...yeah, it really was a big 'screw you all very much' to anyone who were interested in characters other than the trio and the destined girlfriend.
The part where she spent several hundred pages having them wander around in the forest because she couldn't let the plot actually get anywhere too soon was a real winner too, especially when you consider how much better use that many pages could have been put to - Snape offed with no actual reflection from Harry on the difference between his perception and the reality, Lupin and Tonks offed offstage with no actual reflection just to make sure there was no canon-fanfic potential left in either of them -- I swear I MISSED that the first time around and Harry casually reflecting on them being dead a couple dozen pages later made me go bwuh? and page back until I found it tucked in like an afterthought in a paragraph.
None of the deaths surprised me -- I knew Snape wasn't going to survive and suspected Lupin wouldn't either because of her general 'screw you fandom'-ness for anyone who likes more variety than the teen heroes -- but what DID surprise me was how disposable they all were. "Hey it's the last book, let's blow shit up for the hell of it!" is really not the way to have gone, in my jaded opinion.
She really isn't and never has been a GOOD writer, just an insanely POPULAR one, in my opinion...
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The part where she spent several hundred pages having them wander around in the forest because she couldn't let the plot actually get anywhere too soon was a real winner too, especially when you consider how much better use that many pages could have been put to - Snape offed with no actual reflection from Harry on the difference between his perception and the reality, Lupin and Tonks offed offstage with no actual reflection just to make sure there was no canon-fanfic potential left in either of them -- I swear I MISSED that the first time around and Harry casually reflecting on them being dead a couple dozen pages later made me go bwuh? and page back until I found it tucked in like an afterthought in a paragraph.
None of the deaths surprised me -- I knew Snape wasn't going to survive and suspected Lupin wouldn't either because of her general 'screw you fandom'-ness for anyone who likes more variety than the teen heroes -- but what DID surprise me was how disposable they all were. "Hey it's the last book, let's blow shit up for the hell of it!" is really not the way to have gone, in my jaded opinion.
She really isn't and never has been a GOOD writer, just an insanely POPULAR one, in my opinion...