My post focused on different things than yours: http://embers-log.livejournal.com/165915.html but what I didn't post about, and have been thinking about: I really loved the deconstruction of Dumbledore, when Dumbledore dies in book 6 he is still very much the all knowing all powerful wizard (like Gandolf, Merlin, or even Aslan) and it is kind of extraordinary that Dumbledore is brought down to this fallible human level.
What really annoyed me is that in the final battle she allowed quite a few beloved characters to die without any comment about how they died or how they were missed, not even in her epilogue does she give us any information about how George handles Fred's death. And personally I had a lot more interest in what kinds of jobs Harry, Ginny, Ron, and Hermione ended up having than how many kids they had. But the part that really is annoying me? JKR has been adding to the book in interviews! Things she didn't think worth while putting in the final book she is now giving out in dribs and drabs in interviews: yes, she knows who killed Tonks and Lupin, and if you find the right interview you can know that too.... And yes, she knows where Ron and Harry are working, but there again you'll only find that interview by luck. Frankly if she didn't think it was worth putting in the book then I don't think she should talk about it at all. As it is we'll need someone to compile a book of collected interviews so we can all learn the stuff that JKR says is true but didn't put into her opus.
I do appreciate your comments about the sorting at Hogwarts and what that means in terms of categorizing people (class, caste, whatever), but frankly I was a little disappointed in that too: in the 5th book, The Goblet of Fire, the sorting hat sings about how it is going to be necessary for all the students of Hogwarts to learn to work together. But in the end, no so much, the Slytherins remain separate, and everyone else lets Griffyndor to take all the leadership... I guess I had wanted some kind of unity and growth to come about, and not a perpetuation of the same divisions forever.
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Date: 2007-08-14 05:41 am (UTC)http://embers-log.livejournal.com/165915.html
but what I didn't post about, and have been thinking about:
I really loved the deconstruction of Dumbledore, when Dumbledore dies in book 6 he is still very much the all knowing all powerful wizard (like Gandolf, Merlin, or even Aslan) and it is kind of extraordinary that Dumbledore is brought down to this fallible human level.
What really annoyed me is that in the final battle she allowed quite a few beloved characters to die without any comment about how they died or how they were missed, not even in her epilogue does she give us any information about how George handles Fred's death. And personally I had a lot more interest in what kinds of jobs Harry, Ginny, Ron, and Hermione ended up having than how many kids they had. But the part that really is annoying me?
JKR has been adding to the book in interviews! Things she didn't think worth while putting in the final book she is now giving out in dribs and drabs in interviews: yes, she knows who killed Tonks and Lupin, and if you find the right interview you can know that too.... And yes, she knows where Ron and Harry are working, but there again you'll only find that interview by luck. Frankly if she didn't think it was worth putting in the book then I don't think she should talk about it at all. As it is we'll need someone to compile a book of collected interviews so we can all learn the stuff that JKR says is true but didn't put into her opus.
I do appreciate your comments about the sorting at Hogwarts and what that means in terms of categorizing people (class, caste, whatever), but frankly I was a little disappointed in that too: in the 5th book, The Goblet of Fire, the sorting hat sings about how it is going to be necessary for all the students of Hogwarts to learn to work together. But in the end, no so much, the Slytherins remain separate, and everyone else lets Griffyndor to take all the leadership... I guess I had wanted some kind of unity and growth to come about, and not a perpetuation of the same divisions forever.