[ SECRET POST #3590 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3590 ⌋

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Comments

[morieris]

Book 6 was "Wow, I'm supposed to do all this?" and Book 7 was "Here I go, with no plan."


Though it is hard to think up a plan for such a situation.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT mostly I think it's a matter of pacing. Both book six and book seven had terrible pacing. Book six was largely 'teenage life at Hogwarts while we wait for Dumbledore to get to the point' and book seven was 'the never-ending camping trip where half the interesting stuff happens off-page'.

It's hard to keep a dynamic character going when your pacing is flat as a board. I sometimes wonder how book six and seven would've turned out if she hadn't felt the need to have each book end at the end of the Hogwarts school year.

[morieris]

I recently reread book 7 and the only chapter I skipped was Malfoy Manor. You're right, the pacing was really poor, it was either hardcore action bunched together or slow listening, planning, or camping.

[ketita]

The thing is, better done it could have actually been really tense - having this huge goal, and everything collapsing around them, and no idea what they're even supposed to do now but knowing they have to do *something*.

[morieris]

I see what you're saying - it didn't feel very harried because they were in hiding a lot of the time and didn't have contact with other resistors that much, let alone actually engaging with the enemy.

before the final battle, the only actual in person meeting between Harry and Voldemort is in (corpse controlled by a giant snake *shudder*) Bathilda's house right before he and Hermione split.