 24 hours! Did you know that by the way, that from the chapter 'Gringotts' and 'A flaw in the plan' it's only 24 hours?
Everything they do through this book was luck, or Hermione being clever! Harry hadn't thought out anything. It's Hermione that can all the nifty spells and packs all the things they need. Harry says so him self in the second chapter: Maybe I should learn a healing spell. This kid know nothing and still he wants to go out by him self (remember how many times he said that Ron and Hermione shouldn’t come with him) to find pieces of Voldemorts soul. Funny how Dumbledore lived long enough to take out the hardest horcruxes with the most protections and left all the easy ones for Harry.
How angry did you get when Harry was getting all mad at Dumbledore? What makes Harry think he’s so special that Dumbledore would sit him down and tell him his life story? Dumbledore was a general in a war and he had to think about the rest of the world. Harry was a pawn, a very important pawn, but a pawn none the less that Dumbledore used to his and the war’s advantage. I also got pretty angry when Harry got obsessed with the hallows. You were told that you had to destroy all the horcruxes or else Voldemort can’t die! The Hallows has nothing to do with that. No matter if you did own all the Hallows and were ‘master of death’, Voldemort still wouldn’t die because he has the horcruxes that anchors him to the earth.
But why did Voldemort think that he was the only one that’d found the Room of Requirement? When he walked through the room piled with hundreds things of junk, how could he think, ‘hmm… I must be the only on who have found this room.’ And they say Tom Riddle were a brilliant kid. *shakes head*
I was sure that Ginny was going to die (If only so she wouldn’t marry Harry). I was thinking that that would be the last trigger so Harry could use the Avada Kedavra curse. But no, Wonder Boy goes and kills the Dark Lord of all time with an Expeliarmus. I mean, seriously?
I hear that people cried when Dobby died, but I only cried a few tears when Harry used the Resurrection Stone and Lily and people came back in ‘The Forest Again’. Who thinks Lupin died only so he could be in that scene? I was sure that all the Mauraders would die, and I was right!
Crabbe! Have we ever heard him talk before? Suddenly can these difficult spells and curses. Poor Draco, can’t control his minions. Draco Malfoy was a sad figure in this book. I really didn’t like that he couldn’t decide which side he supported. All the Malfoys really, I really felt for them, being ridiculed in your own home.
This book is really about mothers, Lily who died for his son, Molly and Narcissa who only want to protect their child(ren). Narcissa is really brave; I think she decided long a go that the only thing that matters is her son. Her allegiances are with her family.
Not my daughter you bitch! Best. Line. Ever!
Believe it or not it actually was things I loved with this book:
The Taboo!! What a brilliant thing! I love it!
Neville! This was his book. I loved the chapter we met up with Neville again and he is this bad-ass resistance leader of the DA. Neville killing Nagini must be my favourite scene by far. With a single stroke, and Nagini is dead!
I really liked that the battle were at Hogwarts. I was really surprised when Voldemort said he didn’t want to kill them, but I guess it makes sense, who wants to rule a deserted world?
McGonagall kicked ass. The scene with Snape and her duelling I could really see it in my head. I hope they will keep that scene in the film, ‘cause that is how real wizards and witches duel!
On the epilogue:
I didn’t like it!
I am glad we didn’t get paragraphs on how happy Harry and Ginny are. I hope Albus Severus ends up in Slytherin. I think James middle name is Sirius. I think it was bad of JKR not to tell us anything. We didn’t get to know what they do for a living or who married who. We didn’t get to know how the wizarding world is doing or who is minister? And we never got to know what Harrys parents did for a living!
All in all: You might not believe it after this rant, but I really liked this book. I really enjoyed reading it and it really is on the top after Goblet of Fire and Chamber of Secrets.