The Big Book 7 Let Down

OK, first off, Voldemort's death. I know that the AK he threw at Harry was supposed to rebound on him because Voldemort was not the true Master of the Elder Wand but still--very lame!

And my screen-name aside, Bella should have been killed by someone else, namely, in my opinion, Andromeda. Not to say that I didn't find the "YOU BITCH!" line from Molly funny--because it was freaking hilarious--but I felt that someone with more skill at dueling or a real/interpersonal relationship to Bella should have killed her off. Come on, she's not only a very skilled Dark Witch but she deflected one of Dumbledore's spells in OotP for crying out loud!

And of course as everyone has said, that damned epilogue.

Also, the scene in Limbo--while it answered questions it didn't sync well with the plot and sort of left you wondering...huh...ok that didn't make much sense...and this is coming from someone who is very good a suspending logic, canon, and disbelief so you know there's definitely something wrong.

 

My worst scenes -

Snape dead, come on being mauled to death by a friggin ginat snake, jesus christ reminds me of a potion experiment gone bad, couldn't give the guy badass death, like a duel, soemthing like that.

All Ginny/Harry scenes, his rich, famous handsome, and he couldn't find a better girl than a beggar, his dated what 2 girls and now his in love with her, I always imagined ginny to give harry love potion, how the hell did she get him???

Also how the fuck did Molly beat the most feared witch second to the dark lord Voldermort, right hand witch, I mean come on, bellatrix gets killed by a overstuffed chicked hen who wants to kill them all by mothering them to death, lol.

Also Ginny calling Fluer 'Phelmg' shows shes a jealous bitch, Fluer is beutiful, poplular, rich and known, everything that ginger tart is not.

The duel in hogwarts, thats it, thats how you kill the most feard dark lord in history, by experlliamus, got to say WTF, couldn't it be a bit more dramatic, blood, pain, shit like that. I wouldn't even call it a duel, Harry spent more time ranting out shit as though Voldermort gave him a invatition to talk about his problems like a quack.

 

Most Definitely I mean, what the hell, come on JKR, the fifth book was the last decent one, parts of the sixth one were good, and I've read fanfiction better that the seventh.

What I hated is that she killed off one of the twins (I really just dont remember which one) and the other one is now earless...they were kinda sorta some of my favorites.

That and I've kinda been wondering whether or not Lavender survived... she was totally attacked, but did she live???

 

Parts of the Sixth? Toss the whole thing out.

It's obvious why Rowling killed off one of the twins. They have a backup.

I would have preferred Percy, Bill, Charlie, Molly, Ginny or Ron to off it.

Who cares? She obviously didn't end up sucking Ron's dick at the end.

 

the whole battle of hogwarts was lacking in my opinion. 1.Molly killing bellatrix... 2. Okay, Remus and Tonks died. Can we not get one scene? I had to look up on wikpedia how they died. I know its a kids book, but Im not asking JKR to kill them graphically - Lupin and Tonks were good characters in my opinion, they deserved a better death. 3... Duel with Harry and Voldemort wasn't really a duel. It seemed David and Goliathy to me - harry with his little expelliarmus. He didn't win any duel; AD won it for him.

I must admit, the battle was a real
let down. I suppose I have been spoiled by fanfiction, reading bloody, realistic, epic showdowns. At the very least, Jo could have fleshed it out and made it longer, instead of chopping out essential scenes and details.

Edit: Sorry, I forgot to say that the epilogue was terrible, like after years of hard work, JKR got lazy and didnt want to write more than one more chapter. It wasn't the h/g that turned me off, to be honest, although canon ginny does annoy me. Just the way that SNAP happily ever after... All is well...

See, the first book begins well, despite being aimed at ten year olds. The ending was just weak...

 

1. Voldemort's death. That was some bullshit.

2. The epilogue. The REAL epilogue should've been Voldemort's version of "king's cross" or whatever, showing how fucking pissed he was at being offed by a goddamn expeliarmus. Gryffindor Sword? Alright. Basilisk fang? Sure. Expelliarmus? Fuck me sideways.

3. Book 6, in totality. It was basically filler/glossary of terms for book 7 IMO. Oh and Dumbledore died. Whatever.

If I have to spend free time during my 6th year NOT studying for the so-called impossibly hard NEWTS, and NOT getting pussy, locked in an office with the greatest sorcerer in existence (well, that's NOT trying to kill me, at least), I would want to start learning everything he knows, point blank period. Dumbles could've structured the Order as a cell organization, tell each cell that Voldie has ONE horcrux, cast all necessary Unbreakable Vows and sign contracts to prevent traitor-ism, get the Horcuxes taken care of, and send off a prepared Harry to give Voldemort a worthy death.

...
.....Fuckin' Expelliarmus. Get the fuck outta here with that shit.

 

The last 2 books, 'nuff said

 

That was fuckin perfect, you have no idea... if i could pat you on the back I would.

 

The worst scene? No there was no scene book's six and seven ruined my appreciation for JKR. Sure they were 'well written' meaning no grammatical or spelling errors, if it wasn't for fanfiction I'm sure I wouldn't have read book seven the sixth one kind of got to me. Mostly because it was a piece of crap, and the seventh book, nevermind if I start I won't stop.

 

Well, the scenes in order would be...

1. Voldemort dies from not owning the Elder Wand (basically). I don't understand how Harry can own the wand after barely harming Draco, but when Voldemort AK's him, it doesn't count as a win?

2. Snape's death. The scene in CoS where the school sees Harry use Parseltongue, Snape also easily gets rid of the snake. Yet, he gets killed by Voldemort's snake. I just don't like the "irony" of it.

3. Molly Weasley should've died, hands down. I don't even have to go into this, just read the other posts.

 

I was going to say the whole seventh book was really badly done, but Charmed Writing summed up what I was thinking about the seventh book.

The wandering around for the Horcruxes really sucked because it was boring and nothing really happened....

 

To all the people who complain about Molly killing Bellatrix-

This is a form of combat where people point sticks at each other and yell- put aside fanfiction and all the differing portrayals of magic we have seen- the winner of a duel would be the fastest speaker(or thinker, if they use nonverbal spells), especially if the enemy is a witch who has shown to be impossibly arrogant, and thus takes a moment to laugh at her opponent.

 

Warning, ahead is a retch inducing POS I like to call a caption from HBP. It's basically the moment of the H/G shit starting.

I took the time to type that out from my copy of HBP, to show just how terrible it is. Look at it! If I was to take that and post it as fanfiction, the first shout would be "OOC!". I mean what the fuck?

It's not even realistic, Harry Potter, the most famous person of the age, chooses the plain (maybe even ugly) girl next door, when he could have just about every girl in Hogwarts, and 99% of the women everywhere else? Bullshit!

Add to that the whole out of nowhere idea of "Ginny! Come to me my beloved! Let's be quirky!".

Jesus Christ, I swear I nearly puked when I read it.




EDIT:

Agreed, in the REAL final book Voldemart would have tossed his wand away, pimp walked up to Potter, and just bitch slapped him across the face for using that shit.

 

One of the things that drove me WILD about the H/G 'ship, was the scene in which Ginny throws herself into Harry's arms, where they share the perfect kiss.
1) Right in front of God and Everybody?
2) first kisses (even between experienced adults) are clumsy - especially when either of you are wearing glasses.
3) a boy actually managed to shatter the glass in his hand. That takes a much stronger grip than JKR might realize. Glass is actually pretty good at surviving even pressure. Dean was either really pissed, or he's been working with weights. Or those little stress balls. Or it was accidental magic. No matter how it happened, he just grabbed a handful of glass shards. Why isn't everyone screaming and trying to get him to Pomphrey?
4) If Dean is that hurt and angry Not To Notice his hand being reduced to ribbons, why didn't he ever throw a tantrum or get in a fight with Harry or try to get Ginny back?
5) Ronniekins must have been prepared for this somewhat. I guess Hermione probably set the whole thing up.


I wonder: if one of the Slytherin girls had grabbed Harry by the ears and kissed him, would he have fallen at her feet, instead?


Edited to add:
The more I consider Snape's murder, the more it frustrates me.

 

Book seven for me, where we learned about the rest of the Horcruxes.

Since book 1, I'd always wondered what significance Harry's Lightning Bolt scar had.

It was never explained. EVER. Rowling just put the scar on Harry so he could both be an attention whore from early on, and the only reason it was a lightning bolt was because it LOOKED cool.

I've seen some fan fictions which marked all of the horcruxes with the same lightning bolt insignia. That is what I was looking for.

 

Book 7 was basically tying up loose ends with as little cool shit as possible. Ever since everyone started bitching about the size of book 5 in a "Oh I'm a fucking illiterate retard who can't look at something for more than 5 minutes without whining like a little bitch" kind of way the books have gotten shorter which gave them a kind of rushed feeling IMO.
Fucking ten year olds... bastards, all of them.

 

Too long?

I read Book7 in one evening - 9pm til after 1am. It isn't like it's a tough read. The language is aimed at kids, there aren't any real complexities to the plot, and frankly, no wonders that made me stop and think about it. The only scene I read more than once was Snape's murder.

 

I agree for the most part, though I had a huge WTF moment when I read the epilogue.
And Percy coming back.
And Molly killing Bellatrix. (I mean, seriously?)
And the tense (read: borderline gay love) scene after Ron rescued Harry from the lake.

Meh, I don't wanna think about that book anymore.

 

...so in general, scenes that included Weasleys?

The part that really galled me the most in book seven was Harry camping out in the woods with a broken wand, and then actually pulling out the map, staring at the dot labeled 'Ginny' and thinking to himself that if he concentrated hard enough, she'd know he was lookin out for her. Harry's balls finally gave up the ghost right then and there.

 

The epilogue, Harry killing Voldermort using a spell he learned nearly 4 freakin' years ago. Ginny period. The way Harry treated Ginny. But mostly it was the scene where Harry marched "bravely" towards his death. Real brave Potter just do what Dumbledore told you with no fear

And forgot the "Not my daughter you bitch!" scene honestly. Epic WTF moment. Just ugh Molly Weasley defeating Bellatrix HA! Yeah right! I was laughing along with Bellatrix at that moment. How'd have thought JK would pull such a unbelieveable damn scene. Ugh. That scene should have belonged to someone with an actual damn grudge against Bellatrix. Honestly Neville, Tonks, Remus freakin Augusta would have made more sense than damn Molly!