[ SECRET POST #3365 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3365 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Nope not me. I wasn't impressed with 6 and 7 for reasons that had absolutely nothing to do with shipping or headcanons (I was 11-13 at the time and had no interest in shipping and had no idea fandom existed, and anyway I wound up liking all the ships that were made canon in 6 and 7).

I disliked them because I felt the the horror and supernatural phenomena were a lot less unique and more cliched than in previous books (zombie army? Really? That's not even 1/10ths as terrifying as the secret diary), the characterization was more boring especially considering how nuanced and sharp and amazing said characterization was in Book 5 (especially Harry and Hermione and Luna and Dumbledore) and the writing was more over-the-top (compare the wonderfully poignant and delicate emotion of the scenes after Harry returns from the graveyard in Goblet of Fire, to the dull excesses of Dumbledore's funeral scene).

It also had less implicit and unspoken content, less show-don't-tell, which Rowling had gotten really very good at doing in Books 4 and 5 but didn't capitalize on in 6 and 7 at all, and 6 and 7 I thought were overall just not as well written, and not in the way books 1 and 2 weren't as well written. Books 1 and 2 felt a little unpolished, a little awkward like a writer who hasn't honed her skill yet. Books 6 and 7 felt lazy and unrestrained.

[(Anonymous)]

Ah. I've never critiqued the books on this level because I thought they were all a little silly and sloppy when you came right down to it.

[(Anonymous)]

Er....lolwhut? I didn't "critique" the books "on this level." These were just my vague impressions that I remember having when I finished them when I was 11-13. I was annoyed at how boring and unscary the inferi were compared to the diary or the Dept of Mysteries. I was annoyed that Dumbledore's funeral scene was so excessive and didn't stab me like the post-climactic scenes of books 4 and 5. I was annoyed that stuff like Hermione's political insightfulness or panicky discomfort about things that didn't have a rational explanation was dropped. I was annoyed that Harry's ripping grief and trauma and existential dread from Book 5 was dropped. That's not a "critique." That's a kids' reaction, which I had.

Do you really...think that my previous comment is anything close to "critiquing"? That's...not a critique. At all. It's just a pointing out of how aspects of books 6 and 7 were disappointing in comparison to things the earlier books did well. It has nothing to do with being silly or sloppy or not being silly or sloppy.

I was emotionally affected by Books 1-5, and affected in more thought-provoking ways by books 4 and 5. I wasn't nearly as emotionally affected by Books 6 and 7, and they weren't nearly as thought-provoking either. That's not a "critique" on any "level." It's an emotional reaction.