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hairy_hen
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20-Nov-2010, 5:15 PM

I'm pretty sure that's actually a pic from Equus, the play Dan Radcliffe was in a few years ago.

The Harry/Hermione kiss scene in the book was one of JKR's more unfortunate writing choices, in my opinion.  I know she was trying to debunk the notion of them being romantically involved once and for all by having Ron destroy the false image with Gryffindor's sword (since so many delusional fools insisted Harry and Hermione had twoo wuv no matter how many times the author denied it!), but it's not really a very good way of going about doing that because it throws fuel on the fire at the same time just by presenting that image at all.  I pretty much rolled my eyes in exasperation when I read it.

(spoilers ahead) Actually, though, I didn't care for the seventh book as a whole, for a number of reasons:

Harry's character regresses significantly in maturity from what he achieved in book six; suddenly it's okay for good guys to use Unforgiveable Curses, when book four stressed how bad a thing this was; half the book is taken up by the heroes sitting around in a forest doing absolutely NOTHING; all the doubting of Dumbledore was really tiresome and irritating; Ginny Weasley gets virtually no screen time whatsoever, despite having been played up previously as the love of Harry's life; Peter Pettigrew dies like an insignificant punk despite the strong emphasis in book three of the fact that Harry saved his life and that this would be important later; the Invisibility Cloak is suddenly said to be some super important artefact even though this has no bearing at all on the plot; Snape perving on Harry's mother??!!; Voldemort's death being the most contrived and nonsensically stupid solution I've ever read (talk about pulling something out of your ass at the last minute . . . !)

So basically the main problem is that it fails to follow through on points raised in earlier books, or does so in a rancid and unconvincing manner.  That was pretty much the end of my days of Harry Potter obsession.  I still have hope that a few of these may be rectified somewhat by a slightly altered manner of presentation in the films--in any case I think I'll automatically like them better, because there's nowhere to go but up.  lol

I've watched the first five HP films again so far, still have the sixth one left before I go to see DH.  Possibly will watch six today and go out for seven tomorrow.  I find Order of the Phoenix to be the best of the movies by quite a long way, even without the benefit of a John Williams score (I do really miss his music in the later ones).