Harry Potter and the Sleepless Weekend
Jul. 18th, 2005 11:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
topazFinished Book 6 on Sunday at 2am. (Ow. I'm not the boy I used to be.)
This one is definitely a winner.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
keyne will testify that as soon as I was done I said I thought it was one of the best yet. Rowling has left a lot of loose ends lying around (a lot) in the last few books. I was doubtful that she could tie them up convincingly, but this installment did a beautiful job, and my hopes are very high for the final book.
Okay, so I was wrong about Draco Malfoy. I note for the record that my runner-up guess was correct! Never mind that I was completely wrong with my reasoning. :-)
Kudos toceo, jacflash and everyone else who predicted that Dumbledore was the one bearing the Grim in this installment.
Rowling still tends to leave too many subplots running. The soap-opera subplots weren't too bad: look, they're sixteen- and seventeen-year-olds. It's not like there isn't going to be some romantic drama going on. But it did tend to go on. And on. And on. And on. I could have done without the Bill/Fleur and Tonks/Lupin subplots too -- they seemed entirely and completely peripheral to the real story. I would love to see more of Tonks, just not this mopey one. It's almost tempting to write up Harry Potter and the Phantom Edit to trim out some of the fat from the book.
I think my favorite book in the series is still Prisoner of Azkaban, and there are few single chapters that have impressed me as much as "Snape's Worst Memory" from Order of the Phoenix, but this was a really worthy entry in the series.
This one is definitely a winner.
keyne will testify that as soon as I was done I said I thought it was one of the best yet. Rowling has left a lot of loose ends lying around (a lot) in the last few books. I was doubtful that she could tie them up convincingly, but this installment did a beautiful job, and my hopes are very high for the final book.Okay, so I was wrong about Draco Malfoy. I note for the record that my runner-up guess was correct! Never mind that I was completely wrong with my reasoning. :-)
Kudos to
ceo, jacflash and everyone else who predicted that Dumbledore was the one bearing the Grim in this installment.Rowling still tends to leave too many subplots running. The soap-opera subplots weren't too bad: look, they're sixteen- and seventeen-year-olds. It's not like there isn't going to be some romantic drama going on. But it did tend to go on. And on. And on. And on. I could have done without the Bill/Fleur and Tonks/Lupin subplots too -- they seemed entirely and completely peripheral to the real story. I would love to see more of Tonks, just not this mopey one. It's almost tempting to write up Harry Potter and the Phantom Edit to trim out some of the fat from the book.
I think my favorite book in the series is still Prisoner of Azkaban, and there are few single chapters that have impressed me as much as "Snape's Worst Memory" from Order of the Phoenix, but this was a really worthy entry in the series.
