Molly killing Bellatrix is it for me. And the way Voldemort died really was that the best she could do. Also Harry masturbating while looking at Ginny on the marauder's map was pretty bad. I usually read the books twice to find things I've missed but I just can't do it, I don't know if I can take it.

So true

 

I have to say in addition the whole Snape and Lily were friends!111! Chapter. I hate Lily and Snape was a fine character to me until that chapter. Now I loathe the both of them. Ugh.

Plus the whole Harry being OMG the Messiah and coming to life after Voldermort killed him. The bitch should have stayed dead. Honestly if the character's going to sacrifice himself he should stay dead. That's kind of the point of a sacrifice!

 

...you're supposed to make the other poor bastard die for HIS cause.

I HATE that Harry just walked up to be slaughtered.

 

What took the cake for me was Harry defeating Voldemort using Expelliarmus against the AK while casting it with Draco's wand...I mean, talk about a let down...

There is Dumbledore's talk about how the hero of the piece, our own Harry is a 'powerfully mediocre' wizard (or is 'powerful in his mediocrity' the phrase I'm looking for?)...and Harry actually agreeing with him (I think that did happen...) destroyed the entire series for me in two fell blows...

Then there is this one: throughout the series we keep hearing about how Harry 'can do all sorts of stuff full grown wizards can't' and outside the Patronus we don't see any of this 'stuff' (I'm discounting the Imperius and Cruciatus, too many people tossing them about)
Then of course the whole series is full of the 'deus ex machina'...too much happening at the author's convenience (Ron's hiss, for example)

 

After OotP, which was some times very depressing (but hey, he is a teenager and is life kind of sucks at this time…more than usual), but nonetheless a fantastic book, one of my favourites (I always love to read how Harry demolished Dumbledore’s office, it warms my heart) and the prophecy I thought:
So Harry has to face the most evil Wizard in younger history to a certain life-and-dead situation/fight and all he does in HbP is learning about Voldemort’s past?!
And he doesn’t complain or anything and still does his stupid assignments for classes?!
I mean, know your enemy and all good and fine, but how did he expect to kill a wizard, who is nearly immortal, has far more years of training and hundreds if not thousand followers?
Tell him right into his face what a fucked up childhood he had?
I bet that would make him melt just like a good old bottle of water or why not throwing such a nice bottle at him and see what happens? Or we could send out kamikaze canaries like Hermione! No wonder that Harry is the only one to vanquish the Dark Lord,
No one else would be stupid enough to throw a Expelliarmus at a wizard of such power…
The power the dark Lord does not know…now we are enlightened.

The next point which bothered me is the whole Ginny-thing. If it wasn’t a love potion I don’t know what the world has come to…Katie was more likely, Luna was more likely (especially after her talk with Harry in OotP, that was a far more deeper thing than anything else he had with Ginny), Hermione was more likely!
Ginny is a fangirl and the whole relationship was “Oh my god, after five years of not noticing hoe beautiful and wonderful she is I’m finally able to see the “real” Ginny (or notice her for the matter…) and I will marry her straight away!
How many people marry they first real boy/girlfriend? How many of these marriages are divorced? And all three main characters (after OotP Hermione and Ron are far too important to be considered anything less…unfortunately) have such a great first and only love experience? Of course and Snape isn’t and evil git with bad hair…oh, wait he is, isn’t he?!
(Who didn’t see that one coming? Most fans guessed it right even before DH)
The names of their children are just awful and Fleur diserves respect!
She was her school champion and that does mean she was qualified enogh for the goblet of fire and she works for Gringotts (and I bet they doesn’t employ “stupid sluts”, we talk about Goblins!). She is a beautiful and competent witch and all the other girls are just jealousy.
She stands by Bill even after he is attacked by Greyback! She can’t be that shallow, can she?

The Epilogue was just in spite of every fanfiction author out there who are against HarryGinny and HermioneRon…I tell you, just in spite, so we can’t say GinnyHarry isn´t the main canon pairing…such an awful piece of writing, ruined everything which was built up until the end of DH (which wasn’t very much to begin with).

(If you think I hate the last book, you aren’t completely right, I think it is one of the worst HP books beside HbP, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have some good aspects…somewhere, I’m just frustrated about the end of the series and how it ended)

The whole camping-thing was so boring, pages and pages about how three teenagers angst in a tent somewhere in GB…great! I waited years just to read something like this, who didn’t?

To be continued
(can´t pent it all on one rant, would be boring if I did)

Bye

 

Wow, I don't think anyone else has to post now. You pretty much summed it up.

I have to agree with you that the whole 'final duel' was a let down. Not to mention she discribed Harry's and Voldemortss eye colors as the prepared to 'duel.' Some crap about 'Green orbs meeting red.' I thought I was going to gag.

The whole radio thing was a tad retarded as well.

 

Ron speaking Parseltongue... Parseltongue is a supposedly unique ability; very rare in wizards. For Ron Weasely, unexceptional brat extraordinaire, to be able to open the Chamber of fucking Secrets, was horrible. Emphasis on Secret; not everyone is supposed to be able to open the damn thing.

 

Harry watching like a fucktard as Snape died?

 

That was annoying to. Apparently Parseltongue can be mimicked. Though only Ron was smart enough to figure out how

That was OOC in my opinion. Doesn't he have a saving people complex? Shouldn't that dumbass have done something?

 

There's a plot hole, too.

Harry's curse scar hurt - savagely - whenever he was near Voldemort, because of the soul fragment in the scar. Shouldn't Voldemort be able to feel his horcrux at the same range?

 

If that was true, he was going to be fucking insane by staying close to Nagini for so long.

And so should Nagini have, if the pain in Harry's scar was really because of a Horcrux and not because of the curse scar connection.

 

I hadn't considered that Voldemort might not notice the proximity of a horcrux because he was used to Nagini. OK, I'll accept that - on the assumption that the difference between soul fragments and quantity of soul fragments is undetectable. When did Voldemort figure out that the scar was a soul fragment?

 

He didn't. Not till the end anyway, right when he shot a killing curse at Harry that took both Harry and the horcrux into Harry's limbo.

The whole 'Harry is nothing without his friends ' theme adopted in the later books was overdone to the point of irritation; considering that when it came to the crux in books 1-4 (especially in 2 and 4) everything was done by Harry alone...

 

These are all bad scenes but seriously...the epilogue...

 

I've never read it

 

Just an idea, but after I’ve read a fanfictin where Harry takes a much more logically approach to everything and one thing was especially good:
What was the reason for the whole seven Harrys-thing?
He could just take a car or another way that isn’t so risky.
How many Deatheater would notice a car in a Muggleneighbourhood?
It was just an idea, but it is a wide known fact that Harry is a magnificent flyer and wizards tend to ignore muggle-things. Because they are inferior…

The rarest thing in the wizarding world is commonsense and logic, but we all knew that by now.

 

I am a hardened Ff.net user, I shall not bow to the stupidity of Ronald's parseltounge...

These are kid's books so quality is not always a concern.

I thought that J.K.'s equal opportunity killing for old ma Weasley was sweet...

Harry's taste in girls wasn't a surprise (and lets face it, J.K.'s Ginny is really OOC anyway)...

But she spent over 7 years writing these books (which are all she is going to be remembered for) so I was expecting a plot.

HBP never finished. The book ended halfway through the Horcrux Hunt. DH was in cliched phrase a giant Deus Ex Machina. Srly WTF! a magic stone never before so much as mentioned that does nothing throughout the book can be used to destroy Voldemort by combining it with an Uber-wand (Sigmond Freud, much?), and a battered old cloak that was used and passed around like a prostitute for years...

 

I'm sure someone has mentioned it... a hundred times.... but can I please, please say it again?

The epilogue.

Yes... the epilogue. I swear on the bible of literature (The Elements of Style by, bless them, William Strunk and E.B. White) that there will never be a worse piece of crap forged out of such innocent words. And please... Albus Severus Potter... How did that joke go? Name or gay threesome?

Euch.

You wanna know why? Because for the world to be logic, Rowling would have to possess that spark of intelligence she obviously doesn't. Want proof? Read the epilogue.

 

Ron actually doing something worthwhile in the forest scene with Snape's gay-ass Patronus.

I mean, come on.

If it were halfway realistic, the Voldemort soul fragment would have offered him free breakfast for life and taken him over.

That would've made Harry's shenanigans a bit easier.

Edit: As for Molly killing Bellatrix - I was desensitized to the literary horror that is DH by then.

 

The scene with the fucking Put-Outer taking Ron to where he needs to go. Honestly, the thing turns out fucking lights, and all of a sudden a gigantic ball of light tells him exactly where he needs to apparate to. What kind of half-assed writing is that?