ive already asked this question (http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AlfUw83gi46JsGj3gR0.ZaTsy6IX?qid=1006012709273), but im gonna again, see what kinda responses we get. answer about whatever u want that has anything to do w/ the book (dumbledore, snape, horcruxes, etc.)
2006-06-10 15:04:43 · 8 answers · asked by You Know It! 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
sorry link didnt work.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AlfUw83gi46JsGj3gR0.ZaTsy6IX?qid=1006012709273
2006-06-10 15:05:09 · update #1
I don't believe Snape is bad - I think he and Dumbledore had some agreement or something. I think some people supposedly lost might come back in the last book, but we'll see.
2006-06-10 17:14:50 · answer #1 · answered by jamie5987 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I was really mad but it wasn't so much about the book. I was in chapter 2 when an idiot told me what happens at the end. For the rest of the book I was just annoyed and couldn't fully enjoy it. When book 7 comes out, nobody is talking to me!
I also can't accept that Snape is bad. He's a terd, but I think he did reform and stuff. The rest of his behaviour wouldn't really make sense. They did explain it a bit but I still don't accept it.
I also agree with a point somebody else mentioned: it should have been longer. It was rushed. I was mad it was so short! It's tiny! Yarr. But I'm sure she's really pressured and I can imagine she has a big weight on her shoulders. (If book seven sucks EVERYBODY will DESPISE her)
The series is kind of going away from children and adults. It's more for older people now. Maybe I'm a wimp, but if I read some of those things when I was ten I'd be pretty scared!
2006-06-10 15:09:39 · answer #2 · answered by MrMonkIsMyIdol 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To be completely honest, while I read it, I kept getting the feeling from the pace of the writing and story that J.K. Rowling kept saying "gotta speed this one up... gotta get it done quicker... it can't be that long, it can't be that long, it can't be that long"... and I thought the book suffered for it because it felt, well, rushed.
I mean, I know a lot of people criticized her because of the length of GoF and OotP, but I'm a patient guy and I can stick with a story that goes at its own pace.
If it needs eight hundred pages, then it needs eight hundred pages... and if you need a prime example of that, go read the abridged version of "The Stand", and then read the version where Stephen King got to add back in the two hundred some odd pages they cut out. I haven't met anyone yet who thought the shorter version was better.
So yeah, that's what I thought. I like the fact it was as internal as it was, I very much like where the story is going, but yeah... it just feels like J.K. Rowling might have had another hundred or so pages in the story she just felt pushed to skate over to make the book shorter and it ended up feeling rushed to me, and left me wanting those extra pages so the story would feel complete.
2006-06-10 15:12:39 · answer #3 · answered by AndiGravity 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, i can't actually say that i didn't like it.. it was great as a continuation of the whole story and all.. but i have to agree with everyone else.. i think rowling kinda spoiled it with the pace of the story.. it started out alright, but then, halfway through you could notice the drastic transition to being really rushed.. it didn't give much chance for any of the subplots to develop nicely and fall into the pieces.. i agree with the person who answered b4 me that the whole ginny/harry plot seemed really fake.. u couldn't feel the emotional build up to that, so i wasn't invested in that part at all.. even the whole half-blood prince potion book plot didn't interest me.. too many details were left out.. i'm the kind of person who really wants a book to have all those tiny, minutiaes to really get what's going on.. there was even less humor in HBP.. i love rowling's sense of humor, really cracks me up.. and there wasn't enough of fred and george.. i'm not really too distraught by the ending coz i know that's where book 7 will start off from.. sad, though for dumbledore.. shed a few tears reading that part.. actually i could go on and on about the faults of book 6, but i've already done that on my personal blog.. haha.. :)
2006-06-11 09:24:06 · answer #4 · answered by green_grass_galloping_gargoyles 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I thought it was really well put together for such an important and revealing part in the huge storyline. It must've been pretty difficult to write.
I think Dumbledore's dead and Snape's on the good side. That's all, really, the rest I'm not sure about.
2006-06-11 10:43:54 · answer #5 · answered by s.jeong 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i was very disappointed by HP-6.i had waited so long for it and it wasn't worth it .well parts bout voldemort's past and horcruxes were surely interesting but still....there was very little humor in book and pace was way too quick.in comparison to other 5 it wasn't up to mark and that death of dumbledore.surely ruined what could have been a book at par with its predecessors.in itself well it was a good book but ppl tend to unconsciously compare it with former parts
2006-06-11 19:33:05 · answer #6 · answered by aman 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
very dissapointing... nothing seemed to happen really:-|...the ginny/harry thing seemd so fake and weird, i remember i was reading the book at night (they released in romania at 2am..which was midnight in gb) and i closed suddenly when i read the part of them kissing:(...but that's one insane girl's opinion...
bottom line is that after i read it, got sad bc of dumbledore...and then went like "that's it?"
2006-06-10 18:27:23 · answer #7 · answered by Lyla 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was sad and depressing. Eveyrone was thinking about Voldemort and what he would do next. I don't know it was depressing I didn't enjoy it. ((( And Dumbledore is dead now (((( It's so sad (((
2006-06-10 15:10:15 · answer #8 · answered by Piccola Yulichka 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋