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> "Welsh Dog" <welshdog@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 17:41:04 -0500, "BubblyBabs" <ng@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> wrote:
>>>"DaveD" <davedn1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>I was just wondering how long the trio were in the MoM when they
retook
>>>>the
>>>>locket from Umbridge? It's just that the way I read it, they seem to
be
>>>>there for quite some time, but polyjuice wears off after an hour and
>>>>they
>>>>don't mention taking any with them (a bit difficult for Hermione to
sip
>>>>some in the middle of the hearing, sitting next to Umbridge)...
>>
>>>That ****tion of the book was so stupid I can't even think about the
>>>little
>>>details... Another stupid part of the book - the Gringotts Bank
>>>break-in...
>>>Another stupid part of the book - the neverending camping trip...
>>
>> And yet I loved it all. In fact My two favourite books are PS and
>> DH... the rest are just fillers by comparison! :)
>>
>> Of all of them DH is far and away the best written.
>>
>> Welshdog
>
> *cross-eyed look at Welshdog*
lol - DH does seem to be a bit of a marmite book, it does rather separate
people into love-it/hate-it camps!
> While I think some stuff was interesting, I found myself skimming over
> parts during the camping trip and was so put off by the bank break-in
and
> esp the MoM break-in that I was very disappointed with the book... I
> found the last 2 books the most disappointing of all... My fav book is
5
> followed by 3 then 4... 1 and 2 are OK, fillers as you put them... 6
and
> 7 - disappointing... But., my opinion only, of course....
>
> Babs
Perhaps it's the skimming that's the problem? The first time I read it, I
did so in a day (and gave myself a migraine!) - I couldn't stop, I
couldn't
put it down, I had to know how this story, this amazing creation, ended.
But
the camping scene did draaaaag on so. And so, ru****ng it, I didn't get a
feel for the book. I immediately reread it, more relaxed now (not that the
book's tension levels really allowed much relaxation!) and got so much
more
from it. Somehow it came across as more real than the others. Subsequent
rereadings have improved it still further, and now the camping scene is
fine. It's a bit like a journey, I find - the first time you go somewhere
it
seems a lot further away and to take a lot longer than the next time you
visit, and the next trip is even shorter. Now when I read DH the camping
scene goes quite quickly and I even enjoy it :)
DaveD
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