This is the chapter that defeated me. Up until I looked up Lupin's exact words in it, I had insisted that even if carpet!book turned out to be the real thing, I would go ahead and buy a copy and school myself to enjoy it for what it was rather than what I'd (realistically, crack!OTPs aside) hoped it would be.
Then I checked out the "I, Remus John..." passages for myself, and I couldn't deal with it anymore. Not only because it sounds like bad Bronte (and I don't even like GOOD Bronte), but because it is utterly STUPID AND POINTLESS for all the reasons you spell out.
Remus silently casts a spell that sends Harry slamming into the kitchen wall. YAY!
Hee! *smirks* (Not nice of either of us, I'm sure, but honestly, authorial intention IS NOT ENOUGH and pisses me off all the more when it's fairly blatant how I'm supposed to react. I will give JKR a soupçon of credit for at least showing Ron and Hermione as uneasy with Harry's reaction, but it's not enough considering how little sense the rest of the chapter makes.)
Thank you for these sporks, btw. So many of my friends actually like this book that it's reassuring to see other people articulating (more thoroughly, clearly, and snarkily than I can) why it disappointed me so.
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Then I checked out the "I, Remus John..." passages for myself, and I couldn't deal with it anymore. Not only because it sounds like bad Bronte (and I don't even like GOOD Bronte), but because it is utterly STUPID AND POINTLESS for all the reasons you spell out.
Remus silently casts a spell that sends Harry slamming into the kitchen wall. YAY!
Hee!
*smirks*
(Not nice of either of us, I'm sure, but honestly, authorial intention IS NOT ENOUGH and pisses me off all the more when it's fairly blatant how I'm supposed to react. I will give JKR a soupçon of credit for at least showing Ron and Hermione as uneasy with Harry's reaction, but it's not enough considering how little sense the rest of the chapter makes.)
Thank you for these sporks, btw. So many of my friends actually like this book that it's reassuring to see other people articulating (more thoroughly, clearly, and snarkily than I can) why it disappointed me so.