What about how Ginny's a pathetic, blushing fangirl in the first 4 books, and then suddenly OOTP comes along and bam! she's cool and amazing and uses her supreme wit to snag Harry's interest?

And then after all this, she turns "beseeching" during the final battle!

I mean, what the fuck?

If only Rowling had swapped her for Tonks and Remus... or FRED. Why the hell did she kill them off, and leave Ron and Ginny to live and torment us with their stupidity?

urghhhh it peeves me.

 

Yes, yes, all too true, Rumis. Now do you see the travails of our existence here at the DLP?

 

What I can't stand is the entire elder wand sequence. WTF is the elder wand. First it was a wand that didn't let you lose duels. Then, wow, Dumbledore lost a duel. Then it was a powerful wand. But dumbledore LOST it, Draco expelliarmused it off the tower. Then it was a magical essence that transferred wand to wand. But it didn't do anything until... Well, it apparently is the wand that reflects killing curses, magical. Also, its like Harry stopped growing after book four. He never duels, or learns cool spells. Why can death eaters who are full grown wizards be defeated by school children who took months to learn how to levitate, or do anything in a club headed by someone who only knows expelliarmus.

 

The way the book shows the wand, it makes it seem like a trophy. The worst of the 3 choices if you ask me.

 

Was anyone else extremely unsatisfied with the way Wormtail died? If I had to pick my least favorite scene, that would be it. The other day on Live Journal I was reading a post from someone who 'loved how Wormtail died, saving Harry and his friends from Malfoy manor by sacrificing his life.' Made me angry.

 

I was. There were so many better ways to have him use his life debt, but it was wasted in that.

Other than that, the worst scene was the final battle. Harry talks the whole time and Voldemort just sits and listens. What bullcrap. He should have just AK'd him in the middle of his little speech.

 

Every scene in this book basically qualifies as bad scenes. In fact, since the book was a pile of shit, I purposely buried it in a deep, very dark part of my mind so I could forgot this nightmare inducing piece of complete literary failure.

 

Well for me was the whole first chapter in the HBP. That was really pointless. Anywhere alse in the book we would have known about all the tragic things that are going on. I just pretty much always skip that chapter.

 

Do the entire last 3 books count as scenes? I honestly loathe the lot of them. I'll pay someone to invent me a time machine so I can go back and belt her over the head with those pieces of crap she call books. Or at the very least push her under a bus.

 

That or two people, let's say Hermione and Mad Eye, could use two of the Order's invisibility cloaks, apparate a couple of blocks away from Privet Drive, then have Hermione sneak up to the house while the Dursleys are getting ready to leave and tell Harry to put on his invisibility cloak (I guess one of the Aurors escorting the Dursleys could take Harry's luggage outside of the Traces sensory field and shrink it before bringing it back to Harry)
Then Harry could hide Hedwig under his cloak with him, and hours before the Death Eaters show up Harry and Hermione could sneak outside walk a couple blocks back to Moody, and then Port Key to the Burrow, that way no one would have broken any laws about apparating Harry or bringing Port Keys into Privet Drive.

It really annoyed me during OotP after Luna suggests they ride Thestrals and Harry wants to jump on one and go because the only family he has left is being slowly tortured to death, and Ginny picks then to have her whole 'I'm not a little girl, I'm independent' moment.

And when their all at Grimmauld Place, and all Harry wants to do is spend time with Sirius, whose his Godfather and the only family he has left, and Mrs. Weasley makes it her personal mission to make sure he and Harry don't get within five feet of each other,
And even before that she berates Sirius for being sent to Azkaban, and tries to say Harry's as good as her son, he's friends with one of her sons, her daughter hero worships him, and he's stayed at their house a few times, that's it!

Mrs. Weasley was so-so in the first two, but she ust got annoying after that.

 

...well, since this thread has already been necro'ed, I figure I'll toss in my two cents and reminisce.

Worst scenes... how about most of DH? Battle scene was shit for already explained reasons, camping was asinine (I've seen fanfiction do the horcrux hunt better), and the final fucking scenes (Molly offing Bellatrix, Harry vs. Voldemort, the epilogue) just left a bad taste in my mouth, because I knew the scenes had finally sunk far beneath my expectations.

And having Snape killed by a fucking snake. Seriously, what the fucking hell? Yeah, I know I like Snape more than most of DLP, but that wasn't the way that fucker should have died. Fuck, if he was going to die, I bloody wanted Harry to kill him.

And honestly, one of the scenes that really irritated the hell out of me was back in OOTP - the scene when we have the first arrival of All-Caps!Harry as he goes psycho on Ron and Hermione. I mean, I understand Harry was angry, but that scene just felt really... well, I'm not going to say OOC, but I'm going to say it was bloody disappointing. I expected a Harry coming out of Goblet of Fire (my favourite of the series) to be better than this.

Honestly, for me it wasn't that there were that many utterly bad scenes. It's more like most of the story was either mediocre to the extreme or just filler, tied together to connect the truly good scenes and the shit.

If anything, Rowling just threw turds in a box and tried to pass them off as the missing chocolates. Pity she didn't notice the stench.

 

personally i'd say any thing that dealt with Dumbles "withered hand" in Half Baked Plot is definitely on my list.
Though truly a book could be written of all the bad scenes that we have witnessed in this series, oh wait....2 of them were written...

 

Well, in order of year...

1. Lame protections on the philosophers stone
2. A basalisk can't kill anyone in how many months
3. Who lets a 13/14 year old mess with time to take a class or two
4. Giving the twins his winnings from the tournament
4b. The tasks are kind of lame... they are all a retrieval
5. Emo-Harry
5b. Prefect-Ron
6. Relationships
6b. Why is Harry not doing something to prepare?
7. Screw this entire book (although I support death to Dobby)

 

Yeah, I agree with mostly everything written above, especially when it comes to Ginny and Mrs Weasley hate. Seriously, a housewife can't beat a freaking Boggart because it shows her family dead, and when one of her sons actually dies, she flips out and kills Bellatrix later on?

Anyway, one scene that bugged me was something pointed out to me somewhere else: The scene where Harry strips off and jumps into the cold water to retrieve the Sword of Gryffindor. Without doing a fucking thing first. He could've tried Summoning the sword, conjuring a rope and hoisting it up, warmed the water with the right charm, even transfigured himself to have fur or something, or... I don't know, take a moment to think instead of jumping in the water in his skivvies.

That right there, along with Harry's outright morality when it came to killing Death Eaters (The bad guys, remember. Yeah, killed your friends, your godfather etc. What's that? You don't want to kill them? Well, okay then. Let's make you use nothing but Disarmers for the entire book and leave handy killing spells like Sectumsempra or Blasting Curses in the back of your mind.) really pissed me off.

Thank gods for fanfiction, eh?

 

My least favorite moments of the Potter series are:

1) Ron becoming Prefect. Despite the fact that Ron didn't give a flying fig about studying before, Dumblefuck (my pet name for Dumbledore) somehow rewards him with Prefect, just because Harry has enough in his mind already. WTF? I stopped liking Ron after that and considered him a borderline Gary Stu.

2)Ron opening the Chamber of Secrets. WTF????

3)Bill and Fluer subplot and subsequent wedding. Who on earth wants to get married during wartime after all? Especially with Voldemort and his Death Eaters hanging about.

4)Ginny Sue and the Half Blood Prince.

5) Harry's whining and complaining in OoTP.

6) Snape's Worst Memory.

7) The Seven Potters.

8)Malfoy Manor.

9)Ron doing and obsessing over Quidditch.

10) Ron and Hermione kiss. YUCK!

Don't get me wrong, I do like Ron, but I feel that his character became more stu-ish in the last three books.

Cheers,
Mary (AKA Grapes)

 

Snape's Patronus and obsession over Lily.
The concept of Horcruxes.
Harry being "Dumbledore's man through and through."
Snape turning out to be a good guy.
How Harry names his obnoxius kids.
The epilogue in general.
Dumbledore's "training."
Hermoine's blatant jealousy of Harry in HBP, and her know-it-all characterization in general.

 

First glance, I hated it, too. However, if you look at it from the theory that contact with a horcrux allows you to briefly speak Parseltongue - was it Taure who came up with that? - it's not as bad. Notice I said 'not as bad' and not 'fucking amazing'.

You get married because there's a chance you might die the very next day (killed by the same Voldemort and his Death Eaters). It's something almost everyone wants to do before they die, and of course, they love each other and want to have something professing that. Getting married is like the ultimate symbol of love. Besides, it's would've been like letting Voldemort win had they not gotten married when they wanted to do it. -shrugs-

For me, that's pure Ron. Ron has always been obsessed with Quidditch and food.

 

I disliked most of HBP and DH. : P

 

I don't think anyone here liked the last two books. Harry was too pathetic, plot holes were too big, and Voldemort's death was just plain stupid.

I mean, seriously, the Dark Lord was supposed to be a good dueller. How come he cannot dodge a shit? Also, one would think that after he had twice failed to kill Harry with AK, he would use some other spell, like Fiendfyre.

 

Yep. Expelliarmus did not kill the Dark Lord: Lack of creativity did.