I'm with ptyx on this one: I like HBP more than OotP.
1. Harry, Hermione, and Dumbledore all become less annoying in HBP. Yay!
2. The "Draco lets in the Death Eaters via Vanishing Cabinet" plot, while rather convoluted, wasn't nearly as lame as the Prophecy. Yay!
3. Dark Lord backstory! Yay! (You might want the Pensieve jaunts condensed to two pages, but some Riddlefans are wishing there were even more flashbacks. Really.)
4. Almost no Grawp. Yay!
5. Blaise Zabini speaks! Aragog dies! Slughorn gives us another sub-genre of Slytherin! Yay!
7. H/G and R/Hr are mercifully brief, and cause vast amounts of entertaining kerfuffles all over the fandom. *passes popcorn* Yay!
Yes, lack of Sirius discussion is disappointing, the Remus/Tonks is a total facepalm, and there are hundreds of FF.net writers hurling abuse at "Snape, the filthy traitor!" But that doesn't make HBP feel worse than OotP for me. I enjoyed HBP a lot on the first read, and still do.
Snapefan though I am... It's not All About Snape. It's about Harry. Main conflict between Harry and Voldemort, not Harry and Snape. IMHO, that's explanation enough for devoting time to Dark Lord history exposition. This book is about Albus passing the Evil-Fighting baton to Harry. Snape is merely a means to an end, and that goes for Draco too.
P.S. Hey JKR, how's Lucius doing? *peers curiously at Azkaban*
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Date: 2005-09-29 01:16 pm (UTC)1. Harry, Hermione, and Dumbledore all become less annoying in HBP. Yay!
2. The "Draco lets in the Death Eaters via Vanishing Cabinet" plot, while rather convoluted, wasn't nearly as lame as the Prophecy. Yay!
3. Dark Lord backstory! Yay! (You might want the Pensieve jaunts condensed to two pages, but some Riddlefans are wishing there were even more flashbacks. Really.)
4. Almost no Grawp. Yay!
5. Blaise Zabini speaks! Aragog dies! Slughorn gives us another sub-genre of Slytherin! Yay!
6. Inferi! Non-verbal spells! Horcruxes! Probity Probes! Yay!
7. H/G and R/Hr are mercifully brief, and cause vast amounts of entertaining kerfuffles all over the fandom. *passes popcorn* Yay!
Yes, lack of Sirius discussion is disappointing, the Remus/Tonks is a total facepalm, and there are hundreds of FF.net writers hurling abuse at "Snape, the filthy traitor!" But that doesn't make HBP feel worse than OotP for me. I enjoyed HBP a lot on the first read, and still do.
Snapefan though I am... It's not All About Snape. It's about Harry. Main conflict between Harry and Voldemort, not Harry and Snape. IMHO, that's explanation enough for devoting time to Dark Lord history exposition. This book is about Albus passing the Evil-Fighting baton to Harry. Snape is merely a means to an end, and that goes for Draco too.
P.S. Hey JKR, how's Lucius doing? *peers curiously at Azkaban*