I mentioned that in a previous comment - where you replied to chasezgranger - how Harry in HBP was totally passive for most of the book, unlike the earlier novels - before I came across you saying the same thing here.
How does knowing about Voldemort's family make any difference to the battle now? ... It just fills the pages with worthless backstory that does nothing to drive the plot forward.
Amen. I *really* couldn't work out the fans who said that they found this 'interesting'.
Voldemort is EVIL, folks ... now let's move on, shall we?
As I used to say in my rants, I don't care what flavour jam Tom used to put on his toast for breakfast at the orphanage, or what colour his pyjamas were ... it's inconsequential to the story!!
I'm wondering what would be left of the book? A romantic comedy, when the war and threat should have been at its height? Sjeez.
You've said that you don't monitor the PR machine? David Yates, who will be also directing the sixth movie, has said that his intent is to do exactly that - he sees the film as being much more 'sex, drugs and rock 'n roll'.
The HPANA article with the quote was here, although the site seems to be down at the moment, so I can't double-check it.
So (a) you were totally on the money, and (b) you can start weeping now. :-(
I just hope you're not setting your hopes up too high. ... Her interview and HBP don't leave much room for anything else.
Yeah. :-( I'm going to try and do my first ever journal post, summing up my predictions for DH, and I've been thinking exactly that. And you're right ... the interview really doesn't leave much doubt (although there are some H/Hr people who are trying to ignore it, saying she was speaking 'as Harry', etc). But, yeah ... HBP was just a bad book, and no author would deliberately write a bad book, no matter if she was planning major 'twists' in the sequel or not ... therefore JKR was sincere in her smug self-congratulation in the post-HBP interview, she honestly thinks she did a good job, and so DH is likely to be much of the same.
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I mentioned that in a previous comment - where you replied to chasezgranger - how Harry in HBP was totally passive for most of the book, unlike the earlier novels - before I came across you saying the same thing here.
How does knowing about Voldemort's family make any difference to the battle now? ... It just fills the pages with worthless backstory that does nothing to drive the plot forward.
Amen. I *really* couldn't work out the fans who said that they found this 'interesting'.
Voldemort is EVIL, folks ... now let's move on, shall we?
As I used to say in my rants, I don't care what flavour jam Tom used to put on his toast for breakfast at the orphanage, or what colour his pyjamas were ... it's inconsequential to the story!!
I'm wondering what would be left of the book? A romantic comedy, when the war and threat should have been at its height? Sjeez.
You've said that you don't monitor the PR machine? David Yates, who will be also directing the sixth movie, has said that his intent is to do exactly that - he sees the film as being much more 'sex, drugs and rock 'n roll'.
The HPANA article with the quote was here, although the site seems to be down at the moment, so I can't double-check it.
So (a) you were totally on the money, and (b) you can start weeping now. :-(
I just hope you're not setting your hopes up too high. ... Her interview and HBP don't leave much room for anything else.
Yeah. :-( I'm going to try and do my first ever journal post, summing up my predictions for DH, and I've been thinking exactly that. And you're right ... the interview really doesn't leave much doubt (although there are some H/Hr people who are trying to ignore it, saying she was speaking 'as Harry', etc). But, yeah ... HBP was just a bad book, and no author would deliberately write a bad book, no matter if she was planning major 'twists' in the sequel or not ... therefore JKR was sincere in her smug self-congratulation in the post-HBP interview, she honestly thinks she did a good job, and so DH is likely to be much of the same.
:-(