PoA wrap-up: Mischief managed!

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Highlights from Chapter 22:

-Kids, cats, cons, knaves, how many lives did Harry save?

-More on the Order of Merlin

-Why didn't Dumbledore do more to protect Sirius? (more of an OotP question)

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Well, folks, the re-read is at an end. THANK YOU to everyone who participated, and made this such an insightful and delightful venture. All the re-read posts are saved in memories here. Continuing old discussions is perfectly all right.

Doing this project has only confirmed my love for the book, noticing again how all the threads come together to form what is, for the most part, a very tightly-plotted novel. There's hardly any waste in PoA, and as a writer, I really admire that.

Any other thoughts about the book as a whole? Anyone have some opinions changed? Anything surprising you realized or considered?

(If you have thoughts on the book as it relates to the movie -- and I know some of you have already seen it -- PLEASE keep them to yourself for now. I haven't seen the movie yet, and when I do, I'm sure I'll do a book-vs-movie post. I don't want the movie spoiled, and I'm sure a lot of my American friends don't either.)

I do want to do re-reads of the other books, but... not right away. As fun as it was, the re-read was very time-consuming, and I need a break! Right now I'm leaning towards doing CoS next, but that could change. So, have a poll, just to gauge interest:

[Poll #301977]

But for the moment... my god, now I can actually post about other things. *boggles*

Comments

[arwencordelia.livejournal.com]

I wanted to add my thanks for posting these chapter analyses/discussions. This has been the most fun HP re-read yet for me, not least because I got to see many different people's reactions to each chapter.