Oh thank gods I'm not the only one! There were parts I appreciated, but...but...!
Seriously, anyone who had any affection at all for the older generation got royally screwed. We were left with nothing and no one in the end. I always knew Severus was going to die. I just hoped for more. After all he's done, and we finally know we've all been right all along and he's been doing so much to save Harry's skin, to have him killed in such a manner... Did Arthur survive like three or four bites? Granted not to his neck, but still! And the trio can just stand there and watch?
I can't even get started on how badly Remus got shafted. Just thinking about him makes me want to cry right now. I always said that unless she could find a way to do it so the plot absolutely could not continue without it, killing Remus had the potential to ruin everything for me. And to have it be so senseless and unexplained! Just another random casualty of war to smack us alongside the head with, as if we hadn't already figured out that war was senseless and cruel?
I put "This Isn't Real" on hold until after DH because it's been my 'explain away the canon with canon' fic. But, I haven't even gotteen out of OotP yet and it's supposed to go until the end of the war. I don't think DH canon is going to play a part at all.
I keep trying to like this book and there are parts, moments, that I do like. But, overall, as a reader, I feel hopelessly betrayed.
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Date: 2007-07-25 01:39 pm (UTC)Seriously, anyone who had any affection at all for the older generation got royally screwed. We were left with nothing and no one in the end. I always knew Severus was going to die. I just hoped for more. After all he's done, and we finally know we've all been right all along and he's been doing so much to save Harry's skin, to have him killed in such a manner... Did Arthur survive like three or four bites? Granted not to his neck, but still! And the trio can just stand there and watch?
I can't even get started on how badly Remus got shafted. Just thinking about him makes me want to cry right now. I always said that unless she could find a way to do it so the plot absolutely could not continue without it, killing Remus had the potential to ruin everything for me. And to have it be so senseless and unexplained! Just another random casualty of war to smack us alongside the head with, as if we hadn't already figured out that war was senseless and cruel?
I put "This Isn't Real" on hold until after DH because it's been my 'explain away the canon with canon' fic. But, I haven't even gotteen out of OotP yet and it's supposed to go until the end of the war. I don't think DH canon is going to play a part at all.
I keep trying to like this book and there are parts, moments, that I do like. But, overall, as a reader, I feel hopelessly betrayed.