Monday, July 18, 2005

I just finished the sixth Harry Potter book, and I have to say that I'm a little disappointed. I guess I'd expected a little more from the author. I think she's running out of stuff to write about. Why can't she make the story interesting without killing off important characters? And the whole "love story" with Harry and...that girl. It's a little ridiculous to think that barely teenagers can be THAT mature about their "relationships." Towards the end of the book, I was ready to put the book down, especially during you-know-who's funeral. That whole thing with Harry and...that girl was sickening. I wanted to throw up. I mean, how Spiderman...

Aside from the ending and all that, I thought that the book lack a few things, like the Order of Phoenix. What the heck? They were like the meat of the story last time, it's like Rowling totally forgot about it this time. Did I miss something? Because I could've missed something. The way the students are portrayed in the book kinda bothered me, too. When did they grow up so fast? All of a sudden, they're swearing all over the place and practically having sex. In the last couple books, they were running around looking for clues and things, not ASS.

I guess I shouldn't be too disappointed. For all I know, she's setting all of this up for the seventh book. Hopefully, she takes time with that one and writes it well. I mean, it's not the readers' fault that we want to read more. SHE'S the one that said there will be seven books.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hey Grace,

I had a discussion at lunch with three of my coworkers who are HP fans, and we came up with some interesting theories that redeemed the book for me a bit (although not entirely). We'll have to talk about it again!

- Tiffany