"Welsh Dog" <welshdog@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 18:23:55 -0500, "BubblyBabs" <ng@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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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>>>>"DaveD" <davedn1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>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.
>
>>*cross-eyed look at Welshdog*
>>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....
>
> That's so strange - seriously. I thought the camping trip was
> brilliant. It really brought out the tedium and uncertainties of their
> position... as Harry said they were just three kids with no clear idea
> how to do the task they'd been set.
>
> The MoM episode was a bit iffy I agree, but the Gringott's break in
> was pretty damn good!
>
> The only quibble I have with the book is the crappy epilogue that
> answered none of the questions we'd been asking and the way that the
> Dursleys were dismissed without ceremony.
So true... I wonder if she will ever do a rewrite of the books as she
mentioned? I suspect not doing it would be the better option - but the
exception to that would be the epilogue, perhaps include the original one
in
the encyclopaedia (in exams they say it's almost always best to stick to
your first answer; you almost get it wrong if you change it. I think the
same applies here: stick with your original epilogue!)
> Ok they were total gits... but they were an integral part of the story
> and Dudley *did* after all seem to be having a bit of an epiphany at
> the end there. Would have been nice to have closure.
Yes, that was disappointing, I so wanted them (well, Dudders and Tuney) to
say goodbye properly to Harry and give him a hug or something, and have
him
appreciate it rather than be churlish. But I think this bad relation****p
was
fundamentally im****tant to JKR and she didn't want to tarnish it by making
it saccharine-sweet; given how bad things had been between them all, she
decided to stick with that and keep it real by writing the scene as she
did.
> Dedalus house was burned down... we assume neither he nor Hettie...
> nor the Dursleys were hiding out there, but if we aren't old then how
> do we know?
I was wondering where they went after they left 4PD, and I'd forgotten
they
left with Dedalus. Good question - did they stay with him, and if so, did
they survive the fire?
DaveD
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