Yuss. For Snape cop-out one must turn to fanfic. Le sigh. It's just a bit too easy to have Harry go "Ohhh..." once the snarky bastard's dead and he doesn't have to deal with him any more. Bit harder to be all "he's so brave and wonderful!" if he's returning your Owls on fire :D.
Ditto on cyclical Remus/Tonks. They were more interesting characters than that. Deserved better, really. Not a better *death*, as such, but better handling. WTF happened to cool OotP-Tonks? I'd wondered if Remus was going to be offed simply to round out that generation, because, along with the convinced-he-was-good, I was nearly convinced Snape wouldn't make it through. Wormtail was always going to die.
Ambivalent Dumbledore *rocks*.
The Blacks never really got a break, did they :-/. I'm very pleased by the Malfoys as family unit - there's been too much assumption that Lucius was awful to Draco, and I just don't see evidence for that in the first six books, since the wee brat is obviously devoted to his family. Someone made the interesting point that the Malfoys can be contrasted against the Weasleys and Lupin-Tonkses - they dropped everything, flagged fighting, just to find their kid. If everyone had done that, there wouldn't have been much of a fight, and V coulda just walked in. Still. I enjoyed their family focus. I thought it worked for them, and gave them a bit of dimension. Even though they were self-serving till the end... but it was believable. Rock on, Narcissa :D.
I was SO HAPPY when Percy came through. I sodding love Percy, and, yay, he went ahead and joined in when it mattered. I may also have had sniggers at the shiny house and yummy Kreacher food etc, but it still made me go aw. And because it really *would* have made a difference if Sirius had treated him differently. And then, he might not be dead. Gah. Stupid Sirius.
I think from book one Neville was shown as someone who would stand up when he thought it was necessary and could work up the nerve :). And he'd been getting more confident in the later books. So I didn't find resistance-leader-Neville to be that peculiar.
Ahah wanuendo. Awesome. *steals word* Hermione's ruthless plan was also awesome. I was impressed by how she handled that. Because, really, they would have been prime targets, and all unprotected n stuff.
Scorpius is a terrible name. Although it comes from a family of terrible names, and is accordingly *less* awful than AS, who sits between Lily and James. Although. Ginevra. Abraxas, Lucius (Lucius is fine), Draco, Scorpius. Oh, dear. With a name like that, how can he not grow up to take over Gotham City grumpy?
Sword - that was a bit wtf, yeah. General opinion is that it hearkens back to a Gryffindor in need being able to pull it out of Gryffindor's hat, AKA the Deus ex Sorting Hat. You know, the one Voldemort conveniently set on fire over Neville's face (SO EVIL). So it probably clocked him on the head just like Harry in CoS (it's not like Fawkes put it in there for him - it's clearly supposed to be a hat mechanism. It's just a bit lame). Somewhere, there is a very pissed off goblin, swearing a blue streak about wizards.
Apparently a different person dealt to each Horcrux, which is kinda cool. Harry/Diary, Dumbledore/Ring, Ron/Locket, Hermione/Cup, Crabbe/Diadem (by lame accident), Neville/Nagini, Voldemort/Harry, Harry/Voldemort.
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Date: 2007-07-23 07:55 pm (UTC)Ditto on cyclical Remus/Tonks. They were more interesting characters than that. Deserved better, really. Not a better *death*, as such, but better handling. WTF happened to cool OotP-Tonks? I'd wondered if Remus was going to be offed simply to round out that generation, because, along with the convinced-he-was-good, I was nearly convinced Snape wouldn't make it through. Wormtail was always going to die.
Ambivalent Dumbledore *rocks*.
The Blacks never really got a break, did they :-/. I'm very pleased by the Malfoys as family unit - there's been too much assumption that Lucius was awful to Draco, and I just don't see evidence for that in the first six books, since the wee brat is obviously devoted to his family. Someone made the interesting point that the Malfoys can be contrasted against the Weasleys and Lupin-Tonkses - they dropped everything, flagged fighting, just to find their kid. If everyone had done that, there wouldn't have been much of a fight, and V coulda just walked in. Still. I enjoyed their family focus. I thought it worked for them, and gave them a bit of dimension. Even though they were self-serving till the end... but it was believable. Rock on, Narcissa :D.
I was SO HAPPY when Percy came through. I sodding love Percy, and, yay, he went ahead and joined in when it mattered. I may also have had sniggers at the shiny house and yummy Kreacher food etc, but it still made me go aw. And because it really *would* have made a difference if Sirius had treated him differently. And then, he might not be dead. Gah. Stupid Sirius.
I think from book one Neville was shown as someone who would stand up when he thought it was necessary and could work up the nerve :). And he'd been getting more confident in the later books. So I didn't find resistance-leader-Neville to be that peculiar.
Ahah wanuendo. Awesome. *steals word* Hermione's ruthless plan was also awesome. I was impressed by how she handled that. Because, really, they would have been prime targets, and all unprotected n stuff.
Scorpius is a terrible name. Although it comes from a family of terrible names, and is accordingly *less* awful than AS, who sits between Lily and James. Although. Ginevra. Abraxas, Lucius (Lucius is fine), Draco, Scorpius. Oh, dear. With a name like that, how can he not grow up
to take over Gotham Citygrumpy?Sword - that was a bit wtf, yeah. General opinion is that it hearkens back to a Gryffindor in need being able to pull it out of Gryffindor's hat, AKA the Deus ex Sorting Hat. You know, the one Voldemort conveniently set on fire over Neville's face (SO EVIL). So it probably clocked him on the head just like Harry in CoS (it's not like Fawkes put it in there for him - it's clearly supposed to be a hat mechanism. It's just a bit lame). Somewhere, there is a very pissed off goblin, swearing a blue streak about wizards.
Apparently a different person dealt to each Horcrux, which is kinda cool. Harry/Diary, Dumbledore/Ring, Ron/Locket, Hermione/Cup, Crabbe/Diadem (by lame accident), Neville/Nagini, Voldemort/Harry, Harry/Voldemort.