A large portion of Harry Potter's appeal lies in its quirky and whimsical atmosphere. In the later books, Rowling tried to shift the tone dramatically and make the series dark and serious. Unfortunately, this change robbed the series of much of its original appeal. At the same time, not nearly enough effort was put into making the plot tighter or the characters more complex as would befit the new atmosphere. Overall, Rowling is just not that good of a writer.

Roffles

Pitcairn19291 Posts

January 05 2010 03:46 GMT

#62

On January 05 2010 07:30 DreaM)XeRO wrote:
i skipped to the epilogue
and found out Ron marries Hermoine
and Harry marries Ginny..

-sigh-

I know, it's quite disappointing. They shoulda swapped places in the movie.

hazelynut

United States2195 Posts

January 05 2010 03:48 GMT

#63

My main problem with the seventh book was the sudden appearance of the Hallows (I'm convinced that she made all that stuff up over the summer that she wrote book 7), and I agree with pretty much everyone has already said.

But if anyone's interested in fanfiction...

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After being massively disappointed, I delved into the dangerous land of HP fanfiction. I'm not talking about Harry-on-Draco-action fanfiction, but the actual diamonds in the rough. I've waded through terrible, terrible fanfics to get to this stuff:

Harry Potter and the Enemy Within and Harry Potter and the Chained Souls, by Theowyn.
The ending actually makes sense, since the author had to use books 1-5 to come up with plausible theories for books 6 and 7.

Alternatively, Prince of a Dark Kingdom is a really good books 1-7 series, once you get past the weird German in the beginning (it makes sense later). It's an extremely well-plotted universe, and has a little bit more flesh in it than the original HP.

Warrior Madness

Canada3791 Posts

January 05 2010 03:51 GMT

#64

On January 05 2010 12:48 hazelynut wrote:
My main problem with the seventh book was the sudden appearance of the Hallows (I'm convinced that she made all that stuff up over the summer that she wrote book 7), and I agree with pretty much everyone has already said.

But if anyone's interested in fanfiction...

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Lol.... Harry on Draco fanfiction.... WTF. Like, where would you even find something like this? Seriously? Like what is the link? Ewww.... Yeah, so what's the link? And do you have any links to Harry/Hermoine fanfiction??

Roffles

Pitcairn19291 Posts

January 05 2010 03:53 GMT

#65

On January 05 2010 12:51 Warrior Madness wrote:

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Fanfiction.net has almost everything. Quite an extensive collection they have there. Just stay away from the Malfoy/Snape slash fictions.

Ilikestarcraft

Korea (South)17727 Posts

January 05 2010 07:24 GMT

#66

harry on draco hahahaha

Orome

Switzerland11984 Posts

January 05 2010 22:22 GMT

#67

On January 05 2010 02:26 Mortality wrote:

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But it is a masterpiece in its own right. Not because it's a deep and intellectual story, but because it successfully managed to appeal to all audiences. Do you have any idea how hard storytellers have been trying to do that for thousands of years? It's a masterpiece in the sense that she bridged the gap. Are there any other stories that can truly say that?

I agree.