Deathly Hallows

[innerslytherin]

I have finished DH.  Those are eight hours of my life I'll never get back.

It was every piece of het-fic cliche drivel ever written.  I expected more from JKR than the "Rocks fall and everyone dies" joke that we've been making for the past year.

This is bullshit.

I'm going back to Order of the Phoenix as my jumping off point for fics from here on out.  I'll probably go on using some of the things from HBP, such as Snape being a half-blood.  I'll be finishing Redemption and Bound Souls and other fics as if Deathly Hallows never happened.

JKR will never see another penny of my money no matter what she writes.

Comments

[chibirisu.livejournal.com]

...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...

[innerslytherin]

I was surprised by Remus' death. I was hoping Tonks would die, of course. *grin* I was pretty sure Severus was going to, as the LJ spoilername was something like "VoldiekillsSnape", plus it just seemed destined. But yeah, Harry's talking nicely about Snape in the epilogue didn't make up for him being like, "Oh, Snape's dead. Lalala." And yes, I immediately saw the Lupin and Tonks lying there dead, but one of our group didn't notice that until he thinks about that later. It was such a copout.

Yes, generally, it was a big "screw you" to anyone who didn't care as much about the Golden Trio+Ginny.

Ugh.

I mean--DOBBY getting a huge funeral scene and Remus NOT?

Geez.

However, I decided on the way home today that since I'm totally dismissing Deathly Hallows and most of Half-Blood Prince, I can comfortably make a jump back in time to dismissing Order of the Phoenix long enough to finally finish "These Deep Solitudes". *grin*

[little-sun.livejournal.com]

I don´t understand why Snape didn´t have his portrait there too - he was a headmaster too! I really hoped that Harry at least would tell Snape his lifework had been appreciated! And I don´t care that he told everyone else.