*opinion warning*

[pauraque_bk]

Did Molly really call Bellatrix a bitch in the last book? My hazy memory says yes, but any kind of rational thought process says no...

Not because I think it's inappropriate for YA -- quite the opposite -- it actually had an absurdly trivializing effect on the death of one of the main villains imo. I mean holy shit, Bellatrix was a crazy evil motherfucker, not a high-schooler with a snotty attitude.

Seriously. Who told JKR it was a good writing decision to make every character death lame and unaffecting? That's what really left a bad taste in my mouth after the series was over, way more than the epilogue. I can't remember most of the characters who died, even though some of them were characters I loved. The heartlessness of it made me stop caring.

I didn't think HBP was so great either, but there's stuff in it that I'm glad the fandom has. DH was just so pointlessly destructive. It felt like a bored and frustrated kid kicking over her own sandcastle.

Oh well. *goes back to writing*

Comments

[lilacsigil.livejournal.com]

That book really needed to go sit in the drawer for a year, then get a good, hard edit. It could have been good, but it was so obviously a first draft, and really killed my interest.

[aunty_marion]

I still have it as an ambition (when I have time...) to go through it with a blue pen. I have two copies, two reams of paper (so I can dismember the books and stick each page onto a clean sheet of paper), and a quantity of pens.

The main problem is that you really need to retro-edit back to book five at least...

[pauraque]

Yeah, it totally read like it was rushed and her heart wasn't in it. I would so much rather she have left it for as long as it took for her to be *interested* in writing those characters again. I'd actually rather have seen the series lie unfinished than end it half-assed.

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

Hell, if it never had been officially finished, by now hundreds of fic writers would've filled in the gap in hundreds of ways...at least one of which might even have been good enough that Bloomsbury could've cut a deal with the author to publish it as the "official" book.