I had fairly low expectations of this one, and so I quite enjoyed reading it. I'm afraid the house-elf thing remained an embarrassing "sensitive" portrayal of slavery. I did feel that Rowling perhaps enjoyed killing off an awful lot of minor characters. My husband kept saying "has anyone died yet?" so it was great fun to be able to say "yes - page 58 - oh and yes again, page 65".
I've seen the whole "not really dead" thing too many times before. I was glad to see Snape really had been a double agent and not just an unconvincing single agent. I liked the fact that James Potter remains a privileged bully.
And it was nice that our 3 heroes got cheesed off with Dumbledore not explaining things. I felt it was unfair that only Ron suffered from the human trait of being grumpy when tired and hungry.
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Date: 2007-07-22 08:52 pm (UTC)I did feel that Rowling perhaps enjoyed killing off an awful lot of minor characters. My husband kept saying "has anyone died yet?" so it was great fun to be able to say "yes - page 58 - oh and yes again, page 65".
I've seen the whole "not really dead" thing too many times before. I was glad to see Snape really had been a double agent and not just an unconvincing single agent. I liked the fact that James Potter remains a privileged bully.
And it was nice that our 3 heroes got cheesed off with Dumbledore not explaining things. I felt it was unfair that only Ron suffered from the human trait of being grumpy when tired and hungry.
Hm, think this comment has just turned into a post.