God, there was SO much potential in this book. I liked OotP because of all the politics going on - now here we have a full-scale war, and hardly any attempt to make us pity the civilian victims. And a chance to show a couple that doesn't work out, something you hardly ever see (except in HBP - NEEDS MOAR SNOGGING!)...
I must be one of the few people in HP fandom who never paid much attention to Remus, but his 'dramatic' entry made me laugh. Maybe there's a magical disease that makes you talk like a nineteenth-century novel.
And you have a damn good point there, at the end. I'm guilty of the odd extraordinary coincidence in a fic, but only in tiny 'verses, where it's less WTF. What we're seeing here is an attempt to create a century-and-continent-spanning fantasy epic full of history, and it just doesn't work.
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I must be one of the few people in HP fandom who never paid much attention to Remus, but his 'dramatic' entry made me laugh. Maybe there's a magical disease that makes you talk like a nineteenth-century novel.
And you have a damn good point there, at the end. I'm guilty of the odd extraordinary coincidence in a fic, but only in tiny 'verses, where it's less WTF. What we're seeing here is an attempt to create a century-and-continent-spanning fantasy epic full of history, and it just doesn't work.