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pauraque_bk) wrote2009-04-28 11:29 pm
pauraque_bk) wrote2009-04-28 11:29 pm
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*opinion warning*
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*
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*
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I hated DH. So many of the characters deserved so much more than what they got. (Lupin, particularly.) I don't know. I got the feeling that by the end JKR was sick of fans & fandom and a lot of it was an attempt to get us all to shut up and leave her precious people alone. And probably to stop liking all the people she was convinced were so horrible.
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