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posted by [identity profile] rainbowstevie.livejournal.com at 04:34pm on 30/07/2007
1. Bah, I would have been fine with Hagrid dying. He really started to grate on my nerves book 4 with Olympe, and Grawp in book 5 was the last straw.

3. Lilly, can we get some insight into why exactly you married James Potter? He was kind of a dick.
*has a story* Don't know where I'd be without all these magical fanfic patches, really.

4a. My only complaint about Teddy is that he survived. Rowling's latest interview says that she wanted there to be "an echo" of what happened in the first go-round with Voldemort, hence making an orphan, but I thought it would have been much more sinister - not to mention less, what's the word, repetitive? redundant? - to kill the *baby* this time around rather than the parents. In fact, I was fully prepared for that; I figured he was doomed as soon as he was born. It never occured to me that Remus & Tonks would be the ones in danger. That was my faulty sense of optimism kicking in.

7. HYSTERICAL.

13. I think I'm the only person on the planet who doesn't love Neville by this point...but I don't. I *still* see the same stumbling little kid from the first book no matter how hard the movie directors try to make him extra-heroic. If I want there to be a non-Trio kid kicking ass and taking names, let's at least make it Ginny.
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posted by [identity profile] stunt-muppet.livejournal.com at 05:02pm on 31/07/2007
1. Killing off Hagrid would have seemed, to me, like shooting some poor first-year in the face (or, to use the old example, AK-ing a baby beagle). He's just so sincere and well-intentioned and relatively innocent that it would have been mean-spirited to kill him.

3. "How do you spell 'Slughorn is a paedophile?'" A ha ha ha ha. Thank you for pointing me to that one.

4.a. I must go find these interviews. And it would have made more sense if Teddy died, as a contrast to "the boy who lived".

Still, I don't agree with Rowling here; she killed off enough people to make her point, and I don't think the "echo" effect was necessary. From where I'm sitting, Teddy serves no narrative purpose except to keep Tonks and Lupin out of the way. *grumble*

7. Well, she was making me uncomfortable, anyway.

13. I like his precisely because he started out so clumsy and bumbling. He's grown the most out of almost every character except The Trio, and I enjoyed watching him evolve.

That said, it would have been nice if Ginny was given a more prominent role. She felt like an afterthought in this book.
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