mary_j_59

Thank YOU for reading. I suppose a part of my huge disappointment with DH was that I anticipated so much of what Rowling did. In Those Who LIve By the Sword, I wrote the scene in Dumbledore's office with Severus healing him - and, as I said to my friend Anne Arthur, I think I did it better than Rowling did. She agreed. For this story, I actually wrote Harry and Dumbledore meeting in the afterlife, and Dumbledore giving Harry a chance to return to life, but I cut it out because I thought it was too kitschy, and the story was better without it. Here again, I honestly think the scene I cut was better than the one Rowling gave us. And what she failed to give us-

Yes. I completely failed to anticipate that Rowling would simply drop what seemed to be the major emotional conflict in her book - the one between Severus and Harry - and leave it unresolved. I failed to anticipate that Harry would never act for himself or figure anything out on his own. As you see, I anticipated that he would succumb to the temptation of using "crucio", but I failed to anticipate that *this would be perfectly okay*. I really, really, thought these books would be about Harry's growing up - among other things, by consciously rejecting Voldemort-in-him and acting out of love for an enemy. How wrong I was! I'm still angry and disappointed at what Rowling ended up doing, and most of all at what she failed to do.

Sorry for the rant, and thanks again for reading this. :)