I can see why from your point of view that it worked for you. I should probably be a bit more specific about what I meant though too. Lame was a bad word choice really.
It mad me angry. Which may be exactly what J.K. was going for. The fact that Dumbledore knew the prophecy word for word, and that everyone seemed to know about it (since they were guarding it) and no one felt the need to let Harry in on any of it just made it all the more wrenching for me. Since it would have prevented quite a lot of problems.
Hmm, seems I'm saying it mad me angry for all the reasons you stated above. Also having had more time to mull over my reactions to the book it making me angry doesn't detract from it all. It was difficult to read at times and it was messy.
And most of my anger is because I became more invested in the characters in this book than ever before. Their human frailty and mistakes made them shine for me, and so their mistakes hurt more.
I'm really not sure I made any sense there, but here's hoping it's somewhat coherent.
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Date: 2003-06-23 05:57 pm (UTC)It mad me angry. Which may be exactly what J.K. was going for. The fact that Dumbledore knew the prophecy word for word, and that everyone seemed to know about it (since they were guarding it) and no one felt the need to let Harry in on any of it just made it all the more wrenching for me. Since it would have prevented quite a lot of problems.
Hmm, seems I'm saying it mad me angry for all the reasons you stated above. Also having had more time to mull over my reactions to the book it making me angry doesn't detract from it all. It was difficult to read at times and it was messy.
And most of my anger is because I became more invested in the characters in this book than ever before. Their human frailty and mistakes made them shine for me, and so their mistakes hurt more.
I'm really not sure I made any sense there, but here's hoping it's somewhat coherent.